White & Case advises ABOUT YOU on business combination with Zalando

Global law firm White & Case LLP has advised e-commerce group ABOUT YOU Holding SE on the conclusion of a business combination agreement with online multi-brand fashion retailer Zalando SE and public takeover offer by Zalando.

To implement the business combination, Zalando intends to make a voluntary public takeover offer to the ABOUT YOU shareholders to acquire all shares in return for a cash consideration of €6.50 per share. The total transaction value will amount to approximately €1.1 billion.

The major shareholders and all three founders and members of the management board of ABOUT YOU have irrevocably committed to sell all shares in the company at the offer price. The consummation of the offer is subject to customary closing conditions and is expected in summer 2025.

The White & Case team which advised on the transaction was led by partners Thilo Diehl and Alexander Kiefner (both Frankfurt) and included partners Tilman Kuhn (Duesseldorf, Brussels), Sébastien Seele, Woldemar Häring, Sebastian Stütze and Bodo Bender (all Frankfurt), local partners Frederic Wünsche, Alisa Preissler (both Frankfurt) and Mathis Rust (Duesseldorf) and associates Timo Lockemann, Jan Ditrich, Hendrik Sannwald, Leon Hoffeller (all Frankfurt), Johannes Wiehe (Duesseldorf) and Christopher Ruof (London).

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