Munich, January 24, 2025 – With a team led by Holger Ebersberger and Hanno Witt McDermott Will & Emery has advised NORD Holding on the sale of their majority stake in the OHRWERK Group to Demant A/S, a world-leading hearing healthcare group.

The OHRWERK Group was established in September 2020 by NORD Holding together with an experienced management team as a buy-and-build platform in the premium hearing acoustics market. Following the acquisition of the platform, the group expanded through a total of 17 acquisitions and several new openings to become one of the leading independent operators, now with 77 specialist stores across Germany.

NORD Holding is a private equity and asset management company with assets under management of around EUR 4 billion. The focus of NORD Holding’s direct business is on the structuring and financing of corporate succession models, the acquisition of parts of groups/subsidiaries and the expansion financing of medium-sized companies. The fund investment division focuses on the micro and small cap segment of medium-sized European private equity funds.

The McDermott team was led by partners Holger Ebersberger and Hanno Witt, and comprised partners Jana Grieb and Florian Schiefer, counsel Alexandra Prato and Laura Stammwitz as well as associates Nicole Kaps, Parsin Walsi, Lea Hachmeister and Lea Hauser.

Munich, January 21, 2025 – With a team led by Holger Ebersberger and Thomas Diekmann, McDermott Will & Emery advised NORD Holding on the acquisition of HKS health solutions GmbH (HKS). McDermott also advised on the financing of the acquisition, with the Private Equity Finance team led by Matthias Weissinger.

The acquisition of HKS is part of the formation of 1Q Health Group, which – following the acquisition of ABJ alive GmbH in 2024 – continues NORD Holding’s European buy-and-build strategy in the market for high-quality dietary supplements and pharmaceuticals. The HKS founders, Benjamin Hawlik, Markus Koisser and Dirk Sachon, will reinvest and remain active as management board members.

HKS, created in 2021 through the merger of three specialized companies, is active in the areas of contract manufacturing of high-quality dietary supplements and pharmaceuticals, trading in more than 1,500 raw materials, and distribution of private labels under the umbrella brand HAWLIK.

NORD Holding is a private equity and asset management company with assets under management of around EUR 4 billion. The focus of NORD Holding’s direct business is on the structuring and financing of corporate succession models, the acquisition of parts of groups/subsidiaries and the expansion financing of medium-sized companies. The fund investment division focuses on the micro and small cap segment of medium-sized European private equity funds.

McDermott advised NORD Holding already on the acquisition of ABJ alive.

The McDermott team was led by Holger Ebersberger, Thomas Diekmann, and Matthias Weissinger, and included Julia Külzer, Parsin Walsi, Alexandra Prato, Franziska Sauer, Tim Becker, Florian Schiefer, Carina Kant, Jana Grieb, Christian Lebrecht, Lea Hachmeister, Christian Rolf, Janek Joosten, Steffen Woitz, Claus Färber, Ettore Scandale, and Emma Greselin.

Frankfurt, January 21, 2025 – McDermott Will & Emery advised Eurazeo Global Investor as lender in the refinancing of The Relevance Group (TRG).

The Relevance Group is a European group of companies founded in Hamburg in 2022. With more than 290 experts in Germany, Switzerland and the Netherlands TRG offers solutions in the field of data-driven sales and marketing optimization.

Since its foundation as a buy-and-build platform through Ufenau Capital Partners’ acquisition of Datalogue GmbH, TRG has successfully integrated six additional companies into its portfolio, significantly strengthening the Group’s sales power and service portfolio. TRG now plans to expand into Central and Eastern Europe, Scandinavia and the Iberian Peninsula.

TRG is part of the portfolio of the Ufenau VII German Asset Light, SLP fund of the Swiss investor group Ufenau Capital Partners. Since 2011, Ufenau has invested in more than 380 service companies in Europe, and has around €3 billion in assets under management.

Eurazeo is a global investment company with €35.5 billion in assets under management, invested in more than 600 companies. The firm is listed on Euronext Paris and runs offices in Paris, New York, London, Frankfurt, Berlin, Milan, Madrid, Luxembourg, Shanghai, Seoul, Singapore and Sao Paulo.

McDermott has previously advised Eurazeo as a lender in several financing projects, such as the financing of an acquisition of shares in the management consultancy UNITY AG by Deutsche Beteiligungs AG (DBAG) and the financing of the AOE Group.

The McDermott team was led by partner Alexander Klein and included partner Matthias Weissinger and associate Michael Spirk.