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CMS Helps Bechtle Acquire Dataformers in Austria

CMS Helps Bechtle Acquire Dataformers in Austria

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CMS has advised Bechtle AG on its acquisition of Dataformers GmbH.

Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed, and closing remains subject to approval by antitrust authorities.

Bechtle AG is the operator of seventy-five IT system houses in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. The company was founded in 1983 and currently employs over 12,000 people. Bechtle’s turnover in 2019 was around EUR 5.37 billion.

Dataformers is a software developer headquartered in Linz and operating in that city, as well as in Vienna and Eisenstadt. The company’s turnover last year was approximately EUR 5.5 million. 

The CMS team included Partners Tobias Schneider, Dieter Zandler, and Johannes Trenkwalder, and Associate Vanessa Horaceck.

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