DLA Piper has advised the Uniper Group on the sale of its former subsidiary LIQVIS GmbH. The buyer is EnviTec Biogas AG, Germany’s largest biogas producer, under whose umbrella LIQVIS now operates as LIQVIS powered by EnviTec Biogas.
Uniper is a leading European energy company with global reach, making a n important contribution to security of supply in Europe, particularly in its core markets of Germany, the UK, Sweden and the Netherlands. Uniper’s operations encompass power generation in Europe, global energy trading, and a broad gas portfolio. LIQVIS was founded in 2015 and runs a total of 18 LNG filling stations in Germany and France at strategic traffic hubs with particularly high truck traffic.
The DLA Piper team was co-led by counsel Isaschar Nicolaysen and partner Dr Benjamin Parameswaran with senior associate Jan Schlaak in the core team (all Corporate/M&A, Hamburg).
The core team was supported by client partner Michael Cieslarczyk (Energy, Dusseldorf), partners Dr Konrad Rohde (Tax, Frankfurt), Dr Thilo von Bodungen (Commercial, Munich), Christian Freiherr von Buddenbrock (Pensions, Dusseldorf) and Dr Justus Herrlinger (Antitrust, Hamburg), counsel Sven Bischoff (Tax, Frankfurt), Georg Haberkorn (Pensions, Munich), Dr Thilo Streit (Regulatory, Cologne), senior associate Dr Betina Fischer (Commercial, Hamburg) as well as associates Svenja Mayer (Regulatory, Cologne), Lea Reifers and Dr Tom Lasar (both Corporate/M&A, Hamburg).
From the DLA Piper office in Paris, partner Thomas Priolet and legal director Cécile Szymanski (both Corporate/M&A) advised on the transaction.
