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KPS Completes €3.615 Billion Sale of Eviosys to Sonoco
- Client News
- December 4, 2024
Paul, Weiss advised KPS Capital Partners, LP, and its portfolio company Eviosys, a leading global supplier of metal packaging, in the sale of Eviosys to Sonoco Products Company for €3.615 billion. The combination of Eviosys with Sonoco, a global leader in highly engineered and sustainable packaging, brings high-quality, sustainable and innovative packaging solutions to new and existing customers around the globe. Under the terms of the transaction, Eviosys will transition to the Sonoco brand and operate under Sonoco’s Consumer Packaging segment.
The Paul, Weiss team was led by corporate partners Angelo Bonvino and Michael Vogel and partner elect Daniel Fuschillo, and included partners David Carmona, Manuel Frey, Suhan Shim, Timothy Cruickshank, Joseph Friedman, Matthew Merkle, Robert Zochowski and Roger Johnson and counsel Nathan Mitchell; antitrust partners Ross Ferguson, Annie Herdman and Richard Pepper, partner elect Yuni Sobel and counsel Chad de Souza and Lauren O’Brien; tax partners Robert Killip and Timothy Lowe and counsel Jamie Chambers; intellectual property partners Charles Googe, John Patten and Claudine Meredith-Goujon and counsel Alex Zapalowski; executive compensation partner Andrea Wahlquist Brown and counsel Lisa Krausz Eisenberg; litigation partners John Carlin, Aidan Synnott, Lewis Clayton and Nicole Succar and counsel Benjamin Klein and Audrey Paquet; real estate partner Peter Fisch; and environmental counsel William O’Brien.