Munich — The share­hol­ders of Swibox Holding AG have sold 100% of their shares to the Munich-based private equity fund EOS Part­ners. — The Munich and Frank­furt offices of the inter­na­tio­nal law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP have advi­sed the share­hol­ders of Swibox Holding AG toge­ther with the Swiss law firm MLL Legal AG and the subse­quent re-invest­ment in a joint holding company.

Swibox AG is a leading provi­der of elec­tri­cal enclo­sures and enclo­sure solu­ti­ons. In addi­tion to its own product lines and paten­ted new deve­lo­p­ments, inclu­ding in the field of safety tech­no­logy, the company plans to market its products not only on the Swiss market, but also inter­na­tio­nally. In order to meet this objec­tive, the Swibox Group was merged with the alre­ady inter­na­tio­nally estab­lished SRG & SERVE Group from Germany and Luxem­bourg under a joint holding company. Both groups will conti­nue to be mana­ged as inde­pen­dent compa­nies that operate auto­no­mously. The manage­ment of the Swibox Group will remain share­hol­ders in the new group of companies.

About EOS Partners

EOS Part­ners GmbH (“EOS”), a Munich-based invest­ment company foun­ded in 20215, with a focus on small and medium-sized enter­pri­ses (SMEs). Phil­ipp Wege­ner and Thomas Röhrl are both Mana­ging Part­ners. — The company focu­ses on invest­ments in estab­lished compa­nies with strong busi­ness models and clear unique selling propo­si­ti­ons in growing markets. Important compon­ents of EOS’ stra­tegy are invest­ments in digi­ta­liza­tion and sales as well as opera­tio­nal effi­ci­ency impro­ve­ments. EOS Fund I builds on this proven stra­tegy and pursues majo­rity share­hol­dings in compa­nies in the DACH region, prefer­a­bly in part­ner­ship with foun­ders and strong manage­ment teams. As a rule, EUR 5 to 30 million of equity is inves­ted per tran­sac­tion. https://eoscp.com

Advi­sor to the share­hol­ders of Swibox Holding AG: WEIL

The Weil tran­sac­tion team was led by Munich corpo­rate part­ner Prof. Dr. Gerhard Schmidt and coun­sel Andreas Fogel (corpo­rate, Munich) and included part­ner Tobias Geer­ling (tax, Munich), asso­cia­tes Amelie Zabel, Seve­rin Scholz and Dr. Chris­to­pher Schlet­ter (all corpo­rate, Munich) and Alex­an­der Reich (tax, Frankfurt).

About Weil

Weil, Gotshal & Manges is an inter­na­tio­nal law firm with more than 1,100 lawy­ers. Weil has offices in New York, Boston, Brussels, Dallas, Frank­furt, Hong Kong, Hous­ton, London, Miami, Munich, Paris, Shang­hai, Washing­ton, D.C. and Sili­con Valley. In Germany, the firm has two offices and around 60 lawyers/tax advi­sors in Frank­furt and Munich. The focus here is on provi­ding specia­li­zed advice to natio­nal and inter­na­tio­nal clients on cross-border private equity and M&A tran­sac­tions, high-profile liti­ga­tion manda­tes, complex restruc­tu­rings and finan­cings as well as tax structuring.