Allen & Overy LLP advised finance investor European Capital Service Ltd. (European Capital), a wholly-owned subsidiary of American Capital, Ltd., on the sale of its shares in Metall Technologie Holding Group (MTH). The purchaser is LOI Thermprocess GmbH, a subsidiary of Italy-based Tenova S.p.A. The parties agreed not to disclose the purchase price.
  
Headquartered in Menden, North Rhine-Westphalia, MTH is a leading provider of heat treatment technology solutions in the aerospace, machine tooling and automotive industries. The group is comprised of the following renowned companies: Schmetz, Mahler and IVA (Germany), BMI (France) and Huisen (China). MTH currently employs 320 employees worldwide, 150 of which are based in Germany, 120 in China and 50 in France. Most recently, MTH generated annual sales of EUR 65 million.
 
The Allen & Overy team comprised partners Dr. Michael Bernhardt and Dr. Alexander Veith (Corporate/Private Equity, Frankfurt and Munich) as well as partners Dr. Asmus Mihm (Tax, Frankfurt), Dr. Jens Matthes (IP, Düsseldorf), Dr. Walter Uebelhoer (Banking and Finance, Munich), Dr. Ellen Braun (Antitrust, Hamburg) and Dr. Hans-Peter Löw (Employment & Benefits, Frankfurt). They were assisted by counsel Stefan Kuhm (Banking and Finance, Frankfurt), senior associate Dr. Markus Käpplinger and associates Nikolai Sokolov, Dr. Christoph Edler, Simon Schmid (all Corporate, Frankfurt and Munich), Andreas Fertig (Tax, Frankfurt), Dr. Ilja Baudisch (Banking and Finance, Munich), Miray Kavruk and senior associate Dr. Fabian Ziegenaus (both IP, Düsseldorf and Munich), associate Evelyn Günther and senior associate Dr. René Galle (both Antitrust, Hamburg), associate Dr. Johanna Gerstung (Employment & Benefits, Frankfurt), senior associate Dr. Marcus Grühn and associate Dr. Julien Zazoff (both Real Estate, Hamburg).

In addition, Allen & Overy teams from France, China (including Hong Kong) and Poland were involved.

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