Bird & Bird advises Eficode on its acquisition of Jodocus GmbH

Eficode is a prominent provider of development and operations (DevOps) consultancy services located in Helsinki, Finland. They specialise in offering consultancy, training, and managed services to assist organisations in optimising software development processes, tooling, team collaboration, and providing Atlassian solution services. Eficode is the leading provider of DevOps solutions in Europe that builds the future of software development with 650 employees in 10 different countries. Eficode is an Atlassian Specialised Partner in all Atlassian services - Agile at Scale, ITSM, and Cloud, and a platinum-level partner in nine countries.

Jodocus is a renowned German Atlassian Platinum Solution Partner specialising in enhancing business practices, ALM, DevOps, and Cloud. As an Atlassian Platinum Solution Partner, Jodocus GmbH specialises in optimising ITSM and digitising business processes with Atlassian products. From locations in Hamburg, Hörstel, Düsseldorf, Kiel and Kulmbach, the experienced team of IT and cloud experts as well as process and project management specialists serves a wide range of industries: from German medium-sized and large companies such as banks and insurance companies to international big players.

Polymetis is a prominent developer of applications for Atlassian's Cloud products, aimed at enhancing workflows and delivering customised solutions to meet the specific requirements of clients.

Atlassian’s agile and DevOps, IT service management and work management software helps teams organise, discuss, and complete shared work. The majority of the Fortune 500 and over 300,000 companies of all sizes worldwide - including NASA, Audi, Kiva, Deutsche Bank and Dropbox - rely on their solutions to help their teams work better together and deliver quality results on time.

Eficode was advised by the following Bird & Bird lawyers: lead partner Dr. Kai Kerger, Counsel Johanna Schindler as well as associate Dr. Matthias Adenauer (all Corporate/M&A, Frankfurt), partner Dr. Barbara Geck and associates Carina Wirtz and Franziska Fiedler (all Employment, Frankfurt) partner Dr. Rolf Schmich and Counsel Michael Brüggemann (both Tax, Frankfurt), partner Jörg-Alexander Paul with Counsels Oliver Belitz and Claudia Bischoff-Briel, as well as associates Nadja Rabeneck and Dr. Anke Dieckhoff (all Commercial/Tech & Comms, Frankfurt), partner Dr. Stephan Waldheim with associate Dr. Florian Hinderer (both EU & Competition, Düsseldorf) as well as partner Dr. Matthias Lang and associate Stefanie Kremer (both Commercial, Düsseldorf), partner Mascha Grundmann with Counsel Julia Praeger (both IP, Frankfurt/Düsseldorf).