Renzenbrink & Partner advises SCHEMA Group on the acquisition of DOCWARE GmbH

Renzenbrink & Partner advised SCHEMA TopCo GmbH, an IK portfolio company, on the acquisition of DOCWARE Gesellschaft für rechnergestützte Dokumentation, Konstruktion und Softwaretechnik mbH (DOCWARE) from the managing partners.

DOCWARE, based in Fürth, was founded in 1987 and currently employs around 65 people. DOCWARE specializes in the development of software solutions for the management of service and spare parts information for industrial companies in all sectors. With PARTS-PUBLISHER, a modular spare parts catalog software, DOCWARE occupies a leading position in the market for electronic parts catalogs and digital service information systems.

The SCHEMA Group, a portfolio company of the IK Investment Partners Small Cap Fund II, is a leading manufacturer of professional software solutions for product and process-related documentation with its products SCHEMA ST4 and SCHEMA CDS.

In the acquisition of DOCWARE, Renzenbrink & Partner advised SCHEMA TopCo GmbH with a team consisting of Dr. Andreas Stoll, Dr. Niels Maier and Martin Aisenbrey (Corporate/M&A) as well as Marc H. Kotyrba (Tax) together with KNPZ Rechtsanwälte (IP/IT) on all legal and tax aspects of the transaction. Renzenbrink & Partner had already advised IK on the acquisition of SCHEMA Group in 2018 and this in turn on the complete takeover of TID Informatik GmbH in 2019.