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Oppenhoff & Partner has advised the Cologne engineering and metalworking enterprise Kohl-Gruppe AG (including “Kohl & Sohn”) on the sale of its divisions Automotive (Umform- und Fügetechnik Eisenach GmbH and Stanztech Treuenbrietzen Blechformteile GmbH), Mechanical Processing and Rail Technology to a joint enterprise of AL-KO Kober SE and the Munich investor Endurance Capital AG. The transaction is subject to clearance from the cartel authorities.

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Oppenhoff & Partner has advised the Danish engineering company Norican Group and its German subsidiaries on the refinancing in connection with the acquisition of the Light Metal Casting Solu-tions Group (Gummersbach). The refinancing was carried out by issuing bonds worth EUR 340,000,000 (4.5% Senior Secured Notes due 2023) and a super senior revolving credit facility in the amount of EUR 75,000,000. The acquisition, which was originally funded primarily by shareholder loans, was already concluded at the end of April 2017.

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Oppenhoff & Partner has advised the wind power plant manufacturer Senvion (Hamburg) on its successful reorganisation. Parts of the production have been relocated and several sites in Germany have been shut down, including Senvion GmbH’s businesses in Husum and Trampe and the works of PowerBlades GmbH in Bremerhaven. Furthermore, reorganisation measures have also been implemented at other sites. The planned measures will lead to a reduction of about 660 workers in Germany over the next few months.

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In the course of the trendence Graduate barometer studies 2017 – German Law Edition, Oppenhoff & Partner has once again been ranked amongst the top 100 most popular employers for young lawyers in Germany. Overall, about 2,200 young lawyers, including students, legal trainees as well as fully qualified lawyers, have been questioned from May to June on their employers of choice and career ambitions.

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The introduction of a nationwide German Competition Register is a “done deal”. The Bundesrat has passed the bill to set up and run a register to protect competition for public contracts and concessions (German Competition Register Act [Wettbewerbsregistergesetz, WRegG]).

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Oppenhoff & Partner has advised SGL Carbon, the world-leading specialist in carbon fibres, on all legal aspects of the sale of its cathodes, furnace linings and carbon electrodes (CFL/CE) business. In an auction process led by Deutsche Bank and HSBC, the private equity firm Triton Partners was the successful bidder.

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Oppenhoff & Partner has advised Siemens Healthineers on the sale of its ELISA immunodiagnostics business to DiaSorin (Saluggia, Italy).

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Oppenhoff & Partner has gained the employment lawyer Anja Dombrowsky as well as M&A experts Till Liebau and Dr. Markus Rasner to further expand its office in Frankfurt am Main. The lawyers transferred from Graf von Westphalen to Oppenhoff’s Frankfurt office at the beginning of July. The three new partners already worked together for many years at CMS Hasche Sigle prior to working at GvW.

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In the “Germany’s Best Lawyers 2017” Ranking published by the German Commercial Gazette in collaboration with the US publishers Best Lawyers, 17 lawyers of Oppenhoff & Partner were honoured – and in fact in several categories simultaneously, giving Oppenhoff a total of 25 nominations.

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Oppenhoff & Partner advised DuMont Media Group on an investment in censhare AG within the frame of merger control. As a strategic investor, DuMont acquires up to 37.5% of the shares in censhare AG and thereby expands its "digital business". By the end of last year, DuMont already invested in Facelift brand building technologies GmbH. This transaction has also been advised by Oppenhoff & Partner.

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