The Hamburg call-centre operator D+S europe AG will take over dtms, Deutsche Telefon- und Marketing
Services AG, Mainz with effect from 1 July 2005. dtms is the largest independent provider of
value-added services in Germany. During the transaction a Frankfurt team from CMS Hasche Sigle
advised several investors who jointly held the majority of the capital in dtms and included the 3i
group and the Dutch Strategic European Technologies N.V. domiciled in s’Hertogenbosch. Details of
the purchase price were not disclosed.
dtms is active in the fast-growing market for telephone value added services such as service
numbers, billing, claim and collection management and has more than 6000 business clients who are
attended to by 130 employees. With over 2700 employees D+S europe is one of the largest German
service providers for customer process management. The merger of the complementary business sectors
of two companies means that both D+S and dtms have increased their value added options as service
providers for business process management.
Partner Dr Christoph Schücking and associate Dr Hendrik Hirsch, of CMS Hasche Sigle,
Frankfurt, advised on the transaction.
Advisers:
Financial investors
CMS Hasche Sigle, Frankfurt
Dr Christoph Schücking, partner, corporate
Dr Hendrik Hirsch, associate, corporate
Management dtms:
Bergmann Pohl Spielmann, Hanau
Volkmar Spielmann
dtms AG:
Görg Rechtsanwälte
Dr Mark O. Kersting
Dr Christian Pabst
D+S:
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Hamburg
Dr Christoph H. Seibt, partner
Dr Felix Brammer, associate
Contact CMS Hasche Sigle:
Dr Christoph Schücking
Tel.: +49 (0) 69 / 71701-224
E-mail:
Christoph.Schuecking@cms-hs.com
Background
CMS Hasche Sigle is one of the leading German law firms with more than 420 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 European law firms. With over 575
partners, a total of 2,000 lawyers and tax consultants and around 3,800 support staff we advise our
clients in 24 countries in Europe and further afield on legal and tax issues.
Local strength and legal 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 (Great Britain), CMS DeBacker (Belgium), CMS
Derks Star Busmann (the Netherlands), CMS von Erlach Klainguti Stettler Wille (Switzerland) and CMS
Reich-Rohrwig Hainz (Austria). CMS has 57 offices in 24 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
www.cmslegal.com.
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