Ebner Stolz advises K&P Computer Service- und Vertriebs-GmbH on the acquisition of BLUE Consult GmbH and its subsidiary BLUE Smart Services GmbH

• K&P Com­pu­ter Ser­vice- und Ver­triebs-GmbH acqui­res 100% of the sha­res of BLUE Con­sult GmbH and its sub­si­diary BLUE Smart Ser­vices GmbH.
• With this acqui­si­tion K&P Com­pu­ter Ser­vice- und Ver­triebs-GmbH expands its pre­sence in the upper mid-size mar­ket.
• Ebner Stolz advi­sed K&P Com­pu­ter Ser­vice- und Ver­triebs-GmbH in the con­text of a finan­cial, tax and legal due dili­gence as well as in the purchase price and purchase con­tract nego­tia­ti­ons.

Stutt­gart, 09^th July 2020 - The audi­ting and con­sul­ting firm Ebner Stolz advi­sed K&P Com­pu­ter Ser­vice- und Ver­triebs-GmbH in the con­text of the acqui­si­tion of 100% of the sha­res of BLUE Con­sult GmbH and its sub­si­diary BLUE Smart Ser­vices GmbH.

K&P Com­pu­ter Ser­vice- und Ver­triebs-GmbH is an IT sys­tem house foun­ded in 1985 and head­quar­te­red in Wies­ba­den, Ger­many. With its three busi­ness units, IT Main­tenance, IT Pro­jects and Mana­ged Ser­vices, the com­pany acts as a cross-sec­tor full-ser­vice pro­vi­der for more than 3,000 medium-sized com­pa­nies. Curr­ently, the com­pany emp­loys more than 150 people in Ger­many and Aus­tria.

BLUE Con­sult GmbH, foun­ded in 2004, and BLUE Smart Ser­vices GmbH, foun­ded in 2013, are estab­lis­hed IT con­sul­ting com­pa­nies with com­bi­ned reve­nues of around EUR 20 mil­lion that spe­cia­lize in hard­ware and soft­ware solu­ti­ons for upper mid-sized com­pa­nies. Both com­pa­nies emp­loy around 65 people at their head­quar­ters in Kre­feld and at their offices in Cologne and Ham­burg.

With the acqui­si­tion of the two con­sul­ting firms, K&P Com­pu­ter Ser­vice- und Ver­triebs-GmbH is streng­t­he­ning its pre­sence in the upper mid-size mar­ket aiming to expand its acti­vi­ties in the area of hard­ware and soft­ware solu­ti­ons as well as cloud offe­rings.

In the con­text of the acqui­si­tion, Ebner Stolz pro­vi­ded K&P Com­pu­ter Ser­vice- und Ver­triebs-GmbH with com­pre­hen­sive finan­cial, tax and legal due dili­gence.
This also inclu­ded the advice on tax aspects of the purchase con­tract as well as the sup­port in the purchase price and purchase con­tract nego­tia­ti­ons.

Team Ebner Stolz: Dr.Chri­s­toph Eppin­ger (Pro­ject lead, Part­ner Finan­cial Due Dili­gence), Endre Lazar, Jan-Niklas Her­den (both Finan­cial Due Dili­gence), Alex­an­der Euch­ner (Part­ner, Tax Due Dili­gence), And­reas For­rai and Julia Sei­bold (both Tax Due Dili­gence), Dr. Chri­s­toph Wink­ler (Part­ner, Legal Due Dili­gence), Felix Mül­ler (Legal Due Dili­gence).

Media con­tact

Isa­bell Zemelka
Ebner Stolz
Kro­nen­straße 30
70174 Stutt­gart
Tel.  +49 711 2049-1500
isa­bell.zemel­ka@eb­ner­stolz.de

Cor­po­rate con­tact

Dr. Chri­s­toph Eppin­ger
Ebner Stolz
Kro­nen­straße 30
70174 Stutt­gart
Tel.  +49 711 2049-1409
chri­s­toph.eppin­ger@eb­ner­stolz.de
 
Alex­an­der Euch­ner
Ebner Stolz
Kro­nen­straße 30
70174 Stutt­gart
Tel.  +49 711 2049-1575
alex­an­der.euch­ner@eb­ner­stolz.de
 
Dr. Chri­s­toph Wink­ler
Ebner Stolz
Kro­nen­straße 30
70174 Stutt­gart
Tel.  +49 711 2049-1469
chri­s­toph.wink­ler@eb­ner­stolz.de

About Ebner Stolz

Ebner Stolz is one of the lar­gest inde­pen­dent mid-sized MDP firms in Ger­many and is among the top ten in the sec­tor. The firm has deca­des of in-depth expe­ri­ence in audi­ting, cor­po­rate finance, tax advice, legal advice, and mana­ge­ment con­sul­ting. With more than 1700 emp­loyees and cha­rac­te­ri­zed by a mar­ket-lea­ding posi­tion in the mid-cap tran­sac­tion mar­ket, the sec­tor Cor­po­rate Finance plays a cen­tral role wit­hin Ebner Stolz. The Cor­po­rate Finance Team pre­do­mi­n­antly advi­ses medium-sized indu­s­trial enter­pri­ses as well as Pri­vate Equity com­pa­nies and Family Offices in the course of natio­nal and inter­na­tio­nal tran­sac­ti­ons.

Cross-bor­der tran­sac­ti­ons are car­ried out with part­ners of Nexia Inter­na­tio­nal, one of the world’s top ten net­works of inde­pen­dent con­sul­ting and audi­ting firms. With more than 720 Nexia offices world­wide Ebner Stolz is pre­sent in more than 120 coun­tries.