#Press Release

GLADE MICHEL WIRTZ advises Vion Food Group (Vion), a leading international producer of meat, meat products and plant-based alternatives, comprehensively on the sale of the two sites Waldkraiburg and Crailsheim.

As part of its strategic realignment Vion Food Group has initiated the sale of the two sites in Southern Germany. The Crailsheim site, where approx. one million pigs and 95,000 cattle are slaughtered per year, shall be transferred to Boeser Frischfleisch GmbH. For the Waldkraiburg site with 163,000 annual slaughters of cattle a transfer to the US-American OSI Group is envisaged. The corresponding agreements have been signed last Friday, 17 April 2026. The negotiations regarding further sites are ongoing.

The planned transactions are part of the stronger focus on the Benelux region. GLADE MICHEL WIRTZ has already advised comprehensively on this strategic realignment during the last two years, recently also on the sale of shares in the Vilshofen and Landshut sites to the Erzeugergemeinschaft Südbayern (EG Südbayern) as well as the sale of the North German sites to inter alia PFG Group.

GLADE MICHEL WIRTZ, with currently approx. 30 lawyers and a total of approx. 60 legal and non-legal employees, specializes in the areas Corporate & Competition, as well as in the fields of M&A, litigation, and compliance. As a focused boutique law firm, GLADE MICHEL WIRTZ advises, nationally and internationally, companies listed on the DAX, MDAX or TecDAX, medium-sized companies as well as foreign, globally active groups and investors in corporate law, on mergers and acquisitions, on restructuring and reorganization, in cartel fine and merger control proceedings as well as on compliance issues. In the area of litigation, the focus is on resolving conflicts under corporate law, capital markets law and antitrust law.