Turning your products and processes to your advantage

To remain competitive, manufacturers must embrace new technologies, operate with agility and embed ESG strategy. Those that do are better placed to seize opportunities in the sector as they evolve. Our lawyers understand the legal issues and developments affecting your industry. And we provide timely, commercial and pragmatic advice wherever you do business.

With a wealth of experience supporting all types of manufacturing organizations, we advise across a range of project types. These include managing business transformation in relation to the Internet of Things and Industry 4.0, leading on rapid restructuring projects via M&A, and other activities. Ranked #1 by deal count for industrials globally (Mergermarket league tables FY 2025), we handle more transactions than any other law firm.

“With a wealth of experience supporting all types of manufacturing organizations, we advise across a range of project types.”

Because we advise across the sector, we understand products and their manufacturing processes. This allows us to provide cutting-edge and adaptive advice and representation to our clients. These include companies that supply other industries, such as aerospace, automotive and chemicals, and ancillary sectors including packaging, heavy industry, machinery manufacturing and so on. With our sector-specific advisory approach, we bring together manufacturing-focused lawyers from across practice groups worldwide to provide teams for any project.

Awards and recognition

Industry Focus: Manufacturing – Tier 2Legal 500 EMEA 2026: Italy

Industry Focus: Manufacturing – Tier 1Legal 500 EMEA 2026: Spain

#1 Global Industrials M&A by volume Mergermarket league tables FY 2025

#1 EMEA Industrials & Chemicals M&A by volume

Mergermarket Deal Drivers FY 2025#3 Most active in Global Private Equity – Materials & ResourcesPitchBook 2025

Experience

Advising ASP Isotopes Inc. (ASPI), a Nasdaq-listed advanced materials company that develops technology and processes to produce isotopes, on its proposed acquisition of all the issued shares in Renergen Limited, a Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE)-listed natural gas operation, as well as its intended secondary listing on the JSE.
Representing Marmon Holdings (part of Berkshire Hathaway) in the acquisition of several engineering and manufacturing companies located in the US, Canada, the UK and China.
Advising Edmonton Exchanger & Manufacturing, a Canada-based manufacturer of tank heads and custom heavy-fabricated components, on the strategic acquisition of the assets of Uni‑Form Components Co, to strengthen its North American footprint. The assets were acquired by an affiliate which will operate in the US under the name Uni-Form Components Corp.
Advising Benteler, a leading metal processing business headquartered in Austria, on the development, structuring, and construction of a new manufacturing plant in Kenitra, Morocco.
Advising GMH Group, one of Germany’s leading steel producers and processors, on the acquisition of two business units of Buderus Edelstahl. The transaction comprises the acquisition of the hot rolling mill for large, rolled steel dimensions and machining and heat treatment facilities.
Advising JSW Steel on a follow-on USD60 million strategic investment in Illawarra Coal Holdings (IMC), increasing JSW’s interest from 20% to 30%. JSW’s investment enables it to access premium Australian coking coal and supports its plan to increase steel output to more than 50 million tonnes per annum by 2031.
Representing MKS Instruments (a global provider of technologies that enable advanced processes and improve technologies) on the acquisition of Atotech (a leading process chemicals technology company and a market leader in advanced electroplating solutions, backed by buyout firm Carlyle Group), for an equity value of USD5.1 billion (enterprise value c. USD6.5 billion).
Advising Avery Dennison, a multinational manufacturer and distributor of innovative packaging materials including pressure-sensitive adhesive materials, on regulatory with regard to waste disposal, eg the EU Packaging Directive.
Advising the UK Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) on the redevelopment of a former steelworks site in Teesside, including the retirement of carbon credits relating to the site, and a scheme for the redevelopment of the site for environmentally sustainable industrial and commercial use.
Advising Heidelberger Druckmaschinen on:
- a comprehensive package of measures to reduce structural costs at short notice and to sustainably improve the company’s profitability, advising on eg compliance, capital markets, corporate and restructuring; and
- future-proofing its business model, which realigns the company as a technology player with the printing sector as a strong core business, to open up new growth markets. We supported on the spin-off of the E-Mobility division, involving the transfer of employees, drafting of bonus agreements and work council negotiations, and on the further development of the Print, Packaging and Technology Solutions segments.