{"id":13308,"date":"2020-01-31T17:05:18","date_gmt":"2020-01-31T16:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gsk.de\/?p=13308"},"modified":"2021-09-08T14:45:23","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T12:45:23","slug":"gsk-stockmann-advises-voya-gmbh-on-selling-its-travel-business-and-on-a-cooperation-with-lufthansa-city-center-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gsk.de\/en\/gsk-stockmann-advises-voya-gmbh-on-selling-its-travel-business-and-on-a-cooperation-with-lufthansa-city-center-2\/","title":{"rendered":"GSK Stockmann advises Voya GmbH on selling its travel business and on a cooperation with Lufthansa City Center"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>GSK Stockmann comprehensively advised\nVoya, a digital platform that specialises in business trips, on selling the\ntraveling business to Lufthansa City Center (LCC) as well as on starting a\ncooperation with the travel agency chain. <\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">LCC is taking over Voya\u2019s travel business \u2013 now under\nthe name \u201cVoya Travel\u201d \u2013 that Voya had previously been managing independently.\nThe closing already took place. In the future, Voya is going to focus on\nenhancing the cloud based Voya platform and on licensing of the relevant\nsoftware to corporate customers and travel agencies. Lufthansa is becoming\nVoya\u2019s fulfilment partner. Furthermore, the Voya platform and Voya technology\nwill be implemented in all LCC travel agencies in Germany. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Selling the travel agency business and launching the\ncooperation, the business travel specialists are pursuing the goal of being the\nfirst travel management company to combine stationary and digital technology\nand to further expand their market leadership in the segment of business travel\nmanagement for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The online business travel platform Voya, based in\nHamburg, specialises in SMEs and acts as an interface between end customers and\ntravel agencies. Founded in 2015, the company combines online travel bookings\nwith personal service supported by machine learning on its end-to-end platform.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With more than 570 offices in 95 countries, Lufthansa\nCity Center (LCC) is one of the world\u2019s largest independent franchise systems\nin the travel agency market and, with 13,500 corporate customers, is the market\nleader in the small and medium-sized enterprise segment. <strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">GSK Stockmann and a team led by the Berlin Partner\nThomas Derlin comprehensively advised Voya GmbH on all legal aspects of the\ntransaction, in particular on drafting and negotiating the contracts for the\nsale of the travel agency business by way of an asset deal as well as on the\nvery complex license, fulfilment, service and other agreements. GSK Stockmann\nwas able to combine its M&amp;A expertise with its multidisciplinary skills in\nthe IT\/IP sector, as well as its sector-specific expertise in aviation and\ntravel (as part of the \u201cMobility\u201d sector).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Advisers of Voya GmbH:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>GSK Stockmann:<\/strong> Thomas Derlin (Corporate\/M&amp;A, lead), J\u00f6rg Kahler (IP\/IT), Philipp\nKuhn (Employment), Petra Eckl, Dominik Berka (both Tax); Associates: Benedikt\nKreuder (Corporate\/M&amp;A), Martin Hossenfelder (IP\/IT), Nicole Deparade\n(Emplyoment), Annika Abenhardt (Corporate\/M&amp;A)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GSK Stockmann comprehensively advised Voya, a digital platform that specialises in business trips, on selling the traveling business to Lufthansa City Center (LCC) as well as on starting a cooperation with the travel agency chain. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[402],"tags":[],"ausgabe":[675],"verknuepfung":[763,752,775],"class_list":["post-13308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deal-news","ausgabe-gsk","verknuepfung-corporate","verknuepfung-employment-compensation-and-benefits","verknuepfung-ma-en"],"acf":{"ansprechpartner":[{"anwalt":805}],"postdownloads":[{"download":false,"anzeigetitel":""}]},"info":{"date":"31.01.2020","author":"GSK Sysop","categories_names":["Deal News"],"category":"Deal News"},"wpml_main_post_id":11572,"featured_img_src":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsk.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsk.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsk.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsk.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsk.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gsk.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsk.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsk.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsk.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13308"},{"taxonomy":"ausgabe","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsk.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ausgabe?post=13308"},{"taxonomy":"verknuepfung","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsk.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/verknuepfung?post=13308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}