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Greenberg Traurig and Clifford Chance Advise on CVC Capital Partners' Tender Offer for Comarch Shares

Greenberg Traurig and Clifford Chance Advise on CVC Capital Partners' Tender Offer for Comarch Shares

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Greenberg Traurig has advised CVC Capital Partners on its tender offer for all shares in Comarch. Clifford Chance advised Comarch's shareholders – the Filipiak family. Oles Rysz Sarkowicz and White & Case reportedly advised other sellers.

CVC Capital Partners is a global private equity firm, listed on the Amsterdam Stock Exchange, with a network of 29 offices in Europe, Asia, and the United States, managing approximately EUR 193 billion in assets. 

Comarch is a software developer with operations in more than 100 countries, on five continents. It has been listed on the regulated market of the Warsaw Stock Exchange since 1999.

According to Greenberg Traurig, "CVC Capital Partners together with the Filipiak family Mr. Michal Pruski and Ms. Anna Prokop announced their intention to launch a tender offer for all outstanding ordinary shares in the Company. The goal of the transaction is for the bidders to achieve 100 percent of the total number of votes in Comarch in order to delist the company from the Warsaw Stock Exchange and enable its further development as a private company."

The Greenberg Traurig team included Senior Partner Lejb Fogelman, Partners Rafal Sienski, Stephen Horvath, Robert Gago, Michal Fereniec, Andrzej Wysokinski, and Pawel Piotrowski, Local Partners Michal Bobrzynski and Maciej Pietrzak, and Associates Adam Andula, Michal Kuratowski, Filip Drgas, Przemyslaw Nycz, Marta Poplawska, Mateusz Rogulski, Grzegorz Socha, Szymon Swierszcz, and Wiktor Zien.

The Clifford Chance team included Managing Partner Agnieszka Janicka, Of Counsels Nick Fletcher and Marcin Bartnicki, Counsels Jaroslaw Lorenc, Tomasz Szekalski, and Tomasz Derda, and Associate Marcin Waszynski.