Goodwin has advised the European private equity firm EMZ Partners ("EMZ") on the financing of the acquisition of a significant stake in H&Z Unternehmensberatung ("H&Z").
H&Z, founded in 1997 as an independent consulting firm in Munich, designs, manages and supports transformation processes. H&Z currently advises its clients primarily in the areas of Procurement & Supply Chain, Strategy & Performance and Sustainability & Transformation, from strategy development through to successful implementation and plans to further expand the consulting offering organically and inorganically and to develop H&Z into the leading European consulting firm for Circular Economy.
EMZ is a leading European investment company with offices in Paris and Munich. The company focuses on small and medium-sized companies and offers flexible capital solutions in close partnership with founders, family shareholders and managers. EMZ is majority owned by its own employees and has a base of European institutional investors. The current fund has a volume of more than 1.3 billion euros, with investment sizes ranging from 10 to 200 million euros.
Goodwin regularly supports EMZ, most recently on the financings for imes-icore, Aspire Education Group and Wishcard Technology Group.
The transaction team was led by partner Winfried M. Carli and associate Folko Moroni (both Debt Finance/Private Equity) and included Partner Oded Schein (Tax) and associates Jakob Lutzenberger (Debt Finance/Private Equity) and Philipp Lauer (Tax, all Munich).
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