Latham & Watkins Advises Mainova and Dussmann on Sale of Chargemaker GmbH

Latham & Watkins LLP has advised Mainova AG and the Dussmann Group on the sale of all shares in Chargemaker GmbH to ista SE. Chargemaker was established in 2020 as a joint venture between Mainova and the Dussmann Group to offer integrated charging solutions to business customers. With approximately 2,000 charging stations, the company has become a leading provider for businesses and commercial properties in Germany. The buyer will drive forward the existing scaling strategy with further investments, further expanding ista's charging infrastructure offering.

The Latham team was led by infrastructure M&A partner Alexander Stefan Rieger and corporate partner Christina Mann, with associates Juan Garcia Jacobsen and Pascal Wagenführ. Advice was also provided on finance matters by counsel Daniel Splittgerber and associate Marcel Endrich; on data privacy matters by counsel Wolf-Tassilo Böhm and associate Clemens Ganz; and on tax matters by partner Tobias Klass.