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Our Principals have advised on numerous completed transactions; a selection of which is shown below.

INDUSTRIALS Transactions

Client: MTU Aero Engines GmbH
Transaction Type: Divestiture
Size: Undisclosed

Assisted in the divestiture of its Aero Engine Component Repair, a wholly owned business unit of MTU's US subsidiary, AENA.


Client: MTU Aero Engines GmbH
Transaction Type: Divestiture
Size: Undisclosed

Assisted MTU in the sale of its Aero Engine OEM Component Business Unit to EDAC Technologies Corp.


Client: Duracell International plc
Transaction Type: Acquisition
Size: $170 million

Advised Duracell on the purchase of Hanson Group's Everyready battery business in South Africa.


Client: Andritz AG, a subsidiary of AGIV AG
Transaction Type: Divestiture
Size: $70 million

Andritz, an Austrian paper machinery manufacturer, was sold to a consortium of private equity buyers including Carlyle.


Client: Carl Schenck AG, 49% owned by AGIV AG
Transaction Type: Divestiture
Size: €165 million

AGIV sold its block interest in Schenck, a publicly traded German electronic equipment company, to Harald Quandt Holdings KG.


Client: Ingersoll-Rand
Transaction Type: Divestiture
Size: $25 million

Advised on the divestiture of the Life Support Products Division of ARO Corporation, a company specializing in respirators and other emergency life-saving products. ARO Corp. is a division of Ingersoll-Rand.



TECHNOLOGY Transactions

Client: CompuGroup Medical AG
Transaction Type: Acquisition
Size: $65 million

Initiated and assisted in the acquisition of American Healthcare Holdings, Inc., Visionary Medical Systems, Inc. and Visionary RCM, Inc. ("Visionary Healthware Group"), a practice management and electronic health records software company serving approx. 10,000 office-based doctors in the US.


Client: CompuGroup Medical AG
Transaction Type: Acquisition
Size: Undisclosed

Initiated and assisted in the acquisition of Noteworthy Medical Systems, an EHR/PM healthcare IT software systems business and CGM's first acquisition in the US.


Client: CompuGroup Medical AG
Transaction Type: Divestiture
Size: Undisclosed

Assisted in the divestiture of Medicine Medienproduktions GmbH, a German based subsidiary of CGM, to redspider networks GmbH.


Client: Carl Schenck AG
Transaction Type: Joint venture
Size: $50 million

Advised Carl Schenck, a German manufacturer of applied measuring technology and equipment, in a 50-50 joint venture with Instron Industries, a US company.


Client: Spectro GmbH
Transaction Type: Sale
Size: €80 million

Provided advisory assistance to the majority shareholder of Spectro, a provider of spectrometers and metal analyzers, on the sale of the company to AMETEK Inc.


Client: Spectris AG, a subsidiary of AGIV AG
Transaction Type: Divestiture
Size: €280 million

Advised the majority shareholder on the sale of the German measurement and control instruments company, Spectris AG, to Fairey Group plc.



HEALTHCARE Transactions

Client: Encore Medical Corp.
Transaction Type: Strategic Advice & Acquisition
Size: Undisclosed

Advised Encore Medical on its strategic alternatives with regard to its European subsidiary, Compex SA. As a result of our analysis and recommendation, Encore Medical acquired Cefar Medical AB and merged Compex SA with Cefar Medical. We provided strategic consulting services as well as M&A advisory assistance throughout the transaction to closing.


Client: MAP Medizin Technologie Gmbh.
Transaction Type: Sale
Size: $70 million

Advised the shareholders of MAP, a privately owned German medical instruments company, on the sale of MAP to ResMed Inc.


Client: DGGL
Transaction Type: Sale
Size: €180 million

Advised the shareholders of DGGL, a family-owned German nutritional dietary products company, on the sale of DGGL to Charterhouse Development Capital plc.



CHEMICALS AND MINERALS Transactions

Client: Allegheny Teledyne
Transaction Type: Divestiture
Size: $40 million

Assisted in the divestiture of the building products distribution business of Allegheny Teledyne to a private Canadian company.


Client: Metallurg, Inc.
Transaction Type: Fairness Opinion
Size: $30 million

Provided a fairness opinion to the Board of Directors of Metallug, Inc. regarding recapitalization structure that involved public bond holder valuation issues.


Client: Ticona GmbH, a subsidiary of Hoechst AG
Transaction Type: Strategic Advice and Valuation
Size: €1 billion

Evaluated and advised the Board of Ticona GmbH, a company specializing in technical polymers, on strategic alternatives.


Client: Lafarge Brass GmbH
Transaction Type: Sale
Size: €1 billion

Advised the minority shareholders in the sale of their 49% interest in Lafarge Brass to Lafarge SA.



CONSUMER Transactions

Client: Nestle SA
Transaction Type: Divestiture
Size: $45 million

Advised Nestle on the divestiture of Stouffer Restaurants.


Client: Armstrong World Industries
Transaction Type: Divestiture
Size: $25 million

Assisted Armstrong in the sale of Forms & Surfaces, a high-end architecture design hardware company.


Client: The Coca Cola Company
Transaction Type: Fairness Opinion
Size: $160 million

Provided a fairness opinion to the Board of Directors of the Coca Cola Company on the purchase of the Atlanta bottling company.


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