RSM Ebner Stolz advises PINOVA Capital and the Sauter family on the sale of Sauter Holding

• Ow­ner fa­mily Sau­ter and funds ad­vi­sed by Pi­nova Ca­pi­tal sell Sau­ter Hol­ding to funds ad­vi­sed by SE­VEST Ma­nage­ment GmbH
• The aim of the tran­sac­tion is to ex­pand Sau­ter's mar­ket po­si­tion and pro­mote growth in end mar­kets such as me­di­cal tech­no­logy and the con­su­mer goods in­dus­try
• RSM Eb­ner Stolz sup­por­ted the sel­ler in the tran­sac­tion with the pre­pa­ra­tion of a fi­nan­cial fact book and tax as­pects of the sale and purchase agree­ment.

Stutt­gart, 11 Sep­tem­ber 2024 - Funds ad­vi­sed by SE­VEST Ma­nage­ment GmbH (SE­VEST) have ac­qui­red the Sau­ter Group from funds of PI­NOVA Ca­pi­tal GmbH (PI­NOVA) and the Sau­ter fa­mily. RSM Eb­ner Stolz sup­por­ted the sel­lers with a fi­nan­cial fact book and ad­vi­sed on the tax as­pects of the purchase agree­ment.

The Sau­ter Group is a lea­ding supplier to the me­di­cal tech­no­logy, elec­tri­cal, hou­se­hold ap­pli­ance and con­su­mer goods in­dus­tries. The com­pany spe­cia­li­ses in the pre­cise de­ve­lop­ment and pro­duc­tion of cu­st­omer-spe­ci­fic spring so­lu­ti­ons. Sau­ter, con­sis­ting of Hein­rich Sau­ter Fa­brik tech­ni­scher Fe­dern GmbH and Schlen­ker Fe­dern GmbH, de­ve­lops and supplies tech­ni­cal springs, bent wire parts, tool-bound stam­ped and bent parts as well as its own ma­chi­nes and sys­tems. Since its ac­qui­si­tion by PI­NOVA in 2018, Sau­ter has im­ple­men­ted se­veral stra­te­gic in­itia­ti­ves and mea­su­res, in­clu­ding the ap­point­ment of a new ma­nage­ment team, the op­ti­mi­sa­tion of pro­ces­ses and a buy-and-build stra­tegy, that re­cently contri­bu­ted to dou­ble-di­git sa­les growth.

To pro­mote or­ga­nic growth, SE­VEST plans to de­epen Sau­ter's exis­ting cu­st­omer re­la­ti­ons­hips, strengt­hen its sa­les ca­pa­ci­ties, fur­ther ex­pand the at­trac­tive Med­Tech seg­ment, drive for­ward the de­ve­lop­ment of new re­gi­ons, sec­tors and ap­pli­ca­ti­ons and in­ten­sify the ac­qui­si­tion of new cu­st­omers. In ad­di­tion, in­or­ga­nic growth is to be pro­mo­ted by con­ti­nuing the suc­cess­ful buy-and-build stra­tegy.

RSM Eb­ner Stolz sup­por­ted the sa­les pro­cess with the pre­pa­ra­tion of a fi­nan­cial fact book and ad­vi­sed on the tax as­pects of the sale and purchase agree­ment.

RSM Eb­ner Stolz team: Endre La­zar (Pro­ject-re­spon­si­ble Part­ner, Tran­sac­tion Ad­vi­sory Ser­vices), Fa­bian Schwen­der (Pro­ject Lead), Marco Wag­ner (all Fi­nan­cial Fact Book); Wolf­gang Klöve­korn (Part­ner, M&A Tax), Franz Günther (M&A Tax)

Press contact

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

Firm contact

Endre La­zar
RSM Eb­ner Stolz
Kro­nen­straße 30
70174 Stutt­gart
Phone +49 711 2049-1916
endre.la­zar@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 2,400 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 820 of­fices world­wide.