Bird & Bird advises The Landbanking Group on US$ 11 million seed financing round

The Landbanking Group supports the launch of its natural capital platform Landler.io, the first integrated management and investment platform for natural capital (biodiversity, soil, water, carbon). This enables farmers and landowners to become providers of natural capital and companies, e.g. from the food industry, to become natural capital investors. The financing enables the expansion of the customer base in the agri-food sector and the development of new markets in the areas of infrastructure, energy and financial services. It also allows for a development of monitoring models for further biomes and ecoregions, as well as a further expansion of  land (including both agriculture and urban land) and into the protection of nature.

The seed round was led by high impact fund BonVenture together with natural capital pioneer André Hoffmann. Venture capital funds such as 4P Capital, Vanagon and Planet A will contribute their expertise in marketing, refinancing and impact measurement. In addition, the SUN Institute of the Deutsche Post Foundation and ten families and private investors, including Prince Maximilian von und zu Liechtenstein, Alexa Firmenich, Jan-Hendrik Goldbeck and Fabian Strüngmann, are supporting the company's development.

The Landbanking Group was advised by the following Bird & Bird lawyers: Counsel Andrea Schlote (lead), partner Stefan Münch, counsel Dr. Christina Lorenz, associate Louisa Graf (all Corporate/M&A, Munich) and associate Kilian Hummel (Corporate/M&A, Frankfurt), partner Dr. Markus Körner and associate Yvonne Schaafs (both IP, Munich), partner Dr. Rolf Schmich, counsel Michael Brüggemann and associate Luca Eckrich (all Tax , Frankfurt).