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              <strong>Paris, June 13 – Six months after a change of ownership, Size Factory, the French leader in men's plus sizes clothes, announces the acquisition of Capel, the historic premium player in the sector. Supported by LBO France, Size Factory is accelerating its development strategy in a fast-growing market. The new Capel-Size Factory group brings together the complementary expertise of the two leading brands in men's plus sizes in France, both strongly committed to inclusive and responsible ready-to-wear. Its ambition is to become the benchmark player in Europe.</strong><strong> </strong>\r\n
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              In the fashion sector, tall and overweight men are often forgotten, finding it very difficult to find products in their size in traditional ready-to-wear chains or brands. As a result, they tend to turn more to specialist players. Size Factory and Capel are the two main brands and stores in France exclusively dedicated to men who are not of the standard sizes: they dress tall and overweight men with sizes and cuts adapted to all morphologies: from 2XL to 10XL, and up to 2.20m. Inclusive by nature, they enable people who are often excluded from the clothing market to finally dress well.\r\n
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              <strong>Capel, the premium brand and pioneer in plus-size fashion</strong>\r\n
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              Founded in 1958, Capel is the pioneering brand in men's plus-size fashion in France. It offers tall and overweight men up to size 78 a complete, top-of-the-range and contemporary men's wardrobe, perfectly adapted to different morphologies thanks to its unique expertise in sizes and cuts. More than 55 different sizes are available for each model, offering the perfect combination of heights and widths to suit every exceptional stature.\r\n
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              Over the years, the brand's reputation has been built on strong values: product quality with exceptional fabrics and materials, cuts designed to guarantee absolute comfort and elegance in all circumstances, and seamless service in its shops.\r\n
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              Capel is committed to responsible fashion movement: the company develops products recognised for their quality and durability. It strives to locate its production in France and Europe to offer products that are more responsible and respectful of the environment: "Capel, fashion made in not far away".\r\n
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              <strong>Creation of the Capel-Size Factory group</strong>\r\n
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              With the acquisition of Capel, Size Factory achieves the initial development objectives formulated with LBO France, and creates the Capel-Size Factory group. This acquisition, entirely financed by Zencap, is a continuation of the impact financing put in place at the time of the LBO in December 2022. The achievement of ESG targets, determined in close collaboration with management and LBO France, will enable the group to accelerate its CSR strategy, with a consequent margin adjustment. The new group's ambition is to become the leading men's plus-size group in Europe, resolutely committed to inclusive and responsible fashion.\r\n
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              Capel-Size Factory now operates two brands with complementary positioning: Capel, the sector's premium brand, distributed in its three shops located on the finest shopping streets in Paris, Lyon and Strasbourg; and Size Factory, the multi-brand chain dedicated to men's plus sizes, present in 30 shops on the cities’ outskirts. The new group now brings together the best men's plus-size offering in France and the most expert teams in the market. Capel-Size Factory will thus have the resources to pursue a broader objective of international expansion, alongside LBO France, a multi-specialist investment platform.\r\n
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              Jean-Marie Leroy, Partner in charge of LBO France Small Caps activity:<em> "Six months after acquiring a stake in Size Factory, we have already reached a new step in our strategic development. We are particularly pleased to be supporting Capel-Size Factory on this new growth path and to be playing our part in reinventing the ready-to-wear sector, in favour of a more responsible and inclusive fashion."</em>\r\n
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              Ambroise Fondeur, CEO of Capel-Size Factory: <em>"The acquisition of Capel should enable us to create the reference group for men's plus sizes in France and Europe. It's an ideal marriage between Capel, the historic player that has developed a strong brand, and Size Factory, the leading specialist player in the sector. By combining the unique expertise of the two teams, we will be strengthening our group and our ability to provide even better clothing for tall and overweight men in France, and globally in the future.”</em>\r\n
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              <strong><u>About Size Factory</u></strong>\r\n
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              Size Factory is France's leading brand for men's plus sizes. With its e-commerce site and its network of 30 shops, the company exclusively distributes a wide range of major brands and own brands. Its digital and omnichannel strategy has enabled it to achieve steady growth in its business and very high levels of customer satisfaction. The company places CSR at the heart of its model and has already developed a second-hand clothing business. Founded in 2011 and now headed by Ambroise Fondeur, the company employs 100 people and has achieved a turnover of more than €20m during the 2021/2022 fiscal year.\r\n
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              <strong><u>About Capel</u></strong>\r\n
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              Capel is the pioneering premium brand for men's plus sizes clothes in France. Founded in 1958, Capel is recognised as the top-of-the-range brand for plus-size fashion. With its unique expertise, it offers its customers, whether tall or overweight a complete wardrobe with the most beautiful cuts, the most beautiful fabrics, the greatest comfort and an unrivalled quality of service in its shops. Capel: Elegance. Without limits.\r\n
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              Capel had a turnover of €5m in 2022 and employs 20 people.\r\n
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              <strong><u>About LBO France</u></strong>\r\n
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              A pioneer in private equity in France, LBO France is today a leading multi-specialist and multi-country investment platform. Active in Private Equity, Real Estate, Venture and Listed Investment, the Company has been expanding for several years its activities in Europe, especially in Italy via its subsidiary Polis Fondi SGR, as well as on the African continent via its subsidiary CGF bourse. Wholly owned by its managers, LBO France is one of the founding members of the International Climate Initiative and one of the first signatories of the France Invest charter for parity.\r\n
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              <strong>Find out more: </strong><a href="http://www.lbofrance.com"><strong>www.lbofrance.com</strong></a>\r\n
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              <strong><em><u> </u></em></strong>\r\n
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              <strong><em><u>Media contacts</u></em></strong>\r\n
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              <em>Antoine Denry: +33 (0)6 18 07 83 27 / </em><a href="mailto:antoine.denry@taddeo.fr"><em>antoine.denry@taddeo.fr</em></a>\r\n
              \r\n
              <em>Julia Paget: +33 (0)6 38 55 68 78 / </em><a href="mailto:julia.paget@taddeo.fr"><em>julia.paget@taddeo.fr</em></a>
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              Paris, [May 23rd] 2023 – LBO France, a multi-specialist investment platform, announces the signature of a 9-year firm lease with CDC Informatique on the entire NETWORK 2 office building in Bagneux via its White Stone VII fund, the second phase of an office development program initiated by LBO France in 2018 with the acquisition of the neighbouring Network 1 building.\r\n
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              Located at the entrance to the city of Bagneux, in the immediate vicinity of metro line 4 and RER B stations "Laplace" and "Arcueil Cachan", the NETWORK 2 building offers 16,000 sq.m of office space organised around 2 interior gardens, multiple spaces dedicated to services on the ground floor and an attic space with a roof-top of over 300 sq.m.\r\n
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              At the forefront of this eco-district, which is about to complete its full redevelopment, NETWORK 2 offers CDC Group's IT services teams a new location with a strong architectural identity and exceptional visibility, where they will move into in S1 2024.\r\n
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              Owned since the end of 2020 by LBO France (via its White Stone VII fund) and CDC Investissement Immobilier (on behalf of the Caisse des Dépôts) from the developers Codic and Nexity, this new complex, which is committed to an ecological and responsible approach, benefits from HQE ("Excellent" level) and BREEAM ("Excellent" level) certifications and environmental labels to offer an energy performance in line with RT 2012 - 30%, while also benefiting from a WiredScore "Platinum" level certification.\r\n
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              In line with the ESG commitments of LBO France and CDC Investissement Immobilier, these certifications will be supplemented, in collaboration with the future user, by several initiatives in terms of accessibility for people with reduce mobility, equipment for electric vehicles, additional services and catering areas.\r\n
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              Julien Rouillon, Managing Director, LBO France: "We are very pleased to welcome the CDC Informatique teams to NETWORK 2, of which the construction works have just been completed. This lease confirms our belief in the attractiveness of the Bagneux sector, which is currently undergoing a major renewal. It also rewards the particular attention paid by our teams and those of our partners to\r\n
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              the ESG issues that make up tomorrow's real estate and to the need to reinvent office spaces into sustainable and attractive places for users seeking quality and flexibility”.\r\n
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              Philippe Jeanneau, Executive Chairman of CDC Informatique, said: "This new location represents a true opportunity for CDC Informatique to embody our values and thus reflect our technological expertise and our commitment to the CDC Group.”\r\n
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              Within the framework of this sale, LBO France (Julien ROUILLON) was advised by ALLEN &amp; OVERY (Jean-Dominique CASALTA and Corentin DOLIVET) and ROM (Hervé ROUX), technical advisor and AMO of the operation.\r\n
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              About LBO France\r\n
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              A pioneer in private equity in France, LBO France is today a leading multi-specialist investment platform with €5.4 billion under management including participating interests in Twenty-First Capital in France and Polis Fondi SGR in Italy. Its investment strategy is based on five distinct segments managed by dedicated teams: Mid and Small Cap LBO, Digital Health Venture, Real Estate and Proptech, Infrastructure Debt, and Listed Investment. For several years, the Company has expanded its activities in Europe, particularly in Italy with teams in Milan and Rome, as well as on the African continent. Wholly owned by its managers, LBO France is one of the founding members of the International Climate Initiative and one of the first signatories of the France Invest charter for parity.\r\n
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              Find out more: www.lbofrance.com Press\r\n
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              Agence Taddeo\r\n
              Antoine Denry : +33 (0)6 18 07 83 27 / antoine.denry@taddeo.fr Julia Paget : +33 (0)6 38 55 68 78 / julia.paget@taddeo.fr\r\n
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              About CDC Investissement Immobilier\r\n
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              CDC Investissement Immobilier is the real estate investment management subsidiary of Caisse des Dépôts. It manages a portfolio of more than € 10 billion of assets on behalf of the Institution, mainly comprising offices, PRS residential, retail, hotels and logistic platforms.\r\n
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              Active on the French and main European markets, CDC Investissement Immobilier invests mainly in value-creating transactions.\r\n
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              The majority of the portfolio managed by CDC Investissement Immobilier consists of assets wholly owned by Caisse des Dépôts or in club deals.\r\n
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              Malek Prat – service.presse@caissedesdepots.fr – +33 6 71 43 46 38 About CDC Informatique\r\n
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              Informatique CDC, subsidiary of Group Caisse des Dépôts is a key player in IT services and digital trust\r\n
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              Press\r\n
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              Malek Prat – service.presse@caissedesdepots.fr – +33 6 71 43 46 38\r\n
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              <strong>Paris, January 26 – hemea, an architecture and renovation studio, has received the support of two trusted investors to accelerate its development and support its ambitions in the renovation market. LBO France and Daphni are investing €10 million in the company, which has experienced notable growth since its creation in 2015. The two investors are banking on the renovation market, a sector driven by new energy regulations and the desire of individuals to improve their homes.</strong>\r\n
              \r\n
              <strong> </strong>\r\n
              \r\n
              <strong> </strong><strong>The added value of the hemea concept, the human digital</strong>\r\n
              \r\n
              hemea offers support to private individuals from the design to the completion of architectural, renovation, elevation or extension projects. The company's strength is that it has rethought the often stressful "refurbishment works" experience by combining digital technology with direct support on the building site. The client is thus accompanied from A to Z by architects, project managers and support experts who facilitate and secure the completion of the work.\r\n
              \r\n
              With 90 employees so far, the company has already completed more than 3,000 projects.\r\n
              \r\n
              <strong> </strong>\r\n
              \r\n
              <strong>Objective: to become the reference for renovation in France by 2025</strong>\r\n
              \r\n
              With 9 agencies in France, hemea intends to continue its development and cover the entire French territory by 2025. It is based on a solid business model, which enables the company to be profitable in Paris and Lyon, the first two cities in which it has established.\r\n
              \r\n
              Thanks to a tailor-made offer, adapted to the specificities of the local market, the Company generates remarkable results in a competitive market.\r\n
              \r\n
              Its ambition, based on a strong social and environmental project, has enabled it to raise €10 million from LBO France and Daphni. These two investors share a common approach: support companies that are committed, meaningful and focused on environmental issues.\r\n
              \r\n
              &nbsp;\r\n
              \r\n
              <strong>A growing renovation market driven by energy efficiency</strong>\r\n
              \r\n
              The fundraising will enable hemea to develop a specific offer in favour of energy renovation because renovation is taking over from new construction!\r\n
              \r\n
              This is one of the main trends of the Opinionway<a href="#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1">[1]</a> study carried out in 2021 for hemea and Artemis Courtage, which reveals that 3 out of 5 French people are planning to buy a main home requiring work and are therefore prioritising renovation over construction.\r\n
              \r\n
              hemea is committed to supporting private individuals in their renovation projects while providing them with sound advice on the importance of energy renovation. Supported and surrounded by trusted partners and contractors with the hemea label, the company offers a certified service to meet the growing expectations in this area. A structurally buoyant market, renovation will also be strongly supported in the coming months and years by the new legislation introduced at the beginning of the year, which prohibits the rental of energy sieves.\r\n
              \r\n
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              \r\n
              <em>Yann Depoys, managing director of hemea et Matthieu Burin, president and founder of hemea </em>“<em>As CEO and founder of hemea, I am very proud of this milestone with renowned investors and I am convinced that this fundraising will allow us to continue to grow and innovate in order to offer even more value to our customers and to our entire ecosystem</em>” said Matthieu Burin, president and founder of hemea.\r\n
              \r\n
              Stéphanie Casciola, CEO of LBO France and Head of Real Estate and Proptech said: <em>“With hemea, we are completing the fourth investment of Newstone, our impact fund dedicated to Proptech. The demand for property renovation, and more specifically the demand for energy-efficient renovation of these properties, is huge. LBO France is mobilising all of its knowledge and experience in this field to accelerate the development of hemea, a fast-growing company that enables people to project themselves into a greener habitat.”</em>\r\n
              \r\n
