14. January 2025

ARQIS advised the Swiss investment group CONSTELLATION CAPITAL on the acquisition of the Exportverpackung Sehnde Group (EVS Group), including the Polish company Export Pack Polska Sp. Z o.o. The EVS Group is now part of the ARCA Group, which belongs to CONSTELLATION CAPITAL.

The acquisition is an important step in ARCA Group's growth strategy. At the same time, the merger expands the group's regional presence to northern Germany and Poland. After the merger, EVS Group will be fully integrated into the ARCA Group but will retain its independent brand and market presence. The EVS Group's Managing Directors will remain with the company, whilst the previous shareholders are reinvesting substantially in the ARCA Group.

The ARCA Group, a group of CONSTELLATION CAPITAL AG, is a rapidly growing provider of wooden packaging and packaging services in the DACH-region. This and future acquisitions are intended to establish a dense network of wooden packaging and packaging service companies that will benefit from synergies in the areas of purchasing, professionalization of processes and digital transformation.

The EVS Group, which comprises Exportverpackung Sehnde GmbH and Export Pack Polska Sp. Z o. o., provides packaging services with around 120 employees at its locations in Sehnde and Hanover in Lower Saxony. Export Pack Polska Sp. Z o.o., based in Zabrze, Poland, specializes in the production of packaging materials, the provision of packaging and other logistics services.

CONSTELLATION CAPITAL is a Swiss investment group founded in 1992 and based in Freienbach on Lake Zurich. It pursues a buy & build strategy that focuses on majority investments in medium-sized companies in the business service, education & lifestyle and healthcare sectors in Switzerland, Germany and Austria.

An ARQIS team headed by Dr Laeger has already advised CONSTELLATION CAPITAL on the acquisition of the ARCA platform and has provided comprehensive legal and tax advice on all further acquisitions for the platform, as well as on the acquisition financing. ARQIS was supported in Poland by a Polish team from Wolf Theiss.

Advisors to CONSTELLATION CAPITAL

ARQIS (Dusseldorf/Munich): Partners: Dr. Lars Laeger Johannes Landry (Financing), Dr. Ulrich Lienhard (Real Estate), Tobias Neufeld (Data Law), Lisa-Marie Niklas (HR Law), Marcus Nothhelfer (IP), Counsel: Sina Janke (Compliance), Jens Knipping (Tax), Nora Stratmann (Commercial), Anja Mehrtens, Martin Weingärtner (both HR Law), Managing Associates: Tim Bresemann (Real Estate), Katrin Ludwig (M&A), Rolf Tichy (IP), Associates: Dr. Lina Alami, Sabine Müller (both HR Law), Rebecca Gester (Commercial), Dr. Bernhard Gröhe (Regulatory), Marius Mesenbrink (Data Law), Legal Specialist: Tim Kottmann (HR Law)

Wolf Theiss (Poland): Peter Daszkowski, Bartosz Kuras (both Lead), Karolina Stawowska, Michal Zajaczkowski, Agnieszka Nowak-Blaszczak, Adrian Krzyzanowski, Jakub Pietrasik, Izabela Wiewiorka, Izabela Derylo, Kinga Kluszczynska, Oliwia Pecht