GESSEL advises VirtusLab on the investment by Aquiline Capital Partners

18.01.2022 News

GESSEL provided comprehensive legal services to VirtusLab in the context of the investment by the American private equity fund Aquiline Capital Partners.

The involvement of Aquiline Capital Partners will leave VirtusLab better placed to pursue organic growth by attracting and retaining top-notch talent and boosting its R&D capacity, and likewise to expand the scale and scope of its operations through acquisitions.

GESSEL supported VirtusLab during the due diligence and preparation and negotiation of the transaction. We also helped coordinate the work of various foreign advisors and assisted in reorganisation and implementation of incentive schemes.

The GESSEL team working on this project was led by the partners Michał Bochowicz and Christian Schmidt. Its members included the senior associates Julia Ząbkiewicz-Grzyb and Weronika Zdeb and the associates Rafał Smolik and Katarzyna ZarzyckaAdam Kraszewski, partner attended to the employment law issues, and Inarda Bielińska, of counsel and Michał Brągiel, senior associate – to the tax aspects.

VirtusLab is a Polish consulting and programming outfit with offices in London and Berlin, home to more than 300 employees. It specialises in cloud solutions, dispersed systems, and data analysis platforms for corporate clients. Financial Times has named VirtusLab among the fastest growing companies in Europe.

Aquiline Capital Partners is a private investment house with offices in New York and London with over USD 7 billion under management. It specialises in financial services and technology, business services, and healthcare.

 

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