GvW Graf von Westphalen advises traditional German company STOLL in establishing an international alliance
A GvW team led by the Frankfurt M&A partner Eric Messenzehl has advised the traditional German company H. Stoll AG & Co. KG in establishing an international business cooperation with the Canadian technology company Myant Inc. involving the field of functional, computer supported textiles.
H. Stoll AG & Co. KG is a leading German mechanical engineering company with its headquarters in Reutlingen. The globally active company specializes in the production of knitting machines and has subsidiaries in Bangladesh, India, Italy and the USA.
The newly established business cooperation with Myant Inc., Canada's leading company for computerized textile processing, has the purpose of working together on a new benchmark in the field of intelligent textiles. The cooperation will focus especially on the markets in Canada and the USA.
H. Stoll AG & Co. KG was advised by the following GvW team in this project: Eric Messenzehl (lead), Benjamin Schwarzfischer (both M&A, Frankfurt) and Dr Joachim Mulch (IP, Düsseldorf).
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