Dechert Advises Ambienta on the Sale of SF-Filter to Equistone

Dechert LLP advised Ambienta, one of Europe's largest asset managers entirely focused on environmental sustainability, on the sale of its portfolio company SF-Filter Group to funds advised by Equistone Partners Europe.

Under Ambienta’s leadership the SF Filter group has grown to become one of Europe’s leading independent distribution platforms specializing in filtration. From its headquarters in the Swiss town of Bachenbülach, and with further subsidiaries in Germany, Austria, France and Poland, the filter specialist supplies B2B end-customers for industrial and mobile applications, including equipment manufacturers, resellers and national as well as international customers in more than 60 countries.

The Dechert team leading the cross jurisdictional transaction and advising Ambienta included Munich-based private equity partners Giovanni Russo and Dominik Stühler, corporate counsel Christian Böhme, corporate associates Florian Leitsbach, Philipp Schöfer and Alexa Serafinx (all Munich) and Paris-based corporate partner Ermine Bolot-Masse, corporate associate Dahila Ibourichene (Paris) and labor and employment national partner Thibault Meiers (Paris) as well as Brussels/Frankfurt-based antitrust partner Clemens Graf York von Wartenburg and associate Thirith von Doehren (Frankfurt).

Other advisers of Ambienta included RW Baird (M&A sell-side advice), NKF (legal, Switzerland), Wolf Theiss (legal, Austria and Poland), KPMG (financial and tax) and Roland Berger (commercial).

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