Advestra advises Altor on the acquisition of a majority shareholding in VTU Group GmbH

Altor Funds (“Altor”) have entered into an agree­ment to acquire a major­ity share­hold­ing in VTU Group GmbH (“VTU”), a lead­ing life sci­ences and green trans­ition pro­cess engin­eer­ing com­pany, from funds advised by DPE Deutsche Private Equity Man­age­ment III GmbH. Altor will sup­port VTU’s strategy to become a European lead­er in high value-added pro­cess engin­eer­ing ser­vices for life sci­ences indus­tries and a sec­tor spe­cial­ist in green trans­ition pro­cess engin­eer­ing. The clos­ing is sub­ject to reg­u­lat­ory approval.

Advestra acts as Swiss leg­al coun­sel to Altor in this trans­ac­tion. The team includes Beda Kaufmann, Alex­an­der von Jein­sen, Anna Capaul and Gök­tuğ Gür­büz (all Cor­por­ate | M&A).