PwC Legal and PwC advise Fr. Meyer's Sohn on acquisition of Swedish freight forwarder C Land Logistics
Hamburg, 29th November 2023
An international and multidisciplinary team of PricewaterhouseCoopers Legal AG Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft (PwC Legal), the auditing and consulting firm PwC Germany) and other advisors from the PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) network advised Fr. Meyer's Sohn GmbH & Co. KG (FMS) on the acquisition of the Swedish freight forwarder C Land Logistics AB.
PwC Legal provided comprehensive legal advice to FMS, in particular with regard to the due diligence, negotiation and conclusion of the share purchase agreement. PwC GmbH advised FMS on financial and tax matters.
FMS is a family-owned global forwarding company based in Hamburg. With over 1,000 transport and logistics specialists in more than 25 countries, FMS is one of the ten largest sea freight forwarders in the world. Tailored customer solutions across all modes of transport are a part of the FMS product portfolio as the optimization of supply chains.
C Land Logistics AB offers freight-forwarding services for air, rail and sea transport from three Swedish locations.
Advisors to Fr. Meyer's Sohn (GmbH & Co.) KG
PwC Legal:
Ivo Dreckmann, Dr Danielle von Hegel (both Corporate/M&A, Germany); Karolina Palin, Mikaela Rennerfelt, Agnes Vestmann, Jasmina Sehic, Dosti Tuana (all Corporate/M&A, Sweden); Susanne Zühlke, Justus Lucka (both Antitrust Law, Germany); Lina Laudon, Rebecca Miller (both Labour Law, Sweden)
PwC Germany:
Tim Dieckmann, Christopher Nadorf (both Transaction Services, Germany); Gustaf Levander, Jacob Lindstedt, Vanja Amin (all Transaction Services, Sweden); Marcus Blömer, Thorben Sundström (both Tax, Germany); Ulrika Lundh Eriksson, Niclas Friberg (both Tax, Sweden)
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