BIP Investment Partners S.A., Luxempart S.A. (BDL:LXMPR) along with Chief Executive Officer David Gabrysch signed a contract to acquire arwe Holding GmbH from Triginta Capital Fund I GmbH & Co. KG managed by Triginta Capital GmbH and David Gabrysch in a management buyout transaction in November 2016. BIP Investment Partners S.A. and Luxempart S.A. will jointly acquire a majority stake in ARWE Holding GmbH and David Gabrysch will re-invest alongside them. Alcentra will provide unitranche financing for the acquisition.

Ernst-Albrecht von Beauvais, Maria Weiers, Florian Grimm, Simon Weppner and Sonja Leutnant of Taylor Wessing acted as legal advisors for David Gabrysch and Triginta Capital. Thomas Heymann, Henning Bloß, Sebastian Schrag and David Fritsch of Heymann & Partner acted as legal advisors for Triginta Capital. Anna Leitchenko, Soumaya Ouzzani, Katrina Murphy, Joanna Brown, Jack Mead, Sven Greulich, Shawn Atkinson, Patrick Tardivy, Stefan Schultes-Schnitzlein, Till Steinvorth, André Zimmermann, Christian Schröder, Nikita Tkatchenko, Felix Schäfer, Sophie Ratzke, Johannes Rüberg and Louisa Kallhoff of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe Germany acted as legal advisors for BIP Investment Partners and Luxempart. Julio Veloso, Carlos Urrea, Blanca Silva, Lucía Trigo, Zenayda Sanfeliu, Luis Pérez, Manuel Gallo, Carolina Vivó, María Casado, Natalia Palomar and Carmen Chacón of Broseta Abogados acted as legal advisors for BIP Investment Partners and Luxempart. Steffen Schellschmidt, Stuart Brinkworth, Philip Rosak and Paul Tannenbaum of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP acted as legal advisors for Alcentra. Winfried M. Carli and Matthias Weissinger of Shearman & Sterling acted as legal advisors to the purchasers with the financing of the acquisition. Christine Wolter and Martina Bayer of Deloitte Audit S.a r.l. acted as accountants for BIP and Luxempart.

BIP Investment Partners S.A., Luxempart S.A. (BDL:LXMPR) along with Chief Executive Officer David Gabrysch completed the acquisition of ARWE Holding GmbH from Triginta Capital Fund I GmbH & Co. KG managed by Triginta Capital GmbH and David Gabrysch in a management buyout transaction on December 31, 2016. The German and Austrian antitrust authorities have approved the transaction.