Global law firm Freshfields has advised Kartesia Management S.à r.l and affiliated funds on a hybrid financing to support the continued growth of AndCompany, a portfolio company of Rigeto Unternehmerkapital.

Kartesia is a privately owned European asset manager specialised in private corporate lending, providing tailor-made long-term liquidity and credit solutions to European-based lower mid-market borrower.

Rigeto Unternehmerkapital is a Munich-based family office and co-investor founded in 2013 focussing on medical technology, healthcare, business services as well as software and security.

The hybrid financing solution is intended to support AndCompany GmbH’s continued growth and to further advance its buy-and-build strategy, which focuses on combining specialised IT consulting and software expertise under a house-of-brands model.

The Freshfields team was led by Partner Michael Josenhans and further consisted of Counsel Alexander Pospisil, Principal Associate Hannes Butz and Associates Alexander Bräuer (alle Finance, Frankfurt) and Faras Mirhoseiny (Corporate/M&A, Berlin) as well as Research Assistant Serra Onal.

Freshfields has previously advised Kartesia on the financing of a share purchase in FormMed Group.