2024 M&A Year in Review - Flipbook - Page 9
M&A Year in Review | 2024
We are advising National Space Company, d/b/a the Neo
Space Group (NSG), a Public Investment Fund-owned
company and Saudi Arabia’s leading commercial space
services provider, on its pending acquisition of UP42
GmbH, a next-generation earth observation digital
platform, from Airbus Defence and Space GmbH.
The acquisition supports NSG’s mission to meet
Saudi Arabia’s growing demand for advanced earth
observation and geospatial solutions.
Lawyers in our Hamburg office led the transaction, with
support from our Berlin, Brussels, Düsseldorf, Munich,
Northern Virginia, and Riyadh offices and our antitrust,
employment, infrastructure and projects, intellectual
property, real estate, regulatory, and tax practices.
We advised Redwire Corporation, a leader in space
infrastructure for the next generation space economy,
on its acquisition of Hera Systems, Inc., a privately
held spacecraft development company focused
on developing a new class of high-performance
spacecraft to support the evolving requirements for
national security missions.
The acquisition expands Redwire’s spacecraft portfolio
to offer mission-critical capabilities in geostationary orbit.
Lawyers in our Washington, D.C. office led the transaction,
with support from our Los Angeles and Northern
Virginia offices and our employment, infrastructure
and projects, intellectual property, international
trade, regulatory, restructuring, and tax practices.
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