Norton Rose Fulbright advises dwpbank on acquisition of lemon.markets Group

Global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright has advised Deutsche WertpapierServiceBank AG (dwpbank) on its acquisition of the lemon.markets Group.

dwpbank is Germany's leading provider of securities services and supports around three-quarters of all banks operating in Germany with its product solutions. From order routing to custody, it provides services along the entire value chain.

The Berlin-based FinTech lemon.markets is a brokerage-as-a-service platform that, through its BaFin-licensed subsidiary lemon.markets brokerage GmbH, provides FinTechs, banks and asset managers with the IT infrastructure for processing securities transactions via an API.

Norton Rose Fulbright Team lead Partner Frank Henkel (Corporate/M&A, Munich) comments: 

"We are delighted to have advised dwpbank on this strategically important transaction. The acquisition of the lemon.markets Group strengthens dwpbank's innovative power, particularly in the area of digital securities services, and underlines its role as a forward-looking market leader."

The Norton Rose Fulbright team was led by partner Frank Henkel and senior associate Johannes Diez (Corporate/M&A, Munich). The team also included partner Claudia Posluschny (employment law, Munich), senior consultant Dr. Frank Herring (regulatory law, Frankfurt), counsels Dr. Ingemar Kartheuser (data privacy law, Frankfurt), Markus Müller (IT law, Munich), Dr. Michael Born (regulatory law, Frankfurt), Oliver Polster (corporate law, Hamburg), senior associates Maximilian Schmitz (IP law, Munich) and Michaela Bachmeier (employment law, Munich), and associates Andre Hartmann (corporate law, Frankfurt) and Hannah Dieterich (employment law, Munich).