Inflexion, a European private equity firm for medium-sized companies, is acquiring Axel Springer's shares in finanzen.net, the leading financial portal in Germany. The investment also involves finanzen.net founders Jens Ohr, Peter Schille and Dominik Nienhaus, who were legally advised on the transaction by a Taylor Wessing team led by Berlin partners and M&A experts Marc-Oliver Kurth and Dr Norman Röchert.
The agreement was signed on 14 November 2024; the transaction is still subject to merger control and investment control approvals.
finanzen.net was founded in 2000 by Jens Ohr and Peter Schille. In 2010, it was spun off into the independent company finanzen.net GmbH, in which Axel Springer holds a majority stake alongside the founders.
Under the new management, the Group's three previously separate business units, the investment platform Zero, the capital market information portal Finanzen.net and Traderfox, a trading software platform for private investors, are to be merged. The plan is to offer additional savings and investment products in the future. With the expanded product portfolio, finanzen.net will fulfil the role of a comprehensive financial partner for its customers.
Jens Ohr and Peter Schille, founders and partners of finanzen.net: "The partnership with Inflexion opens up an exciting new phase for finanzen.net with accelerated growth. In choosing Inflexion as a partner, we were clearly convinced by their experience with founder-led companies and their comprehensive understanding of the industry. We would like to thank Axel Springer for their support in enabling us to transform finanzen.net from a pure media brand into Germany's leading financial ecosystem. We look forward to further developing the company together with Inflexion."
About the finanzen.net Group
finanzen.net is Germany's leading financial portal with comprehensive data on current developments on the global markets. This includes real-time-push-prices and information on all relevant asset classes such as shares, certificates, indices, commodities, foreign exchange, funds, ETFs and cryptocurrencies as well as companies and the economy. Tools for chart analysis, sample portfolios and personal news pages make the service customisable. finanzen.net GmbH has been an Axel Springer SE company since 2010.
About Inflexion
Inflexion is a leading European mid-market private equity firm with offices in London, Manchester, Amsterdam, Stockholm and Frankfurt. Inflexion helps companies in a wide range of sectors to reach the next stage of growth. The funds advised by Inflexion Private Equity Partners LLP have approximately £11bn of assets under management.
Legal advisors finanzen.net founders Jens Ohr, Peter Schille and Dominik Nienhaus
Taylor Wessing Germany: Co-lead Marc-Oliver Kurth (Partner) and Dr. Norman Röchert, (Partner), Dr. Ralf Tietz (Salary Partner), Fritz Krings (Senior Associate) all Corporate/M&A, all Munich; Dr Bert Kimpel (Partner, Tax, Düsseldorf); Nico Jänicke (Partner, Employment, Pensions & Mobility, Berlin); Felix Paul (Professional Support Lawyer), Corporate/M&A
Further legal advisors
Milbank (Axel Springer), Görg (founder of Traderfox) and Latham & Watkins (Inflexion).
