Advant Altana advised the industrial group Loca Service on the opening up of its capital to a pool of minority investors, led by the investment fund NCI Capital and including BNP Paribas Développement, BP …
Paris, May 31, 2018
Six years after its spin-off from DCM Group and its acquisition by Azulis Capital and its co-investors BNP Paribas Développement and Unigrains, Holweg Weber, the global leader in the conception, development and assembly of paper packaging solutions, has been acquired by Motion Equity Partners.
Altana advised Azulis Capital and its co-investors in this Franco-American sale, accompanied by Morrison & Foerster LLP for the American aspects. Additionally, this transaction, financed by the debt fund LGT European Capital Limited, constitutes a new MBO for certain managers of the group.
Through this transaction, Altana once again demonstrates the firm’s expertise in the advanced industrial technology domain and in the structuring of cross-border transactions.
Advisors to Azulis Capital
On corporate aspects:
Altana with Gilles Gaillard (Partner) and Julie Rolet (Counsel) and Pierre Lubet (Partner) for employment law.
Morrison & Foerster (New York, NY) with Jonathan Melmed (Partner) and Fabien Pouchot (Counsel at Altana currently on a 15-month secondment to Morrison & Foerster LLP’s M&A department in New York.).
On tax aspects:
Aristide Law with Blaise-Philippe Chaumont (Partner)
Advisors to Motion Equity Partners
BGB & Associés with Alexandre Gaudin and Virginie Couvrat
Mayer Brown with Elodie Deschamps, Alexandre Chagneau and Pierre-Guillaume Sagnol
Gide with Thomas Binet and Anne Moriceau
Advisors to the Managers
Lamartine Conseil with Maxime Dequesne and Pierre Lagresle
Advisors to LGT European Capital Limited
Ashurst avec Pierre Roux, Anne Reffay and Emmanuelle Pontnau-Faure
