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CMS Hasche Sigle has advised voestalpine Austria Draht GmbH, a company belonging to voestalpine –
railway systems division – on the acquisition of all shares in the wireworks and steel company
Finsterwalde GmbH. Stuttgart CMS Hasche Sigle partners, Dr Thomas Meyding and Stefan Sieling, led
the transaction for voestalpine.
voestalpine Austria Draht GmbH is a subsidiary of the Austrian voestalpine AG, a leading
European group and steel processor.
Now that it has gained Drahtwerk Finsterwalde in southern Brandenburg voestalpine has
extended its value-added chain and has acquired a company with a turnover last year of EUR 90
million which employs approx. 200 employees.
Advisers to voestalpine
CMS Hasche Sigle:
Dr Thomas Meyding, Stefan Sieling (M&A), lead partners
Dr Harald Kahlenberg, Dr Kathrin Schürnbrand (Competition)
Contact CMS Hasche Sigle:
Dr Thomas Meyding
Tel.: +49 (0) 711 / 97 64-388
E-mail:
Thomas.Meyding@cms-hs.com
About CMS Hasche Sigle:
CMS Hasche Sigle is one of the leading German law firms with more than 450 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 independent European law firms.
With over 595 partners, a total of 2,000 lawyers and tax consultants and around 4,200 support staff
we advise our clients at commercial locations in 47 business centres 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 23 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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