DGAP-News: Hengeler Mueller: Hengeler Mueller advises EQT on sale of Springer Science+Business Media
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Hengeler Mueller: Hengeler Mueller advises EQT on sale of Springer
Science+Business Media
19.06.2013 / 14:34
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EQT Partners, a leading private equity group has sold the scientific
publisher Springer Science+Business Media to BC Partners, a private equity
firm operating worldwide. The possibility of an IPO was examined parallel
to the sale, so that the transaction was conducted in a dual track process.
Springer Science+Business Media is a leading global scientific, technical
and medical publisher, providing quality content via innovative information
products and services. Springer Science+Business Media published around
2,200 English-language journals and more than 8,000 new book titles in
2012. Moreover, Springer publishes the largest eBook Collection in the
publishing fields science, technology and medicine and the largest
portfolio of open access journals worldwide. The turnover of Springer
Science+Business Media in 2012 was EUR 976.3 million. Springer has more
than 7,000 employees worldwide.
Hengeler Mueller advised EQT Partners in two teams both relative to the
sale and to the proposed IPO. Legal advice on the sale was provided by
partners Hans-Jörg Ziegenhain and Alexander Nolte (both lead, M&A, Munich),
Matthias Scheifele (Tax), Daniel Weiss (Finance) and Christian Hoefs
(Labour) (all Frankfurt), Maximilian Schiessl (Corporate, Düsseldorf),
Albrecht Conrad (TMT, Berlin), counsel Attila Oldag as well as senior
associates Thomas B Paul (Düsseldorf), Fabian Seip (Berlin) and associates
Robert Kilian, Matthias Berberich, Anna Schulz (all Berlin), Benedikt
Migdal, (Düsseldorf), Thomas Krawitz (Munich), Sonnhild Heinsch, Peter
Wehner, Eckbert Müller and Lisa Friedsam (all Frankfurt).
Relative to the IPO, the Hengeler Mueller team included partners Reinhold
Ernst, Maximilian Schiessl and Dirk Busch (all Capital Market / Corporate,
Düsseldorf), Christian Hoefs (Labour), Stefanie Beinert (Tax, both
Frankfurt), counsels Mathias Link and Cecilia Di Ció(both Frankfurt) as
well as senior associates Andreas Stoll (Frankfurt), Thomas B. Paul,
Carsten Wettich (both Düsseldorf) and associates Irene Kämper, Christian
Strothotte, Julia Schamarek (all Düsseldorf), Martin T. Mohr, Peter Wehner
und Steffen C. Hörner (all Frankfurt).
Partner and Press Contacts
Dr. Hans-Jörg Ziegenhain
- Partner -
Hengeler Mueller
Partnerschaft von Rechtsanwälten
Leopoldstraße 8-10
80802 München
Tel.: 089 38 33 88-411
hans-joerg.ziegenhain(at)hengeler.com
Dr. Reinhold Ernst
- Partner -
Hengeler Mueller
Partnerschaft von Rechtsanwälten
Benrather Straße 18-20
40213 Düsseldorf
Tel. 0211 83 04-134
reinhold.ernst(at)hengeler.com
Christian Seidenabel
- Director Communications -
Hengeler Mueller
Partnerschaft von Rechtsanwaelten
Bockenheimer Landstrasse 24
60323 Frankfurt
Germany
Tel.: +49 69 17095 207
christian.seidenabel(at)hengeler.com
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