MRS Group is sold to Würth Elektronik ICS

Rottweil/ Niedern­hall — Würth Elek­tro­nik ICS GmbH & Co. KG is acqui­ring 100% of the shares in the MRS Group, Rott­weil (Baden-Würt­­te­m­­berg). A team led by Hamburg-based HEUKING part­ner Dr. Peter Chris­tian Schmidt provi­ded legal and tax advice to the share­hol­ders of MRS during the contract negotiations. 

The subsi­diary of MRS Holding GmbH, MRS Elec­tro­nic GmbH & Co KG, based in Rott­weil (Baden-Würt­­te­m­­berg), has been deve­lo­ping and produ­cing intel­li­gent control elec­tro­nics and custo­­mer-speci­­fic hard­ware and soft­ware solu­ti­ons for the vehicle indus­try for over 25 years. The product port­fo­lio includes compact control units, gate­ways, relays and HMI systems for commer­cial vehic­les, cons­truc­tion and agri­cul­tu­ral machi­nery and special vehic­les. The company employs around 250 people and has inter­na­tio­nal loca­ti­ons in Croa­tia, Poland, Turkey and the USA in addi­tion to its headquarters. 

Würth Elek­tro­nik ICS GmbH & Co. KG, based in Niedern­hall, is a system provi­der for elec­tro­me­cha­ni­cal and elec­tro­nic solu­ti­ons in the areas of signal and power distri­bu­tion, func­tion control as well as display and opera­ting solu­ti­ons. The company is one of the leading suppli­ers in Europe, parti­cu­larly in the field of power distri­bu­tion for mobile machi­nery and commer­cial vehic­les. Würth Elek­tro­nik ICS is part of the family-run Würth Group. 

Advi­sor to the share­hol­ders of MRS Elec­tro­nic GmbH & Co KG: HEUKING

Dr. Peter Chris­tian Schmidt Photo © Heuking (lead / corpo­rate law / M&A), Dr. Kai Bandilla (distri­bu­tion law), Dr. Henrik Lay (tax law), Dr. Stefan Brett­hauer (anti­trust law), all Hamburg; Anna Rich­ter, LL.M. (corpo­rate law / M&A), Colo­gne; Phil­ipp Roman Schrö­ler (IP, media & tech­no­logy), Düssel­dorf; Jan Mensching, LL.M. (Notting­ham Trent Univer­sity), (Corpo­rate Law / M&A), Jia-Xi Liu (Distri­bu­tion and Anti­trust Law), both Hamburg; Ramona Bauer-Schöl­l­­kopf, LL.M. (Queen Mary Univer­sity of London), (Corpo­rate Law / M&A), Stutt­gart; Jonas Türkis, LL.M. (Univer­sity of Cape Town), (Employ­ment Law), Oliver Kamme­rer (Tax Law), both Hamburg. 

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