Taylor Wessing advises the founding partners of Securepoint on the sale to Maxburg’s first Single Continuation Fund, with Accel KKR as the anchor investor

Led by Hamburg-based partner Dr Mark Hoenike, Taylor Wessing provided comprehensive legal advice to the founding shareholders of Securepoint GmbH on the sale of Securepoint GmbH to a newly established single-asset continuation fund from Maxburg. The new fund is backed by Accel-KKR, a global private equity firm specialising in technology investments, as lead investor. The completion of the transaction is subject to approval by the Federal Cartel Office and the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy.

Securepoint was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Lüneburg, Lower Saxony. The company is one of the leading providers of cybersecurity software solutions for small and medium-sized enterprises. Securepoint distributes its solutions via a highly differentiated indirect partner model with around 5,800 channel partners and managed service providers, and serves more than 125,000 end customers in the DACH region.

The Taylor Wessing team led by partner Dr Mark Hoenike had already provided comprehensive legal advice to the founding shareholders in 2018 when Maxburg made its investment. 

Legal advisers to the former shareholders of Securepoint GmbH

Taylor Wessing Germany: Dr Mark Hoenike, LL.M. (lead, Corporate/M&A, Hamburg), Dr Kathrin Monen, LL.M. (Corporate/M&A, Düsseldorf); Dr Philipp Weiten, LL.M. (Düsseldorf), Julian C. Ludwig (Frankfurt) and Jan-Philipp Jansen, LL.M. (Düsseldorf) (all Tax & Private Clients); Dr Jens Wiesner, LL.M. (Finance, Hamburg); Dr Jan-Lieven Stöcklein, Dr Theresa Sauerwein (both Disputes & Investigations, Frankfurt)