Franklin has advised the Milan-based industrial holding company Groupack, which is acquiring the entire share capital of the French company Neyret, a Lyon-based designer of assembly machines with sales of almost €50m. Groupack is thus strengthening its mechatronics business, supported by its subsidiary Mech-I-Tronic, by extending its activities to France.
Mech-I-Tronic is being advised, alongside the Italian law firm Gianni & Origoni (Emanuele Grippo and Gerardo Carbonelli, partners, In Young Shin and Ludovica Bini, associates on the Corporate / M&A aspects and Andrea Zorzi, associate, on the Financing aspects) by Franklin with a team led by Lionel Lesur, Corporate / M&A partner, assisted by Josselin Nony-Davadie, Corporate / M&A senior associate and also including:
- Jacques Mestoudjian, partner, and Rudy Marouani, Of Counsel, on the Tax aspects,
- Stéphan Alamowitch, partner, and Mathilde Monot, associate, on the Financing aspects,
- Patrick Thiébart, partner, Silvia Rumanescu, Of Counsel, and Hind Jalal, associate, on employment law aspects,
- Sandra Strittmatter, partner, and Nina Thiery, associate, on IP aspects,
- François Verdot, partner, et Axel Verdot, associate, on real estate aspects,
- Merav Griguer, partner, and Wissem Addoun, associate, on the IT / Data aspects,
- Jérôme Michel, partner, on the Public Law aspects,
- Victoria Eppendahl, associate, on the Commercial Contracts aspects.
Neyret Group and the sellers are advised by Viajuris (Yan Freyria-Courtois and Antoine Riom) and the investment bank Hottinguer (Xavier Maitre, partner).