              Laura Panquet, Director of Proptech Investment, adds: “<em>The challenges of renovation are massive and individuals are often helpless when faced with the complexity of a project. We chose to support hemea in its growth because the startup has found the solution to provide its customers with a very high level of services: develop the loyalty of quality contractors by providing them with digital tools that simplify their day-to-day work.”</em>\r\n
              \r\n
              “<em>hemea is a player that has emerged as a trusted third party in the world of renovation work, providing the necessary guarantee of quality to satisfy the platform's customers. We are very pleased to continue to participate in financing growth, particularly in the energy renovation segment, which is one of the main levers identified to slowdown climate change</em>”, emphasise Pierre-Yves Meerschman and Stanislas Lot of daphni.\r\n
              \r\n
              &nbsp;\r\n
              \r\n
              <strong><u>About LBO France </u></strong>\r\n
              \r\n
              A pioneer in private equity in France, LBO France is today a leading multi-specialist investment platform with €5.4 billion under management including participating interests in Twenty-First Capital in France and Polis Fondi SGR in Italy. Its investment strategy is based on five distinct segments managed by dedicated teams: Mid and Small Cap LBO, Digital Health Venture, Real Estate and Proptech, Infrastructure Debt, and Listed Investment. For several years, the Company has expanded its activities in Europe, particularly in Italy with teams in Milan and Rome, as well as on the African continent. Wholly owned by its managers, LBO France is one of the founding members of the International Climate Initiative and one of the first signatories of the France Invest charter for parity. <strong>Find out more: </strong><a href="http://www.lbofrance.com"><strong>www.lbofrance.com</strong></a>\r\n
              \r\n
              &nbsp;\r\n
              \r\n
              <a href="#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1">[1]</a> <em>Étude Opinionway hemea et Artemis Courtage “</em><em>Travaux immobiliers : quelles tendances chez les Français?” : </em><a href="https://www.hemea.com/fr/qui-sommes-nous/presse/etude-opinionway-hemea-travaux"><em>https://www.hemea.com/fr/qui-sommes-nous/presse/etude-opinionway-hemea-travaux</em></a>
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              <h2 style="text-align: center;">LBO France invests as a majority shareholder in Size Factory, the French leader in men's plus sizes clothes</h2>\r\n
              <strong>Paris, December 13 – LBO France announces the acquisition of a majority stake in Size Factory, a company specialising in men's plus size fashion, alongside the management team and co-founders. This transaction is the sixth investment of its Small Caps Opportunities II fund, dedicated to the development of French and Italian SMEs. The themes of inclusiveness and circular economy, which are part of the company's DNA, reflect LBO France's ESG and climate commitment. With this transaction, Size Factory intends to expand its retail network in France and in Europe and to strengthen its online presence.</strong>\r\n
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              Since 2011, Size Factory has specialised in men's plus size fashion, first by offering high-end clothing online, then by extending its network of physical shops. Size Factory distinguishes itself from other players thanks to its premium positioning and its wide range of products, made up of both well-known brands and its own brands. The brand is now the leading dedicated e-commerce site and the leading specialist network with 28 points of sale in France, while showing strong profitability.\r\n
              Size Factory offers a range of clothing from 2XL to 8XL for overweight and tall men, thus meeting a demand that is poorly addressed by traditional players, particularly in the off-line segment. Tall and overweight men find at Size Factory the adapted offer of quality clothing and the personalized advice they need: Size Factory contributes to the well-being and self-affirmation of its customers.\r\n
              This market segment is currently worth more than 1 billion euros in France, including approximately €600 million in the mid and premium segments that the company is targeting.\r\n
              \r\n
              <strong>Strengthening its leadership position in France and duplicate the model at the European level</strong>\r\n
              \r\n
              With this capital reorganisation, Size Factory aims at expanding its retail network in France and in Europe and thus develop its presence in the overweight and tall man market.\r\n
              At the same time, Size Factory intends to capitalise on its very high quality of service by reinforcing its omnichannel distribution strategy, which enriches the customer’s experience and increases the number of purchasing possibilities.\r\n
              \r\n
              <strong>Affirm and amplify its commitment to a circular economy</strong>\r\n
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              This operation should also enable Size Factory to extend its commitment to a circular economy, with the development of a second-hand clothing sales activity. Launched a few months ago, the Troc Your Size application allows exchanges between individuals based on a Vinted-like model, and is intended to become the reference application in the large size segment.\r\n
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              <strong>Jean-Marie Leroy, Partner in charge of LBO France Small Caps activity, said: "</strong><em>We are particularly pleased to lead this transaction. Size Factory is a unique player in France, in a market where supply is scarce, and demand is increasingly strong. Indeed, Size Factory contributes significantly to the well-being and self-affirmation of its customers. Size Factory is also committed to responsible and sustainable fashion and is fully in line with LBO France's strategic positioning on ESG and climate challenges.</em><strong>"</strong>\r\n
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              <strong>Ambroise Fondeur, CEO of Size Factory since the beginning of 2022 and a personal investor in this fundraising, said: "</strong><em>We are delighted to open this new chapter in our development alongside a recognised player like LBO France. This partnership opens up exciting new prospects for Size Factory, amongst the consolidation of its presence on the French market and the development of its model in other European countries.</em><strong>"</strong>\r\n
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              &nbsp;\r\n
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              <h2 style="text-align: center;">LBO France strengthens its digital health team and consolidates its European ambitions with the recruitment of Matthes Seeling as Investment Director based in Berlin</h2>\r\n
              <strong>Paris, October 7, 2022 - As a multi-specialist investment platform, LBO France has developed a Venture - Digital Health activity since 2016 through its SISA and Digital Health 2 funds. The arrival of Matthes Seeling, a medical doctor and Medtech specialist, who will be based in Berlin, will enable the Digital Health team to continue its development in Europe and, in particular, to take advantage of investment opportunities in digital health offered by the DACH region by having a local presence.</strong>\r\n
              \r\n
              As part of its platform strategy, LBO France is developing in-depth expertise in market segments identified as promising. In digital health, LBO France supports companies in the late stage of development whose ambition is to contribute to improving healthcare systems by becoming world leaders in their sector.\r\n
              \r\n
              LBO France's Venture – Digital Health investment team has both sector and business expertise, being composed of doctors and tech specialists. A pioneer in this segment, it was one of the first in Europe to set up a specialized fund and has a track record of 20 investments in France and in the UK.\r\n
              \r\n
              The arrival of Matthes Seeling, a physician and Medtech specialist, will enable the Venture – Digital Health team to directly address companies in the DACH region (Germany, Austria, Switzerland), one of the most dynamic in Europe with approximately €2 billion in cumulative investments between 2010 and 2020 and about the same amount since 2020. By being based in Berlin, Matthes Seeling will be at the heart of one of Europe's most promising ecosystems in the medical field. With 40,000 new companies founded every year, Berlin has become one of the most attractive cities in Europe for start-ups, especially in the field of life sciences and digital health.\r\n
              \r\n
              Matthes Seeling holds a medical degree from the Freie Universität Berlin, a doctorate in medicine from the Charité Berlin and a master's degree in Health Systems Management from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He began his career within the German hospital group Vivantes as a physician in various Berlin sites.\r\n
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              He then joined Berlin's Charité University Hospital first as a specialist physician, before taking over the commercial management of the hospital's Center for Anesthesiology, Intensive Care Medicine and Operating Room Management. Since 2018, he held the position of Director Integrated Healthcare Solutions for Germany at Medtronic, a global American medical technology company. From 2009 to 2011, Matthes Seeling was a consultant and then Deputy Director at the German Hospital Federation.\r\n
              \r\n
              "<em>I am very pleased that Matthes Seeling is joining us. We are convinced that the DACH market has great potential in digital health, which we will be able to seize. Thanks to Matthes, we now have an office in Berlin. His</em>\r\n
              <em>international background and vision of tomorrow's healthcare will also be invaluable in our European ambition to support the dynamics of our Venture - Digital Health activities</em>" <strong>says Valéry Huot, Partner, Head of Venture - </strong><strong>Digital Health.</strong>
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              <strong>Press release</strong>\r\n
              <h2 style="text-align: center;"><strong>French construction tech startup Teamoty raises €3 million in Serie A led by </strong><strong>LBO France to expand in France and Europe</strong></h2>\r\n
              Paris, 27 September 2022 –<strong> Teamoty, a pioneer in the digitalisation of the supply chain for construction projects, has raised €3 million to accelerate the marketing of its software suite on the French and European markets. LBO France, a multi-specialist investment platform, is leading the round through NewStone, its impact fund dedicated to Proptech, together with Rise PropTech Fund and BTP Capital Investissement.</strong>\r\n
              \r\n
              <strong>A new player in the sector for greater efficiency and positive impact on construction sites</strong>\r\n
              \r\n
              Founded in 2018, Teamoty has developed a software suite capable of digitising site logistics and thus enabling construction professionals to better control costs and deadline management, to improve project productivity, and to reduce the environmental footprint of sites that are very high CO2 and waste emitters. Teamoty's solutions meet an environmental challenge and have a particularly positive impact by limiting the number of deliveries, drastically reducing waste and promoting better recycling by optimising sorting management.\r\n
              \r\n
              In the construction sector, nearly 80% of projects are delivered late or end up over budget due to management tools that are not adapted to the complexity of the sites. To overcome this problem, Teamoty was one of the first in France to use Lean Construction techniques, which optimise the management of construction sites using collaborative management tools. This approach has already convinced more than 100 construction companies, including major players such as Bouygues and Spie Batignolles in France and BPC Group in Belgium. Already translated into 5 languages and tested in more than 11 countries by more than 5,000 users, the software suite is now\r\n
              ready for international deployment.\r\n
              \r\n
              <strong>A digital offer to support the global transformation of the construction sector and to improve the attractiveness of the profession to young people</strong>\r\n
              \r\n
              A software suite 100% dedicated to the planning and logistics of construction sites, Teamoty is not a simple digitalization solution, it also helps companies in the sector to transform themselves in a more global and sustainable way. Its solutions, which include two modules published in Saas mode, cover both upstream planning and real-time monitoring of the site, as well as logistics via supply management. They enable each of the trades to be coordinated in real time, to change the way they work together and ultimately to improve the performance of the sites. The aim is to create value and save resources: build faster, better and at lower cost. With this new tool, a real transformation of the sector is underway.\r\n
              \r\n
              Furthermore, solutions such as those offered by Teamoty actively contribute to improving the image and attractiveness of a sector that is still poorly digitalised and still suffers from a lack of manpower and recruitment difficulties, particularly among young people.\r\n
              \r\n
              <strong>Deployment and expansion strategy of the offer in Europe</strong>\r\n
              \r\n
              With this first round of financing, Teamoty's strategy is to continue to develop and support the transformation of the sector. The support of LBO France, Rise PropTech Fund and BTP Capital Investissement will enable the company to accelerate its commercial development in France and Europe and to continue to enhance its software suite. This strategy includes the rapid and significant recruitment of new skills.\r\n
              \r\n
              The market on which Teamoty is positioned is developing rapidly due to the awareness of the players in the ecosystem and the regulatory requirements. The objective is to anchor its offer to various clients in new countries and to allow the use of the software suite on all types of projects, in new construction as well as in rehabilitation, for housing as well as for offices, and in the context of public works or civil engineering.\r\n
              \r\n
              <strong>Fabien Font, Co-founder and CEO of Teamoty, says:</strong><em> "Over the past 3 years, we have proven that the way projects are planned and organised should and can change. With the help of our shareholders, we will be able to deploy our solutions more widely in Europe and accelerate their commercialisation. Our strategy is completely in line with the environmental challenges that are driving the construction industry to optimise resources on site while improving productivity and efficiency in the construction process.”</em>\r\n
              \r\n
              <strong>Stéphanie Casciola, Managing Director of LBO France and in charge of the real estate and proptech business, said:</strong><em> "With Teamoty, we are making our third investment in NewStone, our impact fund dedicated to Proptech. After ZePlug in the energy transition and Hosman in digital transactions, Teamoty addresses a key issue in the construction industry by enabling better resource tracking and supply chain optimisation. LBO France will mobilise all of its experience in impact and its broad knowledge of the real estate sector to accelerate the development of Teamoty, a promising investment that allows us to project ourselves into a sustainable future..”</em>\r\n
              \r\n
              <strong>Laura Panquet, Protech's Investment Director, said:</strong> "<em>We are particularly pleased to be leading this financing round and to support Teamoty in a new phase of growth. Through the development of its solution, Teamoty has the potential to bring about a real change in the way construction projects and site logistics are approached.</em>"
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              <strong>Press release</strong>\r\n
              <h2 style="text-align: center;"><strong> </strong><strong>Incepto, the French digital health specialist, is raising </strong><strong>€27 million to support its European development</strong></h2>\r\n
              Paris, September 19, 2022 -<strong> Founded in 2018, Incepto is a unique platform on the market that offers doctors and hospitals access to a portfolio of solutions based on artificial intelligence, designed to improve the quality of diagnoses, and save time for medical teams, without having to change equipment. In order to support its growth at a European scale, Incepto is raising €27 million today. The financing round is led by LBO France's Venture - Digital Health team, with the participation of Wille Finance and the historical investors AXA Venture Partners, the Patient Autonome fund of Bpifrance and Karista. This financing marks a new stage for Incepto, which is launching its offer in four new countries in Europe (Germany, Spain, Italy and Portugal).</strong>\r\n
              \r\n
              As part of Incepto’s development, four new subsidiaries are created in Germany, Spain, Italy and Portugal with the aim of anchoring its position as European leader in the sector. with the goal to treat one million European patients per month by 2024.\r\n
              \r\n
              <strong> </strong><strong>From a French start-up to a European scale-up</strong>\r\n
              \r\n
              Incepto is also announcing the signing of five new partnerships (IBlab, Milvue, PAIRE, Smartsoft and Thirona) to expand its portfolio of medical imaging applications for emergency care, oncology, orthopaedics, rheumatology and pneumology.\r\n
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              ▪      <strong>Creating, with doctors new </strong>applications that meet real needs but that do not exist yet: ARVA and KEROS are thus the first products co-developed by Incepto for the diagnostic assistance of aortic aneurysms in CT scanners and for MRI of the knee<strong>;</strong>\r\n
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              ▪     <strong>Supporting the transformation of organisations </strong>and working methods by rethinking patient care with medical teams to exploit the full potential of artificial intelligence technologies.
