Chinese capital nets biggest deal of US$1.01b in Germany
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A group of Chinese investors including China National Chemical Corp (ChemChina) agreed yesterday to buy KraussMaffei Group GmbH for 925 million euros (US$1.01 billion), in the biggest-ever Chinese investment into Germany.
The group, which also included Guoxin International Investment Corp and private equity firm AGIC Capital, agreed to buy the plastics processing machinery maker from Canada’s Onex Corp, AGIC and Onex said in separate statements.
The amount surpassed the previous record for Chinese investment in Germany set in 2012 when construction firm Sany Heavy Industry Co bought concrete pump maker Putzmeister Holding GmbH for US$698 million, Thomson Reuters data showed.
The deal also marked the most recent example of Chinese firms to improve technology, know-how and branding with overseas acquisitions.
“We see big opportunities in industrial development, particularly in intelligent manufacturing,” said Henry Cai, a former China dealmaker at Deutsche Bank and UBS that launched AGIC Capital in 2015.
For ChemChina, the deal comes after a 7.3-billion-euro purchase last year of tire manufacturer Pirelli SpA and talks to buy Swiss agrichemicals group Syngenta AG.
The KraussMaffei deal is set to close in the first half of 2016 subject to regulatory approval, Onex said in a statement. The Canadian firm bought KraussMaffei from US investor Madison Capital in 2012 in a 568-million-euro deal.
The investment is the first for AGIC, which launched its initial fund in March and raised US$500 million by August with a target to raise another US$500 million in coming months before a final close, Cai said.
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