Ringbeck Group ("Ringbeck"), a portfolio company of AURELIUS Wachstumskapital, has acquired Rüdiger Brandenburg garden, landscape and sports field construction GmbH ("Rüdiger Brandenburg"). Rüdiger Brandenburg, based in Berlin and Seddiner See, is a full-service provider for high-quality garden, landscape and sports ground construction. With the add-on acquisition of Rüdiger Brandenburg, Ringbeck Group expects total sales of approximately EUR 105 million for 2023.
WTS advised the transaction with an experienced financial and tax team specialized in private equity companies. The advisory team led by Dirk Spalthoff, Christian Hörmann and Justus Quack was responsible for the financial due diligence. The Munich M&A Tax team of WTS around Dr. Patrick Satish, Simone Rupp and Manuel Tremmel prepared the tax due diligence and negotiated the tax clause in the SPA.
Consulting Team
Tax Due Diligence and Structuring WTS Tax:
Dr. Patrick Satish, Director (Tax)
Simone Rupp, Senior Manager (Tax)
Manuel Tremmel, Consultant (Tax)
Financial Due Diligence WTS Advisory:
Dirk Spalthoff, Partner (Financial)
Christian Hörmann, Director (Financial)
Justus Quack, Senior Manager (Financial)
Dominik Eggert, Consultant (Financial)
Nick Winter, Consultant (Financial)
About Aurelius Growth Capital
AURELIUS Growth Capital is part of the AURELIUS Group. The portfolio comprises eleven platform companies. In addition to capital for investment and growth, AURELIUS Growth Capital supports the management of the acquired companies with extensive entrepreneurial experience, thus helping to leverage operational potential and realize planned growth.
About Ringbeck
The Ringbeck Group pursues the goal of establishing and expanding a supra-regional group for garden, landscape and sports ground construction as well as green roofs and green space maintenance throughout Germany. Ringbeck coordinates the competences of the six individual group companies via the Management Holding in Langenfeld.
About Rüdiger Brandenburg
Rüdiger Brandenburg is established as a leading provider of gardening and landscaping services in the Berlin region, especially among public-sector clients and commercial customers. The company was founded in 1963 and employs more than 60 people.
About WTS
WTS is a global full-service provider of Tax Advisory and Financial & Deal Advisory services. With more than 1,500 experts in Germany and one of the most advanced digital units worldwide, WTS develops innovative and integrated solutions to safely navigate tax and finance functions through increasing regulatory challenges and to support digital transformation.
WTS' consulting offering is represented by the three business units Tax, Advisory and Digital. WTS deliberately refrains from performing annual audits and is thus an independent and long-term partner.
WTS is represented at 13 locations in Germany and in more than 100 countries worldwide.
The Deal Advisory division of WTS Advisory & WTS offers integrated advice on financial (WTS Advisory) and tax (WTS) aspects along the entire transaction process. The WTS Advisory Deal Advisory team accompanies corporate transactions, for example, in the form of financial due diligence investigations and other buy-side and sell-side services, as well as valuation services such as expert and indicative company valuations, purchase price allocations, impairment tests through to post-deal implementation. The WTS Transactions Advisory team provides expert advice at every stage of a corporate transaction. Starting with tax due diligence, through structuring and negotiating the company purchase agreement, to post-deal implementation.
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