Renzenbrink & Partner advises Acture on the acquisition of KI.M
8. February 2024Renzenbrink & Partner advised Acture on the acquisition of Kölner Institut für Managementberatung GmbH & Co KG (KI.M).
Kölner Institut für Managementberatung GmbH & Co. KG (KI.M) is a leading provider of HR management services, organizational consulting and psychosocial employee support and serves various German blue-chip clients.
Acture was founded in the Netherlands in 2008 by CEO Maudie Derks and others and has been a portfolio company of the IK SC II fund advised by IK Partners since 2020. Acture is the market leader in the provision of social security services in the Netherlands and is responsible, among other things, for the processing of over EUR 25 billion in wages and salaries (approximately 10% of the total annual wage bill in the Netherlands). Acture is currently expanding its reach and influence in key segments in the Netherlands and across Europe.
Following the acquisition of the companies move UP (Hamburg) in January 2024 and Evermood (Berlin) in summer 2023 – with Evermood currently entering the Dutch market with the help of Acture – KI.M is Acture’s third acquisition in Germany in less than a year.
Renzenbrink & Partner advised Acture comprehensively on all legal and tax aspects of this acquisition.
Renzenbrink & Partner advised Acture on regulatory issues with a team consisting of Dr. Niels Maier (Partner/Private Equity), Dr. Alexander Haunschild (Senior Associate/Private Equity), Dr. Andreas Sandberger (Attorney/Private Equity) as well as Marc Kotyrba (Partner/Tax) and Marie Eikmeier (Senior Associate/Tax) in cooperation with NOVACOS (Maria Heil and Guram Gobechia).