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BankM – Repräsentanz der biw Bank für Investments und Wertpapiere AG: BankM successfully places capital increase for MAX21 Management und Beteiligungen AG

– Capital increase of MAX21 placed within a short time

– Interest of investors significantly exceeded offering

– Leading institutional investors among the participants

Frankfurt, March 26, 2015 – BankM – Representative office of biw Bank für Investments und Wertpapiere AG (“BankM”) has successfully supported the capital increase of MAX21 Management und Beteiligungen AG as the sole bookrunner. The newly offered 883,282 shares were placed at a price of EUR 3.60 in a prospectus-free private placement within a short period of time with existing and new institutional investors. The interest of investors for new shares significantly exceeded the actual available number of new shares of MAX21.

BankM has been supporting the company, listed in the Entry Standard of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, for several years in the capital market. During this period, BankM accompanied capital increases with total proceeds of approximately EUR 10 million. With its main affiliations, pawisda systems GmbH and LSE Leading Security Experts GmbH, MAX21 is a leader in various areas of digital solutions and benefits from mega-trends such as cloud and digitalization. The proceeds of the capital measure help the company to actively manage the expected accelerated development and implement operational and strategic requirements for the company’s continued business growth.

“MAX21 has a promising position in the growing market for digital postal and security solutions with its main portfolio companies pawisda systems and LSE Leading Security Experts”, says Thomas Stewens, Founding Partner and Head of Corporate Strategy and Communications at BankM. “The rise of market capitalization and liquidity of the MAX21-stock which resulted from the past capital increases also enabled the introduction of several new institutional investors. This underlines the interest of many reputable investors for equity issuances by German SMEs.”

MAX21 Management und Beteiligungen AG:

MAX21 AG is a holding company, which supports young open source companies with the successful implementation of their business models and to enter new business. In addition to the targeted use of capital MAX21 offers its portfolio companies services in the areas of organization & administration, marketing, sales and recruiting. The hitherto unique business concept makes MAX21 the most important independent marketplace for open source solutions in Europe. The most important companies in the MAX21 group of companies are focused on the business areas postal services, security, cloud computing and IT services.

MAX21 Management and Investments AG is listed in the Entry Standard (Open Market) on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (ticker symbol: MA1; Securities Identification Number: A0D88T, ISIN: DE000A0D88T9).

BankM – biw AG:

Since 2007, BankM – representative office of biw AG (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) is the partner of small and mid-sized enterprises and specializing in capital market financing with its experienced team. Particularly during the banking and debt crisis more and more corporations trust in the individual services, meanwhile increasing the number of corporate clients to over 70. Unlike Anglo-Saxon style investment banking, BankM – biw AG’s philosophy is to provide long-term support for high-growth companies based on the principles of relationship banking. BankM’s service-portfolio ranges from the wide field of equity financing, market making on the electronic trading platform Xetra (‘Designated Sponsoring’), research, corporate bonds and hybrid financing, as well as M&A. BankM – biw AG is a team of professionals with a personal interdisciplinary experience of more than 150 years from over 200 transactions (including more than 40 IPOs).

Equity-financed FIB Management AG is owner of the BankM brand and acts as an tied agent in terms of sec. 2 para. 10 German Banking Act (KWG) in the name of and on account of biw Bank für Investments und Wertpapiere AG, so far as they provide services which attribute to the investment broking as well as placement transactions in terms of Sec. 1 para. 1a sentences 2 No. 1 and 1c (KWG). Additionally, FIB Management AG is outsourcer for biw Bank für Investments und Wertpapiere AG (outsourcing company) undertaking Designated Sponsoring services under the BankM brand (proprietary trading according to sec. 1 para. 1a sentence 2 No. 4 KWG).

For further questions please contact:

Thomas Stewens
BankM – Representative office of biw Bank für Investments und Wertpapiere AG
Mainzer Landstraße 61
60329 Frankfurt
Germany
Phone: +49 (0) 69 71 91 838-10
Fax: +49 (0) 69 71 91 838-50
Email: pr@bankm.de
Internet: www.bankm.de


Legal notice:

This announcement does not constitute a recommendation or an offer or a solicitation of an offer for the purchase, sale or subscription of shares of MAX21 Management und Beteiligungen AG. It does not serve any investment advice but general information purposes only.