Milbank Represents Goldman Sachs to Acquire Flint Group in Partnership with Koch Industries

With help of the international law firm Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP, Goldman Sachs Merchant Banking Division has partnered with Koch Equity Development LLC, a subsidiary of Koch Industries, Inc., to acquire shares representing 100% of Flint Group’s share capital from funds advised by private equity firm CVC Capital Partners. Koch Equity Development has agreed to invest with Goldman Sachs in a newly formed entity that will acquire Flint Group. Goldman Sachs Merchant Banking and the newly formed entity were comprehensively advised on this transaction by an international Milbank team led by corporate partner Peter Nussbaum.

The Flint Group is a leading global supplier of inks and other print consumables such as flexographic printing plates and chemicals. The company has a global footprint and enjoys the number one or number two positions in most of its segments. Flint Group operates 137 sites in 40 countries and employs some 6,600 people.

Advisor Goldman Sachs Merchant Banking Division and newly formed entity: Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP

Peter Nussbaum (Corporate/M&A, Munich), John D. Franchini (Corporate/M&A, New York), Michael Pujol (Corporate/M&A, Munich), Andrea Eggenstein (Corporate/M&A, Frankfurt), Rainer Magold (Banking & Finance, Frankfurt), Alexander Rinne (Competition, Munich), Dale Ponikvar (Tax, New York), Stuart Harray (Corporate/M&A, London), Suhrud Mehta (Leveraged Finance, London), Eric K. Moser (Investment Law, New York)

Associates:

John Timmermann, Nehal Siddiqui, Zachary Gennett, Hannah Dworkis (all Corporate/M&A, New York), Thomas Tiedemann (Corporate/M&A, Frankfurt), Alexander Klein (Banking & Finance, Frankfurt), Benjamin Leuchten, Dennis Seifarth (both Corporate/M&A, Munich), Clemens Mayer, Matthias Schell (all Tax, Munich), Christoph Kahle, Katharina Kolb, Tatjana Mühlbach, (all Competition, Munich), Anna Bryant (Corporate/M&A, London), Shepard Liu (Project Finance, Beijing)

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Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP is a leading international law firm founded in 1866 in New York City. Today Milbank has offices in Beijing, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, Munich, New York, São Paulo, Singapore, Tokyo and Washington, DC and is present in all major financial and economic centers of the world. Milbank focuses its worldwide legal services in the areas of finance, transactions and litigation.

The first European office was opened in 1979 in London, followed by Frankfurt in 2001 and Munich in 2004. Due to the close cooperation of the German offices with the finance, corporate, cartel and tax lawyers practicing in other Milbank offices, in particular London and New York, Milbank Germany is in a position to provide fully integrated legal advice on the highest level in all these core areas pursuant to German, English and US law.