With a total of 66 national and international M&A and financing transactions in a total volume of more than 400 million euros, 2018 was the most successful year in the history of GRUENDELPARTNER’s corporate transaction practise.
The number of transactions and deal volumes increased significantly in both the M&A and VC/PE sectors.
Selected M&A transactions 2018:
Sale of Agilion to Siemens; acquisition of IPA by ARCADIA; acquisition of QUIAGEN Leipzig by Fidelio; sale of revoART to LEDS24; sale of CommSolid to Goodix Technology; acquisition of shares of Korch; acquisition of Apinauten by EASY SOFTWARE;
Selected Venture Capital / Private Equity transactions 2018:
Selection of financing rounds: GoHiring; madebymade; Ilmsens; Speed Care Mineral; Lunch Vegaz; c-LEcta; ucandoo; Pflegeplatzmanager; PreciPoint; Sunfire; Agrario; Soccerbot; eKiosk.
“We are very pleased about the significantly increased number of transactions in 2018 and would like to thank all our clients for the exciting and successful projects!,” says Dr. Mirko Gründel (Head of VC/PE).
His partner Dr. Steffen Fritzsche (Head of M&A) adds: “With a total of more than 400 transactions involved, the M&A/VC/PE practise group of GRUENDELPARTNER is one of the biggest and most experienced in Central Germany – we are confident that we will continue our extraordinarily successful development in 2019.”