EY Law and EY advised the selling foundations of Julian and Paul Zehetmayr on the sale of their cloud-based e-signature solution provider eversign GmbH to PDFTron, a global provider of document processing technology for developers and enterprises.
eversign – leading tech-company from Austria sold
eversign was founded by the Zehetmayr brothers in 2017. The Vienna-based company rapidly developed and today operates one of the leading e-Signature platforms with over half a million users, offering unique functionality and bringing flexible workflows and an increase in time efficiency to individuals, SMBs and large companies likewise.
“I am very happy that we assisted Paul and Julian on another complex carve-out deal. This is the latest of a series of transactions in SaaS and New Technology industries which our multi-disciplinary team advised on from structuring and preparation until successful completion. A big thank you to all team members for their outstanding contribution and commitment over the last months.” said Georg Perkowitsch, partner at EY Law.
Multidisciplinary Advisory by EY Law and EY Tax
Georg Perkowitsch (M&A/Corporate) led the multi-disciplinary team Marie Winter (M&A/New Technologies), Denisa Boeck (M&A/Corporate), Roman Jatzko (M&A/Real Estate), David Konrath (FDI/Merger Control), Martin Hanzl (IP/New Technologies), Alexander Glaser (IP/New Technologies), Ermano Geuer (Data Protection), Georg Harer (Finance) and Sebastian Manschiebel (Employment).
Christian Massoner (Director, EY Tax), and Kristin Resenig (Senior, EY Tax) advised the sellers on all tax matters in connection with the transaction.
The buyer PDFTron was advised by Dorda and KPMG.
EY Law in Austria
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