Munich—Global law firm Dentons advised Carl Hanser Verlag on the sale of its scientific publications subsidiary, CHV Wissenschaftsverlag GmbH & Co. KG, to Walter de Gruyter GmbH. As a result of the transaction, De Gruyter will add eight well-established and renowned scientific journals to its publishing portfolio. 

Carl Hanser Verlag is a family-owned publishing house founded in Munich in 1928. It owns several subsidiaries, among them the literary publishers Hanser, Hanser Berlin, hanserblau and Paul Zsolnay, and is a part owner of dtv, one of the largest independent publishers in the German language. Carl Hanser publishes both German and international literature and is the publisher of 17 winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature. It employs around 220 people.

De Gruyter is an independent scientific publisher with headquarters in Berlin and offices in Basel, Boston, Munich, Beijing, Warsaw and Vienna. For 270 years, De Gruyter has published renowned research in all disciplines as a partner of scientists and scholars. De Gruyter issues over 1,300 new book titles and more than 900 journals per year, is one of the leading open access publishers and offers digital access to scientific works to over 12 million visitors per year on its website degruyter.com. 

A Dentons team led by Dr. Alexander von Bergwelt provided full-service transactional advice to Carl Hanser Verlag, a long-term client.

Advisors to Carl Hanser Verlag:

Dentons (Munich): Dr. Alexander von Bergwelt (Lead Partner, Corporate/M&A), Dr. Matthias Nordmann (Partner, Competition, Antitrust and Regulatory), Alina Bresler (Senior Associate, Corporate/M&A), Christine Herkommer (Senior Associate, IP and Corporate/M&A), Michael Singer (Senior Associate, Corporate/M&A)