Kirkland & Ellis is advising Strategic Value Partners and its portfolio company Pfleiderer Group on its sale to Bogdan and Elżbieta Kaczmarek together with Innova Capital, through an investment vehicle Breticontic Investments. The transaction is expected to close in the first half of 2024, subject to receipt of required regulatory approvals as well as other customary closing conditions. Read Innova Capital’s press release The Kirkland team is led by corporate partners Tom Bartram and Jack Donelan and associate Melissa Sawyer, together with support from corporate partner Sebastian Häfele and associate Christina Albath; antitrust & competition partners Mark Gardner and Sion Davies; tax partners Mavnick Nerwal and Frixos Hatjantonas and associate Michael Akpomiemie; and debt finance partners Sam Sherwood, Jerome Hoyle and Alexander Längsfeld and associate Kirstin Kemper.