Munich — Shear­man & Ster­ling advi­sed Hohn­haus & Jansen­ber­ger and Cathay Capi­tal on the finan­cing of the acqui­si­tion of medifa health­care group, an owner-opera­ted and globally active medi­cal tech­no­logy company for opera­ting rooms.

The product and service port­fo­lio of the medifa health­care group covers the complete range from modu­lar wall, door and ceiling systems to mobile opera­ting tables, opera­ting room access­ories and opera­ting room lights to exami­na­tion chairs for gyneco­logy, urology and proc­to­logy. In addi­tion, one of the largest German OEM suppli­ers in the medi­cal tech­no­logy sector also belongs to the Group.

Hohn­haus & Jansen­ber­ger, based in Munich, is mana­ged by the entre­pre­neurs Dr. Wolf­gang Hohn­haus and Peter Jansen­ber­ger. Its stra­tegy is to acquire compa­nies and deve­lop them further by, among other things, taking on mana­ging direc­tor positions.

Cathay Capi­tal is a leading private equity firm focu­sed on cross-border invest­ments. Shear­man & Ster­ling most recently advi­sed Cathay on the finan­cing of the acqui­si­tion of a majo­rity stake in the Plet­ten­berg-based auto­mo­tive supplier E. WINKEMANN.

The Shear­man & Ster­ling team led by part­ner Winfried M. Carli, photo (Munich-Finance) included asso­cia­tes Marius Garnatz (Frank­furt-Finance) and Nils Holzg­refe (Munich-Finance).

About Shear­man & Sterling
Shear­man & Ster­ling is an inter­na­tio­nal law firm with 25 offices in 13 count­ries and appro­xi­m­ately 850 lawy­ers. In Germany, Shear­man & Ster­ling has offices in Frank­furt and Munich. The firm is one of the inter­na­tio­nal market leaders in advi­sing on complex cross-border tran­sac­tions. World­wide, Shear­man & Ster­ling prima­rily advi­ses inter­na­tio­nal corpo­ra­ti­ons and large natio­nal compa­nies, finan­cial insti­tu­ti­ons, and large mid-sized compa­nies. For more infor­ma­tion, visit www.shearman.com.