The shareholders of FIO SYSTEMS sell to Hypoport

Leip­zig — The owners of FIO SYSTEMS AG sell to Hypo­port AG. As part of the tran­sac­tion, some of the exis­ting share­hol­ders of FIO SYSTEMS AG will acquire shares in Hypo­port AG as part of a capi­tal increase through contri­bu­ti­ons in kind using autho­ri­zed capi­tal at Hypo­port AG. Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek provi­ded compre­hen­sive advice to the share­hol­ders of Leip­­zig-based FIO Systems AG in connec­tion with the sale and partial contri­bu­tion of all their shares in or to Hypo­port AG.

The company of the share­hol­ders advi­sed by Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek, FIO SYSTEMS AG, is one of the leading specia­list provi­ders of web-based soft­ware solu­ti­ons for the finance, housing and real estate industries.

The acqui­ring Hypo­port AG is a tech­­no­­logy-based finan­cial service provi­der listed on the Regu­la­ted Market of the Frank­furt Stock Exch­ange (Prime Stan­dard) and head­quar­te­red in Berlin. Toge­ther with its subsi­dia­ries, it is active in the fields of consul­ting, manage­ment and infor­ma­tion systems deve­lo­p­ment, parti­cu­larly in the area of real estate finance and the inter­me­dia­tion of loans, insu­rance and invest­ment products between clients and finan­cial service provi­ders in the Euro­pean Econo­mic Area, as well as the opera­tion and deve­lo­p­ment of infor­ma­tion systems for the distri­bu­tion of finan­cial services.

In the tran­sac­tion, the share­hol­ders of FIO SYSTEMS AG were advi­sed by Dr. Rainer Hersch­lein and his team of lawy­ers. The advice included in parti­cu­lar the legal and tax support of the tran­sac­tion and the indi­vi­dual share­hol­ders as well as the proces­sing and nego­tia­tion of all contracts in the context of the tran­sac­tion, in parti­cu­lar the purchase and contri­­bu­­tion-in-kind agreement.

Advi­sor to the share­hol­ders of FIO SYSTEMS AG: Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek
Dr. Rainer Hersch­lein, Photo (Lead Part­ner, Corpo­rate / Stuttgart)
Fabian F. Gaffron (Tax Law / Hamburg)
Dr. Thors­ten Kuthe (Capi­tal Markets / Cologne)
Chris­to­pher Görtz (Capi­tal Markets / Cologne)
Bene­dikt Raisch (Corpo­rate, M&A / Stuttgart)
Antje Münch (IP/IT / Stuttgart)
Dr. Anto­nia Stein (Labor Law / Stuttgart)
Corne­lia Schwiz­ler (Corpo­rate, M&A / Stuttgart)