In a management buy-out (MBO) the equity fund administered by ECM Equity Capital Management
(ECM) gained a shareholding in IN tIME Direkt-Kuriere Transport GmbH. Founder and majority
shareholder Dieter Bartels has sold his share to the present management team Torsten Prelle, Gerd
Röttger und Eckhard Schaede.
A team from CMS Hasche Sigle led by Dr Martin Bell, partner in the Frankfurt office, advised
ECM on the majority holding. It was agreed that the purchase price and other details of the
transaction would remain confidential. For ECM this is the first investment made by German Equity
Partners III a fund founded in September 2006 with commitments to provide capital amounting to 250
million euros.
ECM is an independent investment company, based in Frankfurt am Main. ECM manages the equity
capital fund German Equity Partners which has an aggregate equity capital of more than 450 million
euros. The main focus of investments is in well-established, medium-sized companies. The preferred
level of turnover is between 25 and 500 million euros. The funds managed by ECM typically invests
in management buy-outs of companies. The investments made are as a result of succession
arrangements in medium-sized companies on the one hand and on the other hand as a result of the
sale of fringe activities by large groups of companies.
IN tIME, domiciled in Hanover, is one of the leading companies offering direct and express
transport throughout Europe. The company employs 230 employees at 15 locations in Germany, Hungary
and Sweden. This network is currently being expanded. In 2006 IN tIME Direkt-Kuriere achieved a
turnover of approx. 46 million euros.
Advisor to ECM Equity Capital Management GmbH:
CMS Hasche Sigle
Dr Martin Bell ( Private Equity, lead partner)
Dr Joachim Dietrich, (Private Equity)
Dr Oliver Wolfgramm (Private Equity)
Dr Anja Hasselmann – Thiede (Financing)
Dr Markus Rasner (M&A, Private Equity)
Anja Dombrowsky (Employment)
Dr Jan Geert Meents (IT)
Dr Karsten Hilmer (M&A)
Contact CMS Hasche Sigle:
Dr Martin Bell
Tel.:+49 (0) 69 / 7 17 01-316
Email:
Martin.Bell@cms-hs.com
About CMS Hasche Sigle:
CMS Hasche Sigle is one of the leading German law firms with more than 480 lawyers. It covers
the entire area of commercial law and provides legal advice to major German and international
companies from a wide spectrum of industry. It has offices in Berlin, Cologne, Duesseldorf,
Frankfurt, Hamburg, Leipzig, Munich, Stuttgart, Chemnitz, Dresden, Brussels, Belgrade, Moscow and
Shanghai.
CMS Hasche Sigle is a partnership of lawyers and tax consultants; for register details / list of
partners see
www.cms-hs.com.
CMS Hasche Sigle is a member of CMS, an alliance of leading independent European law firms. With
over 595 partners, a total of 2,000 lawyers and tax consultants and around 4,200 support staff we
advise our clients at commercial locations in 48 business centres in Europe and further afield on
legal and tax issues.
In addition to CMS Hasche Sigle, the following firms are also members of the CMS alliance: CMS
Adonnino Ascoli & Cavasola Scamoni (Italy), CMS Albiñana & Suárez de Lezo (Spain), CMS
Bureau Francis Lefebvre (France), CMS Cameron McKenna LLP (Great Britain), CMS DeBacker (Belgium),
CMS Derks Star Busmann (the Netherlands), CMS von Erlach Henrici (Switzerland) and CMS
Reich-Rohrwig Hainz (Austria). CMS has 58 offices in 25 countries around the world.
For further information on CMS Hasche Sigle see
www.cms-hs.com and on the CMS alliance see
http://www.cmslegal.com.
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