DLA Piper advises team.blue on the acquisition of a majority stake in AccessiWay

DLA Piper has advised team.blue on the acquisition of a majority stake in AccessiWay, one of Europe’s leading digital accessibility providers.

With this acquisition, team.blue further strengthens its compliance cluster. In this regard, DLA Piper already advised team.blue on the acquisitions of iubenda and consentmanager, providers for consent management and privacy compliance.

Founded in 2021 and headquartered in Luxembourg with subsidiaries in Italy, Austria, Germany, and France, AccessiWay offers a comprehensive solution for making websites, web applications, and mobile applications accessible to people with disabilities. This ensures compliance with the EU Accessibility Regulation, which comes into force on 28 June 2025.

team.blue is a leading digital services provider for businesses and entrepreneurs across Europe. With more than 60 brands, team.blue serves over 3.3 million customers.

Client relationship partner Nils Krause comments: “This transaction marks a major step for our client team.blue, strengthening its compliance cluster. We are proud to have once again demonstrated our experience as one of the leading M&A practices in the technology sector, thanks to the seamless teamwork of our global teams on this project.”

DLA Piper advised team.blue with a team led by partner Dr Nils Krause and senior associate Dan Li (both Corporate/M&A, Hamburg) and supported by partner Semin O (Antitrust, Frankfurt), counsel Florian Jeske (Employment, Hamburg), senior associate Rune Jelte Weltz (Corporate/M&A, Hamburg) and associate Caroline Huber (Antitrust, Frankfurt).

In addition, further DLA Piper offices in Luxembourg, Italy, Austria, France and Belgium were involved with counsel Guillaume Schaefer and Mélody Brunot and legal advisor Aziza Gilijova (all Corporate/M&A, Luxembourg); partner Christian Iannaccone, associates Giorgia Grande and Fulvio Miano (all Corporate/M&A, Milan); partner Christoph Mager and senior associate Eric Wingert (both Corporate/M&A, Vienna); partner Sarmad Haidar and associate Morgane Le Duc (both Corporate/M&A, Paris) as well as partner Alexis Fierens and associate Emma Stockman (both IPT, Brussels) in the core team.