Clairfield advises Mammoet on the sale of Conbit to management

Mammoet, the leading Dutch heavy lifting and transportation service provider, acquired UK company ALE.

Tractebel Engineering SA sold GKW Consult GmbH, a top international consultantcy for environmental engineering and donor-financed infrastructure projects, to GFA Holding AG, a leading European consulting firm active in international cooperation.

Krenek Forest Service, an exclusive distributor of Ponsse forest machines in the Czech Republic was sold to Ponsse, the Finnish forest machines producer, who is also a main business partner of the company.

The French company Socotec, active in the testing, inspection and control sector for the construction and infrastructure industry, known as TIC, acquired the majority shareholding of the Catalan BAC Engineering Consultancy Group, which works in the fields of civil and building engineering, energy, and quality control.

Third-generation family shareholders of Salice SpA (“Salice” and, together with its subsidiaries, the “Group”), Francesca, Massimo and Sergio Salice, sold a majority stake in the Group to Cobepa S.A., a Belgian investment company backed by large entrepreneurial European families.

UK-based Premier Paper Group (part of OVOL Japan Pulp & Paper Co. Ltd.)  acquired Dublin-based GPMI.

Coxons Group Australia, a company that provides service and maintenance of cooling-system components, acquired its leading competitor MRC Australia.

Beck & Pollitzer, an international industrial-services provider from Great Britain, acquired the German assembly-services company montagen plus and its wholly-owned subsidiary montageprofis.