Hengeler Mueller advises E.ON on sale of innogy’s electricity and gas retail business in the Czech Republic to MVM Group

E.ON SE and MVM Group signed an agreement on the sale of innogy SE’s electricity and gas retail business in the Czech Republic, operated by innogy Ceska republika a.s. The transaction is subject to the approval of the European Commission. It marks a further step in the fulfilment of the remedies offered by E.ON in the context of the antitrust approval of E.ON’s takeover of innogy.

Hengeler Mueller advises E.ON on the transaction. The team is led by partners Thomas Meurer and Martin Ulbrich (both M&A, Düsseldorf) and includes partners Matthias Scheifele (Tax, Munich), Dirk Uwer (Public Law/Regulatory) and Wolfgang Kellenter (IP/IT) (both Düsseldorf), counsel Gunther Wagner (Tax, Munich), Moritz Rademacher (Public Law/Regulatory) and Patrick Wilkening (IP/IT) (both Düsseldorf) as well as associates Richard Suermann, Maximilian Hermans, Jil Kalender, Florian Krauss (all M&A, Düsseldorf), Sebastian Heinrichs (Tax, Frankfurt) and Tianyuan Zhuang (IP/IT, Düsseldorf).