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CMS advises Partners Group on successful completion of acquiring majority stake in VSB Group

20/04/2020

Hamburg – Partners Group, a global manager of private market investments, has successfully completed the majority acquisition of shares in the VSB Group on behalf of its clients. VSB is a full-service provider in the renewable energy sector. Details of the transaction were not disclosed. Closing of the deal took place last Friday.

As on previous occasions, an international CMS team led by partners Dr Holger Kraft and Dr Eckart Gottschalk advised Partners Group on all legal aspects of the transaction. In addition to acquisition of the shares and the associated due diligence, this included drafting and negotiating the transaction documentation, along with a shareholder agreement. As part of this work the team also set up an international holding structure.

Partners Group is a global manager of private market investments. It has around USD 94 billion in assets under management across private equity, private real estate, private infrastructure and private debt.

Dresden-based VSB is a full-service provider in the renewable energy sector. Its core business is developing wind farms and photovoltaic parks internationally as well as handling operation, maintenance and repair. Since 1996, VSB has successfully developed and built onshore wind farms and solar plants with a capacity of more than 1.1 gigawatts. The company also manages wind farms with a capacity of over 1.4 gigawatts. The group and its affiliated companies employ around 300 people across 19 locations.

CMS Germany

Dr Holger Kraft, Lead Partner
Dr Eckart Gottschalk, Lead Partner
Matthias Sethmann, Principal Counsel
Kai Ostermann, Counsel
Dr Clemens Völschow, Senior Associate
Dr Susanne Keck, Senior Associate
Dr Constantin Lentz, Associate
Luise Pelzer, Senior Associate, all Corporate/M&A
Dr Fritz von Hammerstein, Partner
Dr Hans Fabian Kiderlen, Counsel
Dr Insa Nutzhorn, Counsel
Dr Clara Volkert, Senior Associate
Christopher Schmeckel, Associate
Cihan Cömert, Associate, all Real Estate & Public
Dr Marc Riede, Partner
Nicolai Bischof, Associate, both Banking & Finance
Petra Goldenbaum, Counsel, Intellectual Property
Dorothée Janzen, Partner, Commercial
Dr Heino Büsching, Partner
Dr Martin Mohr, Counsel, both Tax
Dr Philipp Nonnenmühlen, Senior Associate
Sünye Akay, Associate, both Labor, Employment & Pensions
Edris Trabzadah, Legal Consultant
Steven Washington, Legal Consultant, both Smart Operations

CMS France

Jean-Robert Bousquet, Partner
Caroline Froger-Michon, Partner
Alexandre Morel, Partner
Celine Cloche-Dubois, Partner
Geoffrey Levesque
Sadri Desenne-Djoudi
Caroline Buyse
Aurélie Parchet
Clotilde Laborde
Margaux Deuchler

CMS Poland

Łukasz Szatkowski, Partner
Mikolaj Markiewicz
Anis Ben Amer
Wojciech Szopiński
Konrad Leszko
Rafal Burda
Jakub Rykowski
Mateusz Mazur
Paweł Ura
Patrycja Styczyńska

CMS Luxembourg

Sylvain Elias, Partner
Aurélia Budzik
Mélody Brunot

Advice on Tunisian law

Adly Bellagha and Associates

Notary

Dr Matthias Kleiser, Notariat an den Alsterarkaden (Hamburg)

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