Paul Hastings (Europe) LLP advised Rivean Capital, a leading European private equity investor, in connection with its acquisition of Dataciders GmbH, as well as the unitranche financing of the acquisition.

Dataciders is one of the leading providers of data and analytics services in Germany, offering a broad range of services, including data strategy, data science, preprocessing of data for AI applications, software engineering, data management, business intelligence and analytics. The IT specialist enables companies to efficiently collect data across multiple domains and utilize it to make intelligent decisions.

Rivean Capital is acquiring Dataciders alongside Dataciders' management from investment funds advised by AUCTUS Capital Partners AG. The goal of the partnership is to provide the group with capital and strategic expertise for the next phase of its growth and to establish it as the segment leader in the German-speaking region (DACH).

The Paul Hastings team was led by Private Equity partners Frederik Mühl and Gerd Hegele, and Global Finance partner Dr. Melchior Raiser, and included Daniel Gutmann, David Hauser, Maximilian Diehl, and Yassin Berrou.

More details about the transaction can be found here.

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