Penningtons Manches Cooper advises Apave Group on acquisition of PPL Training

Posted: 29/10/2024

The corporate team at Penningtons Manches Cooper has advised Apave Group, an international group with more than 150 years of experience, specialising in the management of technical, environmental, human and digital risks, on the acquisition of PPL Training, a company specialising in safe systems of work and technical compliance training courses.

PPL Training has been supporting its customers for almost 20 years in training their teams in workplace safety and technical compliance. Recognised as a leader in its market, PPL Training offers its customers a wide range of training courses: electrical and mechanical safety, water hygiene and sanitation, safety in the healthcare system, gas handling and fire safety. 

Apave is an international group with over 150 years of experience in technical, human, environmental and digital risk management. An independent company with a presence in more than 55 countries and a turnover of €1.2 billion in 2023, it currently has 14,000 employees, including 10,000 engineers and technicians, 18 test centres, 130 agencies in France and 170 training sites in France and abroad, which train more than 560,000 people a year. 

The Penningtons Manches Cooper team advising Apave Group was led by corporate partner Richard Wrigley, with support from associate Hayfa Hazem. The wider team included support from corporate tax partner Oliver Gutman, pensions senior associate Clare Coley, commercial partner Lisa Page, senior associate Nora Pook, and managing associate Edmund Forey, employment associate Christina Leung, real estate associate Ben Madden and trainee solicitor Amelia Johnson.

Phillippe Maillard, CEO of the Apave Group, said: "The acquisition of PPL Training by the Apave Group will enable us to accelerate our ambition to support our customers in making their own transitions a success, while continuing to focus on our core business of risk management. I would like to extend a warm welcome to the PPL Training teams and in particular a huge thank you to Richard and the team at Penningtons Manches Cooper for their expertise and advice on the transaction." 

Richard Wrigley, corporate partner at Penningtons Manches Cooper, said: “We are delighted to have advised Apave Group on its acquisition of PPL Training, enabling Apave Group to extend its training offering to the English market and create a training platform in English-speaking countries.”

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