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Apollo Affiliated Funds to Acquire Certain OM Group Segments
- Client News
- May 31, 2015
Funds managed by affiliates of Paul, Weiss client Apollo Global Management, LLC announced the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire the Advanced Organics, Magnetic Technologies and Battery Technologies segments of OM Group, Inc. through a reverse triangular merger. The Apollo affiliated funds also agreed to sell the Electronic Chemicals and Photomasks segments of OM Group to Platform Specialty Products Corporation. Cleveland-based OM Group is a technology-driven industrial company serving attractive global markets, including automotive systems, electronic devices, aerospace and defense, industrial and medical.
The Paul, Weiss team included, among others, corporate counsel Gareth Clark; tax partner Brad Okun; employee benefits partner Lawrence Witdorchic; finance partners Gregory Ezring and Brian Kim; regulatory counsel Richard Elliot; intellectual property counsel Menachem Kaplan; litigation partners Lewis Clayton and Andrew Ehrlich; and real estate partner Mitchell Berg.