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Greenberg Traurig Advises Volkswagen Financial Services in Connection with Sale of PayByPhone

MIAMI – Nov. 17, 2023 – Global law firm Greenberg Traurig, P.A. advised Volkswagen Financial Services in connection with the sale of PayByPhone, a global provider of digital parking payment solutions.

PayByPhone was acquired by FLEETCOR Technologies, Inc., a leading global business payments company. The acquisition expands FLEETCOR’s vehicle payment provider network for businesses and consumers in North America and Europe.

PayByPhone is one of the fastest growing mobile payments companies in the world, with over 6 million monthly active users throughout North America and Europe. FLEETCOR acquied PayByPhone from Volkswagen Financial Services.

The Volkswagen Financial Services deal team comprised Christian Fahrenholz and Sebastian Steffen, both of VWFS, assisted by a cross-border team from Greenberg Traurig offices in Amsterdam, Delaware, London, and Miami, including Wietse de Jong as lead, Robert Hardy, Jelmer Kalisvaart, Chazz Sutherland, Thomas van der Vliet, Nathan P. Emeritz, Gillian Sproul, Marina Olman-Pal, and Claudio J. Arruda advising on corporate, antitrust/competition, financial regulatory, and tax matters.

About Greenberg Traurig’s Corporate Practice: Greenberg Traurig’s Corporate Practice comprises more than 600 lawyers in the United States, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America who regularly advise public and privately held companies, entrepreneurs and investment funds on global mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructurings, private equity and venture capital, underwritten and syndicated offerings, commercial finance and syndicated lending, cross-border transactions, and general corporate matters. The group’s industry experience includes transactions in a wide range of fields, from the payments, technology, consumer products, and banking fields, to representations involving clients in the aviation, energy, food and beverage, health care, pharmaceutical, medical devices, life sciences, manufacturing, media and telecommunications sectors.

About Greenberg Traurig: Greenberg Traurig, LLP has more than 2650 attorneys in 47 locations in the United States, Europe and the Middle East, Latin America, and Asia. The firm is a 2022 BTI “Highly Recommended Law Firm” for superior client service and is consistently among the top firms on the Am Law Global 100 and NLJ 500. Greenberg Traurig is Mansfield Rule 6.0 Certified Plus by The Diversity Lab. The firm is recognized for powering its U.S. offices with 100% renewable energy as certified by the Center for Resource Solutions Green-e® Energy program and is a member of the U.S. EPA’s Green Power Partnership Program. The firm is known for its philanthropic giving, innovation, diversity, and pro bono. Web: www.gtlaw.com.