Ufenau Capital Partners sells with Görg to Fair Damage Group

Pfäf­fi­kon (Switz­er­land) — GÖRG provi­ded compre­hen­sive legal advice to Ufenau Capi­tal Part­ners (“Ufenau”) on the sale of all shares held by the Ufenau IV German Asset Light fund in Fair Damage Control Holding GmbH (“FDC”). The sale was part of a take­over of FDC by the Euro­pean claims manage­ment service provi­der CED Group (“CED”). The take­over is subject to merger control clearance by the compe­tent autho­ri­ties in Germany; comple­tion is expec­ted in the second quar­ter of 2025. 

FDC is a leading provi­der for the assess­ment, sett­le­ment and compre­hen­sive proces­sing of buil­ding and elec­tro­nic damage on the German market. Under the brands fair­check Scha­den­ser­vice, Repair­Con­cepts and E.Via Scha­den­ma­nage­ment, the company offers compre­hen­sive claims manage­ment services — supported by modern digi­tal solutions. 

Since Ufenau joined the company in 2015, FDC has signi­fi­cantly expan­ded its market posi­tion through both strong orga­nic growth and a total of four stra­te­gic acqui­si­ti­ons. Today, FDC employs over 750 people at eight loca­ti­ons in Germany and its port­fo­lio includes nume­rous well-known clients from various indus­tries. Among other things, the company relies on AI-supported valua­tion tools and a nati­on­wide network of experts. 

With the plan­ned acqui­si­tion of FDC, CED, a pan-Euro­­pean provi­der of insu­rance services, aims to expand its presence in Europe and its core markets to include Germany — in addi­tion to alre­ady estab­lished markets in the Nether­lands, France, Belgium and Spain. CED offers a compre­hen­sive port­fo­lio of claims manage­ment services, ranging from risk assess­ment and emer­gency assis­tance to claims adjus­t­ment and subrogation. 

About Ufenau Capi­tal Partners

Ufenau Capi­tal Part­ners is an inde­pen­dent Swiss invest­ment group based on Lake Zurich. Ufenau focu­ses on majo­rity invest­ments in service compa­nies in the DACH region as well as Iberia, Poland, Bene­lux and the UK, which are active in the areas of busi­ness services, health­care, IT services, educa­tion & life­style and finan­cial services. Since 2011, Ufenau has inves­ted in over 420 service compa­nies in Europe. Ufenau mana­ges EUR 3.0 billion in assets under management. 

The GÖRG team advi­sed Ufenau on all legal and tax aspects of this tran­sac­tion under the lead manage­ment of Dr. Tobias Fenck, part­ner in the private equity and M&A department.

The Swiss inves­tor group Ufenau has regu­larly relied on the exper­tise of Frank­furt part­ner Dr. Tobias Fenck and his team for tran­sac­tions in the German market for many years.

Advi­sor to Ufenau Capi­tal Part­ners: GÖRG Part­ner­schaft von Rechts­an­wäl­ten mbB

Dr. Tobias Fenck (Lead, Part­ner, Private Equity/M&A, Frank­furt am Main)
Markus Beyer, LL.M (Lead, Part­ner, Private Equity/M&A, Frank­furt am Main)
Dr. Adal­bert Rödding, LL.M. (Part­ner, Tax, Cologne)
Dr. Michael Heise, LL.M. (Part­ner, IT, Berlin)
Dr. Chris­tian Bürger (Part­ner, Anti­trust, Cologne)
Dr. Thomas Lange (Part­ner, Finan­cing, Cologne)
Dr. Holger Dann, LL.M. (Coun­sel, Tax, Cologne)
Dr. Karl-Georg Küsters, LL.B., LL.M. (Asso­ciate Part­ner, Tax, Cologne)
Mete­han Uzun­çak­mak, LL.M. (Asso­ciate Part­ner, Anti­trust, Cologne)
Dr. Valen­tin Zipfel (Asso­ciate Part­ner, IT, Frank­furt am Main)
Nele Motzek (Senior Asso­ciate, Finan­cing, Cologne)
Larissa Jährig (Asso­ciate, Private Equity/M&A, Frank­furt am Main)