ARDIAN, formerly AXA Private Equity, has concluded a share purchase agreement on the sale of Competence Call Center Holding GmbH (CCC) to Silverfleet Capital.

CCC is a European call center provider with more than 4,500 employees in 7 countries. CCC is based in Vienna (main office) as well as being located in Berlin (two branches), Bratislava, Bucharest, Dresden, Essen, Istanbul, Leipzig, Paris and Zurich. CCC offers its clients internationally renowned call center services of the highest calibre as well as multilingual solutions in 28 languages. The firm’s core expertise includes incoming calls, outgoing calls, email/fax/letter correspondence, live chat, social media monitoring and responding in addition to e-commerce solutions.

The transaction is subject to customary approval by the relevant competition authorities.

King & Wood Mallesons SJ Berwin has advised ARDIAN and the other shareholders of CCC on this transaction

The Team:

M&A/Corporate:
Christoph Brenner (lead partner), Stefan Sebastiani (counsel), Bernhard Schmaderer (associate) – Munich
Michiel Huizinga (partner), Norman Wasse (associate) – Frankfurt

Employment:
Barbara Geck (partner), Franziska Fiedler (associate), Daniela Gudat (associate) – Frankfurt

Financing:
Clemens Niedner (partner), Sebastian Schrag (associate), Anja Harms (associate) – Frankfurt
Wolfgang Graf von Schönborn (partner) – Munich

IP/IT/Commercial:
Manuela Finger (partner), Tillman de Vries (counsel) – Frankfurt

Tax:
Michael Kreft (partner), Corina Hackbarth (associate) – Munich

EU/Competition:
Tilman Siebert (partner) – Munich

King & Wood Mallesons SJ Berwin has worked on this transaction together with Wolf Theiss Rechtsanwälte GmbH & Co KG (Austria)