P+P advises Maxburg Capital Partners on acquisition of saracus consulting Group

The investment firm Maxburg Beteiligungen III („Maxburg"), managed by Maxburg Capital Partners, has acquired a majority stake in saracus consulting Group. P+P Pöllath + Partners advised Maxburg on all tax matters related to the transaction.

saracus consulting develops tailor-made on-premise and cloud-based solutions in the areas of data management, data warehouse, data analytics & data science and business intelligence. Current core topics are the cloud migrations of distributed infrastructures, as well as the big data analysis through AI-based methods such as self-learning algorithms or neuronal networks. The company was founded in 1991. Its customers include, inter alia, insurance companies, financial services and public administration.

Maxburg is an investment firm focused on the DACH region that is flexible and open to alternative deal formats; it invests in both privately held and listed companies. The Maxburg investment firms have a total fund volume and capital commitments of approx. EUR 600 million.

P+P Pöllath + Partners advised Maxburg on all tax matters with the following Munich-based team:

• Dr. Michael Best (partner, lead, tax law)
• Gerald Herrmann (counsel, tax law)
• Tobias Deschenhalm (associate, tax law

P+P Pöllath + Partners advises Maxburg Capital on tax matters on a regular basis, most recently on the acquisition of the majority stake in the tech company STARFACE GmbH and GfS – Gesellschafts für Sicherheitstechnik mbH.