Noerr has advised the shareholders of MOTOR-TALK GmbH on the sale of the company to mobile.de GmbH. The shareholders include a subsidiary of Axel Springer SE and the investment company Global Founders Capital.

With the purchase of MOTOR-TALK, mobile.de  – an eBay Classifieds Group (eCG) company – is taking over Europe’s largest online automotive community. More than 2.6 million registered users use the platform to informed themselves about car-related subjects and communicate with other members in forums and blogs. The platform has the largest online reach in the automotive sector.

Noerr regularly advises on significant transactions in the private equity and venture capital market, including recently the private equity investor American Industrial Partners on the purchase of a division of the U.S. corporation Anixter (with a transaction volume of USD 380 million), the leading venture capital company Scottish Equity Partners on their investment in the German growth companies Babbel and Mister Spex, the shareholders of the online hearing aid distributor audibene on its sale to Sivantos/EQT, as well as the Apollo joint venture Alteri on the takeover of the mail order company Walz.

Advisors to the shareholders of MOTOR-TALK GmbH: Noerr LLP

Dr. Sascha Leske (lead), Dominik Rompza (both Corporate/M&A, Berlin/New York), Tobias Kugler (IT Law, Frankfurt), Sandra Sophia Redeker (IP Law, Berlin)

Associates: Dr. Roland Kühne, Ethel Nanaeva (Berlin), Dirk Sievert (New York, all Corporate/M&A)