Hamburg — Baufi24 acqui­res the fintech company Loan­Link. Loan­Link GmbH, known for its CRM plat­form FinLink, will be inte­gra­ted into the Baufi24 Group as a subsi­diary in the course of this M&A tran­sac­tion. The parties invol­ved have agreed not to disc­lose further details of the deal. Through the acqui­si­tion, Baufi24, a mortgage broker that opera­tes prima­rily locally, is expan­ding its digi­tal custo­mer advi­sory services and streng­thening its posi­tion in the market. The merger with Baufi24 was prima­rily advi­sed on legal and tax matters from the Hamburg office by a team led by part­ner Dr. Jörn Wöbke (photo).

Baufi24
The cons­truc­tion finan­cing broker Baufi24 offers those inte­res­ted in loans exten­sive infor­ma­tion on the subject of real estate finan­cing and compa­res the offers of over 450 provi­ders. Foun­ded in 2006, the company is now the point of cont­act for over 3 million pros­pec­tive custo­mers each year. The advi­sors in the bran­ches throug­hout Germany support future homeow­ners on their way to owning their own home and deve­lop the finan­cing stra­tegy for them.

Loan­Link
Loan­Link is a Berlin-based fintech company that is parti­cu­larly present on the market through its core product FinLink, a CRM plat­form for finan­cial service provi­ders. The soft­ware solu­tion was laun­ched in 2019 in the form of a plat­form and enables finan­cial inter­me­dia­ries to digi­tize their day-to-day work. Loan­Link GmbH was foun­ded in August 2017 by Başar Canı­perk and Gernot Schus­ser.

Consul­tant Loan­Link: SMP
Dr. Jörn Wöbke (Lead) (Corpo­rate), Partner
Dr. Stephan Bank (Lead) (Corpo­rate), Partner
Dr. Malte Berg­mann (Taxes), Partner
Dr. Dennis Rasch (Corpo­rate), Associate
A team led by SMP part­ner Stephan Bank has been assis­ting Loan­Link in all legal matters since its angel finan­cing round.

About SMP
SMP is a specia­list tax and commer­cial law firm opera­ting in the core areas of corpo­rate, funds, liti­ga­tion, tax and tran­sac­tions. SMP attor­neys and tax advi­sors repre­sent a wide variety of clients. These include emer­ging tech­no­logy compa­nies and family-run medium-sized enter­pri­ses as well as corpo­ra­ti­ons and private equity/venture capi­tal funds. Since its foun­da­tion in 2017, SMP has become one of the leading addres­ses for venture capi­tal, private equity and fund struc­tu­ring in Germany. The firm and its part­ners have been reco­gni­zed natio­nally and inter­na­tio­nally by JUVE, Best Lawy­ers, Legal 500, Focus, and Cham­bers and Part­ners. Today, SMP employs over 50 expe­ri­en­ced lawy­ers and tax advi­sors in three offices in Berlin, Hamburg and Colo­gne. www.smp.law