Frankfurt/Munich — Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP advi­sed Elevion GmbH and its parent company, the listed Czech energy group CEZ Group, on the acqui­si­tion of all shares in Hermos AG and Hermos Schalt­an­la­gen GmbH from their shareholders.
Elevion GmbH is a leading provi­der of tech­ni­cal faci­lity services for commer­cial as well as indus­trial buil­dings and plants and conti­nues its successful growth stra­tegy with the acqui­si­tion of HERMOS Group, a provi­der of IT and auto­ma­tion solu­ti­ons in the energy, buil­ding and indus­trial sectors.

Advi­sors to energy group CEZ Group and Elevion GmbH: Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
The Weil tran­sac­tion team was led by Frank­furt-based Corpo­rate Part­ner Dr. Chris­tian Tapp­ei­ner. and was supported by the part­ners Dr. Kamyar Abrar (Anti­trust, Frank­furt), Ludger Kempf (Tax, Frank­furt) as well as the asso­cia­tes Konrad v. Buch­waldt, Sara Afschar-Hamdi, Stef­fen Giolda, Aurel Hille, Julian Schwa­ne­beck, Simon Stei­ner (all Corpo­rate, Frank­furt), Mareike Pfeif­fer (Labor Law, Frank­furt), Nico­las Bech­told (Liti­ga­tion, Frank­furt), Dr. Konstan­tin Hoppe, Dr. Sandra Kühn (both Liti­ga­tion, Munich), Dr. Alex­an­der Wandt (Finance, Munich) and the para­le­gals Jessica Köhler, Sandra Maurer, Kris­tina Thiel and Robert Ostermair.
In addi­tion, CEZ Group was advi­sed on this tran­sac­tion by the Czech law firm Skils s.r.o. under the leader­ship of Mana­ging Part­ner Karel Muzikar.

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