Latham & Watkins Advises Hg on Its Partnership With Scopevisio

Latham & Watkins LLP has advised Hg, a leading investor in European and transatlantic software and services businesses, on its partnership with Scopevisio AG. Scopevisio is a leading innovator in cloud-based business automation.

The transaction will see Hg partner with Dr. Jörg Haas, Scopevisio’s CEO and founder as joint shareholders in the business going forward. The goal is to expand Scopevisio’s presence in the DACH region.

Latham & Watkins regularly advises Hg on transactions, most recently on the sale of F24, a leading European software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider for business resilience solutions. 

The Latham team was led by Frankfurt private equity partners Oliver Felsenstein and Maximilian Platzer, with associates Sönke Bock, Julia Schöfer, Maximilian Kuchernig, and Lennart Werbeck. Advise was also provided on corporate matters by Hamburg counsel Andreas Lönner; on tax matters by Hamburg partner Verena Seevers; on data privacy matters by Frankfurt counsel Wolf-Tassilo Böhm, with associate Clemens Ganz; on intellectual property matters by Frankfurt partner Susan Kempe-Müller, with associate Daniela Jaeger; on employment matters by Munich counsel Florian Dehmel; on regulatory matters by Frankfurt counsel Joachim Grittmann; on antitrust matters by Frankfurt partner Max Hauser, with counsel Nils Bremer and associate Helena Hofmann; and on ESG matters by London partners Paul Davies and Michael Green.