IK opens Munich office and appoints 3 new partners

Munich — IK Part­ners (“ IK ” or “the Company ”), a leading Euro­pean private equity firm, is plea­sed to announce that it has opened a new office in Munich as part of its ongo­ing invest­ment commitment.

The Munich office will be led by Joachim Dett­mar (photo © IK Part­ners), Part­ner in IK’s Opera­ti­ons team, and Adrian Tanski, who has been promo­ted to Part­ner and sits on the Part­ner­ship Fund team. Adrian was previously based in IK’s Hamburg office and joined the firm in 2018 as an Asso­ciate Direc­tor in the DACH Mid Cap team, where he was invol­ved in a number of tran­sac­tions inclu­ding the exit of KLINGEL Medi­cal Metal in 2023 and the acqui­si­ti­ons of MÜPRO in 2022 and CONET in 2021. 

The IK Part­ner­ship Fund stra­tegy was laun­ched in 2019 and targets larger, more estab­lished compa­nies at the upper end of the mid-market. IK invests along­side exis­ting owners or new part­ners via mino­rity positions. 

In addi­tion, IK is plea­sed to announce two further part­ner appoint­ments in the firm’s Hamburg and London offices: Ingmar Bär — Deve­lo­p­ment Capi­tal Invest­ment Team, Hamburg and Alex­an­dra Kazi — Finance and Admi­nis­tra­tion Team, London. Chris­to­pher Masek, Chief Execu­tive Offi­cer at IK, commen­ted: “After another very successful year for IK, we are deligh­ted to cele­brate the contri­bu­ti­ons of Adrian and Alex­an­dra, whose dedi­ca­tion and efforts have been reco­gni­zed by their promo­ti­ons to the Part­ner group. In addi­tion, with the opening of a new office in Munich, we are streng­thening our estab­lished base in the DACH region and helping to cement our posi­tion as one of the leading part­ners to Euro­pean small and medium-sized enter­pri­ses. ” Adrian Tanski, Part­ner at IK: “I am deligh­ted to join Joachim in leading IK’s new Munich office to streng­then our presence in the dyna­mic and attrac­tive DACH market. Munich’s thri­ving economy, strong indus­trial base and access to high cali­ber talent make it an ideal place to expand our reach and create exci­ting invest­ment opportunities. ”

About IK Partners

IK Part­ners (“ IK ”) is a Euro­pean private equity firm focu­sed on invest­ments in the Bene­lux, DACH, France, the Nordics and the UK. Since 1989, IK has raised more than €17 billion of capi­tal and inves­ted in more than 195 Euro­pean compa­nies. IK backs compa­nies with strong under­ly­ing poten­tial and works with manage­ment teams and inves­tors to create robust, well-posi­­tio­­ned busi­nesses with excel­lent long-term pros­pects. www.ikpartners.com