Munich — McDer­mott Will & Emery has advi­sed NORD/LB on the finan­cing of a majo­rity stake in cisbox GmbH by the soft­ware inves­tor Main Capi­tal. The cisbox foun­ders Stephan Kern and Sebas­tian Mehrle will remain in the company and have acqui­red a signi­fi­cant stake in the company.
Foun­ded in 2005, cisbox offers cloud and AI-based soft­ware solu­ti­ons for opti­mi­zing procure-to-pay (P2P) proces­ses, prima­rily in the health­care, hospi­ta­lity, services and public sectors. The company employs more than 150 people in Solin­gen and at two loca­ti­ons in Vietnam.

NORD/LB Nord­deut­sche Landes­bank is one of the leading German commer­cial banks. As a public-law insti­tu­tion, it is part of the S‑Finanzgruppe. The core busi­ness areas include corpo­rate custo­mers, special finan­cing in the energy and infra­struc­ture sector and for aircraft, the finan­cing of commer­cial real estate via Deut­sche Hypo, capi­tal market busi­ness, S‑Group busi­ness with the savings banks and private and busi­ness custo­mers inclu­ding private banking. The bank is based in Hano­ver, Braun­schweig and Magde­burg and has bran­ches in Olden­burg, Hamburg, Schwe­rin, Düssel­dorf and Munich. Outside Germany, NORD/LB is repre­sen­ted by a Pfand­brief bank (NORD/LB Covered Bond Bank) in Luxem­bourg and by bran­ches in London, New York and Singapore.

Advi­sor NORD/LB:
McDer­mott Will & Emery, Munich: Dr. Matthias Weis­sin­ger (photo), Ludwig Zesch (both Finance, both lead), Dr. Maxi­mi­lian Meyer (Coun­sel, Tax Law, Frank­furt); Asso­cia­tes: Tim Becker, Laura Soll­a­cher, Romy Lanz (Düssel­dorf; all Finance)