Bird & Bird advises EFESO on joint venture with Tsetinis

Headquartered in Austria, Tsetinis Consulting serves industrial clients worldwide and is renowned for its proprietary improvement approach integrating product, sustainability and business performances. With worldwide challenges such as embracing sustainability, accelerating digitalization, increasing supply chain resilience, developing innovative technologies, EFESO and Tsetinis together are even better equipped to help industrial companies accelerate their transformation toward sustainable and future-proof operations.

Tsetinis’ team of 120 consultants joins EFESO’s team of 800+ worldwide and will significantly reinforce both EFESO’s ‘Idea to Value’ offering (innovation management, new product development process, portfolio management, PLM, design to value, value engineering, procurement) and discrete manufacturing capabilities.

EFESO was advised by the following Bird & Bird attorneys: partner Stefan Münch (lead, Corporate/M&A, Munich), partner Bertrand Levy (Corporate/M&A, Paris), counsel Christina Lorenz and associate Marina Dolina (both Corporate/M&A, Munich/Frankfurt), partner Dr. Ralph Panzer, counsel Sandy Gerlach and associate Sven Fischer (all Employment, Munich), partner Dr. Dirk Barcaba, senior counsel Elie Kaufman, LL.M., associates Christian Cervellino and Amelia Weber (all Real Estate, Frankfurt), partner Dr. Markus Körner and associates Sören Alborn and Yvonne Schaafs (all IP and Litigation, Munich), partner Dr. Henriette Picot and counsel Michaela von Voss (all Commercial/Tech & Comms, Munich), partner Dr. Rolf Schmich (Tax), partner Johannes Wirtz, LL.M. (Finance und Financial Regulation, Frankfurt) and partner Dr. Stephan Waldheim (Munich), Maren Steiert (Düsseldorf) and Tamy Tietze (Düsseldorf) (all Competition & EU Law).

The following attorneys from Graf Patsch Taucher Rechtsanwälte GmbH (Austria) provided Austrian law advice: partner Bernd Taucher and associate Emre Erol.