Prensa Etichette, the Italian leader in printing and finishing labels for the mineral water and FMCG sectors, has acquired 100 percent of the shares of Casalini and Viscardi, a key player in the gravure world.
Prensa Etichette, the Italian leader in printing and finishing labels for the mineral water and FMCG sectors, has acquired 100 percent of the shares of Casalini and Viscardi, a key player in the gravure world.
Casalini e Viscardi, founded in 1958 and based in Merate (LC), specializes in rotogravure printing, laminating, kerosene and waxing processes, and cutting.
Prensa Etichette, founded in 1966, is a leading Lombard operator in the printing and finishing of paper and plastic labels for food and beverage products (especially mineral water, soft drinks, beer, wine, and more) and has solid technological know-how thanks to an experienced team and investments in new state-of-the-art machinery.
The combination of the two companies will offer customers complete and complementary solutions, combining gravure and flexo printing to suit different print run and personalization needs.
The investors were assisted by Gitti and Partners with a team coordinated by Managing Partner Vincenzo Giannantonio and formed by Associate Antonino Di Salvo, Associate Alessandro Baronchelli and Junior Associate Rosanna Forcella for corporate - M&A aspects, as well as Partner Elisa Mapelli and Junior Associate Michela Baldassarra for labor profiles, by Partner Laura Sommaruga and Senior Associate Federico Ianeselli for administrative law profiles, by Associate Leonardo Maria Moscati for privacy and 231 profiles, by Counsel Marco Blei for IT and IP aspects, and by Associate Daniele Rositani for real estate aspects.
Grant Thornton, handled the financial aspects of the transaction with a team consisting of Stefano Marchetti - Partner, Pierpasquale Perito - Manager, Lorenzo Bonciani - Senior Consultant, Michela Loconsolo - Senior Consultant, Antonio Coppola -Consultant.
Bernoni Grant Thornton followed the tax profiles with a team composed of Gianni Bitetti - Partner, Sara Flisi - Director, Valentina Adly - Senior Consultant.
The sellers were assisted for legal profiles by AMTF Avvocati with a team led by Senior Partner Alberto Crivelli assisted by Partner Nicholas Parati, Associate Sergio Monaco and Junior Associate Federica Meloni.
M&A profiles were followed by Arkios Italy SpA with Deborah Setola - Partner, Salvatore Pingitore - Associate, Gabriele Are - Analyst. While Studio Pastori with Diego Pastori followed the financial and tax profiles.
As institutional investors, the following spoke: Unigrains Italia (Francesco Orazi, Alfredo Cicognani), BNP Paribas BNL Equity Investments (Lorenzo Langella, Vienda Giacomelli, Francesco Placanica), Alexa Invest (Carmelo Ing. Melfi, Luca Pacifico), Civesio Printing (management team of La Prensa), Hydra (Volta family holding company).
Source: NT+ LAW
