GENUI takes over IT specialist Aagon

Soest / Hamburg — GENUI GmbH has acqui­red the IT specia­list Aagon. GENUI is a private invest­ment company foun­ded by renow­ned entre­pre­neurs and expe­ri­en­ced invest­ment experts. GENUI pursues the “Good Entre­pre­neur­ship” approach, which combi­nes attrac­tive returns with posi­tive impact. The finan­cing is provi­ded by funds mana­ged by Capi­tal Four. — Herbert Smith Freeh­ills advi­sed GENUI GmbH on the finan­cing of the acqui­si­tion of Aagon GmbH. 

Aagon was foun­ded in 1992 by Wilko Fren­zel and Sascha Häckel. Based in Soest, North Rhine-West­­pha­­lia, the company curr­ently employs almost 150 people and works for more than 2,800 custo­mers and part­ners in over 20 sectors. 

With its modu­lar system, Aagon offers a holi­stic solu­tion approach for the daily chal­lenges of IT depart­ments, such as the central manage­ment of devices and soft­ware licen­ses, fault recor­ding or in the area of cyber secu­rity. — With Aagon Client Manage­ment Plat­form (ACMP) and the Aagon Enter­prise Service Bus (AESB), Aagon offers client and soft­ware manage­ment systems such as license manage­ment, secu­rity manage­ment, patch manage­ment and custo­mer support from a single source. 

Advi­sor GENUI GmbH: Herbert Smith Freeh­ills (Frank­furt a.M.)

Dr. Fritz Kleweta, Foto (lead), Chris­tian H. Hinz­mann (coun­sel; both finance), Dr. Stef­fen C. Hörner (tax law); asso­cia­tes: Marc Soltau, Florian Möller (both finance), Tatiana Güns­ter (tax law)