AURELIUS Equity Opportunities SE & Co. KGaA (XTRA:AR4) signed a contract to acquire Distrelec Ltd and Nedis Group B.V. from Dätwyler Holding Inc. (SWX:DAE) on December 23, 2019. Distrelec Ltd and Nedis Group B.V. generated revenue of €275 million in 2018.

Transaction is subject to the fulfilment of the usual conditions for completion and is subject to regulatory approval. Transaction is due to be concluded in the first quarter of 2020. PricewaterhouseCoopers AG Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft, KPMG Guernsey and Deloitte & Touche GmbH Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft acted as accountant, OC&C Strategy Consultants GmbH acted as financial advisor and Lenz & Staehelin, Linklaters Oppenhoff & Rädler acted as legal advisor, diva-e, digatus and Euro Transaction Solutions acted as advisor for AURELIUS.

Lincoln International LLC acted as financial advisor to Dätwyler Holding AG. Alexander Fischer, David Hart, Alain Sauty de Chalon, Florian Fehres, Anders Fast, Remke Scheepstra, Kim Tan, Sonja Klein, Jochen Meyer-Burow, Thomas Wernicke, Liza Murray, Michael Bartosch, Thomas Gierath, Carl Svernlov, Alexander Wyss, Franz Schenker, Boris Wenger, Alessandra Fabri, Francesco Florenzano, Michael Kalbfus and Tino Marz of Baker & McKenzie (Zurich) acted as a legal advisor to Dätwyler. The Baker McKenzie team, made up of lawyers from the Firm's Germany, Austria, Italy, Poland, UK, Netherlands, Sweden, France and Switzerland offices.

Baker McKenzie was supported by Ellex Raidla (Estonia and Latvia), Borenius (Finland), Mazanti-Andersen (Denmark) and Simonsen Vogt Wiig (Norway).