Akin Advises Coller Capital and Apollo S3 on CVC Ahlsell Transaction

November 7, 2025

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(London) — Akin advised Coller Capital and Apollo S3 on CVC Capital Partners’ landmark transaction involving Ahlsell, a Nordic industrial technical products distributor.

Coller Capital and Apollo S3 acted as lead investors in the transaction, alongside Goldman Sachs Asset Management.

The transaction marks, one of the largest in the Nordic region this year, enables CVC’s continued support of Ahlsell and its management team, while providing existing, and new, investors with the opportunity to participate in a high-performing asset with significant potential for further value creation.

The Akin team was led by investment management partners Qasam Mahmood, Simon Ellis and Fadi Samman with support from counsel Benedict Watson, associates Matthew Allan, Paolo Caretta Cortegiani, Morgan Hensley and Zhane Austin.  

The wider team included tax partner Stuart Alter, counsel Peretz Riesenberg, Julie Geng and Mohammed Natha; corporate partner Timothy Clark; antitrust and international competition partner Davina Garrod and associate Tommi Lahtinen; regulatory partner Ezra Zahabi and international trade partner Katherine Padgett

Akin is a leading international law firm with more than 900 lawyers in offices throughout the United States, Europe, Asia and the Middle East.

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