Press release
Hanover, 01/12/2017

Dittmar Rechtsanwälte has advised AOE GmbH in aninvestment of EUR 13 million from LEA Partners.

The investment represents the first of its kind for AOE GmbH and is supposed to expand the OM3 Airport Suite and to further accelerate the company’s growth of currently more than 40 percent year-over-year.

Dittmar Rechtsanwälte (Dr Falko Dittmar) has advised AOE GmbH on the legal aspects of the transaction.

AOE GmbH with headquarters in Wiesbaden is a leading provider for open source enterprise web solutions which implements open source web portals, e-commerce and mobile applications worldwide, and offers related services. More than 250 employees support international companies in the operative digitization of business models through the implementation of open, scalable and secure solutions. The Omni-channel Multi Merchant Marketplace (OM3) launched by AOE GmbH helps multi-retailer venues such as airports, shopping malls or integrated resorts to seamlessly fuse offline and online experience into one full-featured suite of software applications and services.

LEA Partners has established itself as a strong and entrepreneurial-minded partner for growing technology and software companies which drive transformative change in their industries. Headquartered in Karlsruhe, one of Europe’s largest IT clusters, LEA Partners has advised on the investment of over EUR 300 million in more than 40 companies since 2002.

Dittmar Rechtsanwälte is a corporate/M&A-Boutique in Hannover. Dittmar Rechtsanwälte advises companies, investors and managers in corporate law and in transactions as well as in company successions and in contract management.