Milbank advised H.I.G. Capital, a leading global alternative investment firm with over €35 billion of equity capital under management, on the sale of Infinigate Holding AG to Bridgepoint, an international alternative asset fund management group. The transaction is subject to clearance by the relevant antitrust authorities.
The core of Infinigate’s business is software distribution – acting as a sales multiplier between vendors and resellers, giving market access to disruptive vendors, and providing value-added services, such as technical support, trainings, and marketing support to vendors and resellers. Infinigate focuses on growing cybersecurity and cloud segments and supports its multinational software vendors in their expansion throughout Europe by providing a network of more than 10,000 resellers. H.I.G. Capital acquired a majority stake in Infinigate in 2017.
A Milbank team, which comprehensively advised H.I.G. Capital on corporate, tax, financing and antitrust law aspects of the transaction, was led by partner Michael Bernhardt (Corporate/M&A, Frankfurt) and included the partners Matthias Schell (Tax, Munich) and Alexander Rinne (Antitrust, Munich) as well as the associates Sebastian Dexheimer, Sarah-Maria Resch, Viviane Opitz (all Corporate/M&A, Frankfurt), Odilo Wallner (Finance, Frankfurt) und Susanne Schricker (Antitrust, Munich).
