News and Deals
News and Deals
Linklaters has advised Blacklane, a global chauffeur service leader, on its acquisition by Uber Technologies, Inc.
Founded in Berlin, Germany, in 2011, to bring quality and consistency to travel, Blacklane connects guests worldwide with independent local chauffeur services via an app and web booking platform. Today Blacklane operates in over 500 cities across more than 60 countries and has grown to be the chauffeur service of choice for discerning travelers and executives of the world’s leading corporations.
The acquisition is subject to the receipt of customary regulatory approvals and satisfaction of other customary closing conditions and is expected to close by the end of 2026.
The international and cross-practice Linklaters team is led by Marco G. Carbonare (Partner, Corporate/M&A, Frankfurt) and Dominik Wegener (Managing Associate, Corporate/M&A, Hamburg/München).
The core team also includes partners Oliver Rosenberg (Tax, Düsseldorf), Christoph Barth (Antitrust & Foreign Investment, Düsseldorf), Michael Leicht (TMT, Frankfurt) and John Eichlin (Antitrust & Foreign Investment, New York) as well as Ben Bauer (Counsel, Antitrust & Foreign Investment, New York), Atif Bhatti (Counsel, IP/Litigation, Arbitration & Investigations, Frankfurt), Luca Rawe (Managing Associate, Employment, Düsseldorf), Gallus Vögel (Associate, Corporate/M&A, Frankfurt), Pascal Janssen Jägers (Associate, Tax, Frankfurt), Odysseas Tzanetis (Associate, Antitrust & Foreign Investment, Düsseldorf) and Julia Mohr (Associate, Corporate/M&A, Berlin).
Other team members are Tim Johannsen-Roth (Partner, Corporate/M&A, Frankfurt), Matthew Devey (Partner, Employment, Frankfurt), Andrew Gaines (Partner, Employment, New York), Gabriel Grossmann (Partner, Tax, New York), Mario Pofahl (Partner, Corporate/M&A, Hamburg), Heiko Schiwek (Partner, Corporate/M&A, New York), Patrick Sutton-Mattocks (Partner, Corporate/M&A, Dubai), Faysal Lassas (Counsel, Corporate/M&A, Abu Dhabi), Maddy Hayes (Senior Associate, Employment, New York), Cecilia Drepper (Managing Associate, IP/Litigation, Arbitration & Investigations, Frankfurt), Maximilian Mann (Managing Associate, Corporate/M&A, Hamburg), Jonas Baumann (Associate, TMT, Frankfurt), Colin Laws (Associate, Employment, Frankfurt), Julia Funke (Associate, Antitrust & Foreign Investment, Düsseldorf), Jenny Döllmann (Associate, IP/Litigation, Arbitration & Investigations, Frankfurt), Zayed Harahsheh (Associate, Corporate/M&A, Abu Dhabi), Volodymyr Yakubovskyy (Foreign Lawyer, Corporate/M&A, Frankfurt), Nursel Tevetoglu (Legal Project Manager/LPM Team Lead, Corporate/M&A, Frankfurt), Felix Neumann (Legal Project Manager, Düsseldorf) and Liz Mbu (AI & Transactional LegalTech, London).
The Linklaters team is working alongside Blacklane’s in-house general counsel Ryan Citlau and his team.