• Oakley acquires a majority stake, alongside co-investors, in Australian-based Webcentral via a carve-out transaction
• Webcentral is a leading Australian domain, hosting and e-mail provider
• RSM Ebner Stolz supported Oakley as buyside advisor with a Financial Due Diligence and SPA support

Bonn, 6 November 2023 - The assurance and consulting firm RSM Ebner Stolz has advised Oakley Capital (Oakley) on the buyer side of the acquisition of a majority stake, alongside co-investors, in Webcentral DEH (Webcentral) through a carve-out from its Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) listed parent company Webcentral Limited.

Oakley Capital, a leading pan-European, mid-market private equity investor was started by Peter Dubens in 2002. The company backs outstanding mid-market businesses across four core sectors of technology, consumer, education and business services helping them succeed in a changing world. For more than 20 years, Oakley Capital has backed over 40 businesses in 11 countries and completed more than 150 bolt-on acquisitions.

The Oakley team is uniquely positioned to support the next stage of Webcentral’s growth, enabling the company to expand its capabilities, to further improve its services to clients, and to pursue new growth opportunities. Oakley and its partners will apply their extensive experience in scaling SaaS and hosting companies to help Webcentral unlock opportunities in the fragmented, international hosting market that continues to grow, as global demand for cloud infrastructure solutions accelerates.

Webcentral is a leading Australian domain, hosting and e-mail provider, which was founded in 1996 offering an extensive portfolio of digital services to over 330,000 small and medium businesses as well as 2,500 enterprises across Australia and New Zealand. The company is growing profitably with high cash conversion rates as more SMEs seek to digitize their business models.

Oakley is investing in Webcentral by partnering with veteran hosting entrepreneurs Jochen Berger and Tom Strohe, marking the latest in a series of successful collaborations in this space, including Intergenia, HEG, WebPros and Contabo.

Team Ebner Stolz: Torsten Janßen (Project-responsible Partner, Transaction Advisory Services), Peter Klostermann (Project-lead, both Financial Due Diligence) as well as Yannic Fallack and Sebastian Zwick (all Financial)

Press contact

Henning Marburger
RSM Ebner Stolz
Holzmarkt 1
50676 Köln
Phone +49 221 20643-628
henning.marburger@ebnerstolz.de 

Firm contact

Torsten Janßen
RSM Ebner Stolz
Joseph-Schumpeter-Allee 25
53227 Bonn
Phone +49 228 58029-212
torsten.janßen@ebnerstolz.de 

About RSM Ebner Stolz

RSM Ebner Stolz is one of the largest independent middle-market assurance and consulting firms in Germany. The company is among the top ten in the industry and has broad expertise in assurance, tax, legal and management consulting. With this multidisciplinary consulting approach and as one of the market leaders in the middle-market sector with more than 2,100 employees at 14 locations, RSM Ebner Stolz serves national and international industrial, commercial and service enterprises in all sectors.

As a member of RSM International, RSM Ebner Stolz offers its clients high-quality assurance and consulting services in 120 countries with 830 offices worldwide.