Clifford Chance has advised Highlander Partners on the PLN 65 million sale of its portfolio company Rotometal to its current CEO Grzegorz Dolbniak. Sobczynscy i Partnerzy advised Rotometal minority shareholders Joachim Setnik and Barbara Setnik. SMM Legal advised Dolbniak on the management buyout.
Highlander Partners is a US-based private investment firm making direct private equity and mezzanine investments throughout North America and Central Europe.
Rotometal is a Swiebodzin-headquartered company manufacturing magnetic cylinders, printing cylinders, anvils, rotary cutting units, as well as other tools used in the printing business. The company was established in 2006 by Joachim Setnik.
The Clifford Chance team included Partner Milosz Golab, Counsels Krzysztof Hajdamowicz and Tomasz Szymura, Associate Aleksandra Wlaszczuk, and Junior Associate Bartosz Zielinski.
The Sobczynscy i Partnerzy team consisted of Managing Partner Michal Sobczynski and Attorney-at-Law Orest Ochocki.
The SMM Legal team included Managing Partner Aleksander Czech and Senior Associate Jan Stranz.