Renzenbrink & Partner advises Closelink on financing round

6 May 2019

Hamburg-based start-up Closelink has closed a second financing round. The investors include, among others, maritime early-stage investor TecPier, Next Logistics Accelerator (NLA) and Ricardo.de co-founder Stefan Wiskemann.

In 2016, Closelink GmbH was founded by the three co-founders Philippe Lavarde, Eike Lawatsch and Tobias Schumacher with the aim of digitizing the worldwide market for marine lubricants. For this purpose, the start-up company operates an online market platform providing shipping companies fully transparent and comparable offers from a global network of manufacturers, distributors and traders of marine lubricants, taking into account the price, availability as well as the terms of delivery and payment.

Renzenbrink & Partner has comprehensively advised Closelink GmbH on all legal aspects of the financing round. The firm is regularly engaged for venture capital transactions by start-up companies as well as investors. The team of Renzenbrink & Partner comprised Dr Dennis Schlottmann (Corporate/Venture Capital) and associate Dr Alexander Haunschild (Corporate/Venture Capital).