CMS advised Playtomic on the acquisition of GotCourts
Zurich, February 2022 – A team of CMS Switzerland led by Stefan Brunnschweiler acted as Swiss legal counsel for the Spanish start-up Playtomic on all legal aspects regarding the acquisition of all shares in GotCourts AG, a swiss stock corporation based in Zurich, Switzerland. CMS Switzerland worked in collaboration with team members from CMS Albiñana & Suárez de Lezo (CMS Spain).
Playtomic is Europe's largest sports booking app and SaaS for sport venues. The company operates in 25 countries, with over 2500 partner clubs and over 1 million active players.
GotCourts is a social network for racket sports players and an online service for booking courts and coaches. It's the first platform to provide everything a player needs in a single network. Since the business was founded in 2014, it has grown rapidly in Switzerland and are now scaling internationally. GotCourts already connects 250,000 racket sports enthusiasts and supports their passion for the sport.
CMS Switzerland
- Stefan Brunnschweiler, Managing Partner, Global Co-Head of the Corporate/M&A Group
- Andrea Relly, Senior Associate, Corporate/M&A
- Alexandra Stocker, Associate, Corporate/M&A
- Samuel Felix Gang, Associate, Corporate/M&A
- Dr Dirk Spacek, Partner, IP/IT
- Dr Simone Brauchbar-Birkhäuser, Counsel, IP/IT
- Mark Cagienard, Partner, Tax
- Jens Lehmann, Associate, Tax
- Dominik Penkov, Associate, Tax
CMS Spain
- Carlos Peña, Partner, Corporate/M&A
- Alfonso Codes, Partner, Public Law & Regulated Sectors
- Jose Luis Rodríguez Ontiveros, Associate, Corporate/M&A
