Firm advised Holtzbrinck Publishing Group on the Indian aspects of the merger between the majority of Macmillan Science and Education with Springer Science+Business Media.

The transaction is amongst the first buy-outs / mergers in the Indian publishing solutions sector and strengthens Macmillan’s India presence.

Georg von Holtzbrinck GmbH & Co. KG is a Germany based publishing holding company which owns publishing companies worldwide.

Springer Science + Business Media or Springer is a global publishing company that publishes books, e-books and peerreviewed journals in science, technical and medical publishing and also hosts a number of scientific databases. Partner involved in the transaction was Rabindra Jhunjhunwala.