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              <h2><strong>SiVIEW, a specialist in AI-driven visual diagnostics, announces with LBO France </strong><strong>a capital increase of €5.5M</strong></h2>\r\n
              <strong>The funds will allow the acceleration of SiVIEW's growth and R&amp;D roadmap with the ambition of revolutionizing visual health care.</strong>\r\n
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              <strong>SiVIEW is a French start-up which has developed a unique artificial intelligence technology that enables reliable, accurate, and fast eye examinations to be performed. This can be delegated by the healthcare professional in order to focus on the patient and optimize the overall care plan. SiVIEW announces that it has raised €5.5M in a Series A round with LBO France's Digital Health 2 fund to accelerate its global expansion and R&amp;D roadmap.</strong>\r\n
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              While the need for reliable visual diagnostics is constantly increasing (e.g., due to a pandemic of myopia, increased screen-time, and an aging population), the number of experts able to perform the required examinations is decreasing, and SiVIEW has designed a disruptive innovation that allows quick and easy eye examinations, that are both precise and detailed, to be performed intuitively to support diagnosis and prescription.\r\n
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              Founded by vision specialists, SiVIEW addresses a global health issue: to obtain the correct prescription simply and quickly, regardless of the complexity of the visual profile.\r\n
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              Marketed after 6 years of R&amp;D, the SiviewExam® solution is compatible with almost all optical equipment on the market and offers quality results (measurements and reports) in less than 8 minutes. It supports the decision-making process, allowing the vision expert to save time and improve efficiency for better patient care. The solution is already used in many European countries and is experiencing a strong growth phase that will accelerate with access to the North American and Asian markets.\r\n
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              <strong>Paris/Milan, 12 September 2022</strong>\r\n
              <h2><strong>LBO France announces the acquisition of a majority stake in</strong> <strong>Zato, a leader in the design and manufacture of ferrous and non-ferrous metal recycling facilities</strong></h2>\r\n
              <strong>Paris/Milan, 12 September 2022</strong> - Gioconda, the Italian subsidiary of LBO France, announced today the acquisition of a majority stake, through the Small Caps Opportunities II fund, in Zato, an Italian company founded in Brescia and a major player in the energy transition for over twenty years. Zato's founders, Valerio Zanaglio and Alessandra Bresciani, who reinvested in this transaction, will continue to manage the Company. Banca Ifis S.p.A. enters as a co-investor and confirms its role in supporting highly innovative companies committed to the green economy.\r\n
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          <strong>Paris, June 13 – Six months after a change of ownership, Size Factory, the French leader in men's plus sizes clothes, announces the acquisition of Capel, the historic premium player in the sector. Supported by LBO France, Size Factory is accelerating its development strategy in a fast-growing market. The new Capel-Size Factory group brings together the complementary expertise of the two leading brands in men's plus sizes in France, both strongly committed to inclusive and responsible ready-to-wear. Its ambition is to become the benchmark player in Europe.</strong><strong> </strong>\r\n
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          In the fashion sector, tall and overweight men are often forgotten, finding it very difficult to find products in their size in traditional ready-to-wear chains or brands. As a result, they tend to turn more to specialist players. Size Factory and Capel are the two main brands and stores in France exclusively dedicated to men who are not of the standard sizes: they dress tall and overweight men with sizes and cuts adapted to all morphologies: from 2XL to 10XL, and up to 2.20m. Inclusive by nature, they enable people who are often excluded from the clothing market to finally dress well.\r\n
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          <strong>Capel, the premium brand and pioneer in plus-size fashion</strong>\r\n
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          Founded in 1958, Capel is the pioneering brand in men's plus-size fashion in France. It offers tall and overweight men up to size 78 a complete, top-of-the-range and contemporary men's wardrobe, perfectly adapted to different morphologies thanks to its unique expertise in sizes and cuts. More than 55 different sizes are available for each model, offering the perfect combination of heights and widths to suit every exceptional stature.\r\n
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          Over the years, the brand's reputation has been built on strong values: product quality with exceptional fabrics and materials, cuts designed to guarantee absolute comfort and elegance in all circumstances, and seamless service in its shops.\r\n
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          Capel is committed to responsible fashion movement: the company develops products recognised for their quality and durability. It strives to locate its production in France and Europe to offer products that are more responsible and respectful of the environment: "Capel, fashion made in not far away".\r\n
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          <strong>Creation of the Capel-Size Factory group</strong>\r\n
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          With the acquisition of Capel, Size Factory achieves the initial development objectives formulated with LBO France, and creates the Capel-Size Factory group. This acquisition, entirely financed by Zencap, is a continuation of the impact financing put in place at the time of the LBO in December 2022. The achievement of ESG targets, determined in close collaboration with management and LBO France, will enable the group to accelerate its CSR strategy, with a consequent margin adjustment. The new group's ambition is to become the leading men's plus-size group in Europe, resolutely committed to inclusive and responsible fashion.\r\n
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          Capel-Size Factory now operates two brands with complementary positioning: Capel, the sector's premium brand, distributed in its three shops located on the finest shopping streets in Paris, Lyon and Strasbourg; and Size Factory, the multi-brand chain dedicated to men's plus sizes, present in 30 shops on the cities’ outskirts. The new group now brings together the best men's plus-size offering in France and the most expert teams in the market. Capel-Size Factory will thus have the resources to pursue a broader objective of international expansion, alongside LBO France, a multi-specialist investment platform.\r\n
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          Jean-Marie Leroy, Partner in charge of LBO France Small Caps activity:<em> "Six months after acquiring a stake in Size Factory, we have already reached a new step in our strategic development. We are particularly pleased to be supporting Capel-Size Factory on this new growth path and to be playing our part in reinventing the ready-to-wear sector, in favour of a more responsible and inclusive fashion."</em>\r\n
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          Ambroise Fondeur, CEO of Capel-Size Factory: <em>"The acquisition of Capel should enable us to create the reference group for men's plus sizes in France and Europe. It's an ideal marriage between Capel, the historic player that has developed a strong brand, and Size Factory, the leading specialist player in the sector. By combining the unique expertise of the two teams, we will be strengthening our group and our ability to provide even better clothing for tall and overweight men in France, and globally in the future.”</em>\r\n
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          <strong><u>About Size Factory</u></strong>\r\n
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          Size Factory is France's leading brand for men's plus sizes. With its e-commerce site and its network of 30 shops, the company exclusively distributes a wide range of major brands and own brands. Its digital and omnichannel strategy has enabled it to achieve steady growth in its business and very high levels of customer satisfaction. The company places CSR at the heart of its model and has already developed a second-hand clothing business. Founded in 2011 and now headed by Ambroise Fondeur, the company employs 100 people and has achieved a turnover of more than €20m during the 2021/2022 fiscal year.\r\n
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          <strong><u>About Capel</u></strong>\r\n
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          Capel is the pioneering premium brand for men's plus sizes clothes in France. Founded in 1958, Capel is recognised as the top-of-the-range brand for plus-size fashion. With its unique expertise, it offers its customers, whether tall or overweight a complete wardrobe with the most beautiful cuts, the most beautiful fabrics, the greatest comfort and an unrivalled quality of service in its shops. Capel: Elegance. Without limits.\r\n
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          Capel had a turnover of €5m in 2022 and employs 20 people.\r\n
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          &nbsp;\r\n
          \r\n
          <strong><u>About LBO France</u></strong>\r\n
          \r\n
          A pioneer in private equity in France, LBO France is today a leading multi-specialist and multi-country investment platform. Active in Private Equity, Real Estate, Venture and Listed Investment, the Company has been expanding for several years its activities in Europe, especially in Italy via its subsidiary Polis Fondi SGR, as well as on the African continent via its subsidiary CGF bourse. Wholly owned by its managers, LBO France is one of the founding members of the International Climate Initiative and one of the first signatories of the France Invest charter for parity.\r\n
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          <strong>Find out more: </strong><a href="http://www.lbofrance.com"><strong>www.lbofrance.com</strong></a>\r\n
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          <strong><em><u> </u></em></strong>\r\n
          \r\n
          <strong><em><u>Media contacts</u></em></strong>\r\n
          \r\n
          <em>Antoine Denry: +33 (0)6 18 07 83 27 / </em><a href="mailto:antoine.denry@taddeo.fr"><em>antoine.denry@taddeo.fr</em></a>\r\n
          \r\n
          <em>Julia Paget: +33 (0)6 38 55 68 78 / </em><a href="mailto:julia.paget@taddeo.fr"><em>julia.paget@taddeo.fr</em></a>
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          Paris, [May 23rd] 2023 – LBO France, a multi-specialist investment platform, announces the signature of a 9-year firm lease with CDC Informatique on the entire NETWORK 2 office building in Bagneux via its White Stone VII fund, the second phase of an office development program initiated by LBO France in 2018 with the acquisition of the neighbouring Network 1 building.\r\n
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          Located at the entrance to the city of Bagneux, in the immediate vicinity of metro line 4 and RER B stations "Laplace" and "Arcueil Cachan", the NETWORK 2 building offers 16,000 sq.m of office space organised around 2 interior gardens, multiple spaces dedicated to services on the ground floor and an attic space with a roof-top of over 300 sq.m.\r\n
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          At the forefront of this eco-district, which is about to complete its full redevelopment, NETWORK 2 offers CDC Group's IT services teams a new location with a strong architectural identity and exceptional visibility, where they will move into in S1 2024.\r\n
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          Owned since the end of 2020 by LBO France (via its White Stone VII fund) and CDC Investissement Immobilier (on behalf of the Caisse des Dépôts) from the developers Codic and Nexity, this new complex, which is committed to an ecological and responsible approach, benefits from HQE ("Excellent" level) and BREEAM ("Excellent" level) certifications and environmental labels to offer an energy performance in line with RT 2012 - 30%, while also benefiting from a WiredScore "Platinum" level certification.\r\n
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          In line with the ESG commitments of LBO France and CDC Investissement Immobilier, these certifications will be supplemented, in collaboration with the future user, by several initiatives in terms of accessibility for people with reduce mobility, equipment for electric vehicles, additional services and catering areas.\r\n
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          Julien Rouillon, Managing Director, LBO France: "We are very pleased to welcome the CDC Informatique teams to NETWORK 2, of which the construction works have just been completed. This lease confirms our belief in the attractiveness of the Bagneux sector, which is currently undergoing a major renewal. It also rewards the particular attention paid by our teams and those of our partners to\r\n
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          the ESG issues that make up tomorrow's real estate and to the need to reinvent office spaces into sustainable and attractive places for users seeking quality and flexibility”.\r\n
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          Philippe Jeanneau, Executive Chairman of CDC Informatique, said: "This new location represents a true opportunity for CDC Informatique to embody our values and thus reflect our technological expertise and our commitment to the CDC Group.”\r\n
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          Within the framework of this sale, LBO France (Julien ROUILLON) was advised by ALLEN &amp; OVERY (Jean-Dominique CASALTA and Corentin DOLIVET) and ROM (Hervé ROUX), technical advisor and AMO of the operation.\r\n
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          About LBO France\r\n
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          A pioneer in private equity in France, LBO France is today a leading multi-specialist investment platform with €5.4 billion under management including participating interests in Twenty-First Capital in France and Polis Fondi SGR in Italy. Its investment strategy is based on five distinct segments managed by dedicated teams: Mid and Small Cap LBO, Digital Health Venture, Real Estate and Proptech, Infrastructure Debt, and Listed Investment. For several years, the Company has expanded its activities in Europe, particularly in Italy with teams in Milan and Rome, as well as on the African continent. Wholly owned by its managers, LBO France is one of the founding members of the International Climate Initiative and one of the first signatories of the France Invest charter for parity.\r\n
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          Find out more: www.lbofrance.com Press\r\n
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          Agence Taddeo\r\n
          Antoine Denry : +33 (0)6 18 07 83 27 / antoine.denry@taddeo.fr Julia Paget : +33 (0)6 38 55 68 78 / julia.paget@taddeo.fr\r\n
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          About CDC Investissement Immobilier\r\n
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          CDC Investissement Immobilier is the real estate investment management subsidiary of Caisse des Dépôts. It manages a portfolio of more than € 10 billion of assets on behalf of the Institution, mainly comprising offices, PRS residential, retail, hotels and logistic platforms.\r\n
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          Active on the French and main European markets, CDC Investissement Immobilier invests mainly in value-creating transactions.\r\n
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          The majority of the portfolio managed by CDC Investissement Immobilier consists of assets wholly owned by Caisse des Dépôts or in club deals.\r\n
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          Malek Prat – service.presse@caissedesdepots.fr – +33 6 71 43 46 38 About CDC Informatique\r\n
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          Informatique CDC, subsidiary of Group Caisse des Dépôts is a key player in IT services and digital trust\r\n
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          Malek Prat – service.presse@caissedesdepots.fr – +33 6 71 43 46 38\r\n
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          <h2 style="text-align: center;"><strong>hemea raises €10m to become the reference for renovation in France</strong></h2>\r\n
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          <strong>Paris, January 26 – hemea, an architecture and renovation studio, has received the support of two trusted investors to accelerate its development and support its ambitions in the renovation market. LBO France and Daphni are investing €10 million in the company, which has experienced notable growth since its creation in 2015. The two investors are banking on the renovation market, a sector driven by new energy regulations and the desire of individuals to improve their homes.</strong>\r\n
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          <strong> </strong><strong>The added value of the hemea concept, the human digital</strong>\r\n
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          hemea offers support to private individuals from the design to the completion of architectural, renovation, elevation or extension projects. The company's strength is that it has rethought the often stressful "refurbishment works" experience by combining digital technology with direct support on the building site. The client is thus accompanied from A to Z by architects, project managers and support experts who facilitate and secure the completion of the work.\r\n
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          With 90 employees so far, the company has already completed more than 3,000 projects.\r\n
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          <strong>Objective: to become the reference for renovation in France by 2025</strong>\r\n
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          With 9 agencies in France, hemea intends to continue its development and cover the entire French territory by 2025. It is based on a solid business model, which enables the company to be profitable in Paris and Lyon, the first two cities in which it has established.\r\n
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          Thanks to a tailor-made offer, adapted to the specificities of the local market, the Company generates remarkable results in a competitive market.\r\n
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          Its ambition, based on a strong social and environmental project, has enabled it to raise €10 million from LBO France and Daphni. These two investors share a common approach: support companies that are committed, meaningful and focused on environmental issues.\r\n
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          <strong>A growing renovation market driven by energy efficiency</strong>\r\n
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          The fundraising will enable hemea to develop a specific offer in favour of energy renovation because renovation is taking over from new construction!\r\n
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          This is one of the main trends of the Opinionway<a href="#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1">[1]</a> study carried out in 2021 for hemea and Artemis Courtage, which reveals that 3 out of 5 French people are planning to buy a main home requiring work and are therefore prioritising renovation over construction.\r\n
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          hemea is committed to supporting private individuals in their renovation projects while providing them with sound advice on the importance of energy renovation. Supported and surrounded by trusted partners and contractors with the hemea label, the company offers a certified service to meet the growing expectations in this area. A structurally buoyant market, renovation will also be strongly supported in the coming months and years by the new legislation introduced at the beginning of the year, which prohibits the rental of energy sieves.\r\n
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          <em>Yann Depoys, managing director of hemea et Matthieu Burin, president and founder of hemea </em>“<em>As CEO and founder of hemea, I am very proud of this milestone with renowned investors and I am convinced that this fundraising will allow us to continue to grow and innovate in order to offer even more value to our customers and to our entire ecosystem</em>” said Matthieu Burin, president and founder of hemea.\r\n
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          Stéphanie Casciola, CEO of LBO France and Head of Real Estate and Proptech said: <em>“With hemea, we are completing the fourth investment of Newstone, our impact fund dedicated to Proptech. The demand for property renovation, and more specifically the demand for energy-efficient renovation of these properties, is huge. LBO France is mobilising all of its knowledge and experience in this field to accelerate the development of hemea, a fast-growing company that enables people to project themselves into a greener habitat.”</em>\r\n
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          Laura Panquet, Director of Proptech Investment, adds: “<em>The challenges of renovation are massive and individuals are often helpless when faced with the complexity of a project. We chose to support hemea in its growth because the startup has found the solution to provide its customers with a very high level of services: develop the loyalty of quality contractors by providing them with digital tools that simplify their day-to-day work.”</em>\r\n
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          “<em>hemea is a player that has emerged as a trusted third party in the world of renovation work, providing the necessary guarantee of quality to satisfy the platform's customers. We are very pleased to continue to participate in financing growth, particularly in the energy renovation segment, which is one of the main levers identified to slowdown climate change</em>”, emphasise Pierre-Yves Meerschman and Stanislas Lot of daphni.\r\n
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          <strong><u>About LBO France </u></strong>\r\n
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          A pioneer in private equity in France, LBO France is today a leading multi-specialist investment platform with €5.4 billion under management including participating interests in Twenty-First Capital in France and Polis Fondi SGR in Italy. Its investment strategy is based on five distinct segments managed by dedicated teams: Mid and Small Cap LBO, Digital Health Venture, Real Estate and Proptech, Infrastructure Debt, and Listed Investment. For several years, the Company has expanded its activities in Europe, particularly in Italy with teams in Milan and Rome, as well as on the African continent. Wholly owned by its managers, LBO France is one of the founding members of the International Climate Initiative and one of the first signatories of the France Invest charter for parity. <strong>Find out more: </strong><a href="http://www.lbofrance.com"><strong>www.lbofrance.com</strong></a>\r\n
