Frank\u00adfurt \u2014 Quadriga Capi\u00adtal sells Aspire Educa\u00adtion to EMZ Part\u00adners. Aspi\u00adre\u2019s manage\u00adment will take a reverse stake in the company as part of the tran\u00adsac\u00adtion. The parties have agreed not to disc\u00adlose finan\u00adcial details of the tran\u00adsac\u00adtion. \u2014 Alan\u00adtra, the global invest\u00adment banking and asset manage\u00adment firm focu\u00adsed on the mid-market segment, has advi\u00adsed Quadriga Capi\u00adtal Funds, Jersey (\u201cQuadriga\u201d), legacy share\u00adhol\u00adders and manage\u00adment of Aspire Educa\u00adtion Group (\u201cAspire\u201d or \u201cthe Company\u201d) on the sale of the Company to EMZ Part\u00adners (\u201cEMZ\u201d).<\/p>\n
The Vienna-based Aspire Group is the leading plat\u00adform for voca\u00adtio\u00adnal quali\u00adfi\u00adca\u00adtion and trai\u00adning in the DACH region<\/strong> and, with 1,200 employees in eight compa\u00adnies and 100,000 lear\u00adners per year, the largest private-sector educa\u00adtion provi\u00adder in Austria. The Aspire plat\u00adform, consis\u00adting of the ibis acam, ETC, brai\u00adnymo\u00adtion, ARS, KAOS, Stepin, aspi\u00addoo and fast lane brands, offers its custo\u00admers a wide range of services, from soft\u00adware & IT, legal, compli\u00adance, tax and finance to prepa\u00adring trai\u00adnees and jobsee\u00adkers to start or re-enter the work\u00adforce. The Aspire Group inves\u00adted in online and digi\u00adtal capa\u00adbi\u00adli\u00adties early on, and Aspire custo\u00admers can access the service offe\u00adring either on-site, hybrid, or online.<\/p>\n Under Quadri\u00adga\u2019s owner\u00adship, Aspire has inves\u00adted in expan\u00adding its digi\u00adtal lear\u00adning tools and in new, inno\u00adva\u00adtive formats such as Hire-Train-Deploy to address the skills shortage, and has signi\u00adfi\u00adcantly expan\u00added its geogra\u00adphic foot\u00adprint and product port\u00adfo\u00adlio through six stra\u00adte\u00adgic acqui\u00adsi\u00adti\u00adons since 2018. Most recently, Aspire acqui\u00adred the German IT trai\u00adning provi\u00adder brai\u00adnymo\u00adtion and now gene\u00adra\u00adtes group sales of around 100 million euros. With EMZ, Aspire now wants to conti\u00adnue this growth course.<\/p>\n Over\u00adall, the market for private and publicly funded educa\u00adtion in Germany and Austria is worth around six billion euros and is esti\u00adma\u00adted to grow by around three percent a year in the coming years, with IT trai\u00adning expec\u00adted to grow more than twice as fast. The market is bene\u00adfiting from demo\u00adgra\u00adphic change and the asso\u00adcia\u00adted struc\u00adtu\u00adral trend toward lifel\u00adong lear\u00adning, as well as from the shortage of skil\u00adled person\u00adnel, parti\u00adcu\u00adlarly in the IT sector. Accor\u00adding to the Insti\u00adtute of the German Economy (IW), there were recently no suita\u00adbly quali\u00adfied jobsee\u00adkers for nine out of ten vacan\u00adcies nati\u00adon\u00adwide in Germany.<\/p>\n Phil\u00adipp Jacobi, Mana\u00adging Part\u00adner of Quadriga Capi\u00adtal Eigen\u00adka\u00adpi\u00adtal\u00adbe\u00adra\u00adtung GmbH, advi\u00adsor to Quadriga, said: \u201cThe Aspire Group has perfor\u00admed extre\u00admely well since Quadri\u00adga\u2019s entry. Alan\u00adtra\u2019s exten\u00adsive expe\u00adri\u00adence in working with private equity inves\u00adtors has now enab\u00adled us to realize this value propo\u00adsi\u00adtion in the dives\u00adti\u00adture, comple\u00adting a successful tran\u00adsac\u00adtion despite a chal\u00adlen\u00adging M&A environment.\u201d<\/p>\n Johan\u00adnes Lampert and Udo Schel\u00adkes, co-CEOs of Aspire, added: \u201cThis tran\u00adsac\u00adtion provi\u00addes an excel\u00adlent foun\u00adda\u00adtion for the imple\u00admen\u00adta\u00adtion of our future vision for Aspire with orga\u00adnic growth through inno\u00adva\u00adtive products as well as through further stra\u00adte\u00adgic acqui\u00adsi\u00adti\u00adons and part\u00adner\u00adships. We have alre\u00adady seen in past acqui\u00adsi\u00adti\u00adons that both the Austrian and German markets have unique charac\u00adte\u00adristics and circum\u00ads\u00adtances despite their proxi\u00admity in terms of geogra\u00adphy and language. The tire\u00adless commit\u00adment of the Alan\u00adtra teams in both count\u00adries has ther\u00ade\u00adfore made an important contri\u00adbu\u00adtion to the success of the tran\u00adsac\u00adtion and to our further growth strategy.\u201d<\/p>\n Sven Harm\u00adsen, Mana\u00adging Direc\u00adtor in Alan\u00adtra\u2019s Frank\u00adfurt office, added: \u201cWe thank Quadriga and the manage\u00adment team for the trust and close coope\u00adra\u00adtion on this mandate. Well-rehe\u00adar\u00adsed teams with sector expe\u00adri\u00adence are a key factor in being able to successfully close tran\u00adsac\u00adtions even in the current market environment.\u201d<\/p>\n The tran\u00adsac\u00adtion was mana\u00adged by Alan\u00adtra\u2019s offices in Frank\u00adfurt(Wolf\u00adram Schmerl <\/strong>(photo), Sven Harm\u00adsen and Maxi\u00admi\u00adlian Rohardt) and Vienna (Klaus Vukovich).<\/p>\n About Alan\u00adtra<\/strong> Frank\u00adfurt \u2014 Quadriga Capi\u00adtal sells Aspire Educa\u00adtion to EMZ Part\u00adners. Aspi\u00adre\u2019s manage\u00adment will take a reverse stake in the company as part of the tran\u00adsac\u00adtion. The parties have agreed not to disc\u00adlose finan\u00adcial details of the tran\u00adsac\u00adtion. \u2014 Alan\u00adtra, the global invest\u00adment banking and asset manage\u00adment firm focu\u00adsed on the mid-market segment, has advi\u00adsed Quadriga [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47324,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[886,1364,1365,1366,1369,1372,1377,2635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47326","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-investors","category-consultant","category-corporate-finance-ma","category-corporate-finance-mergers-acquisitions-en-en"],"yoast_head":"\n
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