Aequita to acquire Rheinmetall's automotive unit Power Systems
- Location
- 🇩🇪 Germany
- Sector
- Automotive supplier
- Organisations
- Aequita ↔ Rheinmetall Power Systems (Pierburg, Kolbenschmidt, Motorservice)
- Transaction
- Acquisition (division)
- Volume
- about €350m (according to Reuters)
- Status
- announced
Munich-based investor Aequita is taking over Rheinmetall's automotive supply division Power Systems, with the Pierburg, Kolbenschmidt and Motorservice brands, about 6,250 employees and roughly €2bn of annual sales; Reuters puts the price at about €350m. Closing is expected in Q4 2026 (Unternehmeredition, 3 June 2026; Reuters via Marketscreener). Update (29 September 2026): the European Commission cleared the deal as case M.12524 (European Commission, Daily News, 29 September 2026).
Source: unternehmeredition.de ↗ · Archived copy ↗
Further sources: marketscreener.com ↗ (Archived copy ↗) · ec.europa.eu ↗ (Archived copy ↗)
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