Noerr has advised the shareholders of the malt producer Tivoli Malz, Hamburg, on the sale of its Global Malt division to the English Anglia Maltings Group. Behind Tivoli is a private company. The purchaser is a long-term cooperation partner of Global Malt.

Tivoli Malz bundles the activities of the Global Malt Group, one of the world’s leading malt producers. In its six plants in Germany and one plant in Poland Global Malt produces approx. 400,000 tons of brewing malt per year and exports worldwide. The Hamburg plant is the Group’s largest works. The buyer of the Global Malt Group, Anglia Maltings, is a strategic investor based in Norfolk, UK. The parties have agreed not to disclose the purchase price or any details of the transaction. The responsible partner at Charles Russell Speechlys was Andrew Clarke (Corporate/M&A).

A German-Polish team of Noerr LLP led by the Berlin corporate partner Dr. Christoph Spiering advised the client comprehensively on the sale of the German and Polish group companies belonging to the Global Malt Group. The English law aspects of the transaction, which concerned mainly the redemption of the financing, were handled by Charles Russell Speechlys, London.

Advisors to the shareholders of Tivoli Malz: Noerr LLP

Dr. Christoph Spiering (Corporate/M&A & lead), Dr. Carsten Heinz (Tax, both Berlin), Yvonne Dietzel (Employment & Pensions, Dresden), Arkadiusz Ruminski (Corporate/M&A, Warsaw)

Associates: Robert Korndörfer (Corporate/M&A & lead, London), Dr. Clemens Schönemann (Real Estate Investments), Dr. Florian-Felix Marquardt (Tax, all Berlin), Krzysztof Banaszek (Corporate/M&A), Klaudyna Lichnowska (Financing and Real Estate), Dr. Slawomir Morawski (Financing), Agnieszka Witaszek (Commercial), Katarzyna Ziolkowska (Employment & Pensions, all Warsaw)