Munich — Maxburg Betei­li­gun­gen III (“Maxburg”), an invest­ment company advi­sed by Maxburg Capi­tal Part­ners, has acqui­red a majo­rity stake in the sara­cus consul­ting group. P+P Pöllath + Part­ners provi­ded compre­hen­sive tax advice to Maxburg in connec­tion with the tran­sac­tion. Photo: Moritz Greve, foun­der of Maxburg Capi­tal Partners.

sara­cus consul­ting deve­lops custo­mi­zed on-premise and cloud-based solu­ti­ons in the areas of Data Manage­ment, Data Warehouse, Data Analy­tics & Data Science as well as Busi­ness Intel­li­gence. Current focus topics are the cloud migra­tion of analy­ti­cal and dispo­si­tive systems as well as the analy­sis of big data using AI-based methods such as self-lear­­ning algo­rithms or neural networks. The company was foun­ded in 1991. Custo­mers include insu­rance compa­nies, finan­cial service provi­ders and public administration.

Maxburg is an invest­ment company focu­sed on the German-spea­king region, which invests with a flexi­ble mandate along the capi­tal struc­ture in priva­tely held as well as listed compa­nies. The Maxburg invest­ment compa­nies have capi­tal commit­ments tota­ling around EUR 600 million at their disposal.

P+P Pöllath + Part­ners provi­ded compre­hen­sive tax advice to Maxburg with the follo­wing Munich team: Dr. Michael Best (Part­ner, Lead, Tax Law), Gerald Herr­mann (Coun­sel, Tax Law), Tobias Deschen­halm (Asso­ciate, Tax Law).

P+P Pöllath + Part­ners regu­larly advi­ses Maxburg Capi­tal Part­ners on tax matters, most recently for exam­ple on the acqui­si­tion of majo­rity stakes in the tech­no­logy company STARFACE GmbH and GfS — Gesell­schaft für Sicher­heits­tech­nik mbH.