The Gund Company acquires Composites Division of the Von Roll Group

Berlin — The inter­na­tio­nal law firm BCLP has advi­sed The Gund Company, Inc. on the acqui­si­tion of the Compo­si­tes Divi­sion of the Von Roll Group. The tran­sac­tion includes produc­tion sites in Augs­burg (Germany) and Brad­ford (UK).

TGC is a US manu­fac­tu­rer of high-perfor­­mance compo­site mate­ri­als for elec­tri­cal insu­la­tion and indus­trial appli­ca­ti­ons. The acqui­red compa­nies specia­lize in the produc­tion and proces­sing of indus­trial compo­si­tes. The divi­sion will be inte­gra­ted into TGC’s global acti­vi­ties under the VRI Compo­si­tes — A Divi­sion of The Gund Company brand. 

Tonio Sadoni, Part­ner at BCLP (photo © BCLP), says: “This tran­sac­tion high­lights the regu­la­tory requi­re­ments for cross-border acqui­si­ti­ons. We are deligh­ted to have advi­sed The Gund Company on its first acqui­si­tion in Germany and the UK.”

BCLP advi­sed TGC on all legal aspects of the tran­sac­tion, inclu­ding due dili­gence, struc­tu­ring, contract nego­tia­tion and the filing and execu­tion of the invest­ment review in Germany.

The BCLP team was led by Tonio Sadoni (Corporate/M&A, Hamburg) and Aslan Sönmez (Corporate/M&A, Hamburg) and was supported by colle­agues from Employ­ment, IP/IT/Data, Tax and Finance in Germany as well as Corpo­rate, Real Estate, Employ­ment, Data, Tech & Commer­cial and Tax in London.

About BCLP

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