E+H, together with Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP, represented Insight Partners on its strategic growth investment in Flightkeys Group

The Flightkeys Group is a leading provider of cloud-based flight planning and optimization software for global airlines.

On 20 September 2024, Flightkeys announced its partnership with Insight Partners, which will enable the company to accelerate its investments into its strategic roadmap, R&D, and customer service. Flightkeys, based in Vienna, Austria, and its subsidiary companies, Spacekeys and Skykeys, develop and market software to optimize flight routes and flight schedules in real time for the aviation industry as well as systems to assess GPS satellite signals and a cockpit application to optimize flight trajectories. The investment is subject to customary regulatory approval and is expected to close in Q4/2024.

Insight Partners is a global software investor partnering with high-growth technology, software, and Internet startup and ScaleUp companies. As of 30 June 2024, the firm has over $80 billion in regulatory assets under management.

The E+H team was led by partner Philipp Schrader and included partner Dieter Thalhammer, Judith Feldner, Helmut Liebel and Dominik Juster, counsel William Redl as well as associates Franziska Egger, Yvonne Handler, Yvonne Wohlmuth, Marcel Neuhauser, Lorenz Bogensberger and Lukas Weber.

The Willkie team was led by partners Morgan Elwyn and Philip Coletto and included associates Vishaal Patel, Ben Pearlman and Julia Radaszkiewicz.