Dr. Matthias J. Annweiler

Recent experience includes advising:

• proALPHA on the acquisition of Metaal Kennis Groep BV (MKG), a cloud-based ERP player for metalworking companies.
• Dover Corporation on the sale of the Destaco business unit, a designer, manufacturer, and marketer of workholding and automation components for industrial automation applications, for an enterprise value of US$680 million to Stabilus SE.
• Vivonio Group, a European furniture manufacturer, on its corporate reorganization.
• proALPHA on the acquisition of Quiply Technologies GmbH, a modern employee communication provider.
• proALPHA on the acquisition of DIG GmbH, an expert for cloud solutions in the field of operational purchasing and EDI (Electronic Data Interchange).
• proALPHA on the acquisition of Gedys IntraWare GmbH, a customer relationship management (CRM) software provider.
• proALPHA on the acquisition of Persis GmbH, a human capital management (HCM) software provider.
• Rivean Capital on the acquisition of Green Mobility Holding GmbH, a provider of (e-) bike leasing and innovative mobility solutions.
• proALPHA on the acquisition of Empolis Group, a provider of cloud-based and AI-assisted software products for intelligent decision support.
• proALPHA on the acquisition of ENIT, a leading provider for energy management and carbon tracking.
• A U.S. pension fund on its investment in a German offshore wind farm project with a capacity of approx. 900 MW.
• Water Street Healthcare Partners on its sale of Orgentec Group to Sebia S.A.
• proALPHA on the acquisition of CP Corporate Planning AG, a provider of software for operative controlling, integrated financial and performance planning, and consolidation.
• Summit Partners on its US$68 million growth equity investment in online language school Lingoda GmbH.
• proALPHA Group on the acquisition of a majority shareholding in Böhme & Weihs GmbH Industrieholding, on the participation in SKILL Software and on the acquisition of curecomp Software Services GmbH.
• Ivanti Software, Inc., a portfolio company of Clearlake Capital Group, L.P., on its proposed acquisition of Cherwell Software, a provider of IT service management and enterprise service management solutions.
• IDEX Corporation in connection with its acquisition of ABEL Group from Hillenbrand, Inc.
• Summit Partners on its €50 million investment in Solactive AG, a technology-enabled provider of indices and index solutions to the global financial services industry.
• Ivanti Software, Inc., a portfolio company of Clearlake Capital Group, L.P., on its acquisition of MobileIron Inc., a provider of mobile-centric unified endpoint management solutions. 
• Summit Partners on their investment in Appway AG, a provider of business process software solutions for the financial services industry.
• Allianz Capital Partners GmbH and certain Allianz sponsors on the acquisition of nöGIG – Niederösterreichische Glasfaserinfrastruktur GmbH, an operator and developer of fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) networks in Austria.
• Water Street Healthcare Partners and its portfolio company Key Surgical on the acquisition of all shares in Insitumed GmbH.
• RTI Surgical on its acquisition of Paradigm Spine, an international leading provider of non-fusion spinal implant technology.
• Gilde Buy Out Partners on its acquisition of Gundlach Automotive Corporation.
• Various national and international private equity funds and their respective portfolio companies with regard to incentive and equity participation programs for management and employees.
• An international private equity investor on a convertible bond for Liacon GmbH, a German developer and producer of high-performance energy storage systems.
• The private equity fund Riverside on its investment in Transporeon, a leading European provider of e-logistic solutions.
• Tank & Rast Group, an operator of highway service areas in Germany, on the acquisition of an online journey planner that accesses multiple modes of transport via an online booking platform.
• A German project developer on the project structuring and financing of an RDF power plant (waste-to-energy) as well as on the sale of such project to an international strategic investor.
• Zeaborn Group, a German ocean carrier, on the acquisition of E.R. Schiffahrt Group’s worldwide ship-management activities as well as on a joint venture with Intermarine Group.
• PNE Wind AG on the sale of the offshore wind farm project “Atlantis I” to the Swedish utility Vattenfall as well as of an 142-MW onshore wind farm portfolio to a fund managed by Allianz Global Investors GmbH.
• STRABAG OW EVS on the sale of the "Global Tech II" offshore wind farm project to the Swedish utility Vattenfall.
  
  

*Some of the above matters were handled by Matthias prior to joining Sidley.

• Academic Association for Business and Corporate Law (VGR)
• German Initiative of Young Arbitrators (DIS40)
• Working Group of Young Scholars in Public International Law (AjV)