Chapters Group founds Altamount Software and invests in GBS Europe

Hamburg — Global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright has advi­sed Chap­ters Group AG on the forma­tion of Alta­mount Soft­ware GmbH and on its invest­ment in GBS Europa GmbH. Alta­mount Soft­ware GmbH was foun­ded toge­ther with Andreas Phil­ippi, the former CEO of HR services provi­der West­house, and focu­ses on the deve­lo­p­ment and sale of secu­rity, GRC and finan­cial services soft­ware. With the acqui­si­tion of the shares in the secu­rity soft­ware company GBS, the Chap­ters Group is laying the foun­da­ti­ons for expan­ding an indus­try soft­ware plat­form with Alta­mount Soft­ware. Chap­ters Group AG is a holding company based in Hamburg that invests in small and medium-sized compa­nies from various sectors with a long-term, entre­pre­neu­rial approach. The Chap­ters Group focu­ses on compa­nies that offer their custo­mers so-called “mission criti­cal” services. The GROUP Busi­ness Soft­ware (GBS) Europa GmbH is a provi­der of solu­ti­ons and services for IBM and Micro­soft colla­bo­ra­tion plat­forms. The company offers Compe­tence Centers for Secu­rity, Moder­niza­tion, Mobi­lity and Portal & BPM. The custo­mer base compri­ses more than 5,000 custo­mers with 4 million users. GBS Europe is active in Europe, North America and Asia. The Euro­pean head­quar­ters are loca­ted in Frank­furt am Main, the North Ameri­can head­quar­ters in Atlanta, USA. Advi­sor Chap­ters Group AG: Norton Rose Fulbright led by Hamburg coun­sel Dr. Kars­ten Alex (photo © Norton Rose Fulbright) and part­ner Patrick Narr (both Corpo­rate / M&A). Malte Meyer (Senior Asso­ciate, Corpo­rate / M&A), Sebas­tian Sievers (Asso­ciate, Corpo­rate), Dr. Tim Scha­per (Part­ner), Dr. Tobias Teich­ner (Senior Asso­ciate) (both Anti­trust), Dr. Inge­mar Kart­heu­ser (Coun­sel, IT/Data Protec­tion), Dr. Frank Webern­dör­fer (Part­ner, Employ­ment), Dr. Max Mahl­mann (Asso­ciate, Employ­ment) (all Hamburg) and Tiffany Zilliox (Senior Asso­ciate, Munich, IP). The Chap­ters Group was advi­sed in-house by Thomas Hottung (Legal Coun­sel). About Norton Rose Fulbright Norton Rose Fulbright is a global commer­cial law firm. With more than 3,500 lawy­ers at over 50 loca­ti­ons world­wide in Europe, the USA, Canada, Latin America, Asia, Austra­lia, Africa and the Middle East, we advise leading natio­nal and inter­na­tio­nal compa­nies. We offer our clients compre­hen­sive advice in all major indus­tries. These include Finan­cial Insti­tu­ti­ons; Energy; Infra­struc­ture, Mining and Commo­di­ties; Trans­por­ta­tion; Tech­no­logy and Inno­va­tion; and Life Scien­ces and Health­care. Our global Risk Advi­sory Group combi­nes this exten­sive indus­try expe­ri­ence with its exper­tise in legal, regu­la­tory, compli­ance and gover­nance matters. This enables us to provide our clients with prac­ti­cal solu­ti­ons to the legal and regu­la­tory risks they face. The Swiss asso­cia­tion Norton Rose Fulbright helps to coor­di­nate the acti­vi­ties of Norton Rose Fulbright members, but does not provide legal advice to clients. Norton Rose Fulbright has offices in more than 50 cities world­wide, inclu­ding London, Hous­ton, New York, Toronto, Mexico City, Hong Kong, Sydney and Johan­nes­burg. www.nortonrosefulbright.com/legal-notices.