Stibbe advises Vestar Capital Partners

Experience - Stibbe advises 3G Capital, the Brazilian-American leading investment firm with portfolio companies such as AB InBev, BurgerKing and KraftHeinz, on the acquisition of a controlling interest in Hunter Douglas, the global market leader in window coverings and a major manufacturer of architectural products with well-known products such as Luxaflex and Luxalon. The Sonnenberg family will continue to hold a 25% interest in Hunter Douglas, pro forma for the new capital structure.

Experience - Stibbe advises ID Logistics on the acquisition of GVT Transport & Logistics for an enterprise value of EUR 80 million.

Experience - Stibbe advises Azerion, a high-growth, profitable, digital entertainment and media company, on its business combination with European FinTech IPO Company 1 B.V. (EFIC1), a SPAC listed on Euronext Amsterdam, pursuant to which Azerion will become a public company with an initial enterprise value of €1.3 billion.

Experience - Stibbe successfully assisted Union Investment with the acquisition from Patrizia AG, on behalf of the South Korean based AIP Asset Management, of the company owning the Astro Tower, the tallest passive building in Brussels.

Experience - Stibbe advises Odyssey Acquisition on its EUR 1.5 billion business combination With BenevolentAI. The combination of Odyssey Acquisition S.A. (Odyssey), a Euronext Amsterdam-listed special-purpose acquisition company (SPAC) focused on European healthcare and TMT growth companies, and BenevolentAI, a leading clinical-stage AI drug discovery company, represents the largest European SPAC merger announced to date and one of the largest Euronext Amsterdam biotech listings ever.

Experience - Stibbe advised Mambu, a market-leading, modern SaaS banking platform on raising €235 million in an EQT Growth-led Series E funding round, which is the largest financing round to date for a banking software platform.