Transaction

The Clearwater team advises AVANTEC on its sale to Grapha-Holding

Transaction

Grapha Group acquires Avantec Holding AG

Sell-side

Undisclosed

Role

Adviser to the seller of AVANTEC

Sector

Tech & Tech Services

Region

Switzerland

The Clearwater team has advised AVANTEC, a leading IT security company on its sale to GRAPHA-Holding.

With this transaction, GRAPHA-Holding, with the two existing IT service providers GIA Informatik and POLYDATA Group, is further strengthening its offering for managed security services and continuing its sustainable and successful corporate development.

GRAPHA-Holding is the holding company of an internationally active, family-owned group of companies with around 3,000 employees. The group offers comprehensive IT services, is industrially active in the fields of print finishing, lifting technology and plastic injection moulding and also operates a real estate portfolio.

AVANTEC has stood for the highest level of IT security expertise for over 25 years. Founded in 1995, AVANTEC is now the leading Swiss provider of IT security solutions in the areas of cloud, content, network and endpoint security. Over 250 customers in Switzerland, Germany, Austria and Liechtenstein already rely on AVANTEC.

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It was important for us to find a partner whose goals are in line with those of AVANTEC - a long-term development of the company while maintaining high standards in terms of quality and customer orientation.

Christian Schwarzer, Co-CEO of AVANTEC

It has always been our goal to offer customers comprehensive IT security from a single source. Joining the Grapha Group now opens up great opportunities for us, our customers and our employees. In future, our customers will benefit from a comprehensive IT security offering consisting of AVANTEC's proven integration services and a new range of managed security services, which will now be developed together with GIA Informatik.

Mark Stäheli, Co-CEO of AVANTEC

Grapha is a family business that can look back on a long tradition. Values such as quality awareness and consistency are central to us. With a focus on the sustainable expansion of our business activities, we have been increasingly investing in companies from the IT sector for several years. With AVANTEC, we have added a company to our group that appreciates and lives our values just as much as we do. We are convinced that together we will be very successful on the market.

Stephan Wintsch, CEO of GRAPHA-Holding

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