Kaffee Partner Holding GmbH has sold a majority shareholding to Capvis and Partners Group AG

The private shareholders of Kaffee Partner Holding GmbH have sold a majority stake in the company to Capvis and Partners Group AG for an undisclosed consideration.

Kaffee Partner Holding, headquartered in Wallenhorst near Osnabrück, is the German market leader for professional coffee supply to small and medium sized enterprises (SME) in Germany. The company offers a broad range of coffee dispensers and consumables and is engaged in the servicing of the machines, thus leading to a “one-stop-shopping” opportunity for customers.

Capvis is the leading private equity firm in Switzerland and one of the leaders in Germany and Austria. It acquires well positioned SME operations headquartered in the GSA region. Capvis funds total US$990 million. Since 1990, the team has undertaken 40 transactions totaling in excess of US$3.3 billion.

Partners Group AG is one of the world’s leading private market investment management firms with assets under management exceeding US$25 billion in the private equity, private debt, private real estate and private infrastructure areas.

Oaklins' team in Germany acted as the exclusive financial advisor to Mr. Michael Koch and Dr. Andreas Ost, Kaffee Partner 's private shareholders. Our team had also advised Kaffee Partner on all previous transactions with Bridgepoint (2002), Odewald (2005), as well as the add-on acquisition of i-Punkt (2007), and played a major role in initiating and structuring the deal.