DLA Piper advises Keensight on acquisition of Onventis

DLA Piper advised Keensight Capital on the acquisition of Onventis, a leading provider of cloud procurement solutions for SMEs in the DACH region, Benelux and Scandinavia. The seller is Main Capital Partners, which had invested in Onventis in 2019.

Keensight will support Onventis on its way to develop into an international mid-market SaaS champion. The entire management team remains on board and invests alongside Keensight Capital.

Headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany, Onventis has been offering cloud solutions for the digital transformation of purchasing and finance processes since 2000. Worldwide, more than 1,000 companies in the Onventis network handle an annual procurement volume of over EUR10 billion with more than 50,000 suppliers.

Keensight Capital is one of the leading European growth buyout firms. For over 20 years, the company has been making long-term investments in profitable companies with high growth potential and revenues of between EUR10 million and EUR400 million.

The DLA Piper team was led by partners Lars Jessen (Frankfurt) and Sebastian Decker (Hamburg; both Corporate/M&A) with partner Dr Konrad Rohde, Of Counsel Martin Heinsius (both Tax, Frankfurt), senior associates Anne-Kathrin Hoppe, Friederike Rickers, Sophie von Mandelsloh (all Corporate/M&A, Hamburg), Sven Bischoff (Tax) and associate Daniel Osmanovic (Corporate/M&A, both Frankfurt) in the core team.

The team also included partners Dr. Henriette Norda (Employment, Hamburg), Semin O (Antitrust, Frankfurt), Verena Grentzenberg (Data Protection, Hamburg), Lars Reubekeul (Real Estate), Dr. Jan Geert Meents (IT, both Munich), Dr Burkard Führmeyer (IPT), Dr Wolfram Distler (Finance), Dr Thomas Schmuck (Corporate/M&A), counsel Dr Raimund Behnes (Tax, all Frankfurt), Dr Thilo Streit (Public Commercial Law, Cologne), Miray Kavruk (IPT, Frankfurt), Lukas Weidner (Real Estate), Silke Goschler, Dr Susanne Weckbach (both Commercial, all Munich), the senior associates Jan Schürmann (Corporate/M&A, Hamburg), Pascal Hornstein (Tax, Frankfurt), Dr Katharina Fischer (Employment, Hamburg), Dr Holger Kastler (IT, Munich), Patrick Reuter (Finance), Ina Fey (Antitrust, both Frankfurt) as well as the associates Dr Pia Dorn (Public Commercial Law, Cologne), Caroline Huber (Antitrust Law, Frankfurt), Ekaterina Filikhina (IT, Munich), David Schele (Data Protection, Hamburg), Sindy Martin (Finance, Frankfurt) and Vincent Wehner (Real Estate, Munich).

In addition, an international team from the DLA Piper offices in Sweden, the Netherlands and Austria advised on the transaction.

Paul Hastings, Paris, advised on French law and structuring aspects of the transaction. The Paul Hastings team included Olivier Deren, Allard de Waal, Vincent Nacinovic and Alban Castarède.