Blätt­chen and Part­ner advi­sed the manage­ment team of Exolaunch in con­nec­tion with the sale of the com­pa­ny to EQT

Munich/Berlin, June 18, 2026 – EQT to acqui­re Exolaunch, a Ger­ma­ny-based satel­li­te deploy­ment tech­no­lo­gy and launch mis­si­on manage­ment firm powe­ring glo­bal access to space. Blätt­chen & Part­ner advi­sed the manage­ment team in the tran­sac­tion.

Head­quar­te­red in Ger­ma­ny, Exolaunch enables access to space for glo­bal satel­li­te ope­ra­tors. The Com­pa­ny offers indus­try-lea­ding deploy­ment hard­ware, faci­li­ta­ting the inte­gra­ti­on and aggre­ga­ti­on of awi­de ran­ge of satel­li­tes with dif­fe­rent launch vehic­les, deploy­ing pay­loads into their tar­get orbits. Exper­ti­se in rela­ted ser­vices – like launch pro­gram plan­ning, end-to-end mis­si­on manage­ment, launch capa­ci­ty pro­cu­re­ment, satel­li­te inte­gra­ti­on, test­ing, logi­stics and orbi­tal deploy­ment – enable Exolaunch to act as “one-stop-shop” for cus­to­mers, sup­port­ing laun­ches with dif­fe­rent vehic­les from launch sites glo­bal­ly.

Exolaunch has suc­cessful­ly deploy­ed over 790 satel­li­tes across 47 mis­si­ons for over 200 com­mer­cial and govern­ment cus­to­mers from North Ame­ri­ca, Euro­pe, Asia and the Midd­le East.

Pho­to cre­dit: EXOLAUNCH GmbH | www.exolaunch.com

EQT is a pur­po­se-dri­ven glo­bal invest­ment orga­niza­ti­on with EUR 269 bil­li­on in total assets under­ma­nage­ment (EUR 142 bil­li­on in fee-gene­ra­ting assets under manage­ment) as of 31 March 2026, within two busi­ness seg­ments – Pri­va­te Capi­tal and Real Assets. EQT owns port­fo­lio com­pa­nies and assets in Euro­pe, Asia Paci­fic and the Ame­ri­cas and sup­ports them in achie­ving sus­tainable growth, ope­ra­tio­nal excel­lence and mar­ket lea­der­ship.

The tran­sac­tion is sub­ject to cus­to­ma­ry con­di­ti­ons and appr­ovals. It is expec­ted to clo­se during Q4 2026.

About Blätt­chen & Part­ner

Blätt­chen & Part­ner has more than 25 years of exper­ti­se in advi­sing and imple­men­ting manage­ment and employee par­ti­ci­pa­ti­on pro­grams in the con­text of pri­va­te equi­ty tran­sac­tions, but also for lis­ted and fami­ly-owned com­pa­nies as well as foun­da­ti­ons and fami­ly offices. Fur­ther­mo­re, Blätt­chen & Part­ner sup­ports the design of exe­cu­ti­ve com­pen­sa­ti­on models and acts as a com­pen­sa­ti­on expert for lis­ted cor­po­ra­ti­ons.

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