Industrial Equipment and Components

Industrial Equipment and Components

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Machinery, tools, hardware and components: from concept to market, you require timely legal advice that responds to your need to keep suppliers delivering, your plant producing and customers buying, and paying for, your products. We understand what those relationships are made of, and how to help them thrive.

Whether your challenge is to protect the value of your IP, procure material from customer-designated sources, limit liability or control channels to market, Dentons can assist with advice, agreements and transactions for your situation. From non-disclosure to acquisition agreements, we know the sensitive deal points, targets and market references. We work with your management teams, business units, engineering and accounting professionals to optimize your resources and opportunities.

Dentons can assist with any of the following:

Protecting your trade secrets and intellectual property, licensing it and selling it
Improving supply-chain reliability through performance guarantees and outsourcing strategies
Weighing your legal risks on calls for tender, terms of sale and warranties
Protecting your margins from supplier and customer pressure, changes in specifications and delays or refusals to take delivery of products
Negotiating sales terms, including long term and special pricing agreements, supply and installation contracts, exclusivity, private label and OEM sales
Negotiating process plant contracts for your manufacturing machinery and assembly lines
Changing distribution channels while limiting transition costs and litigation risk
Managing environmental issues
Regulatory compliance

Look to Dentons to understand your challenges and objectives and to help you move ahead of your competition.

Experience

OJSC Atomenergomash: Advising a subsidiary of Rosatom, the Russian State Atomic Energy Corporation, on its acquisition of a controlling stake of OJSC Energomashspetsstal, one of the leaders in the power machine-building industry in Ukraine.
AXA Private Equity: Advising on the MBO and financing of the Phönix/Strack Group; our team of M&A and private equity specialists advised on all aspects of the deal involving this leading, German-based manufacturer of high-quality speciality valves which supplies blue-chip customers in the energy, petrochemicals and chemicals industries around the world.
D&M Holdings: Advising a Japanese owner of audio and video brands on its acquisition of Calrec, a leading manufacturer of audio/live concert consoles for broadcasters in the UK market.
Founders of Novomet: Advising one of Russia’s largest electrical submersible pump manufacturers in the partial sale of its business to a syndicate of three private equity investors: Baring Vostok Capital Partners, Russia Partners and RUSNANO. Following the transaction, the founders of Novomet retained a controlling stake in the joint venture. The transaction was named the “Central Deal of 2011” by Private Equity & Venture Capital (PREQVECA).
Middle East banks: Advising as mandated lead arrangers on English and Qatari law in respect to term loan facilities for the construction of rig and ancillary equipment.
Sahaviriya Steel Industries (SSI): Acting in the negotiations for the acquisition of a steel and coke production facility in Redcar, North-East England. The site was purchased for US$468 million from Tata Steel Group. Our role was to secure and separate an ‘archipelago of land plots’ on a 3,000 acre ‘mothballed’ manufacturing site, to manage the TUPE and pension scheme transfers for the 750 staff to be retained by SSI, and to advise on over US$1 billion acquisition finance. The transaction was exceptionally complex, involving expertise across several practice areas and requiring creative legal solutions. It attracted considerable political and media interest and needed quick completion within seven months. Its success depended on our adopting a collaborative and cooperative approach, working closely with various stakeholders, including the client team, local community representatives, environmental and other regulatory bodies, trade unions and other parties for a successful solution for the client.
Stryker Corporation: Advising the world leader in orthopedic medical technology on the $162 million acquisition of 100 percent of the share capital and voting rights of privately-held Memometal Technologies S.A., a leading international designer and manufacturer of surgical implants for orthopedic extremities. The acquisition of Memometal provided Stryker with the platform to further establish the company as a key player in the rapidly growing foot and hand segment of the extremities market and created a strong presence in the podiatric surgery market.
Subsidiary of a global manufacturer: Advising on the transition to a cloud-based, software as a service (SaaS) Human Resources management program. Our assistance included advice regarding the design of privacy and security programs, the negotiation of a SaaS services agreement, revision to company policies regarding data security and privacy in order to implement the SaaS initiative, and guidance regarding laws regarding cross-border data transfers and risk mitigation strategies with respect to unauthorized access, use and disclosure of personal information and confidential business information.
SunPower Corp.: Advising US-based manufacturer of solar panels, in executing a joint venture to manufacture and deploy its solar concentrator technology in the Chinese market.

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Dentons advises Rio Tinto on the sale of its subsidiary ECL to Fives

July 31, 2015

Dentons advised Rio Tinto in the sale of its subsidiary ECL, specializing in design and installation of equipment for primary aluminum production, to Fives, a French industrial engineering leader in the aluminum sector.

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