Esch­born — Rödl & Part­ner has provi­ded Silver Invest­ment Part­ners (SIP) with compre­hen­sive commer­cial advice on acqui­si­ti­ons in connec­tion with the estab­lish­ment and expan­sion of its majo­rity share­hol­ding in COHEMI Group GmbH (COHEMI), an IT consul­ting group. The newly foun­ded consul­ting group, an alli­ance of SIRIUS Consul­ting & Trai­ning, Acuroc Solu­ti­ons and IQ Solu­ti­ons, is pursuing a long-term buy-and-build stra­tegy. The exis­ting manage­ment of all three compa­nies will remain signi­fi­cantly invol­ved both opera­tio­nally and financially.

This merger of the port­fo­lio compa­nies from IT, process and orga­niza­tio­nal consul­ting has the poten­tial to jointly exploit exis­ting growth oppor­tu­ni­ties in the market and create syner­gies at Group level. For the custo­mers and target group — SMEs and corpo­ra­ti­ons in the DACH region, parti­cu­larly in the chemi­cal, phar­maceu­ti­cal, life scien­ces and energy supply sectors — the inte­gra­tion means a more compre­hen­sive range of consul­ting services. The Group’s core compe­ten­cies include IT gover­nance, IT project manage­ment, (IT) service manage­ment, change manage­ment, asset stra­tegy & perfor­mance manage­ment, data manage­ment as well as soft­ware asset and license management.

SIP was advi­sed on this tran­sac­tion by a Rödl & Part­ner team specia­li­zing in private equity tran­sac­tions, led by part­ner Tobias Beine. Senior Asso­ciate Dr. Maxi­mi­lian Focke and Asso­ciate Simon Holz­wei­ler joined the Tran­sac­tion Services team from Esch­born near Frank­furt am Main.

About Silver Invest­ment Part­ners (SIP)

SIP is an inde­pen­dent inves­tor for equity finan­cing of medium-sized compa­nies in Germany, Austria and Switz­er­land. As an entre­pre­­neur-led part­ner, SIP states that it is invol­ved in majo­rity and mino­rity share­hol­dings in compa­nies with sales of between EUR 5 and 100 million, with a focus on compa­nies with sales of between EUR 10 and 50 million.

About COHEMI Group

The COHEMI Group is a consul­ting group with a focus on IT, process and orga­niza­tio­nal consul­ting. Its opera­tio­nal consul­ting compa­nies comprise almost 100 consul­tants (as of March 2024) at four loca­ti­ons in Germany with head­quar­ters in Frank­furt am Main. Accor­ding to the company, it plans to conti­nuously expand its port­fo­lio. The Group is pursuing a buy-and-build stra­tegy and intends to grow well above the market average in the coming years. The manage­ment consists of Chris Kohls­dorf and Michael Kern.

Advi­sor Silver Invest­ment Part­ners: Rödl & Partner

Tobias Beine, Part­ner, Finan­cial Tran­sac­tion & Valua­tion Services, Esch­born, over­all project manage­ment — Finan­cial, Dr. Maxi­mi­lian Focke, Senior Asso­ciate, Finan­cial Tran­sac­tion & Valua­tion Services, Esch­born — Finan­cial, Simon Holz­wei­ler, Asso­ciate, Finan­cial Tran­sac­tion & Valua­tion Services, Esch­born — Financial.

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