RBB has advised Roquette, a leading manufacturer of plant-based ingredients and pharmaceutical excipients, on its acquisition of IFF’s (International Flavors and Fragrances Inc) Pharma Solutions business. Both parties overlapped in the supply of certain cellulosic excipients for the pharmaceutical and nutraceutical industries.
RBB’s team, led by Tristan LécuyerTristan LécuyerPartner, and supported by Anton Miroshnichenko
Anton MiroshnichenkoAssociate Principal, Jack Thomas
Jack ThomasSenior Associate and Georgi Panev
Georgi PanevSenior Associate, provided economic support to the merging parties in filings before the European Commission and competition authorities in Brazil, Colombia, Turkey and India. The transaction was cleared unconditionally in Phase I by the European Commission and received the green light from all other competition authorities.
RBB worked alongside Norton Rose Fulbright.