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.
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Dr Eckart Gottschalk, Lead Partner
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