Coert Kleijwegt Acquires Majority Stake in PAT Krüger Group

Coert Kleijwegt has indirectly acquired all shares in the PAT-Krüger group, a security and control systems for heavy duty equipment provider. With 35 years of experience, PAT-Krüger has become the market leader in this field.

PAT-Krüger is an international organization with offices in the Netherlands, Dubai, the UK and Germany and dealers all over the world. PAT-Krüger sells and develops high-quality and innovative solutions and installs and provides service and maintenance for load moment indicators, winches, ballast systems, camera systems and load cells with and without built-in data registration. Not only for standard conditions but also for those places where the environmental factors such as temperature, vibration and pollution play an important role, both onshore and offshore.

Netherlands based Fipaco Corporate Consultancy B.V. advised the buyer, with a team led by Koen Slobbe. “On behalf of Fipaco Corporate Consultancy I have been the lead tax partner in structuring the acquisition of the PAT-Krüger group of companies by Coert Kleijwegt. In this capacity I led the negotiations how to structure the acquisition from a tax point of view and was involved and directed the full tax due diligence of the target,” Mr. Slobbe told Lawyer Monthly.