UCC Holdings Acquisition Of UCC Holdings Co Ltd.

(UCC), Japan’s leading coffee company, has today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire United Coffee, Europe’s leading independent coffee group, from the private equity fund, CapVest Equity Partners.

The transaction is expected to complete during the second quarter of 2012 and will bring together two leading coffee groups from Europe and Asia to become one of the top five biggest independent coffee companies in the world. United Coffee will continue to trade as United Coffee across all of its key markets.

Crosspoint Advisors, Japan’s leading independent advisory firm, focuses on providing value-added financial advice on mergers, acquisitions, restructurings and capital raisings to global corporations and institutions doing business in or with Japan. TC Capital is a Pan-Asian investment bank that specializes in mergers and acquisitions and private capital transactions.

Crosspoint Advisors and TC Capital acted as co-financial advisors to UCC Holdings on this transaction. Stamford Partners is a leading independent investment banking firm specialising in the European food & beverage industry.

Stamford Partners, led by its partners Damian Thornton and Simon Milne, acted as sole financial advisor to CapVest on this transaction.

It has a long-standing relationship with both CapVest and United Coffee, whom it first advised on a business disposal in 2004. In August 2011 Stamford Partners advised on the sale of Jacob Fruitfield to Valeo Foods, another CapVest investee company.

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