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          <a href="#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1">[1]</a> <em>Étude Opinionway hemea et Artemis Courtage “</em><em>Travaux immobiliers : quelles tendances chez les Français?” : </em><a href="https://www.hemea.com/fr/qui-sommes-nous/presse/etude-opinionway-hemea-travaux"><em>https://www.hemea.com/fr/qui-sommes-nous/presse/etude-opinionway-hemea-travaux</em></a>
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          <strong>Paris, December 13 – LBO France announces the acquisition of a majority stake in Size Factory, a company specialising in men's plus size fashion, alongside the management team and co-founders. This transaction is the sixth investment of its Small Caps Opportunities II fund, dedicated to the development of French and Italian SMEs. The themes of inclusiveness and circular economy, which are part of the company's DNA, reflect LBO France's ESG and climate commitment. With this transaction, Size Factory intends to expand its retail network in France and in Europe and to strengthen its online presence.</strong>\r\n
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          Since 2011, Size Factory has specialised in men's plus size fashion, first by offering high-end clothing online, then by extending its network of physical shops. Size Factory distinguishes itself from other players thanks to its premium positioning and its wide range of products, made up of both well-known brands and its own brands. The brand is now the leading dedicated e-commerce site and the leading specialist network with 28 points of sale in France, while showing strong profitability.\r\n
          Size Factory offers a range of clothing from 2XL to 8XL for overweight and tall men, thus meeting a demand that is poorly addressed by traditional players, particularly in the off-line segment. Tall and overweight men find at Size Factory the adapted offer of quality clothing and the personalized advice they need: Size Factory contributes to the well-being and self-affirmation of its customers.\r\n
          This market segment is currently worth more than 1 billion euros in France, including approximately €600 million in the mid and premium segments that the company is targeting.\r\n
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          <strong>Strengthening its leadership position in France and duplicate the model at the European level</strong>\r\n
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          With this capital reorganisation, Size Factory aims at expanding its retail network in France and in Europe and thus develop its presence in the overweight and tall man market.\r\n
          At the same time, Size Factory intends to capitalise on its very high quality of service by reinforcing its omnichannel distribution strategy, which enriches the customer’s experience and increases the number of purchasing possibilities.\r\n
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          <strong>Affirm and amplify its commitment to a circular economy</strong>\r\n
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          This operation should also enable Size Factory to extend its commitment to a circular economy, with the development of a second-hand clothing sales activity. Launched a few months ago, the Troc Your Size application allows exchanges between individuals based on a Vinted-like model, and is intended to become the reference application in the large size segment.\r\n
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          <strong>Jean-Marie Leroy, Partner in charge of LBO France Small Caps activity, said: "</strong><em>We are particularly pleased to lead this transaction. Size Factory is a unique player in France, in a market where supply is scarce, and demand is increasingly strong. Indeed, Size Factory contributes significantly to the well-being and self-affirmation of its customers. Size Factory is also committed to responsible and sustainable fashion and is fully in line with LBO France's strategic positioning on ESG and climate challenges.</em><strong>"</strong>\r\n
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          <strong>Ambroise Fondeur, CEO of Size Factory since the beginning of 2022 and a personal investor in this fundraising, said: "</strong><em>We are delighted to open this new chapter in our development alongside a recognised player like LBO France. This partnership opens up exciting new prospects for Size Factory, amongst the consolidation of its presence on the French market and the development of its model in other European countries.</em><strong>"</strong>\r\n
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          <h2 style="text-align: center;">LBO France strengthens its digital health team and consolidates its European ambitions with the recruitment of Matthes Seeling as Investment Director based in Berlin</h2>\r\n
          <strong>Paris, October 7, 2022 - As a multi-specialist investment platform, LBO France has developed a Venture - Digital Health activity since 2016 through its SISA and Digital Health 2 funds. The arrival of Matthes Seeling, a medical doctor and Medtech specialist, who will be based in Berlin, will enable the Digital Health team to continue its development in Europe and, in particular, to take advantage of investment opportunities in digital health offered by the DACH region by having a local presence.</strong>\r\n
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          As part of its platform strategy, LBO France is developing in-depth expertise in market segments identified as promising. In digital health, LBO France supports companies in the late stage of development whose ambition is to contribute to improving healthcare systems by becoming world leaders in their sector.\r\n
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          LBO France's Venture – Digital Health investment team has both sector and business expertise, being composed of doctors and tech specialists. A pioneer in this segment, it was one of the first in Europe to set up a specialized fund and has a track record of 20 investments in France and in the UK.\r\n
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          The arrival of Matthes Seeling, a physician and Medtech specialist, will enable the Venture – Digital Health team to directly address companies in the DACH region (Germany, Austria, Switzerland), one of the most dynamic in Europe with approximately €2 billion in cumulative investments between 2010 and 2020 and about the same amount since 2020. By being based in Berlin, Matthes Seeling will be at the heart of one of Europe's most promising ecosystems in the medical field. With 40,000 new companies founded every year, Berlin has become one of the most attractive cities in Europe for start-ups, especially in the field of life sciences and digital health.\r\n
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          Matthes Seeling holds a medical degree from the Freie Universität Berlin, a doctorate in medicine from the Charité Berlin and a master's degree in Health Systems Management from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He began his career within the German hospital group Vivantes as a physician in various Berlin sites.\r\n
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          He then joined Berlin's Charité University Hospital first as a specialist physician, before taking over the commercial management of the hospital's Center for Anesthesiology, Intensive Care Medicine and Operating Room Management. Since 2018, he held the position of Director Integrated Healthcare Solutions for Germany at Medtronic, a global American medical technology company. From 2009 to 2011, Matthes Seeling was a consultant and then Deputy Director at the German Hospital Federation.\r\n
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          "<em>I am very pleased that Matthes Seeling is joining us. We are convinced that the DACH market has great potential in digital health, which we will be able to seize. Thanks to Matthes, we now have an office in Berlin. His</em>\r\n
          <em>international background and vision of tomorrow's healthcare will also be invaluable in our European ambition to support the dynamics of our Venture - Digital Health activities</em>" <strong>says Valéry Huot, Partner, Head of Venture - </strong><strong>Digital Health.</strong>
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          <strong>Press release</strong>\r\n
          <h2 style="text-align: center;"><strong>French construction tech startup Teamoty raises €3 million in Serie A led by </strong><strong>LBO France to expand in France and Europe</strong></h2>\r\n
          Paris, 27 September 2022 –<strong> Teamoty, a pioneer in the digitalisation of the supply chain for construction projects, has raised €3 million to accelerate the marketing of its software suite on the French and European markets. LBO France, a multi-specialist investment platform, is leading the round through NewStone, its impact fund dedicated to Proptech, together with Rise PropTech Fund and BTP Capital Investissement.</strong>\r\n
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          <strong>A new player in the sector for greater efficiency and positive impact on construction sites</strong>\r\n
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          Founded in 2018, Teamoty has developed a software suite capable of digitising site logistics and thus enabling construction professionals to better control costs and deadline management, to improve project productivity, and to reduce the environmental footprint of sites that are very high CO2 and waste emitters. Teamoty's solutions meet an environmental challenge and have a particularly positive impact by limiting the number of deliveries, drastically reducing waste and promoting better recycling by optimising sorting management.\r\n
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          In the construction sector, nearly 80% of projects are delivered late or end up over budget due to management tools that are not adapted to the complexity of the sites. To overcome this problem, Teamoty was one of the first in France to use Lean Construction techniques, which optimise the management of construction sites using collaborative management tools. This approach has already convinced more than 100 construction companies, including major players such as Bouygues and Spie Batignolles in France and BPC Group in Belgium. Already translated into 5 languages and tested in more than 11 countries by more than 5,000 users, the software suite is now\r\n
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          <strong>A digital offer to support the global transformation of the construction sector and to improve the attractiveness of the profession to young people</strong>\r\n
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          A software suite 100% dedicated to the planning and logistics of construction sites, Teamoty is not a simple digitalization solution, it also helps companies in the sector to transform themselves in a more global and sustainable way. Its solutions, which include two modules published in Saas mode, cover both upstream planning and real-time monitoring of the site, as well as logistics via supply management. They enable each of the trades to be coordinated in real time, to change the way they work together and ultimately to improve the performance of the sites. The aim is to create value and save resources: build faster, better and at lower cost. With this new tool, a real transformation of the sector is underway.\r\n
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          Furthermore, solutions such as those offered by Teamoty actively contribute to improving the image and attractiveness of a sector that is still poorly digitalised and still suffers from a lack of manpower and recruitment difficulties, particularly among young people.\r\n
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          <strong>Deployment and expansion strategy of the offer in Europe</strong>\r\n
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          With this first round of financing, Teamoty's strategy is to continue to develop and support the transformation of the sector. The support of LBO France, Rise PropTech Fund and BTP Capital Investissement will enable the company to accelerate its commercial development in France and Europe and to continue to enhance its software suite. This strategy includes the rapid and significant recruitment of new skills.\r\n
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          The market on which Teamoty is positioned is developing rapidly due to the awareness of the players in the ecosystem and the regulatory requirements. The objective is to anchor its offer to various clients in new countries and to allow the use of the software suite on all types of projects, in new construction as well as in rehabilitation, for housing as well as for offices, and in the context of public works or civil engineering.\r\n
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          <strong>Fabien Font, Co-founder and CEO of Teamoty, says:</strong><em> "Over the past 3 years, we have proven that the way projects are planned and organised should and can change. With the help of our shareholders, we will be able to deploy our solutions more widely in Europe and accelerate their commercialisation. Our strategy is completely in line with the environmental challenges that are driving the construction industry to optimise resources on site while improving productivity and efficiency in the construction process.”</em>\r\n
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          <strong>Stéphanie Casciola, Managing Director of LBO France and in charge of the real estate and proptech business, said:</strong><em> "With Teamoty, we are making our third investment in NewStone, our impact fund dedicated to Proptech. After ZePlug in the energy transition and Hosman in digital transactions, Teamoty addresses a key issue in the construction industry by enabling better resource tracking and supply chain optimisation. LBO France will mobilise all of its experience in impact and its broad knowledge of the real estate sector to accelerate the development of Teamoty, a promising investment that allows us to project ourselves into a sustainable future..”</em>\r\n
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          <strong>Laura Panquet, Protech's Investment Director, said:</strong> "<em>We are particularly pleased to be leading this financing round and to support Teamoty in a new phase of growth. Through the development of its solution, Teamoty has the potential to bring about a real change in the way construction projects and site logistics are approached.</em>"
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          <h2 style="text-align: center;"><strong> </strong><strong>Incepto, the French digital health specialist, is raising </strong><strong>€27 million to support its European development</strong></h2>\r\n
          Paris, September 19, 2022 -<strong> Founded in 2018, Incepto is a unique platform on the market that offers doctors and hospitals access to a portfolio of solutions based on artificial intelligence, designed to improve the quality of diagnoses, and save time for medical teams, without having to change equipment. In order to support its growth at a European scale, Incepto is raising €27 million today. The financing round is led by LBO France's Venture - Digital Health team, with the participation of Wille Finance and the historical investors AXA Venture Partners, the Patient Autonome fund of Bpifrance and Karista. This financing marks a new stage for Incepto, which is launching its offer in four new countries in Europe (Germany, Spain, Italy and Portugal).</strong>\r\n
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          As part of Incepto’s development, four new subsidiaries are created in Germany, Spain, Italy and Portugal with the aim of anchoring its position as European leader in the sector. with the goal to treat one million European patients per month by 2024.\r\n
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          <strong> </strong><strong>From a French start-up to a European scale-up</strong>\r\n
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          Incepto is also announcing the signing of five new partnerships (IBlab, Milvue, PAIRE, Smartsoft and Thirona) to expand its portfolio of medical imaging applications for emergency care, oncology, orthopaedics, rheumatology and pneumology.\r\n
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          By extending its geographical coverage and developing its portfolio of applications, Incepto is responding to major public health issues: reducing waiting times for examinations, mitigating the lack of specialists for certain serious diseases and supporting doctors' work in the face of the increasing amount of data to be analysed.\r\n
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          In light with the explosion of the AI market in Europe, Incepto has three strategic objectives:\r\n
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          ▪      <strong>Creating, with doctors new </strong>applications that meet real needs but that do not exist yet: ARVA and KEROS are thus the first products co-developed by Incepto for the diagnostic assistance of aortic aneurysms in CT scanners and for MRI of the knee<strong>;</strong>\r\n
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          ▪     <strong>Supporting the transformation of organisations </strong>and working methods by rethinking patient care with medical teams to exploit the full potential of artificial intelligence technologies.
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          <h2><strong>SiVIEW, a specialist in AI-driven visual diagnostics, announces with LBO France </strong><strong>a capital increase of €5.5M</strong></h2>\r\n
          <strong>The funds will allow the acceleration of SiVIEW's growth and R&amp;D roadmap with the ambition of revolutionizing visual health care.</strong>\r\n
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          <strong>SiVIEW is a French start-up which has developed a unique artificial intelligence technology that enables reliable, accurate, and fast eye examinations to be performed. This can be delegated by the healthcare professional in order to focus on the patient and optimize the overall care plan. SiVIEW announces that it has raised €5.5M in a Series A round with LBO France's Digital Health 2 fund to accelerate its global expansion and R&amp;D roadmap.</strong>\r\n
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          While the need for reliable visual diagnostics is constantly increasing (e.g., due to a pandemic of myopia, increased screen-time, and an aging population), the number of experts able to perform the required examinations is decreasing, and SiVIEW has designed a disruptive innovation that allows quick and easy eye examinations, that are both precise and detailed, to be performed intuitively to support diagnosis and prescription.\r\n
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          Founded by vision specialists, SiVIEW addresses a global health issue: to obtain the correct prescription simply and quickly, regardless of the complexity of the visual profile.\r\n
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          Marketed after 6 years of R&amp;D, the SiviewExam® solution is compatible with almost all optical equipment on the market and offers quality results (measurements and reports) in less than 8 minutes. It supports the decision-making process, allowing the vision expert to save time and improve efficiency for better patient care. The solution is already used in many European countries and is experiencing a strong growth phase that will accelerate with access to the North American and Asian markets.\r\n
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          Just a few days before two major industry trade shows, ESCRS in Milan and SILMO in Paris, SiVIEW has completed this fundraising to:\r\n
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           \t<li>Accelerate its international growth by increasing its investments in sales, marketing, and R&amp;D (e.g., new testing and analysis modules, enhanced instrument interconnectivity, new innovation techniques);</li>\r\n
           \t<li>Position the company as a key player in the management of visual disorders worldwide.</li>\r\n
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          <strong>Laure Pichereau, CEO &amp; Co-founder of SiVIEW</strong>: "<em>Our ambition from the beginning was to become the reference in artificial intelligence-driven eye exams. Once the SiVIEW solution was ready for commercialization, we received the support of major optical and ophthalmology chains in France and abroad. We are honored to welcome LBO France, leading specialist in digital health, as an investor and partner. I am personally very pleased with the trusting relationship that we have built together and which will enable us to work efficiently in this new phase of growth. I would also like to thank our historical investors, CARENCEAU and FIME, for their unwavering support since they joined the capital structure in 2018</em>."\r\n
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          <strong>Franck Noiret, Managing Director of LBO France</strong>: "<em>We are very pleased to partner with SiVIEW and its founders who are recognized experts in the field. With its dual expertise in AI and optometry, SiVIEW has developed a unique software solution based on an intelligent and intuitive algorithm that automates eye exams and improves patient care. Commercialized in SaaS mode, the SiVIEW solution is aimed at the global market. This is the 7th investment of our Digital Health 2 fund, which is dedicated to financing innovative digital health companies in Europe. We are delighted to support them in their ambitious international development</em>."\r\n
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          <strong>Paris/Milan, 12 September 2022</strong> - Gioconda, the Italian subsidiary of LBO France, announced today the acquisition of a majority stake, through the Small Caps Opportunities II fund, in Zato, an Italian company founded in Brescia and a major player in the energy transition for over twenty years. Zato's founders, Valerio Zanaglio and Alessandra Bresciani, who reinvested in this transaction, will continue to manage the Company. Banca Ifis S.p.A. enters as a co-investor and confirms its role in supporting highly innovative companies committed to the green economy.\r\n
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              <strong>Press release</strong>\r\n
              \r\n
              <strong>Paris, Soliers and Tours, France, 25 November 2021</strong>\r\n
              \r\n
              <strong> </strong>\r\n
              \r\n
              <strong>LBO France announces the acquisition of a majority stake in ID Market and Sourcidys, leading BtoB and BtoC distributors of home &amp; garden products in France</strong>\r\n
              \r\n
              &nbsp;\r\n
              \r\n
              <strong>LBO France has acquired a majority stake in the French companies </strong><strong>ID Market and Sourcidys, alongside their long-standing shareholder/managers Emmanuel Antunes, Guillaume Besnier and Olivier Roor, in order to accelerate the group’s growth across all digital channels</strong><strong>.</strong>\r\n
              \r\n
              For 15 years now, Emmanuel Antunes, Guillaume Besnier and Oliver Roor, founding managers, have created and developed ID Market and Sourcidys, two companies that are now French leaders in the design and online sale of home &amp; garden products. Both companies have expanded rapidly, based on a strategy of tapping all digital channels to sell to BtoC customers for ID Market and BtoB customers for Sourcidys. In less than 10 years, they have become leaders on their markets by outperforming their sector on growth. They now offer tremendous development potential through their virtuous and duplicable model that is based on accelerated digitalisation of the market. Thanks to a daily datamining of sales and market trends, their product lines organized across three high-potential universes offer "best of web" products:\r\n
