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Cross

Cross Equity, founded in 2007 and based in Pfäffikon, Switzerland, is a private equity firm that focuses on investing in mid-sized engineering, manufacturing, and industrial service companies in the DACH region, particularly in Switzerland, Southern Germany, and Western Austria. The firm specializes in a range of investment strategies, including expansion into new markets, add-on acquisitions, growth capital, and buyouts, with a specific emphasis on succession planning for family-owned businesses and corporate spin-offs. They typically invest between CHF5 million and CHF50 million in buyout transactions, taking majority stakes in companies with enterprise values ranging from CHF15 million to CHF150 million, and between CHF5 million and CHF15 million in growth capital investments, taking minority stakes. Cross Equity also considers taking non-executive board positions in portfolio companies to support their growth and development.
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Lennart Bach

Senior Associate

Clive Chaplin

Managing Director & General Partner

Florian Demleitner

Investment Director

Nortbert Früchtl

Investment Manager

Reto Müller

Former Member of Advisory Board

Michael Petersen

Managing Partner

Markus Reich

Managing Partner

Raffael Rupprechter

Partner and Chief Financial Officer

Nicholas Stancu

Senior Associate

10 past transactions

punker GmbH

Acquisition in 2015
punker GmbH develops and manufactures fan wheels and blowers. It offers forward and backward curved impellers, cross flow wheels, cross flow fans, inlet cones, and special fan impellers. The company serves agricultural, general industrial technology, heating and burner technology, home appliance, food, compressor, and railroad application, as well as heating, ventilation, and air conditioning industries. It provides its products through a network of representatives in Germany and internationally. punker GmbH was founded in 1954 and is based in Eckernförde, Germany with locations in Hickory, North Carolina; and internationally.

punker GmbH

Merger/Acquisition in 2015
punker GmbH develops and manufactures fan wheels and blowers. It offers forward and backward curved impellers, cross flow wheels, cross flow fans, inlet cones, and special fan impellers. The company serves agricultural, general industrial technology, heating and burner technology, home appliance, food, compressor, and railroad application, as well as heating, ventilation, and air conditioning industries. It provides its products through a network of representatives in Germany and internationally. punker GmbH was founded in 1954 and is based in Eckernförde, Germany with locations in Hickory, North Carolina; and internationally.

Schwab Verkehrstechnik

Acquisition in 2009
Schwab Verkehrstechnik AG designs, develops, and manufactures buffers and couplers for freight and rail transit markets. The company offers products in the field of power transmission for track-borne vehicles. Its products include metro and tramway couplings, draw gears, and bar couplers for passenger coaches and freight cars, as well as crash buffers for tank and freight wagons.

Polymetrix

Acquisition in 2013
Polymetrix designs and manufacturers post-condensation technologies. The Company develops equipment for the heat treatment for a variety of polymers including the processes of crystallization, heating, cooling, drying, and poly-condensation. Buhler Thermal Processes serves and markets thermal equipment for food applications and customers worldwide.

BOES GmbH Präzisionsstanzteile

Merger/Acquisition in 2018
BOES GmbH Präzisionsstanzteile produces and supplies precision stamped parts. It offers punching, bending, and drawn parts, as well as punched grids made of unalloyed steels, stainless steels, non-ferrous metals and their alloys, and special alloys. The company was founded in 1991 and is based in Neulingen, Germany.

RADEMACHER Geräte-Elektronik

Venture Round in 2014
RADEMACHER is a manufacturer of proprietary radio-based home automation systems. With RADEMACHER products, shutters, blinds, awnings, lights, and other electrical devices can be operated from anywhere in the world via the internet using a smartphone or tablet computer. In addition to its HomePilot home automation systems, the company's product range includes innovative belt winders, tubular motors, control mechanisms, actuators, and garage door openers. RADEMACHER products meet its customers' needs thanks to their excellent design and high level of functionality. They are also quick and easy to install.

WDM Wolfshagener Draht- und Metallverarbeitung GmbH

Merger/Acquisition in 2018
WDM Wolfshagener Draht- und Metallverarbeitung GmbH manufactures and distributes industrial custom-made special wire meshes. It also offers spot welded wire mesh, grid elements, bent wire parts, and wire mesh mats. In addition, the company offers various industry solutions, such as cage wire mesh, reinforcing wire mesh, cable support systems, security fencing, machine protection fencing, gabion wire mesh, wire mesh shelves, and logistic systems. WDM Wolfshagener Draht- und Metallverarbeitung GmbH was founded in 1994 and is based in Groß Pankow, Germany.

Swiss Tool Systems

Merger/Acquisition in 2016
Swiss Tool Systems AG develops, manufactures, and markets modular boring and turning tool systems. The company was founded in 1971 and is based in Bürglen, Switzerland. As of August 15, 2019, Swiss Tool Systems AG operates as a subsidiary of Schaublin Sa.

Micromacinazione

Acquisition in 2012
Micromacinazione is a provider of Micronization services and equipment for the Pharmaceutical & Fine Chemical industry.

WDM Wolfshagener Draht- und Metallverarbeitung GmbH

Acquisition in 2018
WDM Wolfshagener Draht- und Metallverarbeitung GmbH manufactures and distributes industrial custom-made special wire meshes. It also offers spot welded wire mesh, grid elements, bent wire parts, and wire mesh mats. In addition, the company offers various industry solutions, such as cage wire mesh, reinforcing wire mesh, cable support systems, security fencing, machine protection fencing, gabion wire mesh, wire mesh shelves, and logistic systems. WDM Wolfshagener Draht- und Metallverarbeitung GmbH was founded in 1994 and is based in Groß Pankow, Germany.