The Japanese Asahi Kasei Fibers Corporation (AKF), Osaka, has acquired the Dorlastan business with production sites in Germany (Dormagen) and the USA (Bushy Park, South Carolina) from the LANXESS group. A team of lawyers from CMS Hasche Sigle headed by Stuttgart partners Dr Anton Maurer and Dr Barbara Wössner advised AKF on the transaction. With the acquisition of the Dorlastan business AKF can further reinforce its position in the field of production of synthetic elastic fibres and gains access to markets in Europe and America.
Advisors Asahi Kasei Corporation
CMS Hasche Sigle:
Dr Anton Maurer, partner (lead partner)
Dr Barbara Wössner, partner (lead partner)
Dr Werner Walk, partner (employment)
Dr Christian Scherer-Leydecker, partner (environment)
Dr Tobias Schmid, partner (service agreements)
Dr Wolfgang Bartels, associate (service agreements)
Dr Harald Kahlenberg, partner (competition)
Kai Neuhaus, associate (competition)
Dr Stefan Voss, associate (real property)
Dr Thomas Zimmermann, associate (corporate/real property)
Dr Matthias Eck, partner (IP)
Christof Biallass, associate (IP)
Dr Antje Becker, partner (due diligence)
Cooperation partner Japan
City-Yuwa Partners:
Mikio Tanaka, partner (corporate)
Cooperation partner USA
Greenberg Traurig:
Randy Bullard, partner (corporate)
Kerri Barsh, partner (environment)
In-house
Takashi Shimodaira – legal department of Asahi Kasei Corporation
Contact CMS Hasche Sigle:
Dr Anton Maurer
Tel.: +49 (0)711 / 9764-285
E-mail: Anton.Maurer@cms-hs.com
Dr Barbara Wössner
Tel.: +49 (0)711 / 9764-784
E-mail: Barbara.Woessner@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, legal and 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.
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