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               \t<li>Home &amp; decoration;</li>\r\n
               \t<li>Leisure and outdoor furnishings;</li>\r\n
               \t<li>Gardening and DIY.</li>\r\n
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              In order to strengthen and perpetuate both companies’ activities, the founding managers have decided to seek the backing of a recognised investor and to merge ID Market and Sourcidys.\r\n
              \r\n
              Their plans are to continue and accelerate their development, while promoting operating and sales synergies in the coming years.\r\n
              \r\n
              The founders will remain shareholders in the group and will remain fully operational as managers.\r\n
              \r\n
              The group’s business plan is based on the following value creation drivers:\r\n
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               \t<li>Pursue the omnichannel distribution strategy, including marketplaces, Idmarket.com, private sales and traditional retail;</li>\r\n
               \t<li>Expand continously the offering by launching new product collections, developing new universes of high-potential ancillary products and gradually opening up to consumer goods in order to promote repeat business;</li>\r\n
               \t<li>Step up web-marketing investments, including SEO, SEA, set up a new customer-loyalty programme and develop the platform’s brand name;</li>\r\n
               \t<li>Reach critical size in order to initiate its strategy of external growth and international expansion.</li>\r\n
              </ul>\r\n
              <strong> </strong>The completion of the acquisition is subject to prior approval by the French antitrust authority (<em>Autorité de la Concurrence</em>).\r\n
              \r\n
              <strong> </strong>\r\n
              \r\n
              <strong>Jérôme Guez, Midcap Partner at LBO France</strong>, said: <em>“We were very favourably impressed by the performance achieved by ID Market and Sourcidys since their inception, driven by their managers. We are especially proud that the founding managers placed their trust in us to assist them in the coming stages of their development. We will do our utmost to provide them with the expertise that will allow them to strengthen their online visibility while continuing to enhance their product offering.”</em>\r\n
              \r\n
              <em> </em><strong>ID Market and Sourcidys managers</strong> said:<em> “We are very pleased to put this partnership into action with the LBO France team, backed by its well-regarded expertise We share a vision with LBO France in both management aspects and in the strategy needed, in order to continue and accelerate our development.”</em>
              """
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              <strong>Press release</strong>\r\n
              \r\n
              <strong>Paris, 16 November 2021</strong>\r\n
              \r\n
              LBO France announces the purchase of a majority stake in Alliance Marine\r\n
              \r\n
              <strong>LBO France has taken a majority stake in French company Alliance Marine, alongside the management team led by Jean-Paul Roche, to increase the company’s position on its markets.</strong>\r\n
              \r\n
              &nbsp;\r\n
              \r\n
              Alliance Marine is the expert in third-party and proprietary equipment and spare parts, for renovation and maintenance in the boating and marine industry sectors. With 650 employees and a portfolio of more than 500 brands, Alliance Marine is not only the undisputed industry leader in France but also in Europe, where it has a nearly 10% market share with revenues in excess of €210m. Following several external growth transactions, the group, created in 1999, is now made up of 18 operational companies including Accastillage Diffusion, Ocean-Safety and Typhoon Bukh-Bremen, Forniture Nautiche Italiane, Kent, Plastimo, Vidal Diffusion Marine-Rey, and Seimi. The group is pursuing its international development with the recent acquisitions of Dismarina, Navinordic, and 12Seemeilen.\r\n
              \r\n
              Investment bank Natixis Partners had been selected by Weinberg Capital Partners for the market launch of their stake and the bidding process with majority-only investment funds.\r\n
              \r\n
              LBO France’s investment means that Weinberg Capital Partners, which had taken a majority stake in the company in 2016, can exit. The management team, led by Jean-Paul Roche, is reinvesting alongside LBO France, marking their alignment on growth and value creation drivers.\r\n
              \r\n
              <strong><em> </em></strong>\r\n
              \r\n
              <strong>Jérôme Guez of LBO France</strong> comments:\r\n
              \r\n
              “By supporting Alliance Marine in its second LBO, LBO France has chosen a premium partnership with the French and European leader in equipment distribution for leisure boating and the marine industry. We are thoroughly convinced that this is a resilient market and by the robustness of its business and logistics, driven by its founder since 1999. Alliance Marine shows a great potential to consolidate its offering and its presence in Europe, by pursuing strategic acquisitions all along the value chain.”\r\n
              \r\n
              <strong> </strong><strong>Jean-Paul Roche, CEO of Alliance Marine</strong>, adds:\r\n
              \r\n
              “In the past few years, Alliance Marine has resized while maintaining the balances that optimise its model, with high after-market exposure, a diversified presence on the recreational boating and professional marine markets, and a competitive portfolio of its own brands. We are pleased to continue our development alongside LBO France which, in addition to its reputation in private equity, has acquired great expertise in specialised distribution.”\r\n
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              &nbsp;\r\n
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              <strong>Press release</strong>\r\n
              \r\n
              <strong>Paris, 21<sup>st</sup> October 2021</strong>\r\n
              \r\n
              <strong>Signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between Haixia Capital and LBO France in view of setting up a €500m Franco-Chinese investment program</strong>\r\n
              \r\n
              <strong> </strong><strong>Paris, 21<sup>st</sup> October 2021 – As part of their international development strategy, LBO France and Haixia Capital, a subsidiary of China SDIC Gaoxin Industrial Investment Corp. Ltd, one of the five private equity management firms of SDIC, announce the signing of a Memorandum Of Understanding (MoU). Such MoU aims at establishing a long-term partnership between the two entities with, as a first step, the creation of a joint-venture in view of investing €500m in companies with high development potential in China and Europe. </strong>\r\n
              \r\n
              As a pioneer in private equity in France, with a more than 30-year track record and €6.5bn of commitments raised, LBO France thus confirms its ambitions to penetrate the Chinese market by joining with Haixia Capital, the private equity and international investment subsidiary of China SDIC Gaoxin Industrial Investment Corp.Ltd (SDIC Gaoxin). Based mainly in Beijing and Fuzhou, Haixia Capital has been one of the best-known private equity firms in China in recent years (with €6.9bn in assets under management by the end of 2020).\r\n
              \r\n
              As the EU’s leading country in foreign investments, the world’s fourth-largest exporter of services, and the second-largest EU market, with GDP of €2,303bn in 2020 (source: INSEE), France offers considerable potential for Asian investors. China, meanwhile, is the world’s largest consumer market, with 1.4 billion potential consumers.\r\n
              \r\n
              It is against this backdrop that LBO France and Haixia Capital have decided to pool their know-how, in order to unlock synergies on their respective markets and strengthen their capacity to spot investment opportunities. The joint-venture arose from this common ambition. In addition, LBO France plans to set up an office in China.\r\n
              \r\n
              Haixia Capital will gain access to LBO France’s ecosystem with entrepreneurs and investors, which is backed by a 30-year-plus track record on the French market. Through its new partner, LBO France will enjoy special access to an extremely large market and an influential network that will allow it to strengthen its ties with some of its invested companies that have suppliers and/or clients in Asia, and to provide support to European companies that want to make inroads there.\r\n
              \r\n
              <strong>This announcement points to a long-term partnership between Haixia Capital and LBO France. Together, the two partners will be able to explore the growth potential of European and Chinese markets by pooling their respective resources and experience, while setting an example for cross-border cooperation. </strong>
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              <strong>Press release</strong>\r\n
              \r\n
              <strong>Paris, 20 October 2021</strong>\r\n
              \r\n
              <strong>LBO France announces the closing of Digital Health 2, its second digital healthcare fund, at €155m</strong>\r\n
              \r\n
              LBO France’s digital health venture strategy continues to gain ground with the Digital Health 2 fund, which has just completed its fundraising, with 155 million euros collected, twice as much as its predecessor fund, SISA (Services Innovants pour les acteurs de la Santé et de l’Autonomie, or “Innovative Services for Healthcare and Autonomy”), which closed in 2017 at 70 million euros.\r\n
              \r\n
              As a pioneer in digital healthcare since 2014, LBO France received a renewed vote of confidence from almost all investors who had put their money in the first SISA fund, including institutional LPs such as Bpifrance, about 15 insurance companies and family offices. Most of these long-standing investors put even more money into the new fund. Digital Health 2 also welcomed on board new, well-known corporate investors, such as Orange via its Orange Digital Investment holding company.\r\n
              \r\n
              Digital Health 2 aims to finance by 2024 about 15 B2B-dedicated SMEs in France and Western Europe, most of whose revenues are expanding rapidly.\r\n
              \r\n
              The fund has already made five investments:\r\n
              <ul>\r\n
               \t<li><a href="https://www.quantificare.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/QUANTIFICARE-LBO-France-Press-Release-final-2.pdf"><strong>QuantifiCare</strong></a>, a medical imaging specialist in skincare for clinical trials and aesthetic specialists;</li>\r\n
               \t<li><a href="https://preprod.lbofrance.com/lbo-france-annonce-un-investissement-dans-la-societe-tribvn-healthcare/"><strong>Tribvn Healthcare</strong></a>, a publisher of digital pathology software for managing, analysing and sharing cellular images;</li>\r\n
               \t<li><a href="https://preprod.lbofrance.com/lbo-france-investit-dans-feetme-via-son-fonds-digital-health-2/"><strong>FeetMe</strong></a>, a maker of medical devices that produces smart insoles and real-life gait analysis solutions for walking disorders;</li>\r\n
               \t<li><a href="https://preprod.lbofrance.com/lbo-france-investit-dans-la-societe-meditect-leader-dans-la-tracabilite-des-medicaments/"><strong>Meditect</strong></a>, a leader in drug traceability in sub-Saharan Africa;</li>\r\n
               \t<li><strong><a href="https://preprod.lbofrance.com/lequipe-venture-de-lbo-france-mene-le-tour-de-table-de-23-millions-usd-de-la-societe-antidote/">Antidote</a></strong>, an Anglo-American company that offers a patient recruiting solution based on a proprietary digital technology to facilitate clinical trials.</li>\r\n
              </ul>\r\n
              The fund invests between 5 and 20 million euros in each company.\r\n
              \r\n
              Led by Valéry Huot, the venture investment team consists of professionals from both the tech and healthcare sectors. It expanded in 2018 with the arrival of two Franco-American physicians – Sébastien Woynar as Investment Director, and Philippe Chambon as Venture Partner.\r\n
              \r\n
              <strong>Valéry Huot, Partner and Head of Venture at LBO France</strong>:<em> “With €155m raised at this final closing, we have achieved our objective of being twice the size of our first fund. This allows us to more closely support the growth of companies in the portfolio. The portfolio that we have set up in Western Europe pursues the strategy that we have offered to our investors, i.e., identifying and supporting e-health start-ups to transform them into sector leaders. We will also be expanding our activities in Western Europe, particularly in Germany, which possesses a robust healthcare system that is ripe for innovations.” </em>\r\n
              \r\n
              <em> </em><strong>Franck Noiret, Venture Managing Director</strong>:<em> “Digital Health 2’s larger size gives LBO France’s venture team the means to fund a larger number of ambitious digital health projects. We are delighted to provide long-term support to new entrepreneurs and to avail them of our know-how and experience in this area.” </em>\r\n
              \r\n
              <em> </em><strong>Sébastien Woynar, Venture Investment Director</strong>: <em>“The pandemic has revealed the full importance of new healthcare technologies. Some practices – such as teleconsultation, remote recruiting for clinical trials, widespread adoption of tools for compiling and analysing data for better diagnoses and prognoses, etc. – have moved into the mainstream and increased the need to roll out greater resources in this sector.”</em>\r\n
              \r\n
              Digital Health 2 was one of the private equity funds dedicated to tech firms in the official report presented to the French government by Philippe Tibi’s on 17 July 2020.\r\n
              \r\n
              New investments are expected to be announced soon.
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              <strong>Paris, October 13<sup>th</sup>, 2021</strong> – LBO France has signed an SPA for the sale of Italian premium glass packaging supplier VetroElite to world-wide leader TricorBraun.\r\n
              \r\n
              Founded in 1994, VetroElite is one of Europe’s leading designers and distributors of high-end glass packaging. The company offers an exclusive range of glass containers (bottles, carafes, flasks and jars) for liquid products, food products, room fragrances and other perfumery, cosmetic and body care products.\r\n
              \r\n
              Since its acquisition in May 2017 through the Small Caps Opportunities I fund, VetroElite has experienced spectacular growth with sales which nearly tripled, thanks to the add-on of Valery Glass in 2018, and most of all an uninterrupted organic top-line growth. As a result, VetroElite has become a leading provider of high-end glass packaging for craft distilleries, while expanding in all its other key industries, including wine, craft food, home perfume, and cosmetics.\r\n
              \r\n
              This Italian deal, which displays a compelling performance, marks the first exit of Small Cap Opportunities I fund, no later than 4.5 years after its acquisition.\r\n
              \r\n
              <strong>Arthur Bernardin, Managing Director of LBO France,</strong> said: “VetroElite investment is a beautiful story, with beautiful products and beautiful people leading to a beautiful performance. We have worked hand-in-hand with Daniele Feletto to help him structure his management team and support the company strong growth. This operation is a perfect example of our capacity to transform successful Italian SMEs into truly European leaders, and we are particularly proud to pass on the baton to TricorBraun which will enable VetroElite to continue its fantastic development”.\r\n
              \r\n
              <strong>Chiara Venezia, Director of LBO France,</strong> adds: “VetroElite is a jewel in the glass packaging industry, mixing strong technical capabilities and innovative design to create unique packaging solutions. It was a pleasure to work alongside the VetroElite management team, which is now well structured to face the next growth challenges”.\r\n
              \r\n
              <strong>Daniele Feletto, CEO of VetroElite</strong>, concludes: “It has been a beautiful experience. I found not only financial investors but also people who understood the business and the company as an industrial player and who supported and encouraged me in taking decisions”.
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              <strong>PRESS RELEASE</strong>\r\n
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              <strong>Fittingbox welcomes JINS as Shareholder, joining Fielmann, while Founders of the Digital Eyewear Leader reinforce their majority position </strong>\r\n
              \r\n
              <strong> </strong><em>Japan’s largest eyewear brand by volume acquires a stake in the share capital of Fittingbox and joins Fielmann, the leading German optical retailer, which has been an investor in Fittingbox since 2018.</em>\r\n
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              <strong>TOULOUSE, France — September 28, 2021</strong><strong> — </strong>Fittingbox, the software company that is transforming the eyewear industry with digitalization, today announced that JINS, the Japanese leader in eyewear retail, has become an industrial shareholder in the company. The investment enables earlier investors to exit, mainly French venture capital funds Kreaxi and LBO France with its SISA fund while the founders used the opportunity to strengthen their equity position in the company.\r\n
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              <strong> Thomas Ruetzel</strong>, Managing Director of Fielmann Ventures, said, “ ittingbox is a major driver of the technological change that defines the future of our industry. JINS represents customer-centricity, innovation, and forward-thinking – a great match that also broadens Fittingbox’ geographical reach.”\r\n
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              Fittingbox is now global as the expansion in Asia will complete that of Europe and USA. JINS, being a key player in Asia, has been innovative since its creation, either instore, through stunning shop designs, original frames collections and lenses made affordable, or online, being at the forefront of eyewear e-commerce.\r\n
              \r\n
              Paving the way for innovative eyewear retailing, this investment will help JINS accelerate in this direction, continuing to grow their market share in Japan, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, the Philippines, and the USA, as well as entering new countries and regions.\r\n
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              <strong>Toru Kaieda</strong>, Senior Director of Global Digital Strategies and Alliances, commented, “JINS has strong presence in Asia, where Fittingbox will have a strategic focus in the years to come, and we are very proud to be part of its expansion. For the past few years, we have witnessed a great deal of innovations in the consumer eyewear buying experience. If I had been asked ten years ago whether I would buy a pair of glasses online, I probably answered “No,” because I worried if the frame and lens selected online would actually fit me in real life. Now, thanks to the technologies developed by Fittingbox, we are able to offer our customers with opportunities to try and compare frames and lenses before making purchases and give our customers the confidence to shop them online. With new technologies emerging almost every day, we believe that there are much more innovations to be made in the eyewear industry and we are very excited to join forces with Fittingbox and Fielmann to lead innovations in this time of great change.”\r\n
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              The JINS investment comes in the year of the 15th anniversary of Fittingbox, just after a major rebranding, based on four key areas of Fittingbox’s business: Virtual try on, Digital frames, an Optical toolbox for eyewear businesses and Open innovation. As the COVID pandemic forced eyewear retailers into more contactless commerce, the need for virtual eyewear shopping has never been greater. Fittingbox is answering the call for building an ecosystem of innovative solutions as the industry repositions itself for a new era.\r\n
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              <strong>Benjamin Hakoun</strong>, Fittingbox CEO and Cofounder commented, “We created the business when we were students fifteen years ago, the previous financial investors helped us setup the business and accelerate it and we thank them for their commitment and help during all those years. We have opened a new chapter in 2018 with the entry of Fielmann as a minority shareholder and this was the right momentum to let enter a second industrial, JINS, which will bring value both as an investor and as a strategic customer. A tech company still there after 15 years is not common, so it proves that the vision was right. We want to build the best digital ecosystem so that the entire eyewear industry can benefit from it. Our most disruptive innovation is yet to come to celebrate our 15 years in the business: we will launch it before year end, stay tuned.”\r\n
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              <strong>Michel Desbard</strong>, LBO France Gestion, added, <em>"We are very pleased to have supported the technological and commercial development of FittingBox since 2014 to make it a world leader in the digital transformation of the optics sector. We are highly confident in the company’s ability to achieve its ambitious roadmap, notably in terms of international deployment alongside its two key strategic shareholders."</em>\r\n
              \r\n
              Fittingbox is emerging as the world leader in the field. The company had 54 million virtual try ons in 2020 - a 300% increase from the previous year and will beat it significantly this year as it has already achieved those numbers in June 2021. The database of 3D frames now tops 110,000 designs. The company is producing over 4,000 digitized frames per month, a level of productivity unmatched in the industry. Customers like Dior, Maui Jim and Transitions are working with Fittingbox as well as thousands of retailers, eyecare professional centers, manufacturers, and brands around the world. The company’s research and development team has almost tripled in size over the last thirty months.\r\n
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              “We’re problem solvers,” said <strong>Ariel Choukroun</strong>, Fittingbox CTO and Cofounder. “People want to look good in eyewear, irrespectively of their path to purchase - online, instore or omnichannel -, so we have invested our resources in making the virtual eyewear shopping experience as pleasant and effective as possible. Our rebranding reflects our renewed focus on the power of technology to change the eyewear industry.”\r\n
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              “We are a deeptech company,” added <strong>M. Choukroun</strong>. “We have 60+ talented experts on our R&amp;D team, bringing knowledge of Artificial Intelligence, Computer vision, Machine learning and UX/UI to the eyewear industry. With these incredibly innovative resources, we are able to co-create with our partners and the players in its ecosystem to support the eyewear industry during a period of major changes.”
