GOF Advises Metis Group on the Acquisition of Assmy & Böttger Electronic

Munich/Bremen – The commer­cial law firm Gütt Olk Feld­haus advi­sed the Metis Group, a port­fo­lio company of the invest­ment firm Gimv, on its acqui­si­tion of Assmy & Bött­ger Elec­tro­nic GmbH.

A+B Elec­tro­nic is a full-service provi­der of elec­tro­nic manu­fac­tu­ring services (EMS) and employs appro­xi­m­ately 130 people at its loca­tion in Groß­enkne­ten, near Bremen.
The Metis Group is a leading group of elec­tro­nics compa­nies focu­sed on the deve­lo­p­ment and manu­fac­ture of advan­ced elec­tro­nic and mecha­tro­nic products and systems in the high-mix, low- to medium-volume segment. Toge­ther, they support leading OEM custo­mers throug­hout the entire product lifecycle—from engi­nee­ring, proto­ty­p­ing, and indus­tria­liza­tion to mass produc­tion, logi­stics, and life­cy­cle management. 

Gimv is a Euro­pean invest­ment firm listed on Euron­ext Brussels with 45 years of expe­ri­ence in the private equity busi­ness. The company mana­ges a port­fo­lio of appro­xi­m­ately 2.2 billion euros and curr­ently holds stakes in about 60 compa­nies. Coll­ec­tively, the port­fo­lio compa­nies gene­rate reve­nue of appro­xi­m­ately 5 billion euros and employ more than 20,000 people. GOF has advi­sed Gimv on seve­ral tran­sac­tions in the past.
The closing of the tran­sac­tion is still subject to regu­la­tory approvals. 

Legal advi­sors to Metis Group (Gimv): Gütt Olk Feld­haus, Munich

Dr. Sebas­tian Olk (Part­ner, Corporate/M&A), Maxi­mi­lian Spind­ler, LL.M. (Colum­bia) (Part­ner, Corporate/M&A; both lead coun­sel), Thomas Becker (Of Coun­sel, IP/IT), Tobias Trawin­ski (Senior Asso­ciate), Timo Hoff­mann (Asso­ciate, both Corporate/M&A)
addworx legal, Munich: Andreas Ege (Part­ner), Henning Timm (Coun­sel, both Employ­ment Law)
Blom­stein, Berlin: Dr. Max Klasse (Part­ner; Anti­trust Law), Dr. Leonard Frei­herr von Rummel, LL.M. (Stel­len­bosch Univer­sity) (Part­ner; Foreign Trade Law)
Reius, Hamburg: Panu Siemer (Part­ner), Robert Mayer (Coun­sel, both Real Estate Law)
Kind & Drews, Düssel­dorf: Dr. Ernesto Drews (Part­ner, Tax Law) 

About Gütt Olk Feldhaus

Gütt Olk Feld­haus is a leading inter­na­tio­nal law firm foun­ded in 2011 and head­quar­te­red in Munich. GOF provi­des compre­hen­sive advice on commer­cial and corpo­rate law to inter­na­tio­nal and dome­stic corpo­ra­ti­ons, finan­cial inves­tors, and family-owned busi­nesses and entre­pre­neurs. Its prac­tice areas focus on corpo­rate law, M&A, private equity, and finan­cing, inclu­ding liti­ga­tion. — www.gof-partner.com