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.

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.