Wolf Theiss advises ALSO Holding AG on the Acquisition of ABC Data

Wolf Theiss advised ALSO Holding AG, one of the leading providers of ICT distribution, solutions and services in Europe, with a tender offer for 100% of the shares of ABC Data S.A., launched together with MCI.

ABC Data S.A. is a leader in the market of IT hardware and consumer electronics distribution in Poland and operates in a number of Central and Eastern Europe countries.

"Wolf Theiss successfully implemented a unique transaction structure for the Polish market; with a combination of a public takeover and private M&A elements, to meet the desired business goals of our client," noted Dariusz Harbaty, Counsel at Wolf Theiss Warsaw, who assisted ALSO Holding AG.

In addition to Dariusz Harbaty and Peter Daszkowski, Co-Managing Partner of Wolf Theiss Warsaw, supervising the transaction, other lawyers included in the project were: Karolina Stawowska, Agnieszka Nowak-Błaszczak, Joanna Wajdzik, Anna Nowodworska, Monika Gaczkowska and Damian Majda.

Additionally, other offices from the Wolf Theiss network assisted in the transaction and provided advisory services to ALSO Holding AG, including: Austria (Guenter Bauer and Jochen Anweiler, for the required EU-level competition filing), Slovakia (Katarina Bielikova, Jozef Vircik and Dalibor Palaticky), Hungary (Janos Toth, Mark Chiovini, Peter Ihasz and Zoltan Bodog), Romania (Ileana Glodenau, Mircea Ciocirlea and Andreea Stan) and lawyers from the Czech Republic office, including Jitka Logesova in an oversight role.