Oppenhoff advises Saint-Gobain on sale of timber construction division

Colo­gne — Oppen­hoff has advi­sed Compa­gnie de Saint-Gobain on the sale of Müns­­ter­­land-based Saint-Gobain Brüg­ge­mann Holz­bau GmbH, inclu­ding all opera­ting proper­ties, to Köster Holding SE. — Saint-Gobain Brüg­ge­mann, which specia­li­zes in the manu­fac­ture of timber modu­les and the cons­truc­tion of turn­key buil­dings in timber cons­truc­tion, employs 190 people and has successfully comple­ted nume­rous resi­den­tial and commer­cial buil­dings as well as educa­tio­nal buil­dings in timber cons­truc­tion since its foun­da­tion in 1957. 

As an inter­na­tio­nal leader in sustainable cons­truc­tion, Compa­gnie de Saint-Gobain deve­lops, produ­ces and distri­bu­tes mate­ri­als and services for the cons­truc­tion sector and indus­trial markets. Saint-Gobain is present in 80 count­ries worldwide. 

Köster Holding SE, head­quar­te­red in Osna­brück, is one of the leading cons­truc­tion compa­nies in Germany with around 2,000 employees at over 20 loca­ti­ons. The company offers complete solu­ti­ons for cons­truc­tion projects in the fields of buil­ding cons­truc­tion, civil engi­nee­ring and turn­key construction. 

The Oppen­hoff team, led by Myriam Baars-Schil­­ling (Corporate/M&A), compri­sed Sebas­tian Gutmann, Dr. Maike Mestmä­cker, Dr. Matthias Klefisch (all Corporate/M&A), Dr. Stefa­nie Minzen­may, Julia Höyng, Anto­nia van Dam (all Real Estate), Dr. Gunnar Knorr, Martin Bran­­den­­bur­­ger-Nonnast (both Tax), Dr. Daniel Dohrn, Dr. Agnès Rein­hold (both Anti­trust), Jörn Kuhn, Moritz Coché and Dr. Johan­nes Kaes­bach (all Employment).

The tran­sac­tion was hand­led in-house at Compa­gnie de Saint-Gobain by Matthias Zenner (Head of Legal and Compli­ance) and Eva Beutin (in-house lawyer).

Oppen­hof­f’s M&A team, which has recei­ved nume­rous awards in indus­try hand­books, has been advi­sing natio­nal and inter­na­tio­nal compa­nies on tran­sac­tions and corpo­rate law matters for deca­des. Most recently, the team advi­sed the MRH Trowe Group on the acqui­si­tion of Heubeck AG, the SCHELL share­hol­ders on the sale to Para­gon Part­ners and the Sicame Group on the take­over of Kronen­berg Frei­lei­tungs­ar­ma­tu­ren GmbH. 

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Oppen­hoff & Part­ner Rechts­an­wälte Steu­er­be­ra­ter mbB (“Oppen­hoff”) is a part­ner­ship regis­tered in the part­ner­ship regis­ter of the Essen Local Court with the regis­tra­tion number PR 1850 and its regis­tered office in Colo­gne. A list of the part­ners autho­ri­zed to repre­sent the firm is available at https://www.oppenhoff.eu/de/