Niederer Kraft Frey advised Deutsche Private Equity (DPE), a leading German private equity firm with approximately EUR 3bn assets under management specialising in investments in medium-sized growth companies in the DACH region, on securing the financing of its acquisition of IMPAG.

IMPAG, headquartered in Zurich and with subsidiaries in Switzerland, Germany, Poland, France, Austria and Spain, is an internationally orientated value-added specialty chemical distribution company that supplies and supports the life science and material science industries in Europe with raw materials, active ingredients and services. The Group achieved annual sales of CHF 180 million in 2023.

The NKF team was led by Transactions partners Philip Spoerlé and Adrian Koller, working with associate Selim Lötscher, junior associates Carlotta Ulmer, Norina Frey and Manuel Constam (all Transactions) as well as partner Markus Kronauer (Tax).

NKF was further supported by teams of Clifford Chance LLP (Germany, France and Poland) led by Simon Reitz and Philip Rosak (both Frankfurt) and Wolf Theiss (Austria) led by Zeno Grabmayr.

Marco Schunder, Björn Kitzinger and Danny Mellor from Pava Partners acted as exclusive debt advisors in this transaction.