Cologne – Hamburg-based private equity firm GENUI Partners and entrepreneur Klaus Weinmann (acting through his PRIMEPULSE investment holding company) have acquired Mindcurv Group GmbH, an Essen-based technology consulting company specialising in digital commerce.
The aim of the acquisition is to significantly broaden the range of services and further strengthen Mindcurv’s position in a consolidating market. The parties agreed not to disclose the purchase price. The transaction is currently awaiting approval from the competition authorities in Germany, Austria and Poland.
An international CMS team headed by lead partner Klaus Jäger advised the Mindcurv Group shareholders on all legal aspects of the complex transaction. In addition to the actual transactional support, the advice included tax structuring of the transaction, the structuring of the reinvestment and competition law aspects. During the transaction, the team also drew on international expertise from the CMS jurisdictions in Spain and the Netherlands as well as support from Indian law firm Vaish Associates.
Headquartered in Essen, Mindcurv was established in 2011 as an expert provider of highly scalable digital commerce solutions. Over the years, Mindcurv has provided mainly large and medium-sized enterprises with digital transformation services. It develops, extends and operates complex global IoT platforms, commerce and content platforms, and cloud infrastructures. According to the company’s own figures, Mindcurv has around 235 employees across Germany, Spain, the Netherlands and India. It also maintains partnerships with leading solution and infrastructure providers.
Hamburg-based GENUI Partners is a private equity firm focused on medium-sized companies in the German-speaking countries.
PRIMEPULSE is a fast-growing investment holding company based in Munich. Its focus is on technology-oriented companies in promising markets.
CMS Germany
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Dr Dirk Jannott, Partner
Dr Malte Bruhns, Partner
Laura Christin Stein, Senior Associate
Stephan Weling, Senior Associate
Artur Baron, Senior Associate
Christoph Schröer, Associate, all Corporate/M&A
Thomas Gerdel, Partner
Dr Martin Friedberg, Senior Associate, both Tax
Michael Kamps, Partner
Dr Karin Schmidtmann, Senior Associate
Dr Lukas Stelten, Senior Associate
Martin-Lukas Landmann, Senior Associate, all TMC
Lars Eckhoff, Partner
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Kai Neuhaus, Partner
Nadine Herda, Associate, both Competition & EU
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Lennard Lürwer, Associate, Labor, Employment & Pensions
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Christian A. Delgado
René van Egdom
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Lisanne van der Velden
Erik Vorst
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Luis Miguel de Dios
Guillermo Donadeu
María José Ramos
Álvaro Valentín
Tobías Kálnay
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Bomi F. Daruwala
Tushar Shah
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Alok Sharma
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