Acquisition of a stake in Groupe Duo by SCHÜTZ: Fidal Avocats and De Gaulle Fleurance advise the parties on the transaction.

Fidal Avocats and De Gaulle Fleurance supported SCHÜTZ in acquiring a stake in Groupe Duo.

French company Groupe Duo, which specialises in packaging reconditioning and recycling, has announced that SCHÜTZ, a major player in the field of packaging systems based in Selters, Germany, has acquired a stake in its capital.

The deal will enable Groupe Duo and SCHÜTZ to pool their resources and develop synergies, particularly in industrial reconditioning. This new alliance offers customers greater availability of high-quality, sustainable packaging solutions, as well as other benefits, including shorter journeys and optimised logistics within the network.

De Gaulle Fleurance in Paris and DSM Avocats in Luxembourg acted in support of SCHÜTZ, and Fidal Avocats and CTN France advised the founders of Groupe Duo.

The De Gaulle Fleurance team comprised: Anker Sorensen, Aurélien Djafari Rouhani, Victor Omnes (Corporate), Claire Tergeman (Employment), Charlotte Buraux, Inès Mouhou (Litigation), Jean-Philippe Minaud (Environmental), Muriel Guillin-Modaine, Brieux le Fur (Real Estate), Caroline Ruiz-Palmer (Competition), Charlotte Hébert-Salomon (Intellectual Property) and Frédéric Paquet (Tax)

The DSM Avocats team comprised Mario Di Stefano and Cathy Nelson (Corporate)

The FIDAL Avocats team comprised: Jean-Paul Rispail, Quentin Joly, Camille Bruitte (Corporate), Delphine Fabretti (Tax), Arnaud Saint-Raymond, Delphine Caudron-Lerouge (Employment), Antoine Carpentier (Environmental)

For CTN France, the team consisted of Laurent Guiot, Christophe Planckaert and Dorothée Canonne (Financial advisory).

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