Mergers and Acquisitions
Aelia
Complex support to Aelia (Lagardére group) in its successful 764 million CZK (nearly 30 million EUR) bid for acquiring from Czech Airlines the on-board sale and duty free business. The services included due diligence, transactional structuring, negotiation of two complex contracts, representation in the anti-monopoly clearance proceedings.
Enel
Weinhold Legal provided comprehensive legal services to the winning bidder in one of the Slovak Republic´s largest privatisation projects (the offered price exceeded 840 million EUR) with respect to Slovenské elektrárne (the Slovak dominant electricity producer), including due diligence and assistance in negotiations with the Slovak government.
Iberdrola and Enel
Weinhold Legal provided comprehensive legal services to an international consortium, one of three short-listed bidders, in the Czech Republic's most ambitious privatisation project (the offered price exceeded 4 billion EUR) with respect to the Czech electricity sector, including due diligence on the dominant producer of electricity, operator of the transmission grid and 6 regional distribution companies.
Drinks Union
Weinhold Legal provided complex legal services to the vendor, including assistance in organisation of bidding procedure, negotiation assistance, drafting and commenting on the Czech and English law governed transaction documentation and related advice, on the sale to Heineken of Drinks Union, one of the largest Czech brewery groups including four breweries located in North and East Bohemia (two in Ústí nad Labem, and one in Louny and Kutná Hora), with a total beer production capacity of nearly 1 million hectolitres, more than 500 employees, turnover exceeding a billion CZK and the brand portfolio consisting of the national brand Zlatopramen and the regional brands Březňák, Louny, Lorec, Jarošov, Pivrnec and Dačický brands. Our services also included a split-off of the third largest Czech liquor production business from the beer business into a newly created subsidiary Granette.
