GVS S.p.A. entered into an agreement to acquire Kuss Filtration Inc. from Industrial Opportunity Partners LLC and others on July 20, 2017. Post deal, GVS will operate from 26 locations in 22 countries and will employ over 2300 employees. Ice Miller acted as legal advisor to GVS, Robert W. Baird & Co. acted as financial advisor and Winston & Strawn LLP acted as legal advisor to Industrial Opportunity Partners and Kuss Filtration. Pietro Scarfone, Gian Luca Coggiola and Alessandro Rossi of Allen & Overy LLP acted as legal advisors for Mediobanca, as coordinator and facility agent and the pool of banks including BNL BNP Paribas Group and UniCredit on the financing to GVS S.p.A in connection with the acquisition. Jeremy Willcocks of Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP acted as legal advisor to GVS S.p.A.