Press Release

Kirkland Advises Maesa on Sale of European and Middle Eastern Operations

Kirkland & Ellis is advising Maesa, a leader in beauty and personal care and portfolio company of Bain Capital, on the sale of its European and Middle Eastern operations (Maesa EMEA) to Knowlton Development Corporation, Inc., a global leader in custom formulation, packaging design and manufacturing solutions for many of the world's beauty, personal care, and home care brands.

 

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The Kirkland team included corporate lawyers Laurent Victor-Michel, Louis Gosset, Etienne Vautier, Jacob Traff and Ben Hai; tax lawyer Sonia Bouaffassa; technology & IP transactions lawyers Max Harris, Asmita Singhvi, Corina Demeter-Olive and Emma Flett; debt finance lawyers Jerome Hoyle, Sam Sherwood, Benjamin Lewis, Kalish Mullen and Melvin Peraldi; and antitrust & competition lawyer Sally Evans.