Noerr advises Capita on takeover of the Call Centre service provider avocis

The law firm Noerr advised the leading British outsourcing service provider Capita on the announced takeover of the customer contact management service provider avocis. The purchase price is 210 million Euro. The transaction is pending approval by the Federal Cartel Office.

avocis is active in Germany, Switzerland and Austria (DACH) and has a strong market position in the DACH region. The company is currently under private equity majority ownership and provides customer contact management services in the telecommunications industry and to utility companies.

Capita has already made two smaller acquisitions in the German market and plans to combine the companies of the DACH region in a new business sector.

Noerr, with a team led by Dr. Thomas Schulz, comprehensively advised on the German law aspects of the transaction, in particular on employment law, commercial law, data protection law and corporate law. Addleshaw Goddard was the international leader.      

Advisor Capita: Noerr LLP  

Dr. Thomas Schulz (corporate, London, leading); Tillmann Hecht (Frankfurt), Dr. Heidi Mahr, Dr. Stefan Tomicic (both Munich, all employment), Dr. Mansur Pour Rafsendjani, Dr. Michael Reiling (both commercial), Dr. Daniel Rücker (data protection), Marco Winterer (real estate, all Munich)

Associates: Robert Korndörfer (corporate, London); Manuela Kirchner, Thomas Sternberg (both commercial), Jessica Ploss (real estate, all Munich), Dr. Sascha Pres (IP, Berlin), Veronika Berger, Alexander Ferstl (both employment, Munich), Florian-Felix Marquardt (tax, Berlin)

Addleshaw Goddard: Thomas Richards; Associates: Catherine Concannon, Oliver Hincks, Mark Hough