{"id":6426,"date":"2026-02-17T11:24:02","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T10:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codex-partners.com\/?p=6426"},"modified":"2026-02-20T11:25:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T10:25:12","slug":"codex-partners-advises-groundbirds-on-the-acquisition-of-gfs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codex-partners.com\/en\/deal-news-2\/codex-partners-advises-groundbirds-on-the-acquisition-of-gfs\/","title":{"rendered":"CODEX Partners advises GroundBirds on the acquisition of GfS"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>GroundBirds BV (formerly DVDS), a portfolio company of IceLake, has acquired a majority stake in GfS, a specialized service provider in the field of road infrastructure and traffic safety.<\/p>\r\n<p>GfS Gesellschaft f\u00fcr Stra\u00dfenunterhaltung mbH, which Finatem acquired in 2018, is a specialist service provider based in southern Germany in the field of road infrastructure and traffic safety, focusing on the installation and maintenance of guardrail systems and related traffic safety solutions.<\/p>\r\n<p>GroundBirds BV is a Dutch group of infrastructure maintenance specialists, active in asphalt maintenance, marking and lining, traffic management and road lighting.<\/p>\r\n<p>The transaction supports GfS\u2019 next phase of development and provides a strong platform to further strengthen capabilities, expand service coverage and pursue attractive growth opportunities.<\/p>\r\n<p>CODEX Partners prepared the commercial due diligence of GfS for GroundBirds.<\/p>\r\n<p>CODEX Partners advises clients on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.codex-partners.com\/en\/expertise-and-services\/due-diligence\/\">commercial due diligence<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.codex-partners.com\/en\/expertise-and-services\/due-diligence\/commercial-vendor-due-diligence\/\">vendor due diligence<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.codex-partners.com\/en\/expertise-and-services\/strategy\/\">strategy development <\/a>and transformation, as well as on developing industry platforms. Our clients benefit from our experience of more than 800 projects.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GroundBirds BV (formerly DVDS), a portfolio company of IceLake, has acquired a majority stake in GfS, a specialized service provider in the field of road infrastructure and traffic safety. GfS Gesellschaft f\u00fcr Stra\u00dfenunterhaltung mbH, which Finatem acquired in 2018, is a specialist service provider based in southern Germany in the field of road infrastructure and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":6424,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-deal-news-2"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codex-partners.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codex-partners.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codex-partners.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codex-partners.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codex-partners.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.codex-partners.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6427,"href":"https:\/\/www.codex-partners.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6426\/revisions\/6427"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codex-partners.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codex-partners.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codex-partners.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codex-partners.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}