Six transactions closed across three continents, multiple legal systems, and time zones. 56% of all our mandates to date have had an international dimension.
Cross-border sale to the Middle East: the shareholders of Germany-based MBS Logistics (450+ employees, 26 offices worldwide, network across China, Vietnam and the USA) sell to the listed AD Ports Group (Abu Dhabi), executed via its European division Noatum Logistics.
When succession within the family is not an option, the strategically right buyer may be based on another continent. For this nearly 100-year-old German family business, that was HBH Holdings of Cincinnati, which will continue the company as its new owner. Cross-border transaction with a transatlantic succession solution.
Advising Jordan Reflektoren GmbH & Co. KG on the divestiture of its British subsidiary Emergency Lighting Products (Billingshurst) to London-based financial investor BayTree. A competitive bidding process in a market whose procedural standards and negotiation practices we navigated throughout for our German client, through to closing in London.
VISCO, the Baden-Württemberg-based specialist for Fiber-to-the-Home with more than 300 employees, becomes part of the Belgian Infra Group, a portfolio company of the pan-European investors PAI Partners (France), ICG (UK) and Andera Partners (France).
Transatlantic portfolio divestiture: advising the US financial investor EIH Capital Partners on the sale of its British portfolio company (Hartlepool, Northeast England) to the German MEISER Group.
The NOBILIS Group continues to expand: extending its beauty & perfume distribution from the DACH region into Scandinavia.
The acquisition of KÖNIG + CO. was a strategically important move for us, and simultaneously a demanding transatlantic transaction with all of its typical challenges: cultural differences, time zones, legal frameworks, and differing expectations. Zerbach & Company represented the seller with impressive professionalism, speed, and finesse throughout the process. We were particularly impressed by their deep understanding of the dynamics of mid-sized industrial companies and their ability to remain solution-oriented and professional, even in critical negotiation phases.