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EXACT SHAREHOLDERS APPROVE SALE Featured

Roy Mackenzie, Apax PartnerShareholders of Exact Holding have approved the sale of the company's assets to funds managed by Apax Partners. The action at this week's extraordinary meeting also approved the dissolution of Exact as it has existed and the supervisory board of directors will replaced as of the settlement date. Exact has at least one more set of public numbers to report with the release of financial results for the year coming next week.

The funds are paying nearly $1 billion in a move that the purchasers describe as driven by the move from desktop software to cloud applications. This is something that we've discussed as driving the wave of purchases of ERP vendors by private equity funds over the last few years. But the Apax gang spelled it out clearly in the offering memorandum, saying that public investors might not have the stomach for the spending needed to move a company to the cloud. The new supervisory board members are Roy Mackenzie, Jason Wright, Will Chen, Ilonka Jankovich de Jeszenice and Kiran Patel. The current board members who are resigning are Thierry Schaap, Willem Cramer, Peter van Haasteren and Evert Kooistra. Mackenzie and Wright are Apax partner and Chen, a principal. And obviously a Dutch board is being replaced by a more international group. Ilonka Jankovich manages the Randstad Innovation Fund. Patel, formerly a senior executive at Intuit, is serving as a director on three company boards, including Schwab Investment Funds

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