Success Story

Trade Sale netdirekt to leaseweb

31. December 2011 from Holger Fries

Seller: netdirekt

Buyer: LeaseWeb Germany GmbH

Branch: IT, media and communication

Transaction volume: not published

Closing: 31.12.2011

»The extremely professional approach - starting from the business analysis and documentation through the enterprise valuation to the management of negotiations and the coordination of external consultants - has really impressed me. My objectives were given due consideration throughout: safeguarding all employees’ jobs, the integration into a socially compatible environment and the highest purchase price possible.«

Wiethold Wagner executive partner of netdirek

About netdirect

The hosting operator netdirekt was founded in Frankfurt in 1996 and served around 3000 customers with a total of 6500 servers at the time of the takeover, mostly in Southern and Eastern Europe. The service included dedicated servers, virtualisation and co-location. www.netdirekt.com/tr

About LeaseWeb Germany GmbH

LeaseWeb was founded in 1997 and is now one of the Top 30 hosting providers in the world with 200 employees. From its headquarters in Amsterdam, the company provides dedicated and co-located hosting, virtualisation and cloud offers, as well as customised IT infrastructure solutions. In Europe and North America, LeaseWeb has access to a bandwidth capacity of one and a half terabytes per second (1.5 Tbit/s). www.leaseweb.de