YPOG advised the shareholders of Munich-based trail GmbH on the sale of the company to Collibra, the firm announced. With the acquisition, Collibra adds trail’s agent-based automation to its solutions for the governance of data, models, applications and AI agents.
The YPOG team comprised Dr. Johannes Janning (Transactions), Partner, Cologne; Dr. Tim Walter (Transactions), Senior Associate, Cologne; Jörg Schrade (Tax), Partner, Munich; Dr. Antonia Scheinbacher (Tax), Associated Partner, Munich; Dr. Jacob Schreiber (Tax), Senior Associate, Munich; Dr. Benedikt Flöter (IP/IT/Data Protection), Partner, Berlin; Charlotte Petrasch (IP/IT/Data Protection), Associate, Berlin; Janic Kaba Salcedas (Transactions, Corporate), Associate, Cologne; and Laura Franke (Transactions), Senior Project Lawyer, Cologne.
Chambers and Co. since 2004.
trail was founded in 2023 by Anna Spitznagel, Nikolaus Pinger and Sven Hölzel. Its technology analyses the context of an AI system, determines relevant requirements and controls, assesses their implementation and effectiveness, identifies gaps and automates governance workflows. Its runtime functions allow Collibra policies to be enforced where AI agents are deployed, so that actions violating those policies can be blocked before they are executed.
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