RWK Goodman advises Oxfordshire-based automotive technology company SOMIT Solutions on sale to KPIT Technologies

By Peter Davison

20 July 2022

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Law firm RWK Goodman has advised the shareholders of cloud-based vehicle diagnostic specialists SOMIT Solutions on its sale to KPIT Technologies.

Based in Abingdon, SOMIT Solutions enables after-sales operations of high-tech luxury and original equipment manufacturers through a cloud-based vehicle diagnostics platform and expert consulting services.

Vehicle complexity is outgrowing existing servicing capabilities due to rapidly evolving software-centric architectures, high-tech automotive engineering, and an acute shortage of trained and certified service technicians across the globe.

SOMIT’s cloud-based platform features an intelligent and intuitive diagnostics solution that will enhance a service technician’s user experience and improve service quality by increasing the ratio of ‘first-time right’ repairs.

KPIT works on developing cutting-edge technology with global leaders in automotive and mobility. KPIT has grown consistently for last two decades and has deployed organic and inorganic strategies for the same.

Over that time KPIT has done multiple M&A-led partnerships with strong organisations in Europe, USA, India. KPIT is a listed entity in stock exchanges in India.

The RWK Goodman team was led by Corporate Partner Iain Butler (pictured) supported by Carl Selby (Technology & Innovation lead), Yasmine Qasim (Corporate) and Kate Benefer (Employment). Tax advice was provided by Parisi Tax. KPIT were advised by Osborne Clarke.

RWK Goodman’s Iain Butler said: “We are delighted to help deliver this deal. SOMIT Solutions is a leading Oxfordshire business and we’re excited to see this strategic acquisition further support the fast-moving development of cutting-edge automotive technology and innovation.”

By Peter Davison

Peter Davison is deputy editor of The Business Magazine. He has spent his life in journalism – doing work experience in newsrooms in and around Bristol while still at school, and landing his first job on a local newspaper aged 19. By 28 he was the youngest newspaper editor in the country.

An early advocate of online news, he spent the first years of the 2000s telling his bosses that the internet posed both the biggest opportunity and greatest threat to the newspaper industry and the art of journalism. He was right on both counts.

Since 2006 he has enjoyed a career as a freelance journalist. He lives in rural Wiltshire with one wife, two children, and three cats.