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CMS Hasche Sigle advised the Georg von Opel group on the sale to a group of investors headed by Deutsche Bank AG London

28/09/2005

A group of investors headed by the Deutsche Bank AG London has acquired a majority stake in the Frankfurt group Georg von Opel GmbH. The Georg von Opel group was advised on this transaction by a team of advisers from CMS Hasche Sigle headed by Cologne partner Dr Herbert Wiehe (banking/finance) and Frankfurter partner Dr Andreas Zanner (corporate/finance). 
With 29 operations in the Rhine-Main area, Bonn, Erfurt and Würzburg the Georg von Opel group is one of Germany's biggest automotive trading groups. Along with the group of investors, Hans-Ulrich-Sachs GmbH has also become a shareholder in the group. Like Opel heir Gregor von Opel, Ulrich Sachs is also a director of the Georg von Opel group of companies. Sachs and von Opel will continue to be directors under the new shareholding structure. 
Dr Herbert Wiehe (banking/finance) and Dr Andreas Zanner (corporate/finance) were assisted by Dr Kurt Gratz (tax) and André Hofmann (banking/finance). 
Advisers 
Unternehmensgruppe Georg von Opel GmbH 
CMS Hasche Sigle 
Dr Herbert Wiehe, partner, Cologne, banking/finance 
Dr Andreas Zanner, partner, Frankfurt (corporate/finance) 
Dr Kurt Gratz, CMS GmbH Steuerberatungsgesellschaft, Stuttgart, tax 
André Hofmann, LL.M., associate, Frankfurt, banking/finance 
Contact CMS Hasche Sigle: 
Dr Herbert Wiehe 
Tel.: +49 (0)221 / 7716-228 
E-mail: Herbert.Wiehe@cms-hs.com 
Dr Andreas Zanner 
Tel.: +49 (0)69 / 71701-0 
E-mail: Andreas.Zanner@cms-hs.com 
About CMS Hasche Sigle: 
CMS Hasche Sigle is one of the leading German law firms with more than 420 lawyers. It covers the entire area of commercial law and provides legal advice to major German and international companies from a wide spectrum of industry. 
CMS Hasche Sigle operates at all the major business centres. It has offices in Berlin, Cologne, Duesseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Leipzig, Munich, Stuttgart, Chemnitz, Dresden, Brussels, Belgrade, Moscow and Prague. 
CMS Hasche Sigle is a partnership of lawyers and tax consultants; for register details / list of partners see www.cms-hs.com 
CMS Hasche Sigle is a member of CMS, an alliance of leading European law firms. With over 575 partners, a total of 2,000 lawyers and tax consultants and around 3,800 support staff we advise our clients in 24 countries in Europe and further afield on legal and tax issues. 
Local strength and legal tax advice tailored to the requirements of the market combined with a substantial amount of business and organisational integration form the basis for high-quality international legal advice. 
In addition to CMS Hasche Sigle, the following firms are also members of the CMS alliance: CMS Adonnino Ascoli & Cavasola Scamoni (Italy), CMS Albiñana & Suárez de Lezo (Spain), CMS Bureau Francis Lefebvre (France), CMS Cameron McKenna LLP (Great Britain), CMS DeBacker (Belgium), CMS Derks Star Busmann (the Netherlands), CMS von Erlach Klainguti Stettler Wille (Switzerland) and CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz (Austria). CMS has 57 offices in 24 countries in Western and Central Europe, North and South America, Asia and North Africa. 
For further information on CMS Hasche Sigle see www.cms-hs.com and on the CMS alliance see www.cmslegal.com