Noerr advises Barkawi on takeover by Genpact

Noerr provided extensive tax advice to the limited partner of Barkawi Management Consultant GmbH & Co. KG (Munich) during the preparation and transaction to sell the company to Genpact. Munich-based tax partner Carsten Heinz was lead partner.

Barkawi Management Consultant GmbH & Co. KG is a supply chain and after sales consultancy with subsidiaries abroad, especially in Austria and the U.S.A. The merger of Barkawi Management Consultants and the supply chain service line of Genpact will form “Barkawi Management Consultants – a Genpact Company” a global provider of Management Consulting, Managed Services and Digital Transformation. Genpact is a NYSE-listed company with over 77,000 employees.

Advisors to the seller:

Tax: Noerr LLP:  Carsten Heinz (Tax, Berlin/Munich, lead), Peter Scheuch (Tax, Dresden), Michael Tommaso (Tax, Berlin), Uwe Brendler (Corporate M&A, Dresden)

For U.S. tax issues, Noerr involved the U.S. law firm Baker Hostetler (Paul Schmidt, John D. Bates).