Berlin—Global law firm Dentons has advised on the sale of the insolvent Berlin logistics company MyLorry GmbH, which under the trade name Food Express caters for restaurants and restaurant chains. The buyer, Takeaway.com Group, is one of the world's largest online food ordering platforms and operates Lieferando.de in Germany.

Food Express, with approximately 1,000 employees, supplies more than 600 partner restaurants, caterers and consumers. Food delivery and driver deployment are controlled by a specifically developed software. The Berlin start-up company MyLorry, founded in 2013, filed for insolvency at the district court of Charlottenburg on 9 November 2015, as it could not cover costs after a period of intense growth, where turnover increased by up to 30 percent per month.

Takeaway will continue operations at all eight locations in Germany under the name Lieferando Express and take on the majority of the active drivers and management in order to continue expanding the business. Together with the directors Max von Waldenfels and Benjamin Pochhammer, the insolvency administrator has already initiated operational restructuring measures at Food Express.

The Dentons team, under the leadership of Berlin Partners Dr. Rainer Markfort and Thomas Schubert had already advised MyLorry GmbH prior to insolvency.

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