Practices

Fertigungsindustrie und Industriedienstleistungen

Cleary Gottlieb leistet auch nach über 60 Jahren weltweiter Tätigkeit in den Bereichen Projektfinanzierung, Kapitalmarktrecht, M&A und Baurecht immer wieder Pionierarbeit bei der Beratung von Mandanten aus dem Bereich der Fertigungsindustrie und Industriedienstleistungen. So hat die Kanzlei an einer Vielzahl von innovativen Projektfinanzierungen und Bauprojekten mitgewirkt. Mit einem Netzwerk von zwölf Büros auf drei Kontinenten und aufgrund unserer langjährigen weltweiten Präsenz bieten wir Mandanten nicht nur fundiertes Fachwissen, sondern auch einen einzigartigen Erfahrungsreichtum in jedem Praxisbereich dieses Sektors.

Practice Highlights

What Others Say About Our Practice

Selected Experience

Counsel to The Stanley Works in its acquisitions of Xmark, Sonitrol Corporation, and HSM Electronic Protection Services and, the sales of its CST/berger laser leveling and measuring business to Robert Bosch Tool Corporation, its home décor business to Wellspring Capital Management, and the sale of its entry door business to Masonite International Corporation.
Counsel to Rexel in its €3 billion acquisition of Hagemeyer and subsequent sale of Hagemeyer businesses to Sonepar.
Counsel to Henkel in its £2.7 billion acquisition of the adhesives and electronic and engineering materials businesses of Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI).
Counsel to Xella International GmbH, a Haniel Group subsidiary, in its successful appeal to the Regional Administrative Court in Rome of an Italian Antitrust Authority decision imposing fines and structural remedies. The Court upheld Xella’s claims and fully quashed the original decision’s findings.
Counsel to Dow Chemical on various matters, including the antitrust aspects of its joint venture with Chevron Phillips Chemical, its $18.8 billion acquisition of Rohm and Haas and its acquisition of Wolff Walsrode from Bayer.
Counsel to Temasek, an investment holding company owned by the Singapore government, and its wholly owned subsidiary Singapore Technologies Semiconductors (STS) in their $2 billion tender offer for the remaining 64.4% interest of publicly-traded STATS ChipPAC not owned by STS.
Counsel to Kohler in its acquisition of the Lombardini Group, an Italian engine manufacturer.
Counsel to the underwriters in more than $6 billion in SEC-registered offerings of American Depositary Shares (ADSs) representing common shares of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.
Counsel to Hynix Semiconductor in $500 million high-yield debt offering—the first Korean high-yield offering of 2007.
Counsel in the €405 million IPO of Germany’s Wacker Construction Equipment, a leading European manufacturer of light and compact equipment for the construction business.
Counsel to Hong Kong electronics materials manufacturer Kingboard Laminates in its HK$6.4 billion Hong Kong-listed IPO.

Cross-Border M&A Deal of the Year and M&A Deal of the Year
(Mittal’s Acquisition of Arcelor)
Acquisitions Monthly, International Financial Law Review (2007)

Latin American Loan of the Year, Syndicated Loan of the Year and Corporate Finance Deal of the Year (Financing of CVRD’s acquisition of Inco)
International Financing Review, LatinFinance, Latin Lawyer (2007)

“This M&A heavyweight certainly handles a steady diet of private equity work, regularly advising … industrial clients in big-ticket LBOs.”
Chambers Europe (2007)

Fertigungsindustrie und Industriedienstleistungen

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