Allen & Overy advised Marlin Equity Partners (Marlin) on the acquisition for an undisclosed amount of Talkwalker, a leading social media analytics group based in Luxembourg (with offices in New York City, San Francisco and Frankfurt).

Talkwalker provides monitoring and listening tools helping customers to find trends and critical insights derived from social data and media. Marlin shall further invest in Talkwalker with a view to grow and further scale up the activities of Talkwalker in other countries (including in Asia). 

The A&O team

The core A&O deal team was composed of corporate/M&A counsel Jacques Graas, associate Matthieu De Donder and junior associates Aisling Murphy and Simon Joly (all from A&O Luxembourg). Marc Feider was the responsible corporate partner.

In addition:

    - Luxembourg law IP/IT advice was provided by counsel Gary Cywie and associate Charles-Henri Laevens;

    - Luxembourg banking law advice was provided by senior associate Andre Hommel and junior associate Zuzana Hurarova;

    - Luxembourg tax law advice was provided by partner Jean Schaffner;

    - Luxembourg employment law advice was provided by senior associate Christophe Ernzen;

    - GDPR impact analysis was provided by Nigel Parker in London and his team

    - US employment law advice was provided by law clerk Hayde Faria;

    - US corporate law advice was provided by associate Natalie Montano Young;

    - German employment law advice was provided by senior associate Sebastian Schulz; and

    - German corporate law advice was provided by senior associate Roman Kasten and associate Robert Jochim.