Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has advised ATON, a holding company of mainly German providers of industrial engineering services, on its debut EUR 200 million bond issue.

The notes are issued by ATON Group Finance GmbH under the guarantee of the group’s parent company ATON GmbH. The notes have a maturity of five years and a fixed coupon of 3.875% per annum. The bond proceeds will be used to refinance existing financial indebtedness of the Group and for general corporate purposes.

ATON Group offers engineering and plant construction services and products mainly for engineering automotive and mining industries as well as medical technologies.

The advising Freshfields team for ATON comprised capital markets specialists Christoph L. Gleske, Julian Schulze De la Cruz, Christina Zapf, David Hughes and Roland Schmidtbleicher.