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><\/td>\nOn September 1, 2012, the Licht & Optik (L&O) Group successfully closed the sale of its subsidiary Richard Schahl GmbH & Co. KG. In the course of a succession solution, the current management of Richard Schahl, together with Invest AG and Raiffeisen KMU Beteiligungs AG, took over 100 percent of the company. The management participates with a 30 percent stake.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
><\/td>\nAquin acted as the exclusive M&A advisor to the L&O Group and in close cooperation with the management of Richard Schahl.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>
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><\/td>\nThis transaction marks the first step of the L&O Group owner\u2019s private succession plan. Through this takeover, the management team meets its wishes of becoming entrepreneurs.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
><\/td>\nFor the capital providers, the participation in Richard Schahl represents an attractive investment, due to a stable and profitable existing business and a broad client base. With the dissociation of group interests and due to technological changes within the industry, potentials arise regarding the expansion of business activities of RSM.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>
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Richard Schahl<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>
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><\/td>\nRichard Schahl, headquartered in Munich (Germany), was founded in 1964 and is one of the leading distributors for speciality lamps. Besides hospitals, photo stores and stage operators, the business also supplies industrial companies.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>
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L&O<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>
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><\/td>\nThe L&O Group is globally active in the field of special lamps, projector lamps as well as LED solutions and has 11 subsidiaries.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>
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INVEST AG<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>
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><\/td>\nThe INVEST AG is the private equity fund of the Austrian Raiffeisen Banking Group and specializes in Growth Financing and MBO\/MBI transactions in the context of succession solutions. The fund has a volume of approximately 140 million euros and currently holds 30 companies within its portfolio.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>
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Raiffeisen KMU Beteiligungs AG<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>
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><\/td>\nThe Raiffeisen KMU Beteiligungs AG, with its focus on medium-sized business financing, has a fund volume of 15 million euros and currently holds 25 companies within its portfolio.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18978,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,76,181,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment-en","category-lighting","category-medical-en","category-transactions"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nSale of L&O - Richard Schahl to Invest AG - Aquin<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/aquin.com\/en\/sale-of-lo-richard-schahl-to-invest-ag\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sale of L&O - 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