Buyer for document management company in Europe

• Revenue: 1-50M EUR
• Employees: not decisive
• Location of the target: Europe
• Reason for acquisition: The company is a large enterprise activating in document management sector. It has a strategy for growing its operations in Europe via acquisitions, therefore the M&A team is open to speaking to interested sellers
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The company is focused on document editing, collaboration and e-signature. It has a large budget for acquisitions in Europe. The buyer is looking for companies that are in any of the following: companies related to form creation (creating a form like an invoice, survey or mortgage application from scratch); companies that provide forms (forms can be any topic or category) – it doesn’t matter if these companies charge a subscription, charge one-time fees for forms or even if they are free; companies with subscription revenue related to the editing of word of pdf documents; companies related to e-signature; companies that have software for legal documents. The buyer is also willing to look at outsourced software development companies.

The company has many years of experience in the area of document management. It has grown very fast, since its inception the main goal was to provide special developed software for optimizing document workflow and by now it managed to create an online document management platform that functions in one go as an online editor, cloud storage platform and a signature request manager. Due to the straightforward interface that offers tailored services, users are allowed to do with any kinds of document format everything they need to do, operations such as search for, editing, type on, write on, e-signing and annotating are supported by the platform. It is only needed a desired form to be filled and then it can be sent through email or fax and can be printed or saved in the computer. Further modifications to documents can be done, such as merging, made into templates and saving in diverse versions. The platform allows for third parties signatures, share-editing with partners, traces sent and received documents and enables strong collaboration. Moreover, the company’s mobile app product enables the users to work from anywhere and to operate any mobile device.

The advantage of using the company’s document solutions is that businesses can streamline document management, obtain paperless workflow in their processes and are able to save time and useful resources that can be directed in other parts or operations. The principles are needed to many industries such as Real estate, Insurance, Healthcare, Legal, Education and HR. Desk officers can edit PDF files, create various forms, collect useful data, sign and fax documents. In Healthcare for example, the document management tools enable medical centers to manage the collecting and archiving of medical records. Transactions with documents are organized and secure through an online platform that makes it simple to manage medical insurance policies or patient consent papers. Through mobile applications for Android and iOS devices, documents and images are easily shared, edited and signed in a very secure environment.

The buyer is looking to acquire a company that operates in the same activity and has similar services and solutions such as:

• Document Editing, Sending, Printing
• Automatically Filling
• Document Creating & Converting
• Data Collection
• Electronically Signing
• Authentication
• Security & Encryption
• Software Integration
• Software Development

• The buyer is a large international document management solutions provider
• The company has decided to enlarge its activities in Europe and is looking to buy another company with similar activities and products
• Target companies should provide services and solutions for document management,  collaboration and e-signature