Taylor Wessing advises Appleton on £34 million acquisition of leading secure printing services group BemroseBooth

Taylor Wessing has advised Wisconsin-based Appleton, a leading manufacturer of carbonless, thermal, security, inkjet and performance packaging products, on its £34 million acquisition of Bemrose Group Limited, the holding company of BemroseBooth.

BemroseBooth, which employs nearly 850 people at its manufacturing sites in Derby, Hull and Teeside, is a leading UK provider of mission-critical secure and specialised print services, with products including security printed vouchers and payment cards, mass transit and car parking tickets, variable data labelling, high integrity mailing and niche publishing.  Its customers include many of the UK's biggest brands in retail, telecoms, financial services and transportation. 

The team at Taylor Wessing advising Appleton included Daniel Rosenberg, Patrick Deasy, Mark Barron, Martin Baker, Saskia Pickering and Masako Ano Lynskey (corporate), Bob Gayford, Habib Ullah and Francisca Sepulveda (banking), Alex Thomas (tax), Sarah Parkinson (employment), Mark Smith (pensions), Rob Thompson and Carolyn Davies (property), Alison Askwith (environmental) and Chris Jeffery and Jane Englefield (IP).

Addleshaw Goddard (Simon Pilling, Garry Elliott) advised the sellers and Godfrey & Kahn (Chris Noyes, Jeremy Newman) advised Appleton on the US aspects of its related financing, with Simpson Thacher (UK & US) advising the US banks on that financing.  Hammond Suddards advised Bank of Scotland, BemroseBooth's existing bankers.