Freshfields has advised the shareholders of Leiber on the full sale of the company to Asahi Group Foods, a subsidiary of Asahi Group Holdings.
The transaction remains contingent on regulatory approval.
According to Freshfields, Leiber is a brewer’s yeast specialist that has been refining innovative product solutions for healthy nutrition, biotechnology, and agricultural applications since 1954.
Asahi Group Holdings is one of the world’s five largest breweries.
The Freshfields team included Vienna-based Counsel Lukas Pomaroli and Associate Tensin Studer as well as further team members in Berlin, Duesseldorf, Frankfurt, and Hamburg.
Freshfields did not respond to our inquiry on the matter.
