German team advises Chapters Group on founding of Altamount Software GmbH and investment in GBS Europa

Global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright has advised Chapters Group AG on the founding of Altamount Software GmbH and on the investment in GBS Europa GmbH.

Altamount Software GmbH was founded together with Andreas Philippi, the former CEO of personnel service provider Westhouse, and specializes in the development and sale of security, GRC and financial services software. With the acquisition of the shares in the security software company GBS, the Chapters Group is laying the foundations for expanding an industry software platform with Altamount Software.

Chapters Group AG is a holding company based in Hamburg that invests in small and medium-sized companies from various sectors with a long-term, entrepreneurial approach. The Chapters Group focusses on companies that offer their customers so-called "mission critical" services.

GROUP Business Software (GBS) Europa GmbH is a provider of solutions and services for IBM and Microsoft collaboration platforms. The company offers competence centres for security, modernisation, mobility and portal & BPM. The customer base comprises more than 5,000 customers with 4 million users. GBS Europe is active in Europe, North America and Asia. The European headquarters are located in Frankfurt am Main, the North American headquarters in Atlanta, USA.

Chapters Group AG was advised by a German Norton Rose Fulbright team led by Hamburg Counsel Dr Karsten Alex and partner Patrick Narr (both Corporate / M&A).

The team also consisted of Malte Meyer (Senior Associate, Corporate / M&A), Sebastian Sievers (Associate, corporate), Dr Tim Schaper (partner), Dr Tobias Teichner (Senior Associate) (both antitrust), Dr Ingemar Kartheuser (Counsel, IT / data protection), Dr Frank Weberndörfer (partner, employment), Dr Max Mahlmann (Associate, employment) (all Hamburg) and Tiffany Zilliox (Senior Associate, Munich, IP).

In-house, the Chapters Group was advised by Thomas Hottung (Legal Counsel).