              """
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              <strong>Press release</strong>\r\n
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              <strong>Paris and Floirac, September 23<sup>rd</sup>, 2021</strong>\r\n
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              LBO France announces the acquisition of a majority stake in Baobag, a leading European player in the distribution of FIBC (“Flexible Intermediate Bulk Containers”)\r\n
              \r\n
              <strong>LBO France, through its Small Caps Opportunities II fund, has acquired a majority stake in the French company Baobag, alongside BNP Paribas Développement, AfricInvest and the management team – the latter led by Fabrice Saffré, to increase the company's position in its markets.</strong>\r\n
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              Baobag originated from the merger of Sacherie du Midi and Framapack in 2007. The company is a pure distributor of Flexible Intermediate Bulk Containers (“FIBC”), commonly known as <em>big bags</em>. The company operates throughout the value chain, including design, sourcing, transportation and storage. Through the development of tenured and exclusive relationships with trusted manufacturing partners around the world and the intricate knowledge of customer requirements across a wide range of end-markets, Baobag has grown into the leading player in the French FIBC market and has successfully penetrated the Moroccan and Spanish markets through organic growth. Since inception, Baobag has exhibited robust growth, outperforming underlying market, and has reached over €50m in revenue.\r\n
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              The M&amp;A advisory firm Financière Monceau had been selected by the company’s historical shareholders – iXO Private Equity and Bpifrance – to lead the sell-side process, which exclusively targeted investment funds bidding for majority stakes.\r\n
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              LBO France’s investment allows for the exit of iXO Private Equity and Bpifrance, who acquired a majority stake in the Company in 2016 to support the managerial transition and to initiate internationalization efforts. Baobag’s management team, led by Fabrice Saffré, significantly re-invest in this secondary LBO round, which also includes an investment on behalf of BNP Paribas Développement and AfricInvest. All aforementioned parties are fully aligned on the growth levers that will drive value creation: acceleration of expansion into Africa (which features the strongest market growth prospects), external growth in select European countries and further market share gains on the domestic market. The shared objective is to create a pan-European leader, spearheading the substitution of bulk transport and storage by <em>big bags</em> in Africa.\r\n
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              <strong>Jean-Marie Leroy, Partner and Head of Small Cap at LBO France</strong>, comments, <em>“We are fully convinced of the robustness of Baobag’s positioning, evidenced by its leading market position in France, a highly diversified end-market exposure and a tenured customer base. Growth prospects are exciting, namely the acceleration of expansion in Africa, where big bag penetration rates show the most whitespace, and the consolidation of the European market. The track record of Fabrice Saffré and his team at the head of Baobag speaks for itself, and they will have LBO France’s full support as they carry out these growth projects.</em>”\r\n
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              <em> </em><strong>Fabrice Saffré, CEO of Baobag</strong>, adds, <em>“After 5 years of international growth, highlighted by the opening of subsidiaries in Morocco and in Spain, it was key for Baobag to be able to rely on high-profile partners in order to further our expansion, especially in Africa, all the while maintaining our independence and core values. In this critical stage of our development, our growth trajectory will be supported by LBO France’s expertise, specifically via the input of their team dedicated to operational performance.”</em>
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              <strong>Cambridge (USA), Paris (France), September 2, 2021 11pm CET</strong> – Voluntis (Euronext Growth Paris, Ticker: ALVTX - ISIN: FR0004183960), a leader in digital therapeutics, and its reference shareholders (Bpifrance Participations, LBO France Gestion, Debiopharm Innovation Fund, SHAM Innovation Santé, Vesalius Biocapital and Indigo) announced today that following the signature of a share purchase agreement with AptarGroup, Inc. (NYSE: ATR) (“Aptar”) on July 22, 2021 and the approval of the French Ministry of Economy under the foreign investment clearance regulations, Aptar has completed the acquisition of a majority stake in Voluntis from the company's reference shareholders and certain members of the management, representing approximately 64.6% of the share capital of Voluntis (on a non-diluted basis), at a price of €8.70 per share.\r\n
              In accordance with applicable regulation, Aptar will launch a mandatory cash tender offer to acquire Voluntis’ remaining shares for the same price of €8.70 per share (the “Tender Offer”). The Tender Offer is intended to be filed with the French Markets Authority (the “AMF”) in September 2021 and will be subject to the regulatory clearance from the AMF.\r\n
              If the regulatory conditions are met upon completion of the Tender Offer, Aptar intends to implement a squeeze-out on the remaining outstanding shares of Voluntis.\r\n
              Voluntis’ board of directors (the “Board”), upon the recommendation of its ad hoc committee and in accordance with applicable regulation, appointed Advolis Orfis as independent expert on July 5, 2021, and will issue, notably on the basis of the independent expert’s report opining on the financial terms of the Tender Offer and potential subsequent squeeze-out, a reasoned opinion on the Tender Offer and its consequences on Voluntis, its shareholders and employees.\r\n
              The independent expert’s report and the Board’s opinion will be included in the draft response offer document that will be prepared by Voluntis in the context of the Tender Offer and submitted to the AMF, which will assess its compliance with applicable regulation.\r\n
              On September 2, 2021, following resignation of the selling shareholders’ representatives on the Voluntis Board, namely Laurent Higueret (representative of Bpifrance Participations) and Franck Noiret (representative of LBO France Gestion), Gael Touya and Patrick Jeukenne, Aptar’s representatives, have been appointed to replace them in the Board.\r\n
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              In addition, Voluntis announces that it has fully repaid in advance the bond loan subscribed with Kreos for an amount of € 0.75 million.
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              <strong>Milano, 22 luglio 2021 - Demas</strong> <strong>Group</strong>, Italian leader in the distribution of veterinary products controlled by Petinvest srl, a vehicle controlled by Gioconda, an Italian investment fund of the <strong>LBO France</strong> Small Caps Opportunities fund, together with Banca Ifis and the Giovanni Ambrosetti group as minority investors, <strong>has acquired 85% of the capital of Punto Azzurro</strong>, a company active in the distribution of medicines for pets.\r\n
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              Punto Azzurro, the second company of the Veneta Zootecnici Group owned by the Fracalanza family, boasts a solid presence on the market for the distribution of veterinary products in Veneto and Friuli-Venezia Giulia, where it is present with seven shops.\r\n
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              As a result of this operation, the Fracalanza family will retain a 15% shareholding with Sergio Fracalanza, former Chairman of Punto Azzurro, who will become Chairman of the Board of Directors. In this role, he will be supported as Managing Director by Fabrizio Foglietti, former President and CEO of the Demas Group.\r\n
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              <strong>Chiara Venezia, Director of Gioconda</strong>, the Italian branch of <strong>LBO France</strong>, said: "We are delighted to have assisted the Demas Group and Fabrizio Foglietti in its first acquisition since our entry; Punto Azzurro will accelerate the development of Demas in Italy, which already boasts extraordinary organic growth, and strengthen the group's leadership in its reference market".\r\n
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          <strong>Paris, Soliers and Tours, France, 25 November 2021</strong>\r\n
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          <strong> </strong>\r\n
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          <strong>LBO France announces the acquisition of a majority stake in ID Market and Sourcidys, leading BtoB and BtoC distributors of home &amp; garden products in France</strong>\r\n
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          &nbsp;\r\n
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          <strong>LBO France has acquired a majority stake in the French companies </strong><strong>ID Market and Sourcidys, alongside their long-standing shareholder/managers Emmanuel Antunes, Guillaume Besnier and Olivier Roor, in order to accelerate the group’s growth across all digital channels</strong><strong>.</strong>\r\n
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          For 15 years now, Emmanuel Antunes, Guillaume Besnier and Oliver Roor, founding managers, have created and developed ID Market and Sourcidys, two companies that are now French leaders in the design and online sale of home &amp; garden products. Both companies have expanded rapidly, based on a strategy of tapping all digital channels to sell to BtoC customers for ID Market and BtoB customers for Sourcidys. In less than 10 years, they have become leaders on their markets by outperforming their sector on growth. They now offer tremendous development potential through their virtuous and duplicable model that is based on accelerated digitalisation of the market. Thanks to a daily datamining of sales and market trends, their product lines organized across three high-potential universes offer "best of web" products:\r\n
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           \t<li>Home &amp; decoration;</li>\r\n
           \t<li>Leisure and outdoor furnishings;</li>\r\n
           \t<li>Gardening and DIY.</li>\r\n
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          In order to strengthen and perpetuate both companies’ activities, the founding managers have decided to seek the backing of a recognised investor and to merge ID Market and Sourcidys.\r\n
          \r\n
          Their plans are to continue and accelerate their development, while promoting operating and sales synergies in the coming years.\r\n
          \r\n
          The founders will remain shareholders in the group and will remain fully operational as managers.\r\n
          \r\n
          The group’s business plan is based on the following value creation drivers:\r\n
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           \t<li>Pursue the omnichannel distribution strategy, including marketplaces, Idmarket.com, private sales and traditional retail;</li>\r\n
           \t<li>Expand continously the offering by launching new product collections, developing new universes of high-potential ancillary products and gradually opening up to consumer goods in order to promote repeat business;</li>\r\n
           \t<li>Step up web-marketing investments, including SEO, SEA, set up a new customer-loyalty programme and develop the platform’s brand name;</li>\r\n
           \t<li>Reach critical size in order to initiate its strategy of external growth and international expansion.</li>\r\n
          </ul>\r\n
          <strong> </strong>The completion of the acquisition is subject to prior approval by the French antitrust authority (<em>Autorité de la Concurrence</em>).\r\n
          \r\n
          <strong> </strong>\r\n
          \r\n
          <strong>Jérôme Guez, Midcap Partner at LBO France</strong>, said: <em>“We were very favourably impressed by the performance achieved by ID Market and Sourcidys since their inception, driven by their managers. We are especially proud that the founding managers placed their trust in us to assist them in the coming stages of their development. We will do our utmost to provide them with the expertise that will allow them to strengthen their online visibility while continuing to enhance their product offering.”</em>\r\n
          \r\n
          <em> </em><strong>ID Market and Sourcidys managers</strong> said:<em> “We are very pleased to put this partnership into action with the LBO France team, backed by its well-regarded expertise We share a vision with LBO France in both management aspects and in the strategy needed, in order to continue and accelerate our development.”</em>
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          <strong>Press release</strong>\r\n
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          <strong>Paris, 16 November 2021</strong>\r\n
          \r\n
          LBO France announces the purchase of a majority stake in Alliance Marine\r\n
          \r\n
          <strong>LBO France has taken a majority stake in French company Alliance Marine, alongside the management team led by Jean-Paul Roche, to increase the company’s position on its markets.</strong>\r\n
          \r\n
          &nbsp;\r\n
          \r\n
          Alliance Marine is the expert in third-party and proprietary equipment and spare parts, for renovation and maintenance in the boating and marine industry sectors. With 650 employees and a portfolio of more than 500 brands, Alliance Marine is not only the undisputed industry leader in France but also in Europe, where it has a nearly 10% market share with revenues in excess of €210m. Following several external growth transactions, the group, created in 1999, is now made up of 18 operational companies including Accastillage Diffusion, Ocean-Safety and Typhoon Bukh-Bremen, Forniture Nautiche Italiane, Kent, Plastimo, Vidal Diffusion Marine-Rey, and Seimi. The group is pursuing its international development with the recent acquisitions of Dismarina, Navinordic, and 12Seemeilen.\r\n
          \r\n
          Investment bank Natixis Partners had been selected by Weinberg Capital Partners for the market launch of their stake and the bidding process with majority-only investment funds.\r\n
          \r\n
          LBO France’s investment means that Weinberg Capital Partners, which had taken a majority stake in the company in 2016, can exit. The management team, led by Jean-Paul Roche, is reinvesting alongside LBO France, marking their alignment on growth and value creation drivers.\r\n
          \r\n
          <strong><em> </em></strong>\r\n
          \r\n
          <strong>Jérôme Guez of LBO France</strong> comments:\r\n
          \r\n
          “By supporting Alliance Marine in its second LBO, LBO France has chosen a premium partnership with the French and European leader in equipment distribution for leisure boating and the marine industry. We are thoroughly convinced that this is a resilient market and by the robustness of its business and logistics, driven by its founder since 1999. Alliance Marine shows a great potential to consolidate its offering and its presence in Europe, by pursuing strategic acquisitions all along the value chain.”\r\n
          \r\n
          <strong> </strong><strong>Jean-Paul Roche, CEO of Alliance Marine</strong>, adds:\r\n
          \r\n
          “In the past few years, Alliance Marine has resized while maintaining the balances that optimise its model, with high after-market exposure, a diversified presence on the recreational boating and professional marine markets, and a competitive portfolio of its own brands. We are pleased to continue our development alongside LBO France which, in addition to its reputation in private equity, has acquired great expertise in specialised distribution.”\r\n
          \r\n
          &nbsp;\r\n
          \r\n
          <a href="https://preprod.lbofrance.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/PR-LBO-France-announces-the-purchase-of-a-majority-stake-in-Alliance-Marine-_16112021-1.pdf">PR - LBO France announces the purchase of a majority stake in Alliance Marine _16112021</a>
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          <strong>Press release</strong>\r\n
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          <strong>Paris, 21<sup>st</sup> October 2021</strong>\r\n
          \r\n
          <strong>Signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between Haixia Capital and LBO France in view of setting up a €500m Franco-Chinese investment program</strong>\r\n
          \r\n
          <strong> </strong><strong>Paris, 21<sup>st</sup> October 2021 – As part of their international development strategy, LBO France and Haixia Capital, a subsidiary of China SDIC Gaoxin Industrial Investment Corp. Ltd, one of the five private equity management firms of SDIC, announce the signing of a Memorandum Of Understanding (MoU). Such MoU aims at establishing a long-term partnership between the two entities with, as a first step, the creation of a joint-venture in view of investing €500m in companies with high development potential in China and Europe. </strong>\r\n
