Ebner Stolz advises Colfax Corporation on the acquisition of Sandvik’s welding business

• Eb­ner Stolz pro­vi­ded fi­nan­cial and tax due di­li­gence sup­port
• The ac­qui­si­tion al­lows Colfax Cor­po­ra­tion to ex­tend the pro­duc­tion ca­pa­city and pro­duct range wi­thin ESAB, their wel­ding busi­ness di­vi­sion
• The tran­sac­tion re­qui­red com­plex carve-out ac­tivi­ties
• Glo­bal busi­ness with pri­mary foot­print in Swe­den and US; li­mited pre­sence in Ger­many
  

Colfax Cor­po­ra­tion is a glo­bal ma­nu­fac­tu­ring and en­gi­nee­ring com­pany ba­sed in the US that pro­vi­des gas-hand­ling so­lu­ti­ons and fa­bri­ca­tion tech­no­logy to cu­st­omers around the world. The com­pany is lis­ted on the New York Stock Ex­change.
 
Sand­vik’s wel­ding busi­ness, part of Sand­vik Ma­te­ri­als Tech­no­logy, is a lea­ding glo­bal pro­du­cer of pre­mium stain­less steel and ni­ckel al­loy con­suma­ble wel­ding pro­ducts with ma­nu­fac­tu­ring lo­ca­ti­ons in Swe­den and the US.
 
The Sand­vik wel­ding busi­ness is highly in­te­gra­ted wi­thin the Sand­vik group, re­qui­ring com­plex ana­ly­sis both in the due di­li­gence phase and for fu­ture in­te­gra­tion plan­ning.  Due to the close col­la­bo­ra­tion bet­ween Eb­ner Stolz and Colfax, a large num­ber of dif­fe­rent as­pects of the carve-out tran­sac­tion were de­eply ana­ly­zed and so­lu­ti­ons were de­ve­lo­ped.
 
This is Colfax’s third ac­qui­si­tion with Eb­ner Stolz this year;  Eb­ner Stolz pre­viously sup­por­ted Colfax in its suc­cess­ful purchase of Sie­mens Tur­bo­ma­chinery Equip­ment and TBi In­dus­tries.
 
Eb­ner Stolz team: Dr. Chris­toph Ep­pin­ger (Part­ner, Fi­nan­cial Due Di­li­gence), Ca­the­rine Al­ton (Se­nior Ma­na­ger, Fi­nan­cial Due Di­li­gence), Alex­an­der Eu­ch­ner (Part­ner, Tax Due Di­li­gence), An­dreas For­rai (Se­nior Ma­na­ger, Tax Due Di­li­gence)

Press Contact

Dr. Ul­rike Höreth
Eb­ner Stolz
Kro­nen­straße 30
70174 Stutt­gart
Tel. +49 711 2049-1371
ul­rike.hoereth@eb­ner­stolz.de

Corporate Contact

Dr. Chris­toph Ep­pin­ger
Eb­ner Stolz
Kro­nen­straße 30
70174 Stutt­gart
Tel.  +49 711 2049-1409
chris­toph.ep­pin­ger@eb­ner­stolz.de

About Ebner Stolz

Eb­ner Stolz is one of the lar­gest in­de­pen­dent mid-si­zed MDP firms in Ger­many and is among the Top Ten wi­thin this sec­tor. The firm has de­ca­des of in-depth ex­pe­ri­ence in au­diting, tax ad­vice, le­gal ad­vice, and cor­po­rate con­sul­ting. More than 1,300 em­ployees in all ma­jor Ger­man ci­ties and busi­ness cen­ters of­fer a broad range of ser­vices ba­sed on a multi-di­sci­pli­nary ap­proach. With around 100 em­ployees, Eb­ner Stolz Cor­po­rate Fi­nance ser­vice line is a key area of Eb­ner Stolz ser­vice port­fo­lio, which is cha­rac­te­ri­zed by a mar­ket lea­ding po­si­tion in the seg­ment for SME tran­sac­tions. In ad­di­tion to mid-cap cli­ents, Eb­ner Stolz ad­vi­ses also nu­me­rous pri­vate equity firms and fa­mily of­fices on both do­mestic and cross-bor­der tran­sac­tions.
 
Cross-bor­der au­diting and con­sul­ting as­si­gn­ments are car­ried out with part­ners of Ne­xia In­ter­na­tio­nal, one of the world’s lea­ding net­works of in­de­pen­dent con­sul­ting and au­diting firms. Ne­xia has more than 650 of­fices in more than 115 coun­tries.