Johnson Matthey plc (LSE:JMAT) acquired Axeon Holdings Plc from Ironshield Capital Management LLP for £40.6 million in cash on October 19, 2012. Axeon reported sales of £47 million in its financial year to December 31, 2011. Alan Greenough, Keith Woodhouse, Monika Przygoda, Alex Browning, Simon Keen, Graham Cutts, Emma Fulton, Matt Legg, Matt Towers, Marek Wroniak, Michal Bialobrzeski and Patrick Mittmann of Hogan Lovells acted as legal advisors for Ironshield Capital Management LLP. Sandra Thiel, Agnieszka Janicka, Alastair Mordaunt, Marc Besen,Mark Poulton, Stefan Menner, Vanessa Marsland, Agnieszka Sztoldman, Agnieszka Wojtasiewicz, Andreas Gravenhorst, Andrew Blakey, Anette Gärtner, Anna Blest, Daniel Cunningham, Daniel Royle, David Speakman, David Towers, Dennis Zahedi, Dimitri Slobodenjuk, Gavin Hadfield, Jia Mao, Julian Anderson, Katie Hicks, Leif U. Schrader, Malgorzata Bluszcz, Marcin Krysa, Matthias Will, Michael Bohnhardt, Michael Heise, Miriam Winter, Pawel Kulak, Robert Klepka, Stefan Gentzsch, Susanne Julis, Ulrike Breidenstein, Wojciech Polz, Aleksandra Lis, Carina Soesanto, Joanna Keska, Joanna Kulpinska, Katherine Moir, Marcin Czarnecki and Thurid Koch of Clifford Chance LLP acted as legal advisor for Johnson Matthey. Duff & Phelps Corporation acted as the financial advisor to the shareholders of Axeon Holdings Plc.

Johnson Matthey plc (LSE:JMAT) acquired Axeon Holdings Plc from Ironshield Capital Management LLP on October 19, 2012.