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Clifford Chance Amsterdam advises Gilde Buy Out Partners on the acquisition of ERP software company To-Increase B.V.

28 January 2021

Clifford Chance Amsterdam advises Gilde Buy Out Partners on the acquisition of ERP software company To-Increase B.V.

Clifford Chance advised investment firm Gilde Buy Out Partners ('Gilde') on its EUR 113 million acquisition of ERP software company To-Increase B.V. from Danish listed company Columbus A/S. Clifford Chance assisted Gilde with the legal review, the transfer of the shares and the implementation of the management incentive plan.

Gilde is a leading European private equity investor in mid-market transactions, with operations in the Benelux and the DACH region. To-Increase B.V. is a Global SaaS Leader in Microsoft Dynamics 365 business applications with a highly scalable business model utilizing a global distribution channel to drive organic growth.

The Clifford Chance core team consisted of Hans Beerlage, Pieter Leefers, Serkan Özel, Laura Stegeman, Catherine van der Helm and Magdalena Kučko (corporate), Floris van de Bult and Willemijn de Wit (TPE) and Folko de Vries, Amin Tamaddoni and Sebastiaan van Steenbergen (FMG). The wider team included Jaap Tempelman, Andrei Mikes, Wijnanda Rutten, Stern Flik, Jurre Jurriëns, Liesbeth Buiter, Mariam Al-Zubaidy, Lotte van den Berg and Sabine van den Heuvel.