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CMS Hasche Sigle advises Bankhaus Lampe on the acquisition of the HypoVereinsbank subsidiary Conetwork

08/11/2006

Bankhaus Lampe KG which belongs to the Oetker group has acquired Conetwork GmbH, a subsidiary of HypoVereinsbank. Led by Duesseldorf partner Dr Ernst-Markus Schuberth a team from CMS Hasche Sigle advised Bankhaus Lampe KG on the transaction. The purchase price has not been disclosed. 
Conetwork specialises in providing advice to medium-size companies and entrepreneurs. The spectrum of advice covers Corporate Finance and M&A, Family Office and Equity Management. The customer business and the interest portfolio also acquired, from which the strategic interests of HypoVereinsbank are excluded, will be continued unchanged under the new partner. 
The change of ownership of Hamburger Conetwork is in the strategic interests of both institutions. Whilst Bankhaus Lampe KG can use the acquisition to spur on the expansion of its advisory concepts HypoVereinsbank chose to sell owing to the extended number of services on offer within the HypoVereinsbank group which also includes the spectrum of advice offered by Conetwork. 
Advisers to Bankhaus Lampe KG 
Dr Ernst-Markus Schuberth, Partner, Duesseldorf (Lead Partner, Corporate) 
Felix Schäfer, Duesseldorf (Corporate) 
Contact CMS Hasche Sigle: 
Dr Ernst Markus Schuberth 
Tel.: +49 (0) 211 / 4934-211 
E-mail: Markus.Schuberth@cms-hs.com 
About CMS Hasche Sigle: 
CMS Hasche Sigle is one of the leading German law firms with more than 450 lawyers. It covers the entire area of commercial law and provides legal advice to major German and international companies from a wide spectrum of industry. CMS Hasche Sigle operates at all the major business centres. It has offices in Berlin, Cologne, Duesseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Leipzig, Munich, Stuttgart, Chemnitz, Dresden, Brussels, Belgrade, Moscow, Prague and Shanghai. CMS Hasche Sigle is a partnership of lawyers and tax consultants; for register details / list of partners see www.cms-hs.com 
CMS Hasche Sigle is a member of CMS, an alliance of leading independent European law firms. With over 595 partners, a total of 2,000 lawyers and tax consultants and around 4,200 support staff we advise our clients at commercial locations in 47 business centres in Europe and further afield on legal and tax issues. 
Local strength, legal and tax advice tailored to the requirements of the market combined with a substantial amount of business and organisational integration form the basis for high-quality international legal advice. 
In addition to CMS Hasche Sigle, the following firms are also members of the CMS alliance: CMS Adonnino Ascoli & Cavasola Scamoni (Italy), CMS Albiñana & Suárez de Lezo (Spain), CMS Bureau Francis Lefebvre (France), CMS Cameron McKenna LLP (Great Britain), CMS DeBacker (Belgium), CMS Derks Star Busmann (the Netherlands), CMS von Erlach Henrici (Switzerland) and CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz (Austria). CMS has 57 offices in 23 countries in Western and Central Europe, North and South America, Asia and North Africa. 
For further information on CMS Hasche Sigle see www.cms-hs.com and on the CMS alliance see http:// www.cmslegal.com.