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Track-Record

Damian Schmidt

Track-record of participation in major M&A transactions and strategy projects in the webhosting / data center / cloud and Bitcoin mining industry (not comprehensive)

Projects

  • 2023-2024 – Sell-side DD for a Data Center Provider in Germany

  • 2022 – Buy-side DD for a multi-location Colocation Provider in Germany

  • 2021 – Buy-side Due Diligence for the large-scale Bitcoin Crypto Mining company Griid in the U.S. (via Adit EdTech SPAC – expected resulting company value 3.3 bn. USD), focus on Technical DD

  • 2021 – Buy-side Due Diligence for a Data Center / network services operator in the Nordics, with focus on Technical DD and Synergies

  • 2020 – Commercial strategy and organizational set-up (TOM target operating model) for a governmental Data Center in SEE 

  • 2020 – Commercial and pivoting strategy scenarios for the Data Centers of a communal fiber optic internet provider (proposal phase)

  • 2019 – Buy-side and sell-side advisory for two M&A projects in the Polish data center industry, including Commercial VDD

  • 2018 – Strategy reassessment for the data center infrastructure of a major German SME, including IT insourcing / cloud outsourcing scenario assessment and M&A assessment

  • 2017 – Buy-side advisory for PE and analysts on Managed Hosting / PlusServer, deal size 397 m. EUR

  • 2016 / 2017 – Conception, founding and MVP for a new digital service

  • 2016 – Buy-side advisory for several PE and analysts on 2nd STRATO transaction, deal size 600 m. EUR

  • 2016 – Advisory for several PE and analysts and DD prep work on 
    4th HEG transaction (Host Europe Group), deal size 1.6 b. EUR

  • 2016 – DD Prep work / pitch with ADL on Data4 transaction, French / Italian colocation provider 

  • 2015/16 – DD Prep work / pitch with ADL on OVH minority stake transaction, French hosting market leader, stake size 250 m. EUR

  • 2015 – Buy-side M&A Senior Advisor to PE fund on home.pl transaction, Poland’s web hosting market leader, deal size 135 m. EUR

  • 2013 – Buy-side M&A Senior Advisor to PE fund on 3rd HEG transaction (Host Europe Group), deal size 509 m. EUR

  • 2010 – Buy-side M&A advisory on 2nd HEG transaction 
    (Host Europe Group), deal size 265 m. EUR

  • 2009 – Sell-side M&A process lead in the CEO role for STRATO, EU`s 2nd largest webhost, transaction volume 275 m. EUR 

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