CMS advises CTS Eventim on planned acquisition of ticketing and festival business from French group Vivendi

Hamburg – MDAX-listed CTS Eventim AG & Co. KGaA, the number one provider of ticketing services in Europe and number two in the world, has today entered into a put option agreement with companies in the listed French media group Vivendi. This grants Vivendi the right to sell to CTS Eventim all the shares in the companies that are part of its festival and international ticketing activities.

Vivendi will now conduct a consultation procedure with the relevant employee representative bodies so that it can decide on accepting the put option.

Vivendi’s ticketing business includes See Tickets UK, the second-biggest ticketing firm in England, along with other companies in Europe and the US. These companies sold a total of around 44 million tickets in the 2023 financial year. The deal does not include the shares in Vivendi’s French ticketing company, See Tickets SAS. The festival business operated by Vivendi includes companies from England and France that organise festivals such as Junction 2 and Garorock.

CMS advised CTS Eventim on all aspects of the transaction. The team headed by Henrik Drinkuth worked closely with several CMS offices in countries including France, England, Spain, Switzerland and the Netherlands.

CMS Germany

Dr Henrik Drinkuth, Lead Partner
Dr Hendrik Quast, Senior Associate, both Corporate/M&A
Prof. Malte Grützmacher, Partner, IT/Data Protection
Christoff Soltau, Partner
Alexander Laute, Senior Associate, both Competition
Dr Martin Gerecke, Partner, Media Law

CMS France

Alexandra Rohmert
Vincent Desbenoit
Dylan Allali, all Corporate/M&A
Claire Vannini 
Guillaume Melot, both Competition

CMS UK

John Enser, TMT
Nick Crosbie 
Jade Tran 
Maria Doran, all Corporate/M&A

CMS Spain

Luis Miguel De Dios
Jorge Peris Hevia, both Corporate/M&A and Commercial

CMS Portugal

Miguel Santos Ferreira, Corporate/M&A and Commercial

CMS Switzerland

Stefan Brunnschweiler
Andrea Relly
Anna Mast, all Corporate/M&A

CMS Netherlands

Elmer Veenman
Bob Barnhoorn, both Corporate/M&A and Commercial

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