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Schoenherr Advises Hartree Partners on Energy Joint Venture with Botres Group

Schoenherr Advises Hartree Partners on Energy Joint Venture with Botres Group

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Schoenherr, working with Legance and Cuatrecasas, has advised Hartree Partners on its acquisition of a 50% stake in the Botres Group. CMS reportedly advised the sellers.

UK-based Hartree Partners is a commodities firm actively trading in oil, gas, power, refined products, shipping, metals, and equities.

Headquartered in Graz, Austria, the Botres Group has several subsidiaries in Poland, the Czech Republic, Italy, and Spain. The company designs, builds, and operates industrial biogas plants and biorefineries, based on proprietary technology.

The Schoenherr team included Austria-based Partners Michael Marschall, Alexander Popp, Bernd Rajal, Clemens Rainer, Volker Weiss, and Teresa Waidmann, Attorneys at Law Lisa Todeschini and Nina Zafoschnig, and Associates Alexandra Jelinek, Alexandru Caprau, Hanna Elisabeth Kirschner, Lukas Pirringer, Roland Misic, Stefan Egger, and Yvonne Kraudinger; Czech Republic-based Partner Vladimir Cizek, Counsel Michal Jendzelovsky, and Attorney at Law Jan Kupcik; and Poland-based Partners Katarzyna Sulimierska, Krzysztof Pawlak, and Daria Rutecka, Senior Attorneys at Law Krzysztof Lesniak and Pawel Kulak, Senior Associate Adam Nowosielski, Attorney at Law Ewelina Adamczyk, and Associates Klaudia Szatan and Roza Szatan.

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