Gütersloh — The Swiss mechanical engineering company ROTZINGER GROUP AG has taken over the site in Viersen/North Rhine-Westphalia and a large part of the product portfolio manufactured there from the packaging specialist Syntegon Technology GmbH. The process and packaging technology company was a division of Robert Bosch GmbH until 2019. The acquisition is still subject to approval by the relevant antitrust authorities.
ROTZINGER intends to realign and sustainably develop the Viersen site. The company is acquiring the portfolios in the areas of filling and closing machines as well as parts of the process technology for bars and sugar confectionery as part of an asset deal. Excluded from the sale are the process plants for the production of jelly products, which Syntegon will transfer to its subsidiary Makat Candy Technology GmbH.
ROTZINGER was comprehensively advised on the takeover by a team of BRANDI Rechtsanwälte in Gütersloh, Detmold, Hanover, Paderborn and Bielefeld specializing in M&A transactions under the leadership of partner Dr. Franz Tepper (photo) on corporate law, labor law and IT law. In Switzerland, Dr. Max Nägeli of the law firm Probst Partner in Winterthur advised the purchaser. BRANDI and Probst Partner frequently work together in cross-border transactions and are both founding members of the law firm network PANGEA NET.
ROTZINGER GROUP AG in Kaiseraugst/Switzerland with its companies DEMAUREX SA, ROTZINGER AG and TRANSVER AG was founded in 1948 and is today a leading supplier of conveying, storage and product flow control systems for products in the chocolate, cookie, pharmaceutical and other industries. The systems are developed and manufactured at the Kaiseraugst plant and then assembled and commissioned at the customer’s site. The joint-stock company, which is run as a family business with approximately 85 employees, is also a specialist in feeding packaging machines with products and transporting them away.
Syntegon Technology GmbH, headquartered in Waiblingen/Baden-Württemberg, is a global supplier of process and packaging technology for the food and pharmaceutical industries. After the takeover of Robert Bosch Packaging Technology GmbH by the investment company CVC Capital Partners last year, the company had been renamed Syntegon Technology. It employs around 6,100 people, around half of whom work in Germany. The company is represented at over 30 locations in more than 15 countries and generated sales of around 1.3 billion euros in 2019.
Syntegon Technology GmbH was represented by the Stuttgart office of CMS Hasche Sigle under the leadership of Dr. Claus-Peter Fabian.
Advisors to ROTZINGER GROUP AG: BRANDI Attorneys at Law
Dr: Franz Tepper, Partner (Lead, Corporate/M&A), Gütersloh
Dr. Carsten Christophery, Associate (Corporate/M&A), Gütersloh
Eva-Maria Gottschalk, Partner (Corporate/M&A), Gütersloh
Björn Mai, Associate (Labor Law), Detmold
Dr. Oliver Ebert, Partner (Labor Law), Hanover
Dr. Christoph Rempe, Partner (IP/IT, Antitrust Law), Bielefeld
Daniela Deifuß-Kruse, Partner (Environmental Law), Paderborn
Probst Partner (Winterthur, Switzerland)
Dr. Max Nägeli (Corporate)
Advisors to Syntegon Technology GmbH: CMS Hasche Sigle, Stuttgart
Dr. Claus-Peter Fabian, Partner (Lead Partner, Corporate/M&A)
Dr. Kai Wallisch, Counsel (Corporate/M&A)
Simone Philipp, Senior Associate (Corporate/M&A)
Dr. Christian Haellmigk, Partner (Antitrust Law)
Malena Hansen, Associate (Antitrust)
About BRANDI Rechtsanwälte
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