​AKD advised Groupe Astek on their takeover of 100% of the shares held by Immune-IT Beheer B.V. in Immune-IT B.V. (NL) and Immune-IT BV (BE).

About Groupe Astek
Founded in France in 1988, Astek is a global player in technology consulting, present on all 5 continents. Drawing on its expertise in numerous industrial and tertiary sectors, it supports its international clients in the intelligent deployment of their products and services and implementation of their digital transformation.

Since its incorporation, the Group has based its development on a strong entrepreneurship and innovation culture, and on the support and skills development of its 5,000 employees who are committed every day to promote the complementarity between digital technologies and complex engineering systems. The Group expects to achieve a turnover of more than 320 million euros in 2021. More about Groupe Astek click here.

About Immune-IT
Founded in 2006, Immune-IT is based in 's-Hertogenbosch, Amsterdam and Rotterdam in the Netherlands and Aalst in Belgium. Immune-IT has more than 130 employees providing their expertise to numerous customers in the financial and public sector such as Rabobank, Waternet , Aegon, Argenta, bpost, Eurail, Eneco and De Nederlandsche Bank. Immune-IT expects to achieve a turnover of 13 million euros in 2021. More about Immune-IT click here. 

A press release can be found here.

Team
AKD's Dutch M&A-team consisted of Nathalie van Woerkom, Rosanne Vlasveld and Casper Schnepper. Angelique Martens was involved from the notary side. Jasper Verhoog and Timothy Speelman were involved regarding the release of the legal opinions regarding respectively Netherlands and Belgium. AKD's tax team was comprised of Robert Jean Kloprogge, Sjoerd Waagmeester, Werner Heyvaert and Vicky Sheikh Mohammad.