Hano\u00adver, Germany \u2014 The German Hornet\u00adsecu\u00adrity Group (\u201cHornet\u00adsecu\u00adrity\u201d), a port\u00adfo\u00adlio company of TA Asso\u00adcia\u00adtes, PSG Equity and Verdane, has ente\u00adred into a binding agree\u00adment to be acqui\u00adred by Proof\u00adpoint, Inc. (\u201cProof\u00adpoint\u201d), a leading cyber\u00adse\u00adcu\u00adrity and compli\u00adance provi\u00adder. The esti\u00adma\u00adted purchase price is well over one billion USD. \u2014 Hornet\u00adsecu\u00adrity is a global provi\u00adder of holi\u00adstic AI-powered M365 secu\u00adrity, data protec\u00adtion, compli\u00adance and secu\u00adrity aware\u00adness solu\u00adti\u00adons. The company opera\u00adtes in more than 120 count\u00adries and serves over 125,000 custo\u00admers through its inter\u00adna\u00adtio\u00adnal sales network of more than 12,000 sales part\u00adners and mana\u00adged service providers. <\/p>\n
Hornet\u00adsecu\u00adrity, foun\u00added in 2007 by Daniel Hofmann and Oliver Dehning as anti\u00ads\u00adpam\u00adeu\u00adrope, has been heavily backed by private equity firm TA Asso\u00adcia\u00adtes since 2022. Early inves\u00adtors included High-Tech Gr\u00fcn\u00adder\u00adfonds (HTGF) and HCS Betei\u00adli\u00adgungs\u00adge\u00adsell\u00adschaft GmbH (HCS). <\/p>\n
The acqui\u00adsi\u00adtion signi\u00adfi\u00adcantly expands Proof\u00adpoin\u00adt\u2019s exper\u00adtise in human-cente\u00adred secu\u00adrity solu\u00adti\u00adons for small and medium-sized busi\u00adnesses. Hornet\u00adsecu\u00adrity brings a powerful busi\u00adness with annual recur\u00adring reve\u00adnues of over 160 million US dollars, annual growth of more than 20 percent and a perfor\u00admance above the Rule of 60 to the Proof\u00adpoint portfolio. <\/p>\n
The tran\u00adsac\u00adtion is expec\u00adted to be comple\u00adted in the second half of 2025 and is subject to custo\u00admary closing conditions.<\/p>\n
Henge\u00adler Muel\u00adler advi\u00adsed the manage\u00adment of Hornet\u00adsecu\u00adrity in an inte\u00adgra\u00adted team with Davis Polk on the transaction.<\/strong><\/p>\n Henge\u00adler Muel\u00adler team for Hornetsecurity<\/strong><\/p>\n Corporate\/M&A: Dr. Ingo Berner<\/strong> (Berlin), Dr. Daniel M\u00f6ritz<\/strong> (Munich, both lead, both part\u00adner), Sjard Seeger, Emre Aksoy (both Berlin), Dr. Alex\u00adan\u00adder B\u00f6mer, Rebecca Schlott\u00admann (both Munich, all associate),<\/p>\n IP\/IT: Dr. Matthias Roth\u00adkopf (Part\u00adner, D\u00fcssel\u00addorf), Patrick M. Schmidt (Senior Asso\u00adciate, Frankfurt),<\/p>\n Anti\u00adtrust law: Dr. Sarah Milde (Part\u00adner), Annika Linne\u00adrud (Asso\u00adciate, both Munich).<\/p>\n www.hengeler.com\/de<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hano\u00adver, Germany \u2014 The German Hornet\u00adsecu\u00adrity Group (\u201cHornet\u00adsecu\u00adrity\u201d), a port\u00adfo\u00adlio company of TA Asso\u00adcia\u00adtes, PSG Equity and Verdane, has ente\u00adred into a binding agree\u00adment to be acqui\u00adred by Proof\u00adpoint, Inc. (\u201cProof\u00adpoint\u201d), a leading cyber\u00adse\u00adcu\u00adrity and compli\u00adance provi\u00adder. The esti\u00adma\u00adted purchase price is well over one billion USD. \u2014 Hornet\u00adsecu\u00adrity is a global provi\u00adder of holistic [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56190,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1366],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en"],"yoast_head":"\n