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07.11.2025 | Deal Notifications

KPMG Law and KPMG advise Diehl Defence on the acquisition of the Tauber Group

KPMG Law Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH (KPMG Law) and KPMG AG Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft (KPMG) advised Diehl Defence on the acquisition of the Tauber Group.

KPMG Law provided legal support to Diehl Defence and KPMG provided tax support with cross-location teams on the acquisition of the Tauber Group.

The Diehl Defence subgroup, based in Überlingen on Lake Constance, bundles the business activities of the Diehl Group, a globally active German family-owned company based in Nuremberg, in the field of defense technology. The Tauber Group, also a family-run German company, specializes in services in the fields of explosive ordnance disposal as well as system and special civil engineering. With almost seven hundred employees, it recently achieved an annual turnover of around 100 million euros.

Diehl Defence already entered into a strategic partnership with the Tauber Group last year when it founded the joint venture TD Services GmbH together with the latter. KPMG Law also provided legal advice at that time. With the acquisition of the Tauber Group, Diehl Defence has now taken over the entire range of services of the Tauber Group, including geophysical detection, recovery, defusing and professional disposal of explosive ordnance as well as technically demanding civil engineering projects such as tunnel and pipeline construction, shoring systems and ecological water treatment.

 

KPMG Law: Dr. Daniel Kaut, LL.M. (Partner), Nuremberg, Dr. Robert Müller (Senior Manager), Hamburg, Stephan Gönczöl, LL.M. (Senior Manager), Berlin, lead, Lisa-Marie Miller (Senior Associate), Munich, Kilian Baum (Associate), Nuremberg, Lucas Kalischko (Associate), Stuttgart, all Corporate/M&A; Dr. Simon Meyer (Partner) Munich, Dr. Florian Gonsior (Senior Manager) Düsseldorf, Dr. Sandro Köpper (Senior Associate), Hanover, all environmental law; Dr. Barbara Kathrin Buhr (Partner), Dr. Magnus Auer (Manager), Albrecht Schneider, LL.M. (Senior Associate), all Nuremberg, Public Law; Dr. Rainer Algermissen (Partner), Human Aghel (Senior Manager), both Hamburg, Real Estate Law; Dr. Martin Trayer (Partner), Nora Matthaei, LL.M. (Senior Manager), Silke Neumann (Manager), all Frankfurt am Main, Franciska Kieft (Senior Associate), Hanover, all employment law; Francois Heynike, LL.M. (Partner), Frankfurt am Main, Dr. Daniel Taraz (Senior Manager), Sina Sophie Schachner, LL.M. (Senior Associate), all Hamburg, IT and data protection law; Dr. Thomas Giering (Senior Manager), Leipzig, compliance.

KPMG: Prof. Dr. Jens Berberich (Partner), Dirk Lohrmann (Senior Manager), Pascal Kroth (Manager), Christopher Kuhn (Assistant Manager), all Tax, Frankfurt am Main.

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