11. August 2025

ARQIS provided comprehensive legal advice to the newly founded KOMI Group on the acquisition of the IT infrastructure business spun off from Konica Minolta. The spin-off took place as part of a complex carve-out. In the course of this, KOMI Group was repositioned as an independent IT service provider with a clear focus on medium-sized businesses. Konica Minolta will focus on the remaining areas of professional printing and digital business models in the future.

The new provider, KOMI Group, offers managed services, IT security solutions, infrastructure consulting and modern applications for the digital workplace for medium-sized companies. KOMI is also taking over the existing customer and project structures of Konica Minolta's former IT infrastructure business.

An ARQIS team headed by Partner Dr. Mauritz von Einem and Counsel Dennis Reisich provided comprehensive legal support to KOMI Group throughout the carve-out, acquisition and restructuring of the business. In addition to corporate law aspects, including a new corporate structure, ARQIS, headed by Lisa-Marie Niklas, advised on the carve-out from an employment law perspective. ARQIS has been working regularly for Liberta Partners for several years on transactions, successful platform investments such as the current carve-out and fund structuring.

The Munich-based investment company Liberta Partners supported the transaction as a capital provider and active sparring partner. As an entrepreneurial investment company, Liberta invests in medium-sized companies with development potential and aims to support them financially as well as develop them structurally and operationally.

Advisor to KOMI Group/Liberta Partners
ARQIS (Munich): Dr. Mauritz von Einem (Partner, Lead, Transactions), Lisa-Marie Niklas (Partner, Co-Lead, HR Carve-Out, Düsseldorf, HR Law), Dennis Reisich (Counsel, Co-Lead, Transactions/Tax), Partners: Johannes Landry (Düsseldorf, Financing), Dr. Ulrich Lienhard (Düsseldorf, Real Estate), Tobias Neufeld (Düsseldorf, Data Law), Marcus Nothhelfer (IP), Counsel: Nora Stratmann (Commercial), Managing Associates: Tim Bresemann, Diana Puchowezki (both Düsseldorf, Real Estate), Rolf Tichy (IP), Associates: Dr. Lina Alami, Luzia Schulze Froning (Düsseldorf, both HR Law), Rebecca Gester (Commercial), Paulina Hüttner, Dr. Julia Wildgans (both IP), Johanna Klingen (Düsseldorf, Data Law), Giulia Kögel (Transactions), Legal Specialist: Konstantinos Strempas (Transactions)