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CMS Hasche Sigle advises German-Dutch TDM group on the acquisition of Comparex Deutschland

09/10/2007

The TDM group is taking over Comparex Deutschland GmbH, one of the largest IT system vendors in the German market. Comparex specialises in technologies and solutions for computer centres and employs approx. 300 IT specialists. The last annual turnover of the company was approx. EUR 200 million. It supplies many companies including IBM through its distribution network within Germany. A team from CMS Hasche Sigle and CMS Derks Star Busman under the leadership of Cologne partner Dr Herbert Wiehe provided all the advice in this transaction.

TDM is an IT infrastructure provider for the wealthy small and medium-sized enterprises and for key account customers in Europe. The portfolio includes advice and services such as hosting, managed services, support and services all with respect to computer centres. The entire turnover of the TDM group has increased to more than EUR 500 million per year and in future the group will employ approx. 800 staff. The reseller subsidiaries Becom and Inforsacom and the service subsidiary In Demand already belong to the group in Germany.


Advisers to TDM Group

CMS Hasche Sigle
Dr Herbert Wiehe (M&A, Financing)
Klaus Jäger (M&A)
Michael Bauer (Competition)

Dr Malte Bruhns, LLM (M&A)
Dr Hagen Weishaupt (M&A)

CMS Derks Star Busmann
Jan Willem Schenk (M&A)
Paulus van den Bos (M&A)

Contact CMS Hasche Sigle:

Dr Herbert Wiehe
Tel.: +49 (0) 221 / 77 16 - 228
E-Mail: Herbert.Wiehe@cms-hs.com

About CMS Hasche Sigle:

CMS Hasche Sigle is one of the leading German law firms with more than 500 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