ARQIS advises Kozo Keikaku Engineering on investment in NavVis

Düsseldorf/Munich, Germany, Decem­ber 20, 2018 — ARQIS has appoin­ted Kozo Keikaku Engi­nee­ring Inc. (KKE) on its invest­ment in NavVis GmbH as part of a Series C finan­cing round with a total volume of around EUR 31.2 million, in which exis­ting inves­tors MIG, Target Part­ners, BayBG and Digi­tal+ Part­ners also participated.

NavVis is a leading global plat­form provi­der of intel­li­gent indoor posi­tio­ning tech­no­logy. Its revo­lu­tio­nary digi­tal twin plat­form is used by the world’s leading auto­mo­tive, cons­truc­tion, real estate and insu­rance compa­nies. NavVis was foun­ded in 2013 as a spin-off of the Tech­ni­cal Univer­sity of Munich and today has over 100 part­ners in more than 30 count­ries and employs more than 165 people world­wide. NavVis is head­quar­te­red in Munich and has offices in New York and Shanghai.

Kozo Keikaku Engi­nee­ring Inc. is a profes­sio­nal design and engi­nee­ring company in Japan enga­ged in a wide range of busi­ness acti­vi­ties, inclu­ding struc­tu­ral design of buil­dings (man-made struc­tures), analy­sis and simu­la­tion of natu­ral and envi­ron­men­tal pheno­mena (earth­qua­kes, tsuna­mis, wind, etc.), and problem solving of society and commu­ni­ties. Since 2015, KKE has alre­ady coope­ra­ted with NavVis and intro­du­ced its products to the Japa­nese market. Both compa­nies now intend to inten­sify their coope­ra­tion through the finan­cial parti­ci­pa­tion of KKE.

Advi­sors to Kozo Keikaku Engi­nee­ring: ARQIS Rechts­an­wälte (Düsseldorf/Munich)
Prof. Dr. Chris­toph von Einem (photo), Dr. Meiko Dill­mann (both lead; Corporate/M&A; Munich), Dr. Shigeo Yama­guchi (Corporate/M&A; Düssel­dorf); Asso­cia­tes: Florian Kotman (Corporate/M&A; Düsseldorf)

About ARQIS
ARQIS is an inde­pen­dent busi­ness law firm opera­ting in Germany and Japan. The firm was foun­ded in 2006 at its current offices in Düssel­dorf, Munich and Tokyo. Around 45 profes­sio­nals advise dome­stic and foreign compa­nies at the highest level on the core issues of German and Japa­nese busi­ness law. The focus is on M&A, corpo­rate law, private equity, venture capi­tal, employ­ment law, private clients, intellec­tual property, liti­ga­tion as well as real estate law and tax law. For more infor­ma­tion, visit www.arqis.com.