Latham & Watkins Advises Worthington Steel in Acquisition of Kloeckner & Co
Latham & Watkins LLP represents Worthington Steel (NYSE: WS), a metals processor that partners with customers to deliver highly technical and customized solutions, on its entry into a Business Combination Agreement with Kloeckner & Co. Listed in Germany (XETR: KCO), Kloeckner & Co is a leading service center and metal processing company with facilities across North America and Europe.
The Latham team is led by Munich M&A partner Rainer Traugott, with Düsseldorf partner Lucas Schweitzer and Chicago partners Christopher Drewry and Cathy Birkeland, counsel Steffen Augschill, and associates Alexander Pfeifer, Rieke Klie, Jack DeMeulenaere, Philipp Gärtner, Julian Glaub, and Lena Hummel. Advice was also provided on finance matters by Chicago partner Cindy Caillavet, Frankfurt partner Alexandra Hagelüken, and Munich partner Christian Jahn, with counsel Katie Stork and associates Michael Harris, Nolan Dallara, Johanna Wörle, and André Traute; on capital markets matters by counsels Manasi Bhattacharyya and Frank Bierwirth and associate KC Sands; on antitrust matters by Washington, D.C. partner Jason Cruise and Frankfurt partner Max Hauser, with counsel Nils Bremer and associates Alexandra Clark, Matteo Candioti, and Eva Beyer Blumental; on tax matters by Munich partner Ulf Kieker and Houston partner Jared Grimley, with associates Johannes Lieb, Dominick Constantino, and Molly Elkins; on employment matters by counsel Florian Dehmel and associate Julian Traub; on environmental matters by Los Angeles partner Josh Marnitz, with associate Austin Pierce; on IP matters by New York partner Pelin Serpin, with associate Jamie Eimbinder; on data privacy matters by Houston partner Robert Brown, with counsel Wolf-Tassilo Böhm and associates Clemens Ganz and Diya Jajal; on real estate matters by Chicago partner Rachel Bates, with counsels Jeffrey Anderson and Sven Nickel, and associates Marie-Christine Welp and Brandon Hemans; on trade controls and sanctions matters by Washington, D.C. partner Andrew Galdes, with counsel Joachim Grittmann and associates Maxim Glusdak and Monica Calce; and on anti-bribery and anti-corruption matters by Washington, D.C. partner Drew Wisniewski, with associate Lucas Novaes.