GP Bullhound advises IT Sonix, a leading German call centre SaaS provider, on its sale to Enghouse Systems Limited

GP Bullhound advises IT Sonix, a leading German call centre SaaS provider, on its sale to Enghouse Systems Limited

GP Bullhound, the leading international technology investment bank, has acted as the exclusive financial advisor to IT Sonix AG (“IT Sonix”) on its sale to Canada based publicly listed Enghouse Systems Limited (TSX:ESL) (“Enghouse”).

Based in Leipzig, Germany, IT Sonix is a privately-owned software provider specializing in outbound contact centre solutions with a particular focus on tele-marketing. ELSBETH, IT Sonix’s flagship solution, is a fully featured, general purpose, outbound suite combining a powerful predictive dialer, campaign management, call scripting, real-time speech analytics and agent coaching capabilities. The ELSBETH products are installed in 10 of the 30 largest German contact centres and can be deployed as an on-premise, hosted, or SaaS solution.  Founded in 1999, the company has offices and data centres in Germany, the UK and Italy.

“We are very excited to be part of the Enghouse family – an enterprise software company with strong resources and global reach” stated Dr. Andreas Lassmann, CEO of IT Sonix. “We look forward to accelerating our growth and product capabilities while maintaining the high level of service our customers have come to expect from us”.

“We would like to thank GP Bullhound for their support throughout the entire M&A process. The experience and dedication provided by their international technology banking teams proved to be very important for the process”, commented Dr. Lassmann.

“This acquisition represents the culmination of a great journey by the founders of IT Sonix and I am pleased that we could utilise our international reach through our San Francisco office to drive this to a successful close” stated Julian Riedlbauer, Partner and Head of GP Bullhound’s Berlin office.

This represents the completion of GP Bullhound’s 26th transaction in the last 12 months and further highlights our commitment to working with category leaders and hidden technology champions.

Enquiries
For enquiries contact Julian Riedlbauer, Partner, julian.riedlbauer@gpbullhound.com
Tel: +49 30 610 806 010

GP Bullhound
GP Bullhound is an international technology investment banking group with offices in London, San Francisco, Stockholm, Berlin and Manchester. Founded in 1999, GP Bullhound provides world-class advice on mergers, acquisitions and private placements to a diverse range of corporate clients, institutional investors and high net worth individuals.
Combining a true love for entrepreneurship and innovation with deep global buyer relations and sector expertise, GP Bullhound has completed transactions for many category leaders, most recently selling Pozitron to Monitise, Pure360 to SEP, Tunigo to Spotify, and Fjord to Accenture. For more information, please visit www.gpbullhound.com
In 2013, GP Bullhound was awarded Boutique Investment Bank of the Year and Leading Advisers of the Year by the Acquisition International M&A Awards, and Manish Madhvani, a Founding Partner of GP Bullhound was named as a winner of the fourth annual M&A Advisor 40 Under 40 Award.

IT Sonix
IT Sonix AG specializes in the development and sale of high-quality software based communication products for the contact centre industry. Customers throughout Europe benefit from using its communication products, predictive dialers and campaign management solutions. The company operates from offices in Germany, the U.K. and Italy. For more information, please visit www.itsonix.com.

Enghouse Systems Limited
Enghouse Systems Limited is a leading global provider of enterprise software solutions serving a variety of vertical markets. Its strategy is to build a larger, more diverse enterprise software company through strategic acquisitions and managed growth. Enghouse shares are listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX:ESL). Further information about Enghouse may be obtained from its web site at www.enghouse.com.