Frank­furt a. Main — DLA Piper advi­sed the French invest­ment company Idin­vest Part­ners on a corpo­rate finan­cing for Kine­tics Group. Idin­vest Part­ners is a leading Paris-based mid cap inves­tor specia­li­zing in venture capi­tal, growth capi­tal, private debt and private equity. The focus of busi­ness and invest­ment acti­vi­ties is on finan­cing high-growth Euro­pean SMEs.

Kine­tics Group is a global service provi­der and manu­fac­tu­rer of process tech­no­logy, specia­li­zing in the design and instal­la­tion of process, piping and HVAC systems and equip­ment. The company employs appro­xi­m­ately 2,000 people in 24 offices in North America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. The private equity house Quadriga Capi­tal is behind the Kine­tics Group.

The DLA Piper team , led by part­ner Dr. Wolf­ram Distler, Foto (Finance & Projects), further included part­ners Dr. Marie-Theres Rämer (Tax, both Frank­furt) and Jamie Knox (Finance, New York) as well as asso­ciate Ilgin Ayhan (Finance & Projects, Frankfurt).

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