Stuttgart/ Schwä­bisch Gmünd — Menold Bezler advi­sed BWK GmbH Unter­neh­mens­be­tei­li­gungs­ge­sell­schaft, based in Stutt­gart, on the acqui­si­tion of a mino­rity stake of 40% in QLOCKTWO Group, based in Schwä­bisch Gmünd.

At QLOCKTWO, word clocks have been turned into design objects in an artis­a­nal produc­tion process since 2009. The time is displayed typo­gra­phi­cally with lumi­nous dots, and the language of the clock is varia­ble. The design has won over 30 inter­na­tio­nal awards, inclu­ding the Red Dot Design Award. World­wide sales are hand­led by a network of around 1,000 specia­list retail part­ners, the company’s own flag­ship stores and the online store.

BWK is one of the largest German capi­tal invest­ment compa­nies. With a long-term invest­ment approach, BWK supports medium-sized compa­nies from a broad range of indus­tries with equity capital.

Menold Bezler advi­sed BWK on its entry as a mino­rity share­hol­der in all legal aspects of the tran­sac­tion. BWK regu­larly trusts the law firm when acqui­ring majo­rity or mino­rity stakes, most recently, for exam­ple, in the mino­rity stake in the manu­fac­tu­rer of auto­ma­ted measu­ring and test­ing tech­no­logy Xactools GmbH.

Advi­sors to BWK GmbH Unter­neh­mens­be­tei­li­gungs­ge­sell­schaft: Menold Bezler (Stutt­gart)
Vladi­mir Cutura (Part­ner, Lead), Dr. Kars­ten Gschwandt­ner (Part­ner), Thomas Futte­rer, Kers­tin Lauber, Dr. Andreas Mayr, Nicole Brandt (all Corporate/M&A), Dr. Jochen Bern­hard (Part­ner), Eliana Koch-Heint­ze­ler (both Anti­trust), Dr. Cars­ten Ulbricht (Part­ner), Carlo Kunz (both IT Law), Dr. Julia Schnei­der (Part­ner), Markus Kleinn (both Intellec­tual Property), Marc Ehrmann, LL.M. (Real Estate Law), Stef­fen Foll­ner (Banking Law & Finan­cing), Kath­rin Seiz (Labor Law)

About Menold Bezler
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