Global law firm Hogan Lovells represented Go1, a leading aggregator of learning and development content, in its announced acquisition of Blinkist, a mobile-first learning app used by tens of millions of users worldwide.
Go1 is the world’s learning content expert, aggregating content from top providers to deliver high-quality education and training across a range of industries and topics. The company’s vast library of over 100,000 courses from hundreds of leading content partners is accessed by users in over 60 countries, typically in the corporate setting. The acquisition of Blinkist expands Go1’s reach to mobile users seeking to learn new skills and stay up to date on business and self-improvement topics.
The Hogan Lovells cross-border M&A team was led by partners Alex Aber (Boston) and Volker Geyrhalter (Munich) and included counsel Zohar Nevo (Boston), senior associates Julian Fridrich (Munich) and Shaida Mirmazaheri (Boston), and associate Lexi Bender (Boston).
