PRESS RELEASE

Munich, 11 September 2023

Rocket Software Inc. partners with the largest enterprises, in all industries, to solve their most complex IT challenges, across infrastructure, data, and applications — with solutions that simplify, not disrupt their modernization journey. Trusted by over 10,000 customers, Rocket Software helps enterprises modernize in place with a hybrid cloud strategy, so they don’t need to re-platform or build from the ground up. The company’s 2,600 global employees work with customers to accelerate and optimize their modernization journey while meeting evolving market needs. Rocket Software is a privately held U.S. corporation headquartered in the Boston area with centers of excellence strategically located throughout North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. Rocket Software is a portfolio company of Bain Capital Private Equity.

BOS DigiTec GmbH (former B.O.S. Software Service und Vertrieb GmbH) is a leading provider of data integration solutions. Headquartered in Germany, BOS drives innovation with powerful, platform-independent integration technology for heterogeneous environments powered by mainframe architecture. For more than three decades, the company has helped the largest enterprise customers and government agencies create synergies between their mainframe and emerging technologies like Cloud and Big Data – connecting the past with the future so they can access the right data in the right place at the right time. The company’s focus is on cross-system data replication, synchronization and migration including data transformation and propagation to the target systems in environments with IBM z mainframes, Linux, Unix, MS-Windows, Hadoop, Cloud, and Big Data platforms.

The financial terms of the deal are not being disclosed.

THE ADVISORS:

Rocket Software:

Bird & Bird: partner Stefan Münch (lead, Corporate/M&A, Munich), counsel Michael Gassner, counsel Dr. Christina Lorenz, LL.M. and associate Marina Dolina (all Corporate/M&A, Munich), partner Dr. Rolf Schmich, counsel Michael Brüggemann and associate Luca Eckrich (all Tax, Frankfurt), partner Dr. Ralph Panzer (Employment, Munich), partner Thomas Hey and associate Julia Kunzmann (both Employment, Düsseldorf), counsel Sandy Gerlach and associates Maximilian Koch and Cara-Marlene Fuchs (all Employment, Munich) and associate Dr. Florian Kessenich (Employment, Hamburg), partner Dr. Markus Körner and associate Yvonne Schaafs (both IP and Litigation, Munich), partner Dr. Fabian Niemann (Commercial, Düsseldorf), partner Dr. Miriam Ballhausen (Commercial, Hamburg) and counsel Dr. Nils Loefling (Commercial, Düsseldorf), partner Johannes Wirtz and associate Timo Förster (both Finance & Financial Regulation, Frankfurt), senior counsel Elie Kaufman and associate Christian Cervellino (both Real Estate, Frankfurt), partner Dr. Stephan Waldheim and associates Tamy Tietze and Nima Astani (all Competition & EU Law, Düsseldorf).

The following attorneys from Bird & Bird provided Italian law advice: senior associate Matteo Ceschin, senior associate Linda Pietrostefani, associate Paride Bordoni (all Corporate/M&A, Milano, Italy).

PwC (Dusseldorf): Oliver Dörfler (Partner, M&A Tax), Martin Ratzke (Senior Manager, Deals Tax)

BOS software – Sellers

honert (Munich): Dr. Jochen Neumayer, partner (lead Corporate, M&A, Tax), Arik Widenhorn, associate (Corporate, M&A), Dr. Simon Busch, associate (Tax)
Wilms (Berlin): Thorsten Müller-Winterhager (IP / IT)

For further information please contact:

Dr. Jochen Neumayer
honert münchen PartG mbB
rechtsanwälte wirtschaftsprüfer steuerberater
Theatinerstraße 14
80333 Munich
Phone +49 (89) 388 381 0
[email protected]