Vantage Specialty Chemicals, Inc. entered into an agreement to acquire Leuna-Tenside Gmbh from VR Equitypartner GmbH and BIP Investment Partners S.A. on November 21, 2018. The transaction is subject to approval by regulatory board and antitrust authorities and is expected to close by year-end 2018. Jörg Lips, Christoph Löffler, Peter Ollesch, Jesko Nobiling, Axel Dippmann, Rolf Hempel, Martin Cholewa, Anja Schöder, Heralt Hug, Dorothée Janzen, Alexander Borchers, Albert Fischer, Birgit Wagner, Steven Washington and Stephanie Schulz of CMS Hasche Sigle acted as legal advisors for VR Equitypartner and BIP Investment. Christoph Brenner, Bernhard Schmaderer, Stefan Schultes-Schnitzlein, André Zimmermann, Sarah Erne, Associate and Robert Weinhold of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP acted as legal advisors for Leuna-Tenside. CIM Partners LLC appointed as financial advisor to Vantage Specialty Chemicals.Olaf Kocanda, Atul Ahuja and Alexander Lüring of Homburg & Partner provided due-diligence to VR Equitypartner GmbH and BIP Investment Partners S.A. Jan Balssen, Christian Cascante, Michael Ilter, Julia Müller, Anselm Christiansen, Stefan Mayer, Ocka Stumm, Leonhard Kornwachs, Doris-Maria Schuster, Sebastian Schulte, Frank Schlobach, Patrick Reuter, Iris Benedikt-Buckenleib, Jacob von Andreae, Aylin Hoffs, Marc Ruttloff, Lars Kindler, André Lippert, Marina Stoklasa, Philipp Naab, Oksana Weber-Kim, Matthias Werner, Theresa Uhlenhut, Anna Karpf and Britta Kamp of Gleiss Lutz acted as legal advisor to H.I.G. Capital, LLC.