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The Cologne private equity fund Argantis has acquired Sarnamotive Schenk GmbH, Esslingen, and Sarnamotive Bohemia s.r.o., Liberec (the Czech Republic) with the involvement of the management of the Swiss company Sarna Kunststoff Holding AG. Sarnamotive Schenk and Sarnamotive Bohemia, which specialise in manufacturing high-class plastic linings and functional components for the automotive industry, jointly form Schenk Bohemia Group (SBG), Esslingen. SBG has been taken over as part of the strategy of Sarna Kunststoff Holding AG to concentrate on its core business in the construction industry. The parties have agreed not to disclose the purchase price. Under the leadership of partners
Dr Ralph Drouven and Dr Martin Bell a team from CMS Hasche Sigle advised Argantis GmbH, which specialises in management buyouts of medium-sized companies.
Advisers to Argantis GmbH:
CMS Hasche Sigle
Dr Ralph Drouven, partner, Cologne (lead partner, corporate)
Dr Martin Bell, partner, Frankfurt (lead partner, corporate)
Dr Oliver Wolfgramm, partner, Frankfurt (corporate)
Dr Stefan Lehr, partner, Frankfurt (competition)
Dr Herbert Wiehe, partner Cologne (finance)
Gerd Schoenen, partner, Cologne (IP)
Dr Petra Schaffner, associate, Cologne (lead, corporate)
Dr Jörg Mucke, associate, Cologne (finance)
Dr Axel Dippmann, associate, Berlin (finance)
Dr Till Liebau, associate, Frankfurt (corporate)
Sven Schweneke, associate, Frankfurt (due diligence, corporate)
Dr Angela Emmert, associate, Cologne (due diligence, employment)
Björn Helwig, associate, Cologne (due diligence, distribution, IT)
Matthias Toussaint, associate, Cologne (due diligence, public law)
CMS Cameron McKenna
Dr Andreas Ueltzhoeffer, partner, Prague
Lars Klett, associate, Prague
Contact CMS Hasche Sigle:
Dr Ralph Drouven
Tel.: +49 (0)221 / 7716-325
E-mail: Ralph.Drouven@cms-hs.com
Dr Martin Bell
Tel.: +49 (0)69 / 71701-0
E-mail: Martin.Bell@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 Henrici (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
