Hydratec Industries sells Mobility from Helvoet to Callista

Munich / Vienna / Amers­fo­ort (NL) — The listed indus­trial holding company Hydra­tec Indus­tries N.V. (“Hydra­tec”) has sold the Euro­pean mobi­lity busi­ness of its wholly-owned subsi­diary Helvoet Groep to Callista Asset Manage­ment 34 GmbH (“Callista”). The tran­sac­tion includes the Helvoet compa­nies in Belgium and Poland and is part of a stra­te­gic realignment of Hydra­tec. — MP Corpo­rate Finance advi­sed Hydra­tec exclu­si­vely and compre­hen­si­vely on the sale and in parti­cu­lar assis­ted in mana­ging the auction process and struc­tu­ring the tran­sac­tion. The tran­sac­tion marks the 78th successful tran­sac­tion in the auto­mo­tive & mobi­lity sector for MP Corpo­rate Finance. 

Dutch Helvoet Group stream­li­nes portfolio
Helvoet Groep is an inter­na­tio­nal supplier of precis­ion compon­ents made of engi­nee­ring poly­mers with a long-estab­­lished market posi­tion in the mobi­lity sector. The Euro­pean mobi­lity busi­ness sold as part of the tran­sac­tion repres­ents around one third of Helvoe­t’s sales. The Group has strong engi­nee­ring exper­tise and an estab­lished produc­tion presence in Western and Eastern Europe. Hydra­tec, the listed Dutch parent company (Euron­ext Amster­dam, ticker: HYDRA), is dive­s­t­ing its Euro­pean Mobi­lity acti­vi­ties in order to focus more stron­gly on its core activities. 

Specia­li­zed carve-out inves­tor pursues growth stra­tegy at Helvoet

The buyer of the Euro­pean mobi­lity acti­vi­ties is Callista Asset Manage­ment 34 GmbH, an invest­ment vehicle belon­ging to the Callista Group. The Callista Group, based in Munich, is a private equity inves­tor specia­li­zing in carve-outs and trans­for­ma­tion. The compe­ti­tive posi­tion of Helvoet Belgium and Helvoet Poland is to be sustain­ably expan­ded through targe­ted opera­tio­nal measu­res and the streng­thening of exis­ting custo­mer relationships. 

Port­fo­lio stream­li­ning and carve-outs are defi­ning trends in auto­mo­tive M&A

The tran­sac­tion is an exam­ple of a deve­lo­p­ment that MP Corpo­rate Finance is incre­asingly obser­ving in the Euro­pean auto­mo­tive market: Indus­trial groups are making targe­ted use of dive­st­ments to shar­pen their stra­te­gic profile and sustain­ably increase share­hol­der value. MP’s team of experts navi­ga­ted through a complex situa­tion in the struc­tu­ral chal­lenges of the auto­mo­tive market. 

“The current M&A envi­ron­ment in the auto­mo­tive indus­try is charac­te­ri­zed by struc­tu­ral change, selec­tive acti­vity and a clear focus on port­fo­lio opti­miza­tion. Carve-outs have estab­lished them­sel­ves as a trend and are at the center of the stra­te­gic realignment of many OEMs and suppli­ers. In this chal­len­ging envi­ron­ment, we were able to achieve a very good result for Hydra­tec through intel­li­gent deal struc­tu­ring and tight manage­ment of the auction process,” explains Chris­to­pher Bräuer, Mana­ging Direc­tor & Share­hol­der at MP Corpo­rate Finance.

“MP provi­ded us with excel­lent support throug­hout the entire carve-out process from start to finish. MP’s in-depth auto­mo­tive exper­tise, combi­ned with its many years of carve-out expe­ri­ence, ensu­red a smooth process and led to the desi­red result,” commen­ted Bart Aangen­endt and Everien Slijk­huis, Co-CEOs of Hydra­tec.

About MP Corpo­rate Finance

MP Corpo­rate Finance is the leading inter­na­tio­nal M&A consul­tancy specia­li­zing in the indus­trial sector. As an expe­ri­en­ced part­ner, MP supports medium-sized compa­nies and manage­ment teams, private equity decis­­ion-makers as well as entre­pre­neu­rial confi­dants in complex tran­sac­tions on both the sell and buy side and provi­des support in the context of capi­tal procu­re­ment, buy-and-build stra­te­gies, carve-outs or throug­hout the entire private equity life­cy­cle. MP was foun­ded in Vienna in the 1990s by Roman Göd and Gregor Nischer as the first Euro­pean M&A firm with a sector-focu­­sed advi­sory approach. Today, the company employs more than 85 expe­ri­en­ced hands-on experts at five loca­ti­ons world­wide — in Vienna, Frank­furt, London, Istan­bul and Chicago — making it the largest indus­trial M&A team in Europe. With its unique sector focus, MP has successfully advi­sed on more than 700 indus­trial tran­sac­tions invol­ving invest­ment compa­nies, SMEs and corpo­ra­ti­ons. Further infor­ma­tion can be found at www.mp-corporatefinance.com

About Hydra­tec Indus­tries N.V.: https://www.hydratec.nl

About Helvoet: https://helvoet.com/

About Callista: https://www.callista-pe.de/