Milbank LLP advised CargoBeamer on a combined debt and equity investment of up to €65 million from Orion Infrastructure Capital (OIC). CargoBeamer is a leading European logistics company and intermodal terminal operator driving the shift of freight transport from road to rail.
Alongside €50 million raised from existing shareholders in 2024 and €90 million in grants from the German Federal Railway Authority and the Swiss Federal Office of Transport, CargoBeamer has secured a total of up to €205 million in growth capital over the past 12 months.
The investment will support the construction of two CargoBeamer-Terminals in Kaldenkirchen, Germany, and Domodossola, Italy, enabling fast and sustainable transshipment of road freight units to rail. Initial construction of the sites is to commence in 2025 and will be completed by 2026. The sites will become the second and third CargoBeamer-Terminal in Europe, with the first having been inaugurated in 2021 in Calais, France.
The Milbank team that advised CargoBeamer on OIC’s investment and the capital raise from existing shareholders was led by partner Sebastian Heim (Corporate/Munich) and included partners Rolf Füger(Tax/Munich) and Christoph Rothenfußer (Corporate/Munich), special counsel Sebastian Reiner-Pechtl (Corporate/Munich) and Alexander Lang (Finance/Munich), and associates Maximilian Hirschfeld (Corporate/Munich), Ludwig Reißmann (Finance/Munich), Arne Hammerich (Tax/Munich) and Rabea Regh (Corporate/Munich).
