M&A Deal Summary

Koninklijke KPN Acquires blau Mobilfunk

On March 26, 2008, Koninklijke KPN acquired communications company blau Mobilfunk from Ufenau Capital Partners

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Koninklijke KPN’s 2nd transaction in the Communications sector.
  • This is Koninklijke KPN’s 1st transaction in Germany.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2008-03-26
Target blau Mobilfunk
Sector Communications
Buyer(s) Koninklijke KPN
Sellers(s) Ufenau Capital Partners
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition
Advisor(s) Corporate Finance Partners (Financial)

Target

blau Mobilfunk

Hamburg, Germany
Blau Mobilfunk GmbH is active in the dynamic growth market of discounted offers in the mobile sector and has actively positioned itself as one of the top three network-independent discount-provider in Germany. Given the maturity of the German mobile phone market, customers can make comparatively cheap calls using Blue without a long-term contract with one of the four major suppliers, which typically have a maturity of 24 months.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

Koninklijke KPN

Rotterdam, Netherlands

Category Company
Founded 1881
Sector Communications
Employees6,887
Revenue 5.6B EUR (2024)
DESCRIPTION

Koninklijke KPN is a provider of ICT services. With a wide range of products and services, they operate with different brands many different customer groups - at home and abroad. Prepaid calling in the U.S., to interactive HD television in the Netherlands. Koninklijke KPN was founded in 1881 and is based in Rotterdam, Netherlands.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 3 of 12
Sector: Communications M&A 2 of 6
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 3 of 11
Country: Germany M&A 1 of 2
Year: 2008 M&A 1 of 1
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2007-10-23 Axity

Mexico, Mexico

Axity is a Latin-American, integrated, end-to-end IT services provider. Axity´s portfolio of services is quite unique in the market, encompassing IT Strategy, Information Management (e.g., business intelligence), Application Management (e.g., ERPs, software development), IT Management, Security and Technology Infrastructure (e.g., communication and connectivity). Axity is based in Mexico.

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DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2009-12-21 iBasis

Burlington, Massachusetts, United States

iBasis, Inc. is a international voice carrier and provider of value-added services for mobile operators. We offer a comprehensive portfolio of voice termination and data services, including messaging, signaling and roaming, for many of the world’s largest fixed and mobile operators, as well as voice-over-broadband (OTT) service providers.

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Seller(S) 1

SELLER

Ufenau Capital Partners

Schwyz, Switzerland

Investor Investor Investor Investor Investor


Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 1992
Size Small
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

Ufenau Capital Partners is a Swiss investment firm focused on majority and significant minority investments in service-oriented growth companies operating in German speaking Europe. Prospective business generally have revenues of €10 to €150 million. Specific areas of interest include business services/outsourcing, financial services, healthcare services, and education. The Firm looks to invest €3 to €15 million per transaction and will support a variety of transaction types, including management buyouts/buy-ins, consolidations, divestitures, and successions. Ufenau Capital Partners was established in 1992 and is based in Schwyz.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 1 of 12
Sector: Communications M&A 1 of 1
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 1 of 4
Country: Germany M&A 1 of 5
Year: 2008 M&A 1 of 1
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2008-01-01 SCC Swiss Commercial Capital AG

Zurich, Switzerland

Since its founding in 2007, SCC Swiss Commercial Capital developed itself as one of the leading service provider for cross-border trade finacne («Trade Finance»). Therefor, SCC provides the interface between the physical and financial value and enables the reduction of credit risks as well as trade finance for global manufacturing companies and their worldwide distribution partners. The company, headquartered in Zurich, has a global market access by representatives in the US and the UK.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2011-06-21 Svox AG

Zurich, Switzerland

SVOX is a global provider of integrated voice recognition, speech synthesis and speech dialog solutions for the automotive and mobile device industries. SVOX sells its own automatic speech recognition (ASR), Speech (TTS), and full range of IVR solutions.

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