P+P advises Elvaston on sale of MHP Group to FSN Capital
FSN Capital has acquired a majority stake in the MHP Group. The sellers are funds managed by Elvaston Capital that will remain invested in the MHP Group.
P+P Pöllath + Partners advised Elvaston Capital on all legal and tax matters related to the sale and reinvestment. The transaction is still subject to approval of the competent authorities.
The MHP Group is a leading provider of logistics software in the DACH region. The company was founded in 1999 as a software provider for automating commercial and parcel shipments. It has also expanded its offerings in the last 10 years from shipping software to adjacent sectors such as customs registries, inventory management and transport management solutions and is currently an end-to-end provider of software along the entire logistics supply chain. In addition to the brand MHP, the group includes well-known logistics software products such as TIA, LogControl, aisys, BNS and Transdata.
Elvaston Capital is an entrepreneur-led investment firm that specializes in medium-size tech companies in the DACH region.
P+P Pöllath + Partners advised Elvaston Capital with the following team:
- Tim Kaufhold (partner, lead, M&A/Private Equity, München)
- Nico Fischer (partner, tax law, Munich)
- Daniel Wiedmann (associated partner, antitrust law/foreign trade law, Frankfurt)
- Adalbert Makos (counsel, M&A/private equity, Munich)
- Moritz Klein (senior associate, M&A/private equity, Munich)
- Matthias Oberbauer (associate, M&A/private equity, Munich)
- Johanna Scherk (associate, M&A/private equity, Munich)
- Xin Zhang (associate, antitrust law/foreign trade law, Frankfurt)
P+P Pöllath + Partners advises Elvaston Capital on a regular basis, also on the acquisition of MHP software in 2016
