Pan-European PE firm acquires a majority stake in leading tax software provider in Spain and Latin America

Deal Flash

Stirling Square Capital Partners has acquired a majority stake in Gestión Tributaria Territorial (GTT) from AnaCap Financial Partners. Both GTT’s management team and AnaCap will reinvest as minority investors alongside Stirling Square.

Stirling Square Capital Partners is a pan-European, mid-market private equity firm. Founded in 2002, Stirling Square has over US$3 billion in assets under management in private equity strategies.

GTT provides an essential service to customers as it enables them to improve their productivity and efficiency. We look forward to the exciting journey ahead, alongside AnaCap, and to bringing our sector expertise, local knowledge, pan-European presence and capital to support GTT’s talented management team as they take the business to its next phase of growth through further investment in the growing platform. ENRICO BIALE, PARTNER, STIRLING SQUARE CAPITAL PARTNERS, UNITED KINGDOM

Oaklins was instrumental in facilitating this deal

Oaklins’ team in Spain advised Stirling Square on all aspects of the execution, negotiation and closing of the transaction. The team had been in contact with GTT since 2016 and had worked closely with its management team on other opportunities in the period preceding the launch of the sale process. As a result, Oaklins had developed a deep understanding of the company and its potential, which was key in helping Stirling Square throughout the deal process.

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