Weil has advised Brookfield Asset Management and Schoeller Allibert on the merger with IPL, creating an international sustainable packaging producer with a manufacturing footprint in 27 locations across Europe, the UK and North America and a combined pro forma annual revenue of over US$1.4 billion in 2024.  Schoeller Allibert is co-owned by Brookfield and the Schoeller family, and IPL is co-owned by Madison Dearborn Partners and Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec. The transaction is expected to close in Q3 2025, subject to customary closing conditions.

Schoeller Allibert designs, manufactures, and provides services for returnable transport packaging, serving customers across sectors such as automotive, beverage, food, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, retail, and material handling and is headquartered in Hoofddorp, the Netherlands. IPL manufactures mainly sustainable, rigid-plastic products for the food, consumer, environmental and agriculture sectors, and is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland. The merged company will be headquartered in Dublin, Ireland and led by current IPL CEO Alan Walsh. 

The cross-border Weil team was led by Private Equity partners Simon Lyell and Gareth Clark and associates Arisa Manawapat and Blair Stamas; Finance partners Benton Lewis, Heather Emmel and Chris McLaughlin; Antitrust partners Jeff White and Nafees Saeed; and Tax partners Oliver Walker and Jonathan Macke.