Blätt­chen & Part­ner advi­ses Hani­el on the acqui­si­ti­on of ROVEMA on manage­ment par­ti­ci­pa­ti­on

Munich, Novem­ber 3, 2017 — The cor­po­ra­te finan­ce spe­cia­list Blätt­chen & Part­ner advi­sed Franz Hani­el & Cie. GmbH on the suc­cessful acqui­si­ti­on of ROVEMA.

Franz Hani­el & Cie. GmbH (Hani­el) signed a con­tract for the com­ple­te acqui­si­ti­on of ROVEMA on Octo­ber 24, 2017. The sel­lers are the Ger­man finan­cial inves­tors Equi­ta GmbH & Co. Hol­ding KGaA and Equi­ta GmbH & Co. CoVe­st KGaA (“HQ Equi­ta”) and the mana­ging part­ner Tho­mas Becker. The par­ties have agreed not to dis­c­lo­se the purcha­se pri­ce and fur­ther details of the con­trac­tu­al arran­ge­ments. The tran­sac­tion is still sub­ject to the appr­oval of the rele­vant anti­trust aut­ho­ri­ties.
ROVEMA is a lea­ding com­pa­ny for the deve­lo­p­ment, pro­duc­tion, main­ten­an­ce and moder­niza­ti­on of pack­a­ging machi­nes and sys­tems. The ran­ge of ser­vices includes deve­lo­p­ment, con­s­truc­tion, con­sul­ting and pro­ject plan­ning up to instal­la­ti­on and accep­tance as well as gene­ral over­haul of used pack­a­ging machi­nes and other ser­vices. The com­pa­ny curr­ent­ly has 600 employees and, in addi­ti­on to its head­quar­ters and pro­duc­tion faci­li­ties in Fernwald/Hesse, has loca­ti­ons in Euro­pe, the USA and Asia and is acti­ve in over 50 count­ries. Franz Hani­el & Cie. GmbH is a Ger­man fami­ly equi­ty com­pa­ny that has been based in Duis­burg-Ruhr­ort sin­ce its foun­da­ti­on in 1756 and is 100 per cent fami­ly-owned. The Hani­el port­fo­lio curr­ent­ly com­pri­ses four busi­ness divi­si­ons: Bekaert­Des­lee, CWS-boco, ELG and TAKKT. In addi­ti­on, the­re are finan­cial invest­ments in the who­le­sa­le and food spe­cia­list METRO and the com­pa­ny CECONOMY, which focu­ses on con­su­mer elec­tro­nics. In 2016, the Hani­el Group gene­ra­ted sales of EUR 3.6 bil­li­on with over 13,800 employees.

With its inno­va­ti­ve finan­cial stra­te­gies, Blätt­chen & Part­ner GmbH has been one of the lea­ding cor­po­ra­te finan­ce experts in Ger­ma­ny for over 30 years. The Munich-based com­pa­ny spe­cia­li­ses in advi­sing on manage­ment par­ti­ci­pa­ti­on pro­gram­mes, IPOs, bonds, pro­mis­so­ry note loans and the asso­cia­ted post-issu­an­ce capi­tal mar­ket sup­port. Other key are­as of the com­pany’s ran­ge of ser­vices include cor­po­ra­te par­ti­ci­pa­ti­ons and M&A tran­sac­tions. More than 500 tran­sac­tions are pro­of of the com­pany’s pro­ven exper­ti­se. The grown inter­di­sci­pli­na­ry com­pe­tence net­work, the high level of cus­to­mer satis­fac­tion and the lar­ge num­ber of publi­ca­ti­ons on important cor­po­ra­te finan­ce topics reflect the reco­gni­zed repu­ta­ti­on of Blätt­chen & Part­ner GmbH.