Frank\u00adfurt a. Main \u2014 ec4u and BULPROS join forces under the majo\u00adrity parti\u00adci\u00adpa\u00adtion of Silver\u00adfleet Capi\u00adtal to offer their custo\u00admers a new gene\u00adra\u00adtion of digi\u00adtal cloud expe\u00adri\u00adence services. Shear\u00adman & Ster\u00adling advi\u00adsed Silver\u00adfleet Capi\u00adtal on the finan\u00adcing provi\u00added by Ares for the acqui\u00adsi\u00adtion of ec4u and BULPROS.<\/p>\n
ec4u and BULPROS join forces to offer their custo\u00admers a new gene\u00adra\u00adtion of digi\u00adtal cloud expe\u00adri\u00adence services. The joint plat\u00adform will employ around 1,400 people at 25 sites in a total of eleven countries.<\/p>\n
ec4u, head\u00adquar\u00adte\u00adred in Karls\u00adruhe, and BULPROS, head\u00adquar\u00adte\u00adred in Sofia, Bulga\u00adria, have alre\u00adady been working toge\u00adther as part\u00adners in the field of digi\u00adtal cloud solu\u00adti\u00adons since 2018. The foun\u00adders and exis\u00adting manage\u00adment teams of both compa\u00adnies will remain on board as share\u00adhol\u00adders and will conti\u00adnue to manage the merged company. The merger is subject to the custo\u00admary regu\u00adla\u00adtory approval.<\/p>\n
ec4u was foun\u00added in 2000 and specia\u00adli\u00adzes in the digi\u00adtal trans\u00adfor\u00adma\u00adtion of busi\u00adness-criti\u00adcal proces\u00adses in the areas of marke\u00adting, sales, service and e\u2011commerce across the entire custo\u00admer life\u00adcy\u00adcle. The company offers its custo\u00admers consul\u00adting services, tech\u00adni\u00adcal imple\u00admen\u00adta\u00adtion, and ongo\u00ading deve\u00adlo\u00adp\u00adment and opera\u00adtion of CRM systems. ec4u has successfully comple\u00adted a total of more than 800 trans\u00adfor\u00adma\u00adtion projects, prima\u00adrily in Germany, Austria and Switz\u00ader\u00adland. The company employs more than 400 experts at seve\u00adral Euro\u00adpean locations.<\/p>\n
BULPROS, foun\u00added in 2010, is a provi\u00adder of digi\u00adtal trans\u00adfor\u00adma\u00adtion services. This includes digi\u00adtal solu\u00adti\u00adons imple\u00admen\u00adta\u00adtion, cyber\u00adse\u00adcu\u00adrity, cloud migra\u00adtion and mana\u00adged services, and tech\u00adno\u00adlogy services. BULPROS opera\u00adtes world\u00adwide and employs more than 1,000 people at 20 loca\u00adti\u00adons in Europe and North America. The company has been named as one of the fastest growing tech\u00adno\u00adlogy compa\u00adnies by leading indus\u00adtry analysts \u2014 inclu\u00adding Deloit\u00adte\u2019s Tech\u00adno\u00adlogy Fast 50 in CE report and the Finan\u00adcial Times 100 Europe.<\/p>\n
In addi\u00adtion to their highly compe\u00adti\u00adtive service port\u00adfo\u00adlios and the high level of exper\u00adtise of their employees, the two compa\u00adnies also have strong rela\u00adti\u00adonships with stra\u00adte\u00adgic tech\u00adno\u00adlogy part\u00adners such as Sales\u00adforce, Micro\u00adsoft, SAP, Oracle, IBM, Cisco and Snowflake.<\/p>\n
The invest\u00adment in ec4u and BULPROS builds on Silver\u00adfleet Capi\u00adtal\u2019s exten\u00adsive expe\u00adri\u00adence with compa\u00adnies in the tech\u00adno\u00adlogy sector: Tech\u00adno\u00adlo\u00adgi\u00adcal change is a key macro trend under\u00adpin\u00adning Silver\u00adfleet Capi\u00adtal\u2019s invest\u00adment approach. The private equity firm\u2019s recent invest\u00adments include Trust\u00adQuay, a provi\u00adder of trust, corpo\u00adrate and fund admi\u00adnis\u00adtra\u00adtion services, and Coll\u00adec\u00adtia, a credit manage\u00adment services plat\u00adform. Previous successful invest\u00adments in this area include Phase One, Ipes and TMF.<\/p>\n
\u201cec4u and BULPROS are leaders in the market for cloud-based, digi\u00adtal solu\u00adti\u00adons for enter\u00adpri\u00adses. This is a market that is very attrac\u00adtive and offers high growth poten\u00adtial. We are plea\u00adsed to be able to support them in the future to fully exploit this poten\u00adtial,\u201d comm\u00adents Dr. Chris\u00adtian S\u00fcss, Part\u00adner at Silver\u00adfleet Capi\u00adtal<\/strong>.<\/p>\n \u201cBoth ec4u and BULPROS have strong stra\u00adte\u00adgic part\u00adner\u00adships with the leading play\u00aders in the digi\u00adtal plat\u00adform space. We will support both compa\u00adnies in explo\u00adring further coope\u00adra\u00adtion and expan\u00adsion oppor\u00adtu\u00adni\u00adties,\u201d adds Joachim Braun (photo), Part\u00adner at Silver\u00adfleet Capi\u00adtal<\/strong>.<\/p>\n At Silver\u00adfleet, Dr. Chris\u00adtian S\u00fcss, Joachim Braun, Benja\u00admin Hubner and Jenni\u00adfer Regehr were respon\u00adsi\u00adble for the tran\u00adsac\u00adtion. The invest\u00adment company was advi\u00adsed on the tran\u00adsac\u00adtion by Latham & Watkins (Corpo\u00adrate & Tax Legal), Shear\u00adman & Ster\u00adling (Finance Legal), Nauta\u00adDu\u00adtilh (Legal), PwC (Finan\u00adcial), wdp (IT), Grant Thorn\u00adton (Tax), Kambou\u00adrov (Legal), Noerr (Legal), Sch\u00f6n\u00adherr (Legal), B\u00e4r & Karrer (Legal), Kear\u00adney (Commer\u00adcial) and MD Advi\u00adsors (Debt Advi\u00adsory). Funding was provi\u00added by Ares.<\/p>\n About Silver\u00adfleet Capital<\/strong> The Shear\u00adman & Ster\u00adling team led by part\u00adner Winfried M. Carli included asso\u00adcia\u00adtes Andreas Breu and Daniel Wagner (all Munich-Finance).<\/p>\n About Shear\u00adman & Sterling<\/strong> Frank\u00adfurt a. Main \u2014 ec4u and BULPROS join forces under the majo\u00adrity parti\u00adci\u00adpa\u00adtion of Silver\u00adfleet Capi\u00adtal to offer their custo\u00admers a new gene\u00adra\u00adtion of digi\u00adtal cloud expe\u00adri\u00adence services. Shear\u00adman & Ster\u00adling advi\u00adsed Silver\u00adfleet Capi\u00adtal on the finan\u00adcing provi\u00added by Ares for the acqui\u00adsi\u00adtion of ec4u and BULPROS. ec4u and BULPROS join forces to offer their [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37034,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[886,1364,1365,1366,1367,1368,1369,1372],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43419","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","category-consultant","news-category-people-news","news-category-deals-news-en","news-category-private-equity-news-en"],"yoast_head":"\n
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