Gleiss Lutz has advised US-based inMusic Brands, Inc. (“inMusic”) on its acquisition of the worldwide operations of the insolvent Native Instruments group.
The seller is Torsten Martini, the insolvency administrator for the three German Native Instruments companies. The companies, which are portfolio companies of private equity investor Francisco Partners, filed for insolvency in January 2026 after a takeover by their private credit lenders fell through.
Headquartered in Cumberland, Rhode Island, USA, inMusic is a global leader in music technology. The company’s portfolio of hardware and software brands includes Akai Professional, Moog Music, Numark, and Rane, among others.
Native Instruments, headquartered in Berlin, is one of the most influential companies in modern music production technology, with over 20 million users, and produces software and hardware for digital music production.
The following Gleiss Lutz team, led by Dr. Matthias Tresselt (partner, Restructuring, Stuttgart) and Dr. Moritz Lochmann (Restructuring/M&A, Munich), advised inMusic comprehensively on the transaction:
Tobias Zorn, Maike Holzbaur (both M&A, Munich), Dr. Markus Günther (Tax, Hamburg), Dr. Matthias Werner (partner, Munich), Viktoria Charlotte Neubelt (Berlin), Magdalena Rauch (all IP/Tech, Munich), Dr. Rut Steinhauser (partner), Angela Tschech (both Employment), Simon Clemens Wegmann (Data Protection, all Berlin), and Konrad H. J. Discher (counsel, Real Estate, Frankfurt), Dr. Andrea Preuße (partner) und Dr. Lukas Diestel (both Competition/Antitrust, both Hamburg).
Macfarlanes advised on matters of English law and King & Wood on matters of Chinese law.
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