Frank\u00adfurt am Main \u2014 Funds advi\u00adsed by Equis\u00adtone Part\u00adners Europe (\u201cEquis\u00adtone\u201d) are acqui\u00adring a majo\u00adrity stake in eperi, a leading provi\u00adder of cyber\u00adse\u00adcu\u00adrity soft\u00adware for cloud appli\u00adca\u00adti\u00adons. The sellers of the secu\u00adrity specia\u00adlist from Pfung\u00adstadt, Hesse, are the venture capi\u00adtal compa\u00adnies Evolu\u00adtion Equity Part\u00adners and btov. Elmar Eperiesi-Beck, foun\u00adder and CEO of eperi, will conti\u00adnue to lead the company as Mana\u00adging Direc\u00adtor and will retain a signi\u00adfi\u00adcant stake in the company.<\/p>\n
The further scaling and inter\u00adna\u00adtio\u00adna\u00adliza\u00adtion of the company as well as a targe\u00adted buy & build stra\u00adtegy are to be the focus of the new part\u00adner\u00adship. The parties have agreed not to disc\u00adlose details of the transaction.<\/p>\n
Based in the Rhine-Main area, Eperi GmbH is a leading provi\u00adder of Data Secu\u00adrity and Compli\u00adace as well as Cyber\u00adse\u00adcu\u00adrity solu\u00adti\u00adons. The Eperi Gate\u00adway enables custo\u00admers to use cloud appli\u00adca\u00adti\u00adons such as MS 365 or Sales\u00adforce in a secure and legally compli\u00adant manner (with e.g. the DSGVO or Schrems II) without any func\u00adtional rest\u00adric\u00adtions. Eperi\u2019s solu\u00adti\u00adons can be easily instal\u00adled in on-premise, hybrid and multi-cloud envi\u00adron\u00adments. Eperi GmbH places a special focus on data encryp\u00adtion for cloud appli\u00adca\u00adti\u00adons for its inter\u00adna\u00adtio\u00adnal custo\u00admers, which include large compa\u00adnies from the finan\u00adcial, health\u00adcare and indus\u00adtrial sectors.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor us, the acqui\u00adsi\u00adtion of eperi marks another important mile\u00adstone in the addi\u00adtion of high-growth and future-orien\u00adted IT compa\u00adnies to our tradi\u00adtio\u00adnal port\u00adfo\u00adlio. eperi has deve\u00adlo\u00adped into a leading inter\u00adna\u00adtio\u00adnal company with an outstan\u00adding custo\u00admer and part\u00adner network in only a very short time \u2014 not least due to its foun\u00adder\u2019s many years of expe\u00adri\u00adence in cloud secu\u00adrity,\u201d explains Dr. Marc Arens (photo), Senior Part\u00adner and Coun\u00adtry Head DACH\/NL at Equis\u00adtone<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Bird & Bird<\/strong> advi\u00adsed Equis\u00adtone in coope\u00adra\u00adtion with P+P P\u00f6llath + Part\u00adners<\/strong> on the legal due dili\u00adgence and the nego\u00adtia\u00adtion of the tran\u00adsac\u00adtion docu\u00admen\u00adta\u00adtion. Bird & Bird\u2019s focus was on the complex IT and IP-rela\u00adted aspects due to its leading exper\u00adtise in these areas, as well as the FDI assess\u00adment for the fund\u2019s long-term stra\u00adtegy in the context of the acqui\u00adsi\u00adtion and FDI clearance by the German Minis\u00adtry of Economics.<\/p>\n Equis\u00adtone Part\u00adners was advi\u00adsed by the follo\u00adwing Bird & Bird attor\u00adneys: Lead Part\u00adner Dr. Hans Peter Leube, LL.M. and Asso\u00adciate Michael Maier (both Corporate\/Private Equity, Frank\u00adfurt); Part\u00adner Dr. Alex\u00adan\u00adder Duis\u00adberg and Asso\u00adciate G\u00f6khan Kosak (both IT\/Data Protec\u00adtion, Munich); Part\u00adners Dr. Stephan Wald\u00adheim and Tamy Tietze (both Anti\u00adtrust, D\u00fcssel\u00addorf) Part\u00adner Dr. Chris\u00adtoph Maier\u00adh\u00f6\u00adfer (IP, Munich); Part\u00adner Dr. Catha\u00adrina Klumpp, LL.M. and Asso\u00adciate Julia Neuper (both Labor Law, D\u00fcssel\u00addorf); and Part\u00adner Guido Bormann and Asso\u00adciate Johan\u00adnes Wolte\u00adring (both Public Commer\u00adcial Law and Regu\u00adla\u00adtion, D\u00fcsseldorf).<\/p>\n Dr. Marc Arens, Sebas\u00adtian Wint\u00adgens and Chris\u00adtoph W\u00fcste\u00admeyer arerespon\u00adsi\u00adble for the tran\u00adsac\u00adtion on the part of Equis\u00adtone<\/strong>. Equis\u00adtone was advi\u00adsed on the tran\u00adsac\u00adtion by BCG (Commer\u00adcial), Code & Co. (Tech\u00adno\u00adlogy), Bird & Bird (IP & Regu\u00adla\u00adtion), PWC (Finan\u00adcial & Tax), and P\u00f6llath (Legal & Contrac\u00adtual Documentation).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Frank\u00adfurt am Main \u2014 Funds advi\u00adsed by Equis\u00adtone Part\u00adners Europe (\u201cEquis\u00adtone\u201d) are acqui\u00adring a majo\u00adrity stake in eperi, a leading provi\u00adder of cyber\u00adse\u00adcu\u00adrity soft\u00adware for cloud appli\u00adca\u00adti\u00adons. The sellers of the secu\u00adrity specia\u00adlist from Pfung\u00adstadt, Hesse, are the venture capi\u00adtal compa\u00adnies Evolu\u00adtion Equity Part\u00adners and btov. Elmar Eperiesi-Beck, foun\u00adder and CEO of eperi, will continue [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39569,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[886,1364,1365,1366,1367,1368,1369],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-en","category-featured-en","category-private-equity-en","category-news-en","category-lawyers-tax-advisors-auditors-en","category-lawyers-tax-consultants-auditors","category-investors"],"yoast_head":"\n