Baker McKenzie has suggested VINCI Energies on the acquisition of the Zimmer & Hälbig Group, certainly one of Germany’s main suppliers of technically demanding options of heating, air flow, air con, and refrigeration (HVAC-R). The acquisition will allow VINCI Energies to strengthen and complement its enterprise items in Germany, thereby rising its vary of multi-technical options for buildings and increasing their affords to its clients. The transaction remains to be topic to approval by the related competitors authorities.
“With this profitable acquisition, we have been in a position to help our shopper in gaining additional experience and capability, significantly within the space of high-tech constructing options,” commented Dr. Peter Wand, lead accomplice for this transaction.
The Zimmer & Hälbig Group, headquartered in Bielefeld, has been established available on the market for over 50 years. It affords a project-based service portfolio consisting of the planning, supply, set up and upkeep of heating, air flow, air con and refrigeration programs, with a robust concentrate on hospitals, laboratories, industrial services, clear rooms and information facilities. Beneath the Airtech model, the Zimmer & Hälbig Group additionally affords cleansing and upkeep providers for air flow and air con programs. The acquired Zimmer & Hälbig Group has 7 areas all through Germany. In 2024, it generated gross sales of EUR 96 million with 310 staff.
VINCI Group is a worldwide concessions, vitality, and building group with greater than 282,000 folks in additional than 120 international locations having generated revenues of EUR 72 billion in 2024. In Germany, VINCI Energies operates in its 4 enterprise strains – Infrastructure, Trade, Constructing Options and ICT– and employs 16,600 folks in 385 websites. In 2024, the VINCI Group generated a complete income of just about EUR 5.6 billion in Germany – its second-largest worldwide market – together with EUR 4.1 billion in vitality options and EUR 1.4 billion for VINCI Development. VINCI Concessions can also be current in Germany by means of 5 public-private partnerships for the administration of freeway infrastructure, in addition to in electrical automobile charging infrastructure.
Baker McKenzie’s Company/M&A apply often advises on nationwide and worldwide transactions. Most just lately, Baker McKenzie suggested VINCI Energies on acquisition of R + S Group, Bristol Myers Squibb on the switch of Juno Therapeutics GmbH to TQ Therapeutics GmbH, MAT Holdings on the sale of its subsidiaries to AEQUITA, Evonik Industries AG on its digital common assembly, Sunoco on its acquisition of the TanQuid Group, Georg Fischer on its acquisition of the VAG Group, AURELIUS on its acquisition of Teijin Automotive Applied sciences, Centric Software program on its acquisition of the Contentserv Group, Fagron Group on its acquisition of Euro OTC & Audor Pharma GmbH, Berlin Packaging, a portfolio firm of Oak Hill Capital Companions and Canada Pension Plan Funding Board, on the acquisition of RIXIUS AG, Instalco on its funding in FABRI AG, AURELIUS on the acquisition of the Savoury Division of What’s Cooking, and UBE Company in its acquisition of the Urethane Techniques enterprise of LANXESS.
Authorized advisor to VINCI Energies:
Baker McKenzie
Lead:
Company/M&A: Dr. Peter Wand (Accomplice, Frankfurt)
Group:
Company/M&A: Dr. Florian Kästle (Accomplice, Frankfurt), Denise Tayler (Senior Affiliate, Frankfurt), Rouven Reuter (Affiliate, Frankfurt)
Actual Property: Dr. Daniel Bork (Accomplice, Düsseldorf), Dr. Maximilian Voll (Senior Affiliate, Berlin), Moritz Jander (Affiliate, Düsseldorf)
Banking & Finance: Kathrin Marchant (Accomplice, Frankfurt), Philipp Thimm (Affiliate, Frankfurt), Esther Kapern (Affiliate, Frankfurt)
Public Regulation: Dr. Katharina Weiner (Accomplice, Düsseldorf), Stefanie Zenzen (Affiliate, Düsseldorf)
Business & Commerce: Joachim Fröhlich (Counsel, Munich), Hannah Mack (Affiliate, Munich)
Employment: Katja Häferer (Accomplice, Frankfurt), Dr. Sebastian Pfrang (Senior Affiliate, Frankfurt), Jan Kammler (Affiliate, Frankfurt), Laura Kramaric (Affiliate, Frankfurt)
IP/IT: Patrick Wilkening (Accomplice, Düsseldorf), Anela Winzig (Affiliate, Frankfurt), Yannick Filoda (Affiliate, Berlin)
Antitrust & Competitors: Jan Kresken (Accomplice, Düsseldorf), Dr. Florian Kotman (Counsel, Düsseldorf), Dr. Lukas Greiner (Affiliate, Düsseldorf)
Tax: Christoph Becker (Accomplice, Frankfurt), Thomas Gierath (Accomplice, Munich), Ariane Schaaf (Counsel, Frankfurt), Tim Edelhoff (Affiliate, Munich)
