Deal announcement—AlixPartners advises Cartesian Capital and Arlington Management on acquisition and financing of the thermal management division of Arlington

LONDON (March 3, 2021)—AlixPartners, the global consulting firm, has advised the management team of Arlington Industries Group Ltd (‘Arlington’) and Cartesian Capital Group LLC (‘Cartesian Capital’), the global private equity firm, on their acquisition and financing of Arlington’s thermal management divisions. These businesses were acquired through two separate acquisition processes in the UK and Germany. The divisions are relaunching under the new company name, Thermal Management Solutions Group. The transaction closed on 26 February 2021.

This highly complex transaction in the automotive sector will enable Thermal Management Solutions Group (‘Thermal Management Solutions’), which specializes in the development and manufacturing of thermostats for the automotive sector, to take advantage of the development of electric vehicles, fuel-cell vehicles, hybrids and the ongoing refinement of internal combustion engine. The transaction will see Thermal Management Solutions employ more than 800 people across Brazil, China, Germany, France, the UK and the US. The company is forecast to reach total revenue of c.£150 million for the current financial year.

The AlixPartners team, which was based across the UK and Germany, was led by Managing Director Graeme Smith, and by Azeem Ahmed, Ian Darke, and Heiko Logisch.

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