          \r\n
          As a pioneer in private equity in France, with a more than 30-year track record and €6.5bn of commitments raised, LBO France thus confirms its ambitions to penetrate the Chinese market by joining with Haixia Capital, the private equity and international investment subsidiary of China SDIC Gaoxin Industrial Investment Corp.Ltd (SDIC Gaoxin). Based mainly in Beijing and Fuzhou, Haixia Capital has been one of the best-known private equity firms in China in recent years (with €6.9bn in assets under management by the end of 2020).\r\n
          \r\n
          As the EU’s leading country in foreign investments, the world’s fourth-largest exporter of services, and the second-largest EU market, with GDP of €2,303bn in 2020 (source: INSEE), France offers considerable potential for Asian investors. China, meanwhile, is the world’s largest consumer market, with 1.4 billion potential consumers.\r\n
          \r\n
          It is against this backdrop that LBO France and Haixia Capital have decided to pool their know-how, in order to unlock synergies on their respective markets and strengthen their capacity to spot investment opportunities. The joint-venture arose from this common ambition. In addition, LBO France plans to set up an office in China.\r\n
          \r\n
          Haixia Capital will gain access to LBO France’s ecosystem with entrepreneurs and investors, which is backed by a 30-year-plus track record on the French market. Through its new partner, LBO France will enjoy special access to an extremely large market and an influential network that will allow it to strengthen its ties with some of its invested companies that have suppliers and/or clients in Asia, and to provide support to European companies that want to make inroads there.\r\n
          \r\n
          <strong>This announcement points to a long-term partnership between Haixia Capital and LBO France. Together, the two partners will be able to explore the growth potential of European and Chinese markets by pooling their respective resources and experience, while setting an example for cross-border cooperation. </strong>
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          <strong>Press release</strong>\r\n
          \r\n
          <strong>Paris, 20 October 2021</strong>\r\n
          \r\n
          <strong>LBO France announces the closing of Digital Health 2, its second digital healthcare fund, at €155m</strong>\r\n
          \r\n
          LBO France’s digital health venture strategy continues to gain ground with the Digital Health 2 fund, which has just completed its fundraising, with 155 million euros collected, twice as much as its predecessor fund, SISA (Services Innovants pour les acteurs de la Santé et de l’Autonomie, or “Innovative Services for Healthcare and Autonomy”), which closed in 2017 at 70 million euros.\r\n
          \r\n
          As a pioneer in digital healthcare since 2014, LBO France received a renewed vote of confidence from almost all investors who had put their money in the first SISA fund, including institutional LPs such as Bpifrance, about 15 insurance companies and family offices. Most of these long-standing investors put even more money into the new fund. Digital Health 2 also welcomed on board new, well-known corporate investors, such as Orange via its Orange Digital Investment holding company.\r\n
          \r\n
          Digital Health 2 aims to finance by 2024 about 15 B2B-dedicated SMEs in France and Western Europe, most of whose revenues are expanding rapidly.\r\n
          \r\n
          The fund has already made five investments:\r\n
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           \t<li><a href="https://www.quantificare.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/QUANTIFICARE-LBO-France-Press-Release-final-2.pdf"><strong>QuantifiCare</strong></a>, a medical imaging specialist in skincare for clinical trials and aesthetic specialists;</li>\r\n
           \t<li><a href="https://preprod.lbofrance.com/lbo-france-annonce-un-investissement-dans-la-societe-tribvn-healthcare/"><strong>Tribvn Healthcare</strong></a>, a publisher of digital pathology software for managing, analysing and sharing cellular images;</li>\r\n
           \t<li><a href="https://preprod.lbofrance.com/lbo-france-investit-dans-feetme-via-son-fonds-digital-health-2/"><strong>FeetMe</strong></a>, a maker of medical devices that produces smart insoles and real-life gait analysis solutions for walking disorders;</li>\r\n
           \t<li><a href="https://preprod.lbofrance.com/lbo-france-investit-dans-la-societe-meditect-leader-dans-la-tracabilite-des-medicaments/"><strong>Meditect</strong></a>, a leader in drug traceability in sub-Saharan Africa;</li>\r\n
           \t<li><strong><a href="https://preprod.lbofrance.com/lequipe-venture-de-lbo-france-mene-le-tour-de-table-de-23-millions-usd-de-la-societe-antidote/">Antidote</a></strong>, an Anglo-American company that offers a patient recruiting solution based on a proprietary digital technology to facilitate clinical trials.</li>\r\n
          </ul>\r\n
          The fund invests between 5 and 20 million euros in each company.\r\n
          \r\n
          Led by Valéry Huot, the venture investment team consists of professionals from both the tech and healthcare sectors. It expanded in 2018 with the arrival of two Franco-American physicians – Sébastien Woynar as Investment Director, and Philippe Chambon as Venture Partner.\r\n
          \r\n
          <strong>Valéry Huot, Partner and Head of Venture at LBO France</strong>:<em> “With €155m raised at this final closing, we have achieved our objective of being twice the size of our first fund. This allows us to more closely support the growth of companies in the portfolio. The portfolio that we have set up in Western Europe pursues the strategy that we have offered to our investors, i.e., identifying and supporting e-health start-ups to transform them into sector leaders. We will also be expanding our activities in Western Europe, particularly in Germany, which possesses a robust healthcare system that is ripe for innovations.” </em>\r\n
          \r\n
          <em> </em><strong>Franck Noiret, Venture Managing Director</strong>:<em> “Digital Health 2’s larger size gives LBO France’s venture team the means to fund a larger number of ambitious digital health projects. We are delighted to provide long-term support to new entrepreneurs and to avail them of our know-how and experience in this area.” </em>\r\n
          \r\n
          <em> </em><strong>Sébastien Woynar, Venture Investment Director</strong>: <em>“The pandemic has revealed the full importance of new healthcare technologies. Some practices – such as teleconsultation, remote recruiting for clinical trials, widespread adoption of tools for compiling and analysing data for better diagnoses and prognoses, etc. – have moved into the mainstream and increased the need to roll out greater resources in this sector.”</em>\r\n
          \r\n
          Digital Health 2 was one of the private equity funds dedicated to tech firms in the official report presented to the French government by Philippe Tibi’s on 17 July 2020.\r\n
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          New investments are expected to be announced soon.
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          <strong>Paris, October 13<sup>th</sup>, 2021</strong> – LBO France has signed an SPA for the sale of Italian premium glass packaging supplier VetroElite to world-wide leader TricorBraun.\r\n
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          Founded in 1994, VetroElite is one of Europe’s leading designers and distributors of high-end glass packaging. The company offers an exclusive range of glass containers (bottles, carafes, flasks and jars) for liquid products, food products, room fragrances and other perfumery, cosmetic and body care products.\r\n
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          Since its acquisition in May 2017 through the Small Caps Opportunities I fund, VetroElite has experienced spectacular growth with sales which nearly tripled, thanks to the add-on of Valery Glass in 2018, and most of all an uninterrupted organic top-line growth. As a result, VetroElite has become a leading provider of high-end glass packaging for craft distilleries, while expanding in all its other key industries, including wine, craft food, home perfume, and cosmetics.\r\n
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          This Italian deal, which displays a compelling performance, marks the first exit of Small Cap Opportunities I fund, no later than 4.5 years after its acquisition.\r\n
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          <strong>Arthur Bernardin, Managing Director of LBO France,</strong> said: “VetroElite investment is a beautiful story, with beautiful products and beautiful people leading to a beautiful performance. We have worked hand-in-hand with Daniele Feletto to help him structure his management team and support the company strong growth. This operation is a perfect example of our capacity to transform successful Italian SMEs into truly European leaders, and we are particularly proud to pass on the baton to TricorBraun which will enable VetroElite to continue its fantastic development”.\r\n
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          <strong>Chiara Venezia, Director of LBO France,</strong> adds: “VetroElite is a jewel in the glass packaging industry, mixing strong technical capabilities and innovative design to create unique packaging solutions. It was a pleasure to work alongside the VetroElite management team, which is now well structured to face the next growth challenges”.\r\n
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          <strong>Daniele Feletto, CEO of VetroElite</strong>, concludes: “It has been a beautiful experience. I found not only financial investors but also people who understood the business and the company as an industrial player and who supported and encouraged me in taking decisions”.
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          <strong>PRESS RELEASE</strong>\r\n
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          <strong>Fittingbox welcomes JINS as Shareholder, joining Fielmann, while Founders of the Digital Eyewear Leader reinforce their majority position </strong>\r\n
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          <strong> </strong><em>Japan’s largest eyewear brand by volume acquires a stake in the share capital of Fittingbox and joins Fielmann, the leading German optical retailer, which has been an investor in Fittingbox since 2018.</em>\r\n
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          <strong>TOULOUSE, France — September 28, 2021</strong><strong> — </strong>Fittingbox, the software company that is transforming the eyewear industry with digitalization, today announced that JINS, the Japanese leader in eyewear retail, has become an industrial shareholder in the company. The investment enables earlier investors to exit, mainly French venture capital funds Kreaxi and LBO France with its SISA fund while the founders used the opportunity to strengthen their equity position in the company.\r\n
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          <strong> Thomas Ruetzel</strong>, Managing Director of Fielmann Ventures, said, “ ittingbox is a major driver of the technological change that defines the future of our industry. JINS represents customer-centricity, innovation, and forward-thinking – a great match that also broadens Fittingbox’ geographical reach.”\r\n
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          Fittingbox is now global as the expansion in Asia will complete that of Europe and USA. JINS, being a key player in Asia, has been innovative since its creation, either instore, through stunning shop designs, original frames collections and lenses made affordable, or online, being at the forefront of eyewear e-commerce.\r\n
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          Paving the way for innovative eyewear retailing, this investment will help JINS accelerate in this direction, continuing to grow their market share in Japan, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, the Philippines, and the USA, as well as entering new countries and regions.\r\n
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          <strong>Toru Kaieda</strong>, Senior Director of Global Digital Strategies and Alliances, commented, “JINS has strong presence in Asia, where Fittingbox will have a strategic focus in the years to come, and we are very proud to be part of its expansion. For the past few years, we have witnessed a great deal of innovations in the consumer eyewear buying experience. If I had been asked ten years ago whether I would buy a pair of glasses online, I probably answered “No,” because I worried if the frame and lens selected online would actually fit me in real life. Now, thanks to the technologies developed by Fittingbox, we are able to offer our customers with opportunities to try and compare frames and lenses before making purchases and give our customers the confidence to shop them online. With new technologies emerging almost every day, we believe that there are much more innovations to be made in the eyewear industry and we are very excited to join forces with Fittingbox and Fielmann to lead innovations in this time of great change.”\r\n
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          The JINS investment comes in the year of the 15th anniversary of Fittingbox, just after a major rebranding, based on four key areas of Fittingbox’s business: Virtual try on, Digital frames, an Optical toolbox for eyewear businesses and Open innovation. As the COVID pandemic forced eyewear retailers into more contactless commerce, the need for virtual eyewear shopping has never been greater. Fittingbox is answering the call for building an ecosystem of innovative solutions as the industry repositions itself for a new era.\r\n
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          <strong>Benjamin Hakoun</strong>, Fittingbox CEO and Cofounder commented, “We created the business when we were students fifteen years ago, the previous financial investors helped us setup the business and accelerate it and we thank them for their commitment and help during all those years. We have opened a new chapter in 2018 with the entry of Fielmann as a minority shareholder and this was the right momentum to let enter a second industrial, JINS, which will bring value both as an investor and as a strategic customer. A tech company still there after 15 years is not common, so it proves that the vision was right. We want to build the best digital ecosystem so that the entire eyewear industry can benefit from it. Our most disruptive innovation is yet to come to celebrate our 15 years in the business: we will launch it before year end, stay tuned.”\r\n
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          <strong>Michel Desbard</strong>, LBO France Gestion, added, <em>"We are very pleased to have supported the technological and commercial development of FittingBox since 2014 to make it a world leader in the digital transformation of the optics sector. We are highly confident in the company’s ability to achieve its ambitious roadmap, notably in terms of international deployment alongside its two key strategic shareholders."</em>\r\n
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          Fittingbox is emerging as the world leader in the field. The company had 54 million virtual try ons in 2020 - a 300% increase from the previous year and will beat it significantly this year as it has already achieved those numbers in June 2021. The database of 3D frames now tops 110,000 designs. The company is producing over 4,000 digitized frames per month, a level of productivity unmatched in the industry. Customers like Dior, Maui Jim and Transitions are working with Fittingbox as well as thousands of retailers, eyecare professional centers, manufacturers, and brands around the world. The company’s research and development team has almost tripled in size over the last thirty months.\r\n
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          “We’re problem solvers,” said <strong>Ariel Choukroun</strong>, Fittingbox CTO and Cofounder. “People want to look good in eyewear, irrespectively of their path to purchase - online, instore or omnichannel -, so we have invested our resources in making the virtual eyewear shopping experience as pleasant and effective as possible. Our rebranding reflects our renewed focus on the power of technology to change the eyewear industry.”\r\n
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          “We are a deeptech company,” added <strong>M. Choukroun</strong>. “We have 60+ talented experts on our R&amp;D team, bringing knowledge of Artificial Intelligence, Computer vision, Machine learning and UX/UI to the eyewear industry. With these incredibly innovative resources, we are able to co-create with our partners and the players in its ecosystem to support the eyewear industry during a period of major changes.”
