Transactions

Mandarin Capital Partners acquired a majority stake in KLAPP Group, an established player in the beauty market that stands for high‐quality professional skin care products with focus on innovation, research expertise and “Made in Germany” product quality.

Clairfield assisted the minority shareholders of 2C Solution, controlled by Namirial, in the sale of their shares to the parent company, which was
simultaneously acquired by the PE fund Ambienta. The minority shareholders reinvested together with the founders of Namirial in the new company controlled by Ambienta.

CEI Costruzione Emiliana Ingranaggi S.p.A., specialized in the production and commercialization of spare parts and components for industrial vehicles, sold a majority stake to Alto Partners SGR, a private equity fund investing in small and medium-sized Italian companies.

The shareholders of Euro Techniques Industries, a fluid-transfer systems company, sold a minority stake to Modec.

Fruliance, a French group specialized in the production of jams and culinary aids, was sold to French Gourmet Food.

Korus, a French interior design and construction services company, acquired Le Bureau Contemporain.

The management team of Transports Murie acquired the company in a management buyout.

The Oslo-based agency Nordic Live AS sold a majority stake to FKP Scorpio, one of Europe’s leading festival and concert promoters.

Gradiente SGR Spa and Firme Spa sold Lanificio dell’Olivo, a historic producer of fancy knitting yarns, to the Ethica Global Investments Spa fund.

SoLocal Group, a Euronext-listed digital marketing company, sold its Spanish subsidiary QDQ Media to AS Equity Partners.

Nets Group acquired PeP, a leading merchant acquirer in Poland with an installed base of more than 125,000 point-of-sales terminals, offering a broad set of payment solutions focused on the attractive SME segment. The transaction values PeP’s enterprise value at EUR 405 million.

Groupe Ouvêo, a French manufacturer of windows, acquired the company Seeuws.   

Virginio Cassina, a private investor, through his holding company Virginio Cassina S.r.l., acquired a minority stake of Valetudo, a company specialized in the production and distribution of cosmetic and pharma cosmetic products. 

Jetex, an award-winning global leader in executive aviation, took strategic ownership of JEM Aviation, a fixed base operator providing services to airlines in based in Marseille.

SITI B&T Group S.p.a., a specialist for the production of plants for the tile manufacturing industry, acquired Diatex S.p.A., a provider of diamond tools for stone and ceramics processing.

JOST Werke AG, the global market leader in safety critical solutions for commercial vehicles, acquired Ålö AB, one of the world’s leading suppliers for the agricultural machinery industry, from Altor Fund III.

Kingsbury Luxembourg sold a majority stake of Negri Bossi S.p.A., injection moulding machine manufacturer in Italy, to Nissei Plastic Industrial, a Japanese public company engaged in the manufacturing and sale of injection moulding machines and equipment.

Doosan Bobcat Inc. completed its acquisition of the BOB‐CAT Mowers and the Steiner and Ryan brands of ground maintenance equipment from Schiller Grounds Care, Inc.

Unsworth Family Investments acquired Geary’s Bakeries Ltd, a fourth-generation family-owned supplier of baked goods to food retailers and manufacturers, a family with other investments in the food industry.

Webissime, a French digital agency, acquired and merged with Open Linking.