Deal Announcement 07/20: Automotive

The Deal

The PwC M&A team is pleased to announce the successful sale of Weber Automotive GmbH (“Weber Automotive”) to its founding and longstanding owner family Weber. PwC M&A acted as exclusive financial advisor to Weber Automotive GmbH, the custodian (“Sachwalter”) Dr. Christian Gerloff and the chief representative (“Generalbevollmächtigter”) Martin Mucha on this transaction.

Weber Automotive filed for insolvency under self-administration in July 2019 due to financial difficulties. Dr. Christian Gerloff of Gerloff Liebler Rechtsanwälte was appointed as custodian of Weber Automotive and initiated together with management and chief representative Martin Mucha of Grub Brugger a structured, international sale process for all of Weber Automotive’s assets and shareholdings which was led by PwC M&A and supported by PwC Business Recovery Services.

The deal comprises all assets of Weber Automotive with its three German production locations in Markdorf (Headquarters), Neuenbürg and Bernau bei Berlin as well as the shareholdings in its non-insolvent subsidiaries Weber Magdeburg GmbH (Magdeburg, Germany), Weber Automotive Corp. (Auburn Hills, USA) and Albert Weber Hungaria Kft. (Esztergom, Hungary).

Weber Automotive subsidiary SaarOTEC GmbH (St. Ingbert, Germany) was sold separately.

The asset and share purchase agreement for Weber Automotive was signed on 06^thMay 2020 and the transaction was closed on 13^th July 2020.

PwC

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The PwC M&A team was led by Martin Schwarzer (Partner) and Timo Klees (Partner) and comprised Wilfried Böckmann (Senior Manager), Niklas Nagel (Senior Associate), Christian Tempel (Associate), and Gregor Kohtes (Associate). A PwC Business Recovery Services team headed by Thomas Steinberger (Partner), Katherina Gasser (Manager) and Sebastian Kreitmayr (Manager) supported the process.