Weil advised Alibaba.com on its investment in Visable Group, formerly a portfolio company of Swiss private equity firm Capvis. The German Visable Group operates a leading European business-to-business (B2B) market platform with more than 3 million European business customers. The management of Visable Group will continue to lead the company and drive its growth.

The Weil transaction team was led by Munich Corporate partners Manuel-Peter Fringer and Gerhard Schmidt and included partner Benjamin Rapp (Tax, Frankfurt), counsel Florian Wessel (Regulatory, Munich), Thomas Zimmermann (Finance, Munich), Konstantin Hoppe (IP/IT, Munich) as well as associates Amelie Zabel, Christopher Schletter (both Corporate, Munich), Alexia Kuhnmünch (Regulatory, Munich), Silvia Lengauer (Finance, Munich), Mario Kuhn (Data Privacy, Frankfurt), Fabian Kraupe (Employment, Munich) and Steffen Giolda (Antitrust, Munich).