Latham Advises Amcor on Sale of ESE World

Latham & Watkins has advised Amcor, one of the world's leading global packaging companies, on the sale of its European waste container business, ESE World, to Pacific Avenue Capital Partners, a global private equity firm focused on corporate carve-outs and other complex transactions in the middle market. 

The Latham team was led by London partner Richard Butterwick and Duesseldorf partner Heiko Gotsche, with associates Stuart McRobbie, Sam Cadd, Morgane Chaloin, Jan Gocha, Blaise Olympio, Oliver Jans, and Manaal Ali. Advice was also provided on employment matters by Paris partner Matthias Rubner and Munich partner Tobias Leder, with associate Yanis Gaoua; on regulatory matters by Frankfurt partner Joachim Grittmann, with Frankfurt counsel Wolf-Tassilo Böhm, and associates Cenk Dennis Nickel and Clemens Ganz; on data, technology, and IP matters by London partner Christian McDermott, Frankfurt partner Susan Kempe-Müller, and Paris partner Jean-Luc Juhan, with associates Liz Longster, Andreas Wolf, Grace Erskine, and Daniel Martel; on environmental matters by associate Maxim Glusdak; on real estate matters by Frankfurt counsel Sven Nickel, with associate Katharina Wolf; on banking matters by associates Johanna Woerle and Hugo Rivière; and on tax matters by London partner Simon Skinner, Hamburg partner Tobias Klass, and Paris partner Olivia Rauch-Ravisé, with associates Richard Liu, Thomas O’Malley, and Jean-Baptiste Bourbier.