Financing for Rantum Capital portfolio company Aqua Group

Munich — Rantum Private Equity Fund II has orga­ni­zed a new growth finan­cing for its port­fo­lio company Aqua Group GmbH. The finan­cing package provi­ded by Cres­cent Capi­tal enables the refi­nan­cing of exis­ting bank liabi­li­ties as well as the future acqui­si­tion of further compa­nies as part of Aqua Group’s buy & build strategy. 

Aqua Group is a leading natio­nal provi­der of water and fire damage resto­ra­tion services with over 35 bran­ches and more than 550 employees. The acqui­si­tion of further add-ons in the stra­te­gi­cally important regi­ons of nort­hern Bava­ria and North Rhine-West­­pha­­lia is another signi­fi­cant step for the Buy & Build plat­form in its deve­lo­p­ment towards beco­ming a leading water and fire damage resto­ra­tion company in Germany. Cove­ring the entire value chain from diagno­sis to claims sett­le­ment, the company acts as a link between insu­rance compa­nies, property mana­gers, clai­mants and other stakeholders. 

Rantum Capi­tal is an SME finan­cier for the German-spea­king region (DACH) foun­ded by finan­cial experts, entre­pre­neurs and former DAX board members. Rantum Capi­tal curr­ently mana­ges seve­ral private equity and private debt funds. The private equity funds focus on majo­rity equity invest­ments in medium-sized compa­nies and invest capi­tal prima­rily from German insti­tu­tio­nal investors. 

Markus Wenz, Mana­ging Direc­tor at Rantum Capi­tal (photo: Rantum Capi­tal), adds: “The part­ner­ship with Cres­cent Capi­tal is an important mile­stone for Aqua Group. The finan­cing enables us to consis­t­ently imple­ment our successful buy & build stra­tegy in the future and to sustain­ably streng­then Aqua Group’s market posi­tion on its way to beco­ming a Germany-wide player. At the same time, we would like to thank Hypo Vorarl­berg Bank and Raiff­ei­sen­lan­des­bank Ober­ös­ter­reich for their great coope­ra­tion and support of the Aqua Group in recent years.”

Advi­sor Aqua Group and Rantum Private Equity Fund II on the various transactions:

RSM Ebner Stolz (Dr. Rode­rich Fischer, Holger Beck, Matthias Kran­kow­sky, Alex­an­der Stoll, Dr. Tobias Weiss).

Herter & Co — Teneo Capi­tal Advi­sory (Paul Kim, Marvin Wruck) acted as exclu­sive debt advi­sor to Aqua Group and Rantum Private Equity Fund II. The debt finan­cing was provi­ded by 

Cres­cent Capi­tal (Nicole Waibel, Jannik Callenberg).

McDer­mott Will & Emery (Dr. Matthias Weis­sin­ger, Alex­an­der Klein) provi­ded legal advice to Aqua Group and Rantum Private Equity Fund II on the nego­tia­tion of the debt financing.