Munich — Water­land Private Equity (“Water­land”) acqui­res majo­rity stakes in the three IT service provi­ders Beck et al, binary and direkt gruppe. The compa­nies will be united in a new plat­form in the rapidly growing mana­ged enter­prise cloud market. In the future, the new group will offer a compre­hen­sive range of end-to-end solu­ti­ons in the areas of private cloud and public cloud in the DACH region and thus support compa­nies in the digi­tiza­tion of busi­ness proces­ses and on their way to the cloud. The sellers of the shares are the respec­tive foun­ders of the three compa­nies, who will all remain on board in manage­ment posi­ti­ons and will take a signi­fi­cant stake in the new group of companies.

Advi­sor to Water­land on the three tran­sac­tions: Henge­ler Mueller
Active are the part­ners Dr. Daniel Wiegand (Lead, M&A), Dr. Daniel Möritz (M&A), Dr. Matthias Schei­fele (Tax) (all Munich), Dr. Thors­ten Mäger (Anti­trust, Düssel­dorf), Dr. Chris­tian Hoefs (Labor Law, Frank­furt) and Dr. Vera Jung­kind (Public Commer­cial Law), Coun­sel Patrick Wilke­ning (Intellec­tual Property/IT) (both Düssel­dorf) as well as Asso­cia­tes Elisa­beth Kreu­zer, Dr. Florian Dendl, Florian Braun, Daniel Blagoje­vic, Niels Chris­tian Schwai­ger, Dr. Maxi­mi­lian Schlü­ter, Anto­nia Wege­ner (all Corporate/M&A), Marius Marx, Tobias Schwab (both Tax) (all Munich), Anne Broll (Labor Law, Frank­furt), Dr. Anja Balitzki (Anti­trust), Dr. Matthias Roth­kopf (Intellec­tual Property/IT) and Dr. Cars­ten Bormann (Public Commer­cial Law) (all Düsseldorf).