CVC Capital Partners sells 37% of Syntegon to Apollo

Frank­furt a. M. — Will­kie advi­ses CVC Capi­tal Part­ners on the sale of 37% of its shares in Synte­gon to a group of inves­tors mana­ged by Apollo Will­kie Farr & Gallag­her LLP advi­ses CVC Capi­tal Part­ners (“CVC”) on the sale of 37% of its shares in Synte­gon to a group of inves­tors mana­ged by Apollo.

CVC reta­ins a majo­rity stake with the remai­ning 63% of the shares. Follo­wing the successful trans­for­ma­tion of Synte­gon, this tran­sac­tion marks the start­ing point for the next growth phase. At the same time, it under­lines CVC’s approach of driving sustainable,
posi­tive corpo­rate deve­lo­p­ment through long-term, part­­ner­­ship-based enga­ge­ment and the targe­ted selec­tion of stra­te­gic co-inves­­tors. The Apollo team shares the stra­te­gic vision of CVC and Synte­gon and streng­thens the proven part­ner­ship with new momen­tum and local exper­tise for the important North Ameri­can market The tran­sac­tion is subject to custo­mary regu­la­tory appr­ovals. The parties have agreed to keep the finan­cial details of the agree­ment confi­den­tial. Will­kie previously advi­sed CVC on the acqui­si­tion of Syntegon. 

Advi­sor to CVC: Will­kie Farr & Gallag­her LLP

The Will­kie team compri­sed part­ners Georg Linde (PE, Frank­furt), Dr. Nils Röver (PE, Munich/Hamburg, both lead), Jacob Ahme (PE, Munich/Hamburg), Dr. Sebas­tian Häfele (PE, Munich), Daniel Gendron, Timo­thy Sawyer (both Finance, London), Anne Kleff­mann (Employ­ment, Munich), Dr. Richard Roeder (Compli­ance, Munich), Jan Wilms (Finance, Frank­furt), Dr. Bettina Bokeloh (Tax, Frank­furt), Dr. Georg Weiden­bach (Anti­trust, Frank­furt), Tyler Born (Corpo­rate, Chicago), Simon Weiss (Capi­tal Markets, Frank­furt) and Coun­sel Martin Waśkow­ski (Employ­ment), Jan Voll­kam­mer (Anti­trust), Henning Aufder­haar (Real Estate, all Frank­furt) as well as Asso­cia­tes Nils Bock, Melina Terwes­ten (both PE, Frank­furt), Dr. Florian Kalb­fleisch, Nils Hörnig, Zeno Wirtz (all PE, Munich), Hiral Jain (Finance, London), Sascha Wink­ler (Employ­ment Law, Frank­furt), Jannis Strot­mann (Finance, Munich), Shuman Zhou (Corpo­rate, Chicago), Michael Wies­ner (PE, Munich), Dr. Maxi­mi­lian Schlutz (Compli­ance, Frank­furt), Tom Piepen­b­rock (Anti­trust, Frank­furt), Fabiola Haas (PE, Munich), Laurin Havlik (Compli­ance, Munich), Andreas Mild­ner (Anti­trust, Frank­furt), Kari Prochaska (Commu­ni­ca­ti­ons, Media & Privacy, London), Dillon Lehr (Corpo­rate, Chicago), David Mohl (Execu­tive Compen­sa­tion & Employee Bene­fits, Washing­ton), Alice Luciani (Corpo­rate, Paris), Denise Klasen (PE, Frank­furt), Sean Presteg­ord (Corpo­rate, New York), Ify White-Thorpe (IP, New York), Sophie Wollen­we­ber (PE, Frank­furt), Dr. Phil­ipp Stein­hau­sen (Finance, Frank­furt), Chris­to­pher Selwyn (Corpo­rate, London), Madi­son Wiles-Haff­­ner (IP, New York), Patrick Kemper (PE, Frank­furt), Cara Hunt (Liti­ga­tion, New York), Sarah Bibas (Corpo­rate, Paris), Martin Kalb­henn (Capi­tal Markets, Frank­furt), Ceci­lia Pozzetti (Employ­ment, Milan), Isabella Zanetti (Corpo­rate, Milan), Ali Barc­zak (Commu­ni­ca­ti­ons, Media & Privacy, Washing­ton) and Laura Liis­tro (Corporate/ Milan).

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