DRV Legal has advised Jet Investment company Jet 2 Kappa on its acquisition of the EDS Group from DPE Deutsche Private Equity. Clifford Chance advised DPE.
Founded in 1992, the EDS Group, also operating as Euro-Druckservice, is a European print service provider focusing on Central and Eastern Europe. The company operates in Germany, the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, and Romania, with 1,500 employees and a turnover of around EUR 300 million.
Jet Investment is a Czech-based private equity investment company.
DPE is a German investment company that invests in small and medium enterprises in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.
"The acquisition of the EDS Group perfectly matches our investment thesis in central Europe," JET Investment Partner Marek Malik commented. "We expect that active, locally rooted ownership together with hands-on management and a new capital structure of the EDS Group will contribute to its further growth and strengthening of the position in the region."
The DRV Legal team included Partners Tomas Rada and Tomas Antal and Associates Vaclav Koubik and Vit Brejsa.
The Clifford Chance team included Munich-based Partner Nicole Englisch and Associate Annika Ascher, Frankfurt-based Partner Olaf Mertgen, and Dusseldorf-based Partner Dimitri Slobodenjuk and Senior Associate Arne Gayk.
