White & Case advises Asbury Carbons on acquisition of Graphit Kropfmühl GmbH

Global law firm White & Case LLP has advised Asbury Carbons Inc., a portfolio company of Mill Rock Capital, on its entry into a definitive agreement to acquire Graphit Kropfmühl GmbH (GK).

Asbury Carbons is a global leader in carbon-based solutions serving industrial markets, employing more than 300 people across ten production facilities in North America and Europe.

GK operates its own graphite mine at its headquarters in Kropfmühl, Germany, and holds a majority stake in a graphite mine in Sri Lanka. Asbury Carbons will assume all GK operations, including approximately 350 employees.

The White & Case team was led by M&A partners Oliver Brahmst, Adam Cieply (both in New York) and Carola Glasauer (Frankfurt), and included M&A local partner Johannes Goossens and associates Jacquie Smith (New York), Leon Hoffeller and Franziska Josepha Schiffmann (both in Frankfurt).

The White & Case team also included Employment, Compensation & Benefits partner Sebastian Stuetze and associate Justus Redeker (both in Frankfurt); Project Development and Finance partner Florian Degenhardt, counsel Beate Treibmann and associate Robert Bente (all in Hamburg); Intellectual Property local partner Mathias Bogusch and associate Jonas Huber (both in Frankfurt); Antitrust partners Thilo Wienke (Düsseldorf) and Strati Sakellariou-Witt, and associates Tommaso Poli, Joar Linden and Enrique Fayos de Arizon (all in Brussels); M&A partner Vivian Tsoi, counsel Amy Yang (both in Shanghai) and associates Michael Grambow (Frankfurt), Tianyu Ding and Chunlei Pang (both in Shanghai); Tax partners Bodo Bender (Frankfurt) and Scott Fryman (New York); Regulatory partner Norbert Wimmer, counsel Anna Burghardt-Kaufmann and associate Galina Wedel (all in Berlin); White Collar local partner James Hsiao (Hong Kong) and associate Paulina Spengler (Frankfurt); Real Estate counsel Andreas van den Eikel (Berlin) and associate Milena Maurer (Frankfurt); Debt Finance partner Sherri Snelson and associates Arthur Nahas and Elizabeth Tan (all in New York); Sustainability & Responsible Business partner Taylor Pullins (Houston); and Trade partner Orion Berg and associate Louis Roussier (both in Paris).

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