I.M.A. Industria Macchine Automatiche S.p.A. (BIT:IMA) along with Chairman Amedeo Felisa signed an agreement to acquire 69% stake in ATOP S.p.A., from Charme III, fund managed by Charme Capital Partners SGR SPA and Amedeo Felisa on May 21, 2019. ATOP’s founders and its chairman Amedeo Felisa reinvested around 6%. I.M.A's investment is around €230 million, to be paid at closing. The transaction also includes the signing of put and call option contracts on the stake reinvested by the founders equal to a total of 6% of the capital, to be exercised after the date of approval of the financial statements as of December 31, 2021. As a result of the acquisition, stake of I.M.A., in ATOP will increase from 21% to around 84%, whereas Charme Capital Partners SGR SPA would be selling 63% stake in ATOP and subsequently exit its share capital. I.M.A. Industria Macchine Automatiche S.p.A. announced the placement of senior unsecured non convertible notes of €50 million to finance the acquisition. I.M.A. Industria Macchine Automatiche S.p.A. announces the subscription with Unicredit as book runner, Credit Agricole, BPER Banca and banco BPM of a medium/long term loan of €180 million to fund the transaction. For the year 2018, ATOP reported revenues of €60 million and EBITDA of €15.8 million. The closing is scheduled for July 2019. l Laura Ortali of Gattai, Minoli, Agostinelli & Partners acted as legal advisor and Russo De Rosa and UBI acted as tax advisor to the founding partners of ATOP S.p.A. Luciano Santandrea. Luca Poggi and Emanuele Gnugnoli of Poggi & Associati acted as legal advisors, PricewaterhouseCoopers and UniCredit S.p.A. acted as financial advisors to I.M.A. Industria Macchine Automatiche S.p.A. Filippo Troisi and Francesco Florio of Legance - Avvocati Associati acted as legal advisors to Charme Capital Partners SGR SPA. Baird acted as financial advisor for Charme.