M&A Deal Summary

IK Partners Acquires coin4 Solutions

On November 2, 2017, private equity firm IK Partners acquired financial services company coin4 Solutions from BurdaDirect

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is IK Partners’ 3rd transaction in the Financial Services sector.
  • This is IK Partners’ 15th transaction in Germany.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2017-11-02
Target coin4 Solutions
Sector Financial Services
Buyer(s) IK Partners
Sellers(s) BurdaDirect
Deal Type Divestiture

Target

coin4 Solutions

Bad Schwartau, Germany
coin4 Solutions offers a broad range of tailor-made debt collection services to its customers, primarily in the e-commerce/social media, insurance and publishing industries. With a highly automated and continuously refined collection process as well as a broad communication platform (including modern communication channels such as email, WhatsApp and SMS) coin4 Solutions acts as a link between its customers and their debtors, and is renowned as a reliable and trustworthy partner in the sector. coin4 Solutions was founded in 1977 and is based in Bad Schwartau, Germany.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

IK Partners

London, United Kingdom

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Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 1989
PE ASSETS 14.0B EUR
Size Mega
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

IK Partners is a private equity firm that targets control investments in lower middle-market to large-sized companies throughout Europe. IK focuses on growth businesses located in the Benelux region, as well as Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Norway and Sweden. The Firm looks to commit €10 to €300 million of equity capital per transaction and targets companies with strong cash-flows. IK Investment Partners was formerly known as Industry Kapital. IK Partners was formed in 1989 and is based in London, England.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 113 of 191
Sector: Financial Services M&A 3 of 8
Type: Divestiture M&A Deals 14 of 19
Country: Germany M&A 15 of 28
Year: 2017 M&A 6 of 9
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2017-09-28 Evac

Espoo, Finland

Evac is a provider of integrated waste, wastewater, and water management systems for the marine, offshore, and building industries. Evac have successfully carried out over 20,000 marine, 1,500 offshore and 2,000 building projects for customers around the world. Evac was founded in 1975 and is based in Espoo, Finland.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2017-11-22 Studienkreis

Bochum, Germany

Studienkreis is one of the major private education providers in Germany that offers qualified tutoring for students of all classes and types of school in all major subjects. Individual support follows a scientifically proven learning concept. Studienkreis was founded in 1974 and is based in Bochum, Germany.

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Seller(S) 1

SELLER

BurdaDirect

Offenburg, Germany

Category Company
Founded 1998
Sector Digital Media
DESCRIPTION

BurdaDirect Gmbh is one of the companies for cross-media performance in the areas of customer management, subscription services and e-commerce. Company combine sales and marketing into a full-service service for your online and offline business models. Company offer clients cross-media dialogue marketing as well as target group-oriented multichannel marketing and operate tailor-made CRM tools.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 1 of 1
Sector: Financial Services M&A 1 of 1
Type: Divestiture M&A Deals 1 of 1
Country: Germany M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2017 M&A 1 of 1