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          <strong>Press release</strong>\r\n
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          <strong>Paris and Floirac, September 23<sup>rd</sup>, 2021</strong>\r\n
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          LBO France announces the acquisition of a majority stake in Baobag, a leading European player in the distribution of FIBC (“Flexible Intermediate Bulk Containers”)\r\n
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          <strong>LBO France, through its Small Caps Opportunities II fund, has acquired a majority stake in the French company Baobag, alongside BNP Paribas Développement, AfricInvest and the management team – the latter led by Fabrice Saffré, to increase the company's position in its markets.</strong>\r\n
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          Baobag originated from the merger of Sacherie du Midi and Framapack in 2007. The company is a pure distributor of Flexible Intermediate Bulk Containers (“FIBC”), commonly known as <em>big bags</em>. The company operates throughout the value chain, including design, sourcing, transportation and storage. Through the development of tenured and exclusive relationships with trusted manufacturing partners around the world and the intricate knowledge of customer requirements across a wide range of end-markets, Baobag has grown into the leading player in the French FIBC market and has successfully penetrated the Moroccan and Spanish markets through organic growth. Since inception, Baobag has exhibited robust growth, outperforming underlying market, and has reached over €50m in revenue.\r\n
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          The M&amp;A advisory firm Financière Monceau had been selected by the company’s historical shareholders – iXO Private Equity and Bpifrance – to lead the sell-side process, which exclusively targeted investment funds bidding for majority stakes.\r\n
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          LBO France’s investment allows for the exit of iXO Private Equity and Bpifrance, who acquired a majority stake in the Company in 2016 to support the managerial transition and to initiate internationalization efforts. Baobag’s management team, led by Fabrice Saffré, significantly re-invest in this secondary LBO round, which also includes an investment on behalf of BNP Paribas Développement and AfricInvest. All aforementioned parties are fully aligned on the growth levers that will drive value creation: acceleration of expansion into Africa (which features the strongest market growth prospects), external growth in select European countries and further market share gains on the domestic market. The shared objective is to create a pan-European leader, spearheading the substitution of bulk transport and storage by <em>big bags</em> in Africa.\r\n
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          <strong>Jean-Marie Leroy, Partner and Head of Small Cap at LBO France</strong>, comments, <em>“We are fully convinced of the robustness of Baobag’s positioning, evidenced by its leading market position in France, a highly diversified end-market exposure and a tenured customer base. Growth prospects are exciting, namely the acceleration of expansion in Africa, where big bag penetration rates show the most whitespace, and the consolidation of the European market. The track record of Fabrice Saffré and his team at the head of Baobag speaks for itself, and they will have LBO France’s full support as they carry out these growth projects.</em>”\r\n
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          <em> </em><strong>Fabrice Saffré, CEO of Baobag</strong>, adds, <em>“After 5 years of international growth, highlighted by the opening of subsidiaries in Morocco and in Spain, it was key for Baobag to be able to rely on high-profile partners in order to further our expansion, especially in Africa, all the while maintaining our independence and core values. In this critical stage of our development, our growth trajectory will be supported by LBO France’s expertise, specifically via the input of their team dedicated to operational performance.”</em>
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          <strong>Cambridge (USA), Paris (France), September 2, 2021 11pm CET</strong> – Voluntis (Euronext Growth Paris, Ticker: ALVTX - ISIN: FR0004183960), a leader in digital therapeutics, and its reference shareholders (Bpifrance Participations, LBO France Gestion, Debiopharm Innovation Fund, SHAM Innovation Santé, Vesalius Biocapital and Indigo) announced today that following the signature of a share purchase agreement with AptarGroup, Inc. (NYSE: ATR) (“Aptar”) on July 22, 2021 and the approval of the French Ministry of Economy under the foreign investment clearance regulations, Aptar has completed the acquisition of a majority stake in Voluntis from the company's reference shareholders and certain members of the management, representing approximately 64.6% of the share capital of Voluntis (on a non-diluted basis), at a price of €8.70 per share.\r\n
          In accordance with applicable regulation, Aptar will launch a mandatory cash tender offer to acquire Voluntis’ remaining shares for the same price of €8.70 per share (the “Tender Offer”). The Tender Offer is intended to be filed with the French Markets Authority (the “AMF”) in September 2021 and will be subject to the regulatory clearance from the AMF.\r\n
          If the regulatory conditions are met upon completion of the Tender Offer, Aptar intends to implement a squeeze-out on the remaining outstanding shares of Voluntis.\r\n
          Voluntis’ board of directors (the “Board”), upon the recommendation of its ad hoc committee and in accordance with applicable regulation, appointed Advolis Orfis as independent expert on July 5, 2021, and will issue, notably on the basis of the independent expert’s report opining on the financial terms of the Tender Offer and potential subsequent squeeze-out, a reasoned opinion on the Tender Offer and its consequences on Voluntis, its shareholders and employees.\r\n
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          On September 2, 2021, following resignation of the selling shareholders’ representatives on the Voluntis Board, namely Laurent Higueret (representative of Bpifrance Participations) and Franck Noiret (representative of LBO France Gestion), Gael Touya and Patrick Jeukenne, Aptar’s representatives, have been appointed to replace them in the Board.\r\n
          The Board has also appointed M. Sai Shankar as deputy CEO of Voluntis, and the current management of Voluntis is otherwise expected to remain the same following the completion of the Tender Offer.\r\n
          In addition, Voluntis announces that it has fully repaid in advance the bond loan subscribed with Kreos for an amount of € 0.75 million.
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              <strong>Paris, Soliers and Tours, France, 25 November 2021</strong>\r\n
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               \t<li>Leisure and outdoor furnishings;</li>\r\n
               \t<li>Gardening and DIY.</li>\r\n
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              In order to strengthen and perpetuate both companies’ activities, the founding managers have decided to seek the backing of a recognised investor and to merge ID Market and Sourcidys.\r\n
              \r\n
              Their plans are to continue and accelerate their development, while promoting operating and sales synergies in the coming years.\r\n
              \r\n
              The founders will remain shareholders in the group and will remain fully operational as managers.\r\n
              \r\n
              The group’s business plan is based on the following value creation drivers:\r\n
              <ul>\r\n
               \t<li>Pursue the omnichannel distribution strategy, including marketplaces, Idmarket.com, private sales and traditional retail;</li>\r\n
               \t<li>Expand continously the offering by launching new product collections, developing new universes of high-potential ancillary products and gradually opening up to consumer goods in order to promote repeat business;</li>\r\n
               \t<li>Step up web-marketing investments, including SEO, SEA, set up a new customer-loyalty programme and develop the platform’s brand name;</li>\r\n
               \t<li>Reach critical size in order to initiate its strategy of external growth and international expansion.</li>\r\n
              </ul>\r\n
              <strong> </strong>The completion of the acquisition is subject to prior approval by the French antitrust authority (<em>Autorité de la Concurrence</em>).\r\n
              \r\n
              <strong> </strong>\r\n
              \r\n
              <strong>Jérôme Guez, Midcap Partner at LBO France</strong>, said: <em>“We were very favourably impressed by the performance achieved by ID Market and Sourcidys since their inception, driven by their managers. We are especially proud that the founding managers placed their trust in us to assist them in the coming stages of their development. We will do our utmost to provide them with the expertise that will allow them to strengthen their online visibility while continuing to enhance their product offering.”</em>\r\n
              \r\n
              <em> </em><strong>ID Market and Sourcidys managers</strong> said:<em> “We are very pleased to put this partnership into action with the LBO France team, backed by its well-regarded expertise We share a vision with LBO France in both management aspects and in the strategy needed, in order to continue and accelerate our development.”</em>
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              <strong>Press release</strong>\r\n
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              <strong>Paris, 16 November 2021</strong>\r\n
              \r\n
              LBO France announces the purchase of a majority stake in Alliance Marine\r\n
              \r\n
              <strong>LBO France has taken a majority stake in French company Alliance Marine, alongside the management team led by Jean-Paul Roche, to increase the company’s position on its markets.</strong>\r\n
              \r\n
              &nbsp;\r\n
              \r\n
              Alliance Marine is the expert in third-party and proprietary equipment and spare parts, for renovation and maintenance in the boating and marine industry sectors. With 650 employees and a portfolio of more than 500 brands, Alliance Marine is not only the undisputed industry leader in France but also in Europe, where it has a nearly 10% market share with revenues in excess of €210m. Following several external growth transactions, the group, created in 1999, is now made up of 18 operational companies including Accastillage Diffusion, Ocean-Safety and Typhoon Bukh-Bremen, Forniture Nautiche Italiane, Kent, Plastimo, Vidal Diffusion Marine-Rey, and Seimi. The group is pursuing its international development with the recent acquisitions of Dismarina, Navinordic, and 12Seemeilen.\r\n
              \r\n
              Investment bank Natixis Partners had been selected by Weinberg Capital Partners for the market launch of their stake and the bidding process with majority-only investment funds.\r\n
              \r\n
              LBO France’s investment means that Weinberg Capital Partners, which had taken a majority stake in the company in 2016, can exit. The management team, led by Jean-Paul Roche, is reinvesting alongside LBO France, marking their alignment on growth and value creation drivers.\r\n
              \r\n
              <strong><em> </em></strong>\r\n
              \r\n
              <strong>Jérôme Guez of LBO France</strong> comments:\r\n
              \r\n
              “By supporting Alliance Marine in its second LBO, LBO France has chosen a premium partnership with the French and European leader in equipment distribution for leisure boating and the marine industry. We are thoroughly convinced that this is a resilient market and by the robustness of its business and logistics, driven by its founder since 1999. Alliance Marine shows a great potential to consolidate its offering and its presence in Europe, by pursuing strategic acquisitions all along the value chain.”\r\n
              \r\n
              <strong> </strong><strong>Jean-Paul Roche, CEO of Alliance Marine</strong>, adds:\r\n
              \r\n
              “In the past few years, Alliance Marine has resized while maintaining the balances that optimise its model, with high after-market exposure, a diversified presence on the recreational boating and professional marine markets, and a competitive portfolio of its own brands. We are pleased to continue our development alongside LBO France which, in addition to its reputation in private equity, has acquired great expertise in specialised distribution.”\r\n
              \r\n
              &nbsp;\r\n
              \r\n
              <a href="https://preprod.lbofrance.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/PR-LBO-France-announces-the-purchase-of-a-majority-stake-in-Alliance-Marine-_16112021-1.pdf">PR - LBO France announces the purchase of a majority stake in Alliance Marine _16112021</a>
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              <strong>Press release</strong>\r\n
              \r\n
              <strong>Paris, 21<sup>st</sup> October 2021</strong>\r\n
              \r\n
              <strong>Signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between Haixia Capital and LBO France in view of setting up a €500m Franco-Chinese investment program</strong>\r\n
              \r\n
              <strong> </strong><strong>Paris, 21<sup>st</sup> October 2021 – As part of their international development strategy, LBO France and Haixia Capital, a subsidiary of China SDIC Gaoxin Industrial Investment Corp. Ltd, one of the five private equity management firms of SDIC, announce the signing of a Memorandum Of Understanding (MoU). Such MoU aims at establishing a long-term partnership between the two entities with, as a first step, the creation of a joint-venture in view of investing €500m in companies with high development potential in China and Europe. </strong>\r\n
              \r\n
              As a pioneer in private equity in France, with a more than 30-year track record and €6.5bn of commitments raised, LBO France thus confirms its ambitions to penetrate the Chinese market by joining with Haixia Capital, the private equity and international investment subsidiary of China SDIC Gaoxin Industrial Investment Corp.Ltd (SDIC Gaoxin). Based mainly in Beijing and Fuzhou, Haixia Capital has been one of the best-known private equity firms in China in recent years (with €6.9bn in assets under management by the end of 2020).\r\n
              \r\n
              As the EU’s leading country in foreign investments, the world’s fourth-largest exporter of services, and the second-largest EU market, with GDP of €2,303bn in 2020 (source: INSEE), France offers considerable potential for Asian investors. China, meanwhile, is the world’s largest consumer market, with 1.4 billion potential consumers.\r\n
              \r\n
              It is against this backdrop that LBO France and Haixia Capital have decided to pool their know-how, in order to unlock synergies on their respective markets and strengthen their capacity to spot investment opportunities. The joint-venture arose from this common ambition. In addition, LBO France plans to set up an office in China.\r\n
              \r\n
              Haixia Capital will gain access to LBO France’s ecosystem with entrepreneurs and investors, which is backed by a 30-year-plus track record on the French market. Through its new partner, LBO France will enjoy special access to an extremely large market and an influential network that will allow it to strengthen its ties with some of its invested companies that have suppliers and/or clients in Asia, and to provide support to European companies that want to make inroads there.\r\n
              \r\n
              <strong>This announcement points to a long-term partnership between Haixia Capital and LBO France. Together, the two partners will be able to explore the growth potential of European and Chinese markets by pooling their respective resources and experience, while setting an example for cross-border cooperation. </strong>
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          3 => WP_Post {#7237
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              <strong>Press release</strong>\r\n
              \r\n
              <strong>Paris, 20 October 2021</strong>\r\n
              \r\n
              <strong>LBO France announces the closing of Digital Health 2, its second digital healthcare fund, at €155m</strong>\r\n
              \r\n
              LBO France’s digital health venture strategy continues to gain ground with the Digital Health 2 fund, which has just completed its fundraising, with 155 million euros collected, twice as much as its predecessor fund, SISA (Services Innovants pour les acteurs de la Santé et de l’Autonomie, or “Innovative Services for Healthcare and Autonomy”), which closed in 2017 at 70 million euros.\r\n
              \r\n
              As a pioneer in digital healthcare since 2014, LBO France received a renewed vote of confidence from almost all investors who had put their money in the first SISA fund, including institutional LPs such as Bpifrance, about 15 insurance companies and family offices. Most of these long-standing investors put even more money into the new fund. Digital Health 2 also welcomed on board new, well-known corporate investors, such as Orange via its Orange Digital Investment holding company.\r\n
              \r\n
              Digital Health 2 aims to finance by 2024 about 15 B2B-dedicated SMEs in France and Western Europe, most of whose revenues are expanding rapidly.\r\n
              \r\n
              The fund has already made five investments:\r\n
              <ul>\r\n
               \t<li><a href="https://www.quantificare.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/QUANTIFICARE-LBO-France-Press-Release-final-2.pdf"><strong>QuantifiCare</strong></a>, a medical imaging specialist in skincare for clinical trials and aesthetic specialists;</li>\r\n
               \t<li><a href="https://preprod.lbofrance.com/lbo-france-annonce-un-investissement-dans-la-societe-tribvn-healthcare/"><strong>Tribvn Healthcare</strong></a>, a publisher of digital pathology software for managing, analysing and sharing cellular images;</li>\r\n
               \t<li><a href="https://preprod.lbofrance.com/lbo-france-investit-dans-feetme-via-son-fonds-digital-health-2/"><strong>FeetMe</strong></a>, a maker of medical devices that produces smart insoles and real-life gait analysis solutions for walking disorders;</li>\r\n
               \t<li><a href="https://preprod.lbofrance.com/lbo-france-investit-dans-la-societe-meditect-leader-dans-la-tracabilite-des-medicaments/"><strong>Meditect</strong></a>, a leader in drug traceability in sub-Saharan Africa;</li>\r\n
               \t<li><strong><a href="https://preprod.lbofrance.com/lequipe-venture-de-lbo-france-mene-le-tour-de-table-de-23-millions-usd-de-la-societe-antidote/">Antidote</a></strong>, an Anglo-American company that offers a patient recruiting solution based on a proprietary digital technology to facilitate clinical trials.</li>\r\n
              </ul>\r\n
              The fund invests between 5 and 20 million euros in each company.\r\n
              \r\n
              Led by Valéry Huot, the venture investment team consists of professionals from both the tech and healthcare sectors. It expanded in 2018 with the arrival of two Franco-American physicians – Sébastien Woynar as Investment Director, and Philippe Chambon as Venture Partner.\r\n
              \r\n
              <strong>Valéry Huot, Partner and Head of Venture at LBO France</strong>:<em> “With €155m raised at this final closing, we have achieved our objective of being twice the size of our first fund. This allows us to more closely support the growth of companies in the portfolio. The portfolio that we have set up in Western Europe pursues the strategy that we have offered to our investors, i.e., identifying and supporting e-health start-ups to transform them into sector leaders. We will also be expanding our activities in Western Europe, particularly in Germany, which possesses a robust healthcare system that is ripe for innovations.” </em>\r\n
              \r\n
              <em> </em><strong>Franck Noiret, Venture Managing Director</strong>:<em> “Digital Health 2’s larger size gives LBO France’s venture team the means to fund a larger number of ambitious digital health projects. We are delighted to provide long-term support to new entrepreneurs and to avail them of our know-how and experience in this area.” </em>\r\n
              \r\n
              <em> </em><strong>Sébastien Woynar, Venture Investment Director</strong>: <em>“The pandemic has revealed the full importance of new healthcare technologies. Some practices – such as teleconsultation, remote recruiting for clinical trials, widespread adoption of tools for compiling and analysing data for better diagnoses and prognoses, etc. – have moved into the mainstream and increased the need to roll out greater resources in this sector.”</em>\r\n
              \r\n
              Digital Health 2 was one of the private equity funds dedicated to tech firms in the official report presented to the French government by Philippe Tibi’s on 17 July 2020.\r\n
              \r\n
              New investments are expected to be announced soon.
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          4 => WP_Post {#7232
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              <strong>Paris, October 13<sup>th</sup>, 2021</strong> – LBO France has signed an SPA for the sale of Italian premium glass packaging supplier VetroElite to world-wide leader TricorBraun.\r\n
              \r\n
              Founded in 1994, VetroElite is one of Europe’s leading designers and distributors of high-end glass packaging. The company offers an exclusive range of glass containers (bottles, carafes, flasks and jars) for liquid products, food products, room fragrances and other perfumery, cosmetic and body care products.\r\n
              \r\n
              Since its acquisition in May 2017 through the Small Caps Opportunities I fund, VetroElite has experienced spectacular growth with sales which nearly tripled, thanks to the add-on of Valery Glass in 2018, and most of all an uninterrupted organic top-line growth. As a result, VetroElite has become a leading provider of high-end glass packaging for craft distilleries, while expanding in all its other key industries, including wine, craft food, