Rosen­ber­ger Hoch­fre­quenz­tech­nik acqui­res majo­ri­ty sta­ke in Aifo­tec AG

The Rosen­ber­ger Hoch­fre­quenz­tech­nik GmbH & Co. KG has acqui­red the majo­ri­ty inte­rest in Aifo­tec AG from GUB Invest­ment Trust GmbH & Co. KGaA. With the majo­ri­ty acqui­si­ti­on Rosen­ber­ger wants to fur­ther expand its com­pe­tence in pho­to­nics and micro­as­sem­bly. Tog­e­ther, the suc­cessful growth of Aifo­tec in pho­to­nics is to be con­tin­ued and new inno­va­ti­ve busi­ness are­as are to be ope­ned up.

Aifo­tec AG, head­quar­te­red in Mei­nin­gen, Thu­rin­gia, is an inter­na­tio­nal­ly acti­ve com­pa­ny for high-pre­cis­i­on deve­lo­p­ment and manu­fac­tu­ring ser­vices in the pho­to­nics indus­try. Many of Aifo­tec’s cus­to­mers are well-known glo­bal play­ers in the semi­con­duc­tor indus­try. With its uni­que manu­fac­tu­ring know-how and high-tech machi­nery, Aifo­tec covers the enti­re value chain from pro­to­ty­p­ing to series pro­duc­tion of inno­va­ti­ve pho­to­nic com­pon­ents.

“With Rosen­ber­ger Hoch­fre­quenz­tech­nik as our new main share­hol­der, we have gai­ned an inter­na­tio­nal­ly renow­ned com­pa­ny with an excel­lent under­stan­ding of our busi­ness model and our mar­kets, with which we will achie­ve growth poten­ti­al in new busi­ness are­as”, comm­ents Dr. Gun­ther Voll­rath, CEO and foun­der of Aifo­tec AG. Dr. Voll­rath will con­ti­nue to mana­ge the com­pany’s busi­ness in the future.

Rosen­ber­ger Hoch­fre­quenz­tech­nik GmbH & Co. KG is a medi­um-sized, fami­ly-owned indus­tri­al com­pa­ny with more than 11,000 employees world­wi­de. Today Rosen­ber­ger is one of the worl­d’s lea­ding sup­pli­ers of stan­dar­di­zed and cus­to­mi­zed inter­con­nec­tion solu­ti­ons in high fre­quen­cy, high vol­ta­ge and fiber optic tech­no­lo­gy.

During the tran­sac­tion, the main share­hol­der GUB Invest­ment Trust GmbH & Co. KGaA was exclu­si­ve­ly advi­sed by Blätt­chen & Part­ner within the frame­work of a struc­tu­red M&A pro­cess.

About Blätt­chen & Part­ner

With its inno­va­ti­ve finan­cial stra­te­gies, Blätt­chen & Part­ner GmbH has been one of the lea­ding cor­po­ra­te finan­ce experts in Ger­ma­ny for over 30 years. The Munich-based com­pa­ny spe­cia­li­zes in advi­sing on manage­ment par­ti­ci­pa­ti­on pro­grams, IPOs, bonds, pro­mis­so­ry note loans and the asso­cia­ted post-issu­an­ce capi­tal mar­ket sup­port. Other key are­as of the com­pany’s ran­ge of ser­vices include cor­po­ra­te par­ti­ci­pa­ti­ons and M&A tran­sac­tions. More than 500 tran­sac­tions are pro­of of the com­pany’s pro­ven exper­ti­se. The grown inter­di­sci­pli­na­ry com­pe­tence net­work, the high level of cus­to­mer satis­fac­tion and the lar­ge num­ber of publi­ca­ti­ons on important cor­po­ra­te finan­ce topics reflect the reco­gni­zed repu­ta­ti­on of Blätt­chen & Part­ner GmbH.