Despite the challenging market environment
AUCTUS is again ranked as the most active PE company in Germany
According to Oaklins – MA Marktberichts Deutschland H1 2024, AUCTUS is by far the most active private equity firm in Germany with 16 completed transactions. AUCTUS maintains this leading position despite the challenging market environment for investment companies and contrary to the current trend in which the number of private equity investors is decreasing compared to strategic buyers, as also reported by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. This decrease in Germany and worldwide is primarily driven by higher financing costs. Particularly in the area of small and medium-sized companies, in which AUCTUS holds a leading position, the market is comparatively stable. While the EUR volume of transactions in Germany dropped – mainly due to fewer large transactions – the consistently high number of smaller transactions completed continues to characterise a solid market environment for participants with strong solutions that meet the challenges in the financing environment, such as the ones provided by AUCTUS.
“AUCTUS’s market leadership is built on over 20 years of industry knowledge in the mid-market sector and deep expertise gained from more than 400 transactions with profitable niche market leaders in areas such as business services, IT, construction, consumer goods, renewable energy, healthcare, and industry. Our sustainable development in the market allows us to confidently and reliably execute primary transactions as well as add-on acquisitions for existing platforms, even in challenging times, fostering above-average growth in balanced partnership with founders. The extensive library of experience we’ve built over two decades for tailored solutions, along with our reputation and resilience in the market, reinforces this competitive advantage—especially during times when competitors do not possess the same execution strength as AUCTUS. Additionally, AUCTUS is currently realizing transactions that have been in preparation for years, thanks to long-term relationship building with entrepreneurs who have observed AUCTUS’s commitment to sustainably developing market leaders across numerous reference cases. They particularly value not only the security of transactions but also the opportunities we offer to companies and employees.”
Dr. Nicolas Himmelmann, Partner at AUCTUS
About Auctus
With over 420 investments in the last 23 years, AUCTUS is the most active investment company for European SMEs. Our investments focus on majority shareholdings in companies with annual sales of between EUR 10 million and EUR 150 million.
AUCTUS stands for sustainable organic growth, but also inorganic growth through acquisitions. We achieve this in a trusting partnership together with the management of our companies. We specialize in building successful medium-sized groups of companies - we make market leaders. The more than 35 experienced AUCTUS investment experts currently manage 50 platform investments from various sectors of the economy. The platform holdings, with a total of over 200 individual companies, generate annual sales of € 3 billion. Sales and earnings have been growing at >10% per year for years.
Our successful work is regularly rewarded with prestigious awards and top international rankings.
