APEF 5 erwirbt DIETIKER und NON-FERROUS INTERNATIONAL
Pressemitteilung - 20 December 2006
The Alpha Private Equity Funds 5 (APEF 5) are pleased to announce their fifth investment since their inception in February 2006.
Today, APEF 5 has indeed acquired the Dietiker and NFI groups from its family shareholders as well as from the listed Belgian group Cumério.
Zurich-based Dietiker group is one of the major players in Europe in the field of non-ferrous metal recycling and trading. The group has operations in Switzerland, various countries of the European Union, as well as the Arabic peninsula and China.
NFI, holding company of Belgian-based Métallo-Chimique, is one of the major European nonferrous metal refiners based on secondary metals stemming from scrap recycling. The group has operations in Belgium and in Spain.
APEF 5 will hold the majority of the share capital of Metallum Holding, the acquisition holding. The funds will be associated to the existing management team of both groups, as well as the historic family shareholders.
The transaction is subordinated to the approval of the relevant anti-trust authorities and is expected to be completed by February 2007.
- Advisor to APEF 5 Alpha Associés Conseil (Olaf Kordes , Nicolas ver Hulst)
- Advisor to the Acquirers Lazard (Guy Tavenaud)
- Advisor to the Sellers Valcor (Bruno Weber)
- Financing Bank Société Générale (Philippe Bassouls, Grégory Fradelizi)
- Legal Counsel Acquirers Loyens & Loef (Baudouin Caeymaex) Wenger Vieili (Michael Mraz) Ernst & Young (Lionel Benant)
- Legal Counsel Sellers Homburger Zurich (Flavio Romerio) Allen & Overy (Dirk Meeus)
- Legal Counsel Financing Linklaters (Arnaud Fromion)
- Financial Due Diligence E&Y (Paul Gerber, Stephane Séguin, Jérôme Cazauvieilh)
- Strategic Due Diligence Bain (Louis Amory)
- Insurance Due Diligence Marsh (Humbert d’Autichamp)
- Environmental Due Diligence E&Y (Thomas Ruaudel)
