Rautenberg & Company advises EMERAM on the acquisition of Garderos.

Our team advised EMERAM Capital Partners GmbH on the acquisition of Garderos GmbH. Closing of the transaction took place in June 2024.

EMERAM Capital Partners is one of the leading investment managers for medium-sized companies in the German-speaking region. Funds advised by EMERAM provide more than 650 million euros of capital for the development of growing companies. The portfolio includes companies from the technology/software, value-added services and new consumer goods sectors. EMERAM acts as a long-term business development partner for its companies and promotes the sustainable growth (organic and inorganic) of the portfolio companies. The portfolio currently comprises eight platform holdings with a total of more than 2,500 employees. The companies continuously achieve double-digit organic sales growth. In addition, more than 30 add-on acquisitions have accelerated growth and enabled international expansion.

Garderos is a provider of ruggedised router solutions that use a particularly robust combination of software and hardware to ensure optimal router connectivity even in harsh conditions such as heat, dust or humidity. This capability is particularly important in the telecommunications sector as well as for the digitisation of critical infrastructure such as energy networks and traffic monitoring. Garderos delivers customised routers and uses its own Garderos Router Management to enable cost-optimised zero-touch installation and secure updates of installed routers with the latest customer requirements and security-relevant features. This makes Garderos the perfect partner for the efficient roll-out of small to very large router fleets for customers with the highest quality requirements.

Our team supported EMERAM in the acquisition process with a Commercial Due Diligence and with M&A and strategic advice.