DLA Piper advises team.blue on the acquisition of website builder Webnode

DLA Piper has advised team.blue on the acquisition of Webnode, a pan-European website builder company. For team.blue the transaction serves as another strategic acquisition to further expand its presence in the CEE region following its growth strategy.

Team.blue is a leading digital enabler for companies and entrepreneurs present in 15 countries. The group was created by merging Combell Group, TransIP Group and Register Group in 2019. Team.blue serves over two million customers in Europe and has more than 1,000 experts to support them.

Webnode launched its user-friendly website builder in 2008, which enables customers to create an online presence based on professional templates. Since then, Webnode has introduced additional features such as a webshop builder. The company employs over 100 people and has customers in many European countries, while being predominantly active in the CEE region.

This transaction follows team.blue’s acquisition of SuperHosting, a Bulgarian market leader specialising in professional web hosting. A transaction on which DLA Piper also advised, with a team led by Corporate partner Dr Nils Krause.

The DLA Piper team was led by partner Dr Nils Krause, senior associate Dr Jasper von Georg and transaction lawyer Dan Li (all Corporate/M&A, Hamburg). The team also comprised partners Semin O (Antitrust), Dr Björn Enders (Tax), Dr Wolfram Distler (Finance, all Frankfurt), Dr Christian Schneider (Lit&Reg), counsel Gabriele Engels (IPT), senior associates Dr Andreas Keller (Lit&Reg, all Cologne), Dominik Wegener and associates Rune Jelte Weltz (both Corporate/M&A, Hamburg), Anastasia Max, Florian Hader (both Tax) and Alexander Rösch (Antitrust, all Frankfurt).

In addition, a team from DLA Piper in Prague led by partner Miroslav Dubovsky and senior associate Jan Rataj (both Corporate) as well as the DLA Piper office in Brussels and the Swiss partner firm Niederer Kraft Frey also advised on the transaction.