Gleiss Lutz advises Frasers Group, the largest sports goods retailer in UK, in connection with a public takeover offer to all shareholders of HUGO BOSS.
Frasers Group publicly announced that it intends to submit a voluntary public takeover offer at an offer price of EUR 38 in cash per HUGO BOSS share.
The shares of HUGO BOSS are traded on the regulated market (Prime Standard) of Deutsche Börse AG in Frankfurt am Main. In the fiscal year 2025, HUGO BOSS generated revenues of approximately EUR 4.3 billion and employed around 17,500 people worldwide.
The London-listed Frasers Group Plc is headquartered in Shirebrook and employs approximately 30,000 people. In the fiscal year 2025, Frasers Group generated consolidated revenues of roughly GBP 5 billion.
The following Gleiss Lutz team, jointly led by Dr. Adrian Bingel (partner, Stuttgart), Dr. Stephan Aubel (partner, Frankfurt) and Dr. Markus Martin (counsel, Stuttgart, all Corporate/M&A) provided comprehensive legal advice to Frasers Group during the entire process:
Christian Schröder (Corporate/M&A, Frankfurt), Dr. Walter Andert (Corporate/M&A, Berlin), Teresa Link, Lucca Kaiserauer (both Stuttgart), Melanie Barwich (counsel), Dr. Aileen Halbedel (both Frankfurt, all Corporate), Dr. Julius Ritz (Corporate/M&A, Stuttgart), Dr. Frank Schlobach (partner, Frankfurt), Dr. Katja Lehr (counsel, Frankfurt), Alexander Gebhardt (counsel, Frankfurt, all Banking & Finance), Dr. Johannes Hertfelder (partner), Alexandra Bruch, Mia Schlachter (all Merger Control/Antitrust, all Stuttgart).
A team from Reynolds Porter Chamberlain LLP led by Karen Hendy and Connor Cahalane has advised on UK law issues.
In recent years, Gleiss Lutz has advised, among others, on the following public offers: UniCredit S.p.A. ./. Commerzbank AG; Worthington Steel ./. Klöckner & Co SE; Telefónica S.A. ./. Telefónica Deutschland Holding AG; Silver Lake ./. Software AG; Südzucker AG ./. CropEnergies as well as Cinven ./. SYNLAB AG.
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