Clifford Chance
Clifford Chance advises on the financing for the acquisition and combination of group.ONE and dogado by Cinven and Ontario Teachers
16 May 2023
- Peter Dahlen, Matt Dunn, Nicholas Kinnersley, , Katherine Sinclair, Louise Baxter, June Ng, Bettina Steinhauer, Peter Gierl
- London
Clifford Chance advises on the financing for the acquisition and combination of group.ONE and dogado by Cinven and Ontario Teachers
Clifford Chance has advised the lenders in connection with the financing to support the acquisition and combination of group.ONE and the dogado group by international private equity firm Cinven and leading global investor Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board.
The combination of group.ONE and dogado will create a leading pan-European one-stop-shop provider of online presence solutions including domain, web hosting, cloud hosting, business software and digital marketing services.
group.ONE, is a leading European provider of online presence solutions via mass hosting and software products to c.1.6 million customers through brands including one.com, Hostnet and WP Media. dogado is a leading provider of online presence solutions in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, offering mass and cloud hosting and digital marketing services to more than 380,000 customers.
The Clifford Chance team was led by partners Peter Dahlen, Matt Dunn and Nicholas Kinnersley, with support from senior associates Emily James, Katherine Sinclair and Louise Baxter and associates Will Goulbourne and June Ng (all London Global Financial Markets). The cross-border team also included partner Bettina Steinhauer and senior associate Peter Gierl (both Global Financial Markets Germany).
