DLA Piper advises Francotyp-Postalia on the acquisition of Pakadoo

DLA Piper has suggested Francotyp-Postalia Holding AG on the acquisition of all functioning belongings of Pakadoo GmbH with economic effect from 1 Oct 2022. The transaction also contains the take-more than of the Administration and workforce of Pakadoo.

Pakadoo, situated in Böblingen, Germany, provides Software program-as-a-Service alternatives for acquiring and managing incoming parcels and goods inside of providers and public establishments. In mixture with provider-impartial parcel lockers, further use conditions target on e-commerce deliveries and smart town logistics.

This acquisition shall bolster FP’s Digital Small business Alternatives business device. The company thereby gets accessibility to a SaaS-centered platform for incoming parcel logistics in enterprise and community institution phase, retail and Town Logistics.

Francotyp-Postalia Holding AG, a mentioned firm based mostly in Berlin, is the holding corporation of the globally running Francotyp-Postalia Group that has the business units Digital Enterprise Solutions, Mailing, Shipping & Business Solutions and Mail Solutions. The corporation has subsidiaries based in 15 nations and is represented by its own buying and selling community in several other nations around the world. In 2021, Francotyp-Postalia created earnings of a lot more than EUR 200 million.

The DLA Piper group was jointly led by associates Dr Mathias Schulze Steinen (Corporate/M&A) and Florian Bruder (Restructuring, both Frankfurt) and incorporated partners Jan Pohle (IT and Facts Defense, Cologne), Dr Henriette Norda (Employment, Hamburg), Dr Marie-Theres Rämer (Tax), and Dr Burkhard Führmeyer, counsels Miray Kavruk (equally IPT, all Frankfurt) and Dr Thorsten Ammann (IT and Information Safety, Cologne), senior associates Katharina Fischer (Employment, Hamburg) and Yannick Aaron Zirnstein, associates Verena Reichstein (both of those IT and Info Protection, Cologne) and Ji-Min Marina Lee (Restructuring, Frankfurt) as well as transaction expert Maren Schanz (IPT, Hamburg).