Munich \/ Braun\u00adschweig \u2014 Toge\u00adther with Water\u00adland Private Equity, the soft\u00adware deve\u00adlo\u00adp\u00adment provi\u00adder GOD (Gesell\u00adschaft f\u00fcr Orga\u00adni\u00adsa\u00adtion und Daten\u00adver\u00adar\u00adbei\u00adtung mbH) plans to acce\u00adle\u00adrate its growth. The company from Lower Saxony is one of the leading provi\u00adders of custo\u00admi\u00adzed enter\u00adprise IT and soft\u00adware solu\u00adti\u00adons, espe\u00adci\u00adally for compa\u00adnies with complex supply chains and produc\u00adtion proces\u00adses. The port\u00adfo\u00adlio of services for custo\u00admers is to be expan\u00added through targe\u00adted acqui\u00adsi\u00adti\u00adons as part of a buy & build stra\u00adtegy. The share\u00adhol\u00adders Igor Krahne, Ralf Holland and Dr. Thomas Wolen\u00adski remain signi\u00adfi\u00adcantly invol\u00adved as manage\u00adment team and lead the company opera\u00adtio\u00adnally. The tran\u00adsac\u00adtion is subject to appr\u00adoval by the anti\u00adtrust authorities.<\/p>\n
GOD has been deve\u00adlo\u00adping and opera\u00adting custo\u00admi\u00adzed enter\u00adprise IT and soft\u00adware solu\u00adti\u00adons since 1985. The service provi\u00adder, which is head\u00adquar\u00adte\u00adred in Braun\u00adschweig and has offices in Hamburg, Ingol\u00adstadt, Wolfs\u00adburg and Wroclaw (Poland), specia\u00adli\u00adzes in compa\u00adnies with complex IT projects. The more than 400 employees of GOD support large enter\u00adpri\u00adses as well as medium-sized compa\u00adnies from requi\u00adre\u00adments to archi\u00adtec\u00adture to project manage\u00adment in the deve\u00adlo\u00adp\u00adment and opera\u00adtion of indi\u00advi\u00addual soft\u00adware. The offe\u00adring also includes modern cloud and edge compu\u00adting services, as well as SAP consulting.<\/p>\n
GOD will conti\u00adnue to support sophisti\u00adca\u00adted compa\u00adnies in digi\u00adtiza\u00adtion through indi\u00advi\u00addua\u00adli\u00adzed deve\u00adlo\u00adp\u00adment and expand its modern product port\u00adfo\u00adlio. In addi\u00adtion, new markets are to be opened up geogra\u00adphi\u00adcally through further loca\u00adti\u00adons. The IT and soft\u00adware market conti\u00adnues to be a rapidly growing market in the wake of digi\u00adtiza\u00adtion: The digi\u00adtal asso\u00adcia\u00adtion Bitkom fore\u00adcasts an increase in sales to 174.4 billion euros in 2021 for Germany alone. This is expec\u00adted to create around 20,000 new jobs.<\/p>\n
Igor Krahne<\/strong>, mana\u00adging part\u00adner of GOD, says: \u201cThe IT and soft\u00adware sector is constantly reinven\u00adting itself, which requi\u00adres a broad product range on the one hand, but also a high degree of specia\u00adliza\u00adtion on the other. Water\u00adlan\u00add\u2019s expe\u00adri\u00adence in the tech sector has convin\u00adced us that we have the right part\u00adner on board: This will secure our claim to lead the digi\u00adtal trans\u00adfor\u00adma\u00adtion toge\u00adther with our customers.\u201d<\/p>\n Dr. Gregor Hengst<\/strong>, Prin\u00adci\u00adpal at Water\u00adland, adds: \u201cWe are impres\u00adsed how GOD\u2019s team is growing sustain\u00adably in the area of complex soft\u00adware solu\u00adti\u00adons. The company is bene\u00adfiting from demand trends through digi\u00adta\u00adliza\u00adtion, Agile deve\u00adlo\u00adp\u00adment and IoT deve\u00adlo\u00adp\u00adments, as well as in cloud compu\u00adting. We look forward to further acce\u00adle\u00adra\u00adting growth through acqui\u00adsi\u00adti\u00adons as well.\u201d<\/p>\n Water\u00adland has exten\u00adsive expe\u00adri\u00adence in the digi\u00adta\u00adliza\u00adtion, IT and tele\u00adcom\u00admu\u00adni\u00adca\u00adti\u00adons sectors: the Water\u00adland port\u00adfo\u00adlio in these areas includes Serrala (finan\u00adcial auto\u00adma\u00adtion and payment soft\u00adware), Skay\u00adlink (mana\u00adged cloud services), Enreach (unified commu\u00adni\u00adca\u00adti\u00adons), netgo group (IT services) and netrics (enter\u00adprise IT).<\/p>\n Water\u00adland Advisor: About Water\u00adland<\/strong><\/p>\n Water\u00adland is an inde\u00adpen\u00addent private equity invest\u00adment firm that helps compa\u00adnies realize their growth plans. With substan\u00adtial finan\u00adcial support and indus\u00adtry exper\u00adtise, Water\u00adland enables its port\u00adfo\u00adlio compa\u00adnies to achieve acce\u00adle\u00adra\u00adted growth both orga\u00adni\u00adcally and through acqui\u00adsi\u00adti\u00adons. Water\u00adland has offices in the Nether\u00adlands (Bussum), Belgium (Antwerp), France (Paris), Germany (Hamburg, Munich), Poland (Warsaw), the UK (Manches\u00adter), Ireland (Dublin), Denmark (Copen\u00adha\u00adgen) and Switz\u00ader\u00adland (Zurich). Curr\u00adently, over eight billion euros in equity funds are under management.<\/p>\n Water\u00adland has consis\u00adt\u00adently outper\u00adfor\u00admed with its invest\u00adments since its incep\u00adtion in 1999. The firm ranks fifth globally in the 2020 HEC\/Dow Jones Private Equity Perfor\u00admance Rankings and eighth among global private equity firms in the 2020 Preqin Consis\u00adtent Perfor\u00admers in Global Private Equity & Venture Capi\u00adtal Report. In addi\u00adtion, Real Deals awarded Water\u00adland the title of \u201cPan-Euro\u00adpean House of the Year 2020\u201d at the PE Awards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Munich \/ Braun\u00adschweig \u2014 Toge\u00adther with Water\u00adland Private Equity, the soft\u00adware deve\u00adlo\u00adp\u00adment provi\u00adder GOD (Gesell\u00adschaft f\u00fcr Orga\u00adni\u00adsa\u00adtion und Daten\u00adver\u00adar\u00adbei\u00adtung mbH) plans to acce\u00adle\u00adrate its growth. The company from Lower Saxony is one of the leading provi\u00adders of custo\u00admi\u00adzed enter\u00adprise IT and soft\u00adware solu\u00adti\u00adons, espe\u00adci\u00adally for compa\u00adnies with complex supply chains and produc\u00adtion proces\u00adses. The portfolio [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37112,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[886,1364,1365,1366,1367,1369,1377,1380,1381],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43499","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-investors","category-corporate-finance-ma","category-management-consultants-investor-relations-en","category-private-debt-mezzanine","news-category-private-equity-news-en"],"yoast_head":"\n
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\nHenge\u00adler Muel\u00adler (Legal)
\nErnst & Young (Finan\u00adcial)
\nGCA Altium (Debt) advised.<\/p>\n