Overview
Munich, July 21, 2025 – McDermott Will & Emery has advised ELF Capital on the financing of the acquisition of the German Vignold Group GmbH and the Swiss GSDH Kreativagentur GmbH by the multi-family office DRS Investment.
With these acquisitions, DRS Investment is expanding its investment focus from traditional software companies to technology-enabled services.
Vignold, with offices in Ratingen, Düsseldorf, Berlin, Gliwice, Istanbul and Phuket, supports companies in setting up a marketing asset factory. GSDH is a digital marketing agency based in Stansstad, Switzerland.
ELF Capital Group, based in Frankfurt, is an independent European investment advisor offering private capital solutions to medium-sized and small to medium-sized enterprises in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Western Europe.
The McDermott team was led by partners Ludwig Zesch and Matthias Weissinger and comprised counsel Thomas Diekmann, Maximilian Meyer and Marcus Fischer as well as associates Bastiaan Wolters, Cornelius Hille and Nils Ladewig.
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