Private equity advisory
Clairfield International has an active private equity practice, having closed more than 500 deals with private equity involvement for more than EUR 25 billion in enterprise value.
We assist private equity portfolio companies in executing buy & build and platform strategies. These can be sector roll-ups and/or execution of growth strategies, with Clairfield providing superior access to corporate targets.
By selling assets to private equity buyers, often through corporate mandates in non-core asset disposals and carve-outs, we have excellent access and understanding of private equity buyers.
We regularly assist in sell sides of private equity-held businesses that benefit from our sector know-how and international reach.
Clairfield provides end-to-end M&A and financing advisory services to private equity. We engage and assist with private equity by offering inroads and expertise in local markets and, more importantly, by originating investment opportunities through ad-hoc or structured processes. We also regularly help private equity firms on their exits by deploying our international presence to ensure that the most relevant industrial and international buyers are pulled into the sale process.
Latest transactions
Blanchon Group, a French leader in woodcare solutions, acquired the Dutch company Rigo Verffabriek.
Industrials
Acquisition
Advisor to the buyer
Neptune Software, a leading low-code software platform, was sold to Triton, a UK-based private-equity fund.
Tech, software & digital
Sale
Advisor to the seller
The French company Socotec, active in the testing, inspection and control sector for the construction and infrastructure industry, known as TIC, acquired the majority shareholding of the Catalan BAC Engineering Consultancy Group, which works in the fields of civil and building engineering, energy, and quality control.
Business services
Acquisition
Advisor to the buyer
Ser.Nav Group, an Italian leader in customs brokerage, was acquired by the Dutch group Customs Support, a Castik Capital portfolio company.
Business services
Sale
Advisor to the seller
Customs Support Group, a European customs-services provider backed by Castik Capital, acquired UK Customs Solutions, a UK-based customs broker.
Business services
Acquisition
Advisor to the buyer
Customs Support Group, a European customs services provider (backed by Castik Capital), acquired Italian companies Mollica and MACC (Gruppo Mollica).
Business services
Acquisition
Advisor to the buyer
Frendy, the Finnish IT services platform backed by Procuritas’ funds, made its first add-on acquisition through the acquisition of twelve businesses.
Business services
Acquisition
Advisor to the buyer
Aksìa Capital V, a fund managed by Aksìa Group SGR, acquired, through its investee Valpizza, C&D, an Apulian company leader in the production of pre‐fried frozen oven‐baked gastronomic specialties.
Consumer & retail
Acquisition
Advisor to the buyer
Aksìa Capital V, a fund managed by Aksìa Group SGR, acquired, through its investee Valpizza, La Pizza + 1, a company with premium-quality positioning in the production of rectangular pizza, pinsa, and focaccia.
Consumer & retail
Acquisition
Advisor to the buyer
Holonite, a leading provider of composite building elements in The Netherlands, owned by Bolster Investment Partners, was sold to BUVA.
Industrials
Sale
Advisor to the seller
Confirma Software acquired Tietoaika Oy, a Finnish developer of residential real‐estate management solutions.
Tech, software & digital
Acquisition
Advisor to the buyer
Confirma Software, founded by Abry Partners, a US‐based private equity with deep sector knowledge in business and information services, acquired SKJ Systems, a Finnish provider of Point‐of‐Sales (POS) systems under the Jeemly and Flowvy brands.
Tech, software & digital
Acquisition
Advisor to the buy side
