Global law firm White & Case LLP has advised Erdgas Münster GmbH (EGM) on the sale of Nowega GmbH (Nowega), a German gas transmission system operator, to Igneo Infrastructure Partners (Igneo).
Headquartered in Münster, Germany, Nowega owns and operates approximately 1,500 kilometres of high-pressure pipelines across Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia. Its network transports natural gas and hydrogen to industrial customers, utilities and distribution networks and forms part of Germany's national gas transmission system. Nowega also plays a strategic role in Germany's hydrogen transition, developing hydrogen transport infrastructure as part of the planned German hydrogen core network.
EGM is a German gas infrastructure company headquartered in Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia. It operates an approximately 740-kilometre high-pressure pipeline network through which around half of Germany's domestically produced natural gas is transported.
The transaction is expected to close in the first quarter of 2027, subject to customary regulatory approvals.
The White & Case team which advised on the transaction was led by partners Thomas Burmeister (Düsseldorf) and Hans-Georg Schulze (Berlin) and included partners Thilo Wienke (Düsseldorf), Florian Degenhardt (Hamburg), Tim Bracksiek) and Sebastian Stütze ( both Frankfurt), counsel Carsten Rodemann and Andreas van den Eikel (both Berlin), local partners Petra Iffert (Frankfurt, Düsseldorf), Fabian Mayer (Berlin), Alisa Preissler (Frankfurt) and associates Karen Sievert and Selma Lyn Kalkutschke (both Düsseldorf) and Su-Yeoun Park (Berlin).
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