Heuking advises dogado Group on acquisition of Profihost

Colo­gne - dogado GmbH, a port­fo­lio company of the private equity fund Triton, has acqui­red Profi­host AG. With the acqui­si­tion of Profi­host AG, dogado GmbH conti­nues its buy-and-build stra­tegy. dogado was advi­sed on this tran­sac­tion by Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek.

The dogado Group includes the brands alfah­os­ting, check­do­main, easy­name and busy­m­ouse. With over 170 employees and around 250,000 custo­mers, the Group is one of the leading cloud hosting provi­ders for busi­ness custo­mers in Germany, Austria and Switz­er­land. After its foun­ding in 2001, the company initi­ally specia­li­zed in profes­sio­nal hosting services and later became one of the first German specia­lists for cloud-based enter­prise solu­ti­ons, with products ranging from clas­sic web hosting to colla­bo­ra­tion services and cloud platforms.

Profi­host AG, owner-mana­­ged since its foun­ding in 1998, is based in Hano­ver and focu­ses on mana­ged hosting solu­ti­ons “Made in Germany”, offe­ring inno­va­tive cloud-based server systems, with a variety of high-quality services.

Advi­sor dogado: Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek
Dr. Pär Johans­son (photo), Tim Remmel, LL.M. (both Corpo­rate, M&A), Cologne

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