Goodwin and CMS Portugal advise Equistone on acquisition of Gardengate

Goodwin and CMS Portugal have advised Equistone on the acquisition of a majority stake in Gardengate

Goodwin and CMS Portugal (for Portuguese law matters) have advised Equistone Partners Europe (“Equistone”) on the acquisition of a majority stake in Gardengate, one of Europe’s leading manufacturers of aluminium gates and doors.

Equistone is an independent investment firm, which operates across Benelux, France, Germany, Switzerland and the UK, investing as a strategic partner alongside management teams. Their European team comprises of over 40 investment professionals supported by finance, administration and investor relations professionals. They have a core focus on change of ownership deals and aim to invest between €25m and €200m or more of equity in businesses with enterprise values of between €50m and €500m.

To advise Equistone, CMS Portugal had a multidisciplinary team led by partners Francisco Xavier de Almeida (pictured left), Corporate M&A and Baking & Finance and Patrick Dewerbe (pictured right), Tax, in which the following also participated: Susana Estêvão Gonçalves (Tax); David Apolónia and Miguel Santos Ferreira (Corporate M&A); Catarina Arriaga Sampaio and Afonso Elias (Banking & Finance).

On the selling side, Garrigues advised Crest Capital Partners, led by partner Mário Lino Dias (Corporate M&A) and with the participation of: Rafaela Reina and Pedro Callapez (Corporate M&A); Fernando Castro Silva and José Diogo Mègre Pires (Tax). The lenders were advised by Mayer Brown and Garrigues with the participation of Susana Pimenta de Sousa, Miguel Pimentel, Pedro Lemos Carvalho and Inês Freire de Andrade.