Harald Quandt Industriebeteiligungen and PLENTICON acquire microPLAN

Munich — The law firm Gütt Olk Feld­haus has advi­sed PLENTICON GROUP GmbH on the acqui­si­tion of the micro­PLAN Group. Plen­ti­con is a port­fo­lio company of Harald Quandt Indus­trie­be­tei­li­gun­gen GmbH.

The addi­tion of the Emsde­t­­ten-based IT systems house expands the group’s range of exper­tise, parti­cu­larly in the DATEV and data center areas as well as in DATEV consul­ting, while also incre­asing its geogra­phi­cal reach.

PLENTICON GROUP GmbH, head­quar­te­red in Frank­furt am Main, is one of the leading nati­on­wide full-service provi­ders for IT services. The majo­rity share­hol­der is Harald Quandt Indus­trie­be­tei­li­gun­gen GmbH (HQIB).

With around 120 employees at seven loca­ti­ons and its own data center, micro­PLAN is one of the largest IT inno­va­tion mana­gers in Germany. The port­fo­lio of the IT system house includes cloud services, ASP/IT outsour­cing, IT and DATEV solutions.

The GOF team led by part­ners Dr. Sebas­tian Olk (photo © GOF) and Dr. Tilmann Gütt advi­sed PLENTICON and Harald Quandt Indus­trie­be­tei­li­gun­gen GmbH on all tran­­sac­­tion-rela­­ted legal issues as well as on the finan­cing. The law firm had previously advi­sed the group on the acqui­si­tion of System­haus Cramer GmbH, PK Office GmbH and Horn & Cosi­fan Compu­ter­sys­teme GmbH.

Legal advi­sors to Harald Quandt Indus­trie­be­tei­li­gun­gen GmbH and PLENTICON GROUP GmbH: Gütt Olk Feld­haus, Munich
Dr. Sebas­tian Olk (Part­ner, Corporate/M&A), Dr. Tilmann Gütt (Part­ner, Banking/Finance, both Lead), Thomas Becker (Of Coun­sel, IP/IT/Data Protec­tion), Isabelle Vran­cken, Dr. Domi­nik Forst­ner (both Senior Asso­cia­tes, Corporate/M&A), Chris­to­pher Krappitz (Asso­ciate, Banking/Finance)

Alten­burg Fach­an­wälte für Arbeits­recht, Munich
Andreas Ege, Dr. Char­lotte Beck, Henning Timm, Gero Thole (all labor law)