GBK Beteiligungen 

GBK Beteiligungen AG is a private equity firm specializing in later stage, middle market, management buyouts, ownership buyouts, management buy-ins, spin offs as well as expansion financing, succession, emerging growth and bridge financing. The firm typically co-invests alongside its cooperation partner Hannover Finanz GmbH. It invests in all industries with a focus on production, trade and service companies. The firm prefers to invest in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. It typically invests a minimum of "3 million ($3.37 million) in companies with maximum enterprise values of "150 million ($168.56 million) and an annual turnover of at least "20 million ($22.47 million). GBK prefers to take a minority equity stake in the transaction it participates. The firm has an average holding period of eight years. GBK Beteiligungen AG was founded in 1969 and is based in Hannover, Germany.