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CMS Hasche Sigle advises Deutsche Beteiligungs AG on acquisition of Stephan Machinery

22/03/2013

Frankfurt/Main – Deutsche Beteiligungs AG (DBAG) and its DBAG Fund V have acquired Stephan Machinery GmbH, headquartered in Hameln, Germany, in a management buy-out. A corresponding agreement was signed with Italian company Corazza S.p.A., a subsidiary of listed IMA Industria Macchine Automatiche S.p.A. The purchase price of the debt-free engineering company is EUR 40 million. The sale, which is due to be completed in the next three months, still needs to be approved by the competition authorities. Stephan Machinery GmbH has subsidiaries in France, Poland, Russia, Singapore, the US, Belgium and the UK.

An international CMS Hasche Sigle team led by Dr Hendrik Hirsch advised DBAG on all legal aspects of the transaction.

DBAG is a listed company that has been operating for almost 50 years, making it Germany's oldest private equity firm. It focuses on market-leading SMEs in Germany and neighbouring European countries. DBAG currently manages almost EUR 1.3 billion. Established in 1953, Stephan Machinery GmbH manufactures industrial machines and plants for food production and packaging and operates its own development centre. Last year, 180 employees generated sales of EUR 42 million. In 1999, Stephan was acquired by Sympak Corazza Group of Italy, which was in turn taken over in 2011 by the IMA Group.

CMS Hasche Sigle

Dr Hendrik Hirsch, M&A, Lead Partner
Dr Holger Pattberg, M&A, Due Diligence Corporate
Dr Roman Gaitzsch, Due Diligence Corporate
Dr Markus Pfaff, Finance
Alexandra Möller, Finance, Due Diligence
Dr Thomas Link, Tax, Structuring
Marcus Fischer, Tax, Structuring
Stefan Lehr, Competition
Dr Tobias Bomsdorf, Commercial Due Diligence
Björn Waterkotte, Commercial Due Diligence
Dr Ulrich Becker, Commercial Due Diligence
Dr Malte Grützmacher, IT/IP, Due Diligence
Petra Goldenbaum, IP/Trademark Law, Due Diligence
Dr Bernhard Freund, IT Due Diligence
Anja Dombrowsky, Labor, Employment & Pensions Due Diligence
Dr Christian Zwarg, Labor, Employment & Pensions Due Diligence
Heinrich Schirmer, Real Estate, Due Diligence
Sarah Beckermann, Real Estate, Due Diligence

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CMS Derks Star Busmann, Netherlands (Eduard Scheenstra)
CMS Cameron McKenna LLP, Poland (Bogdan Duda)
CMS Russia (Dr Thomas Heidemann)

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