Uhingen/ Frank­furt a. Main — Shear­man & Ster­ling has advi­sed Allgaier Group (“Allgaier”), a global auto­mo­tive supplier and plant engi­nee­ring company, on a funda­men­tal restruc­tu­ring of its group finan­cing. The new finan­cing enables Allgaier to realize its long-term growth plans and crea­tes relia­ble struc­tures in debt finan­cing, a stan­dar­diza­tion of treasury proces­ses and new finan­cing opti­ons for the inter­na­tio­nal subsidiaries.

Allgaier, head­quar­te­red in Uhin­gen, Baden-Würt­­te­m­­berg, is a light­weight specia­list and inno­va­tion leader in sheet metal forming and a system supplier mainly for German premium car manu­fac­tu­r­ers. In the Process Tech­no­logy divi­sion, Allgaier deve­lops inno­va­tive solu­ti­ons as a plant manu­fac­tu­rer for a large number of indus­trial customers.

The Shear­man & Ster­ling team, led by part­ner Winfried M. Carli, included part­ner Pierre-Nico­las Ferrand (Paris Finance), of coun­sel Dan Newcomb (Compli­­ance-New York), part­ner Dr. Matthias Weis­sin­ger (Germany Finance), coun­sel Phil­ippe Wolan­ski (Paris Finance) and tran­sac­tion specia­list Marina Kieweg (Germany Finance).

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Shear­man & Ster­ling is an inter­na­tio­nal law firm with 22 offices in 13 count­ries and appro­xi­m­ately 850 lawy­ers. In Germany, Shear­man & Ster­ling is repre­sen­ted at the Frank­furt office. The firm is one of the inter­na­tio­nal market leaders in advi­sing on complex cross-border tran­sac­tions. World­wide, Shear­man & Ster­ling prima­rily advi­ses inter­na­tio­nal corpo­ra­ti­ons and large natio­nal compa­nies, finan­cial insti­tu­ti­ons, and large mid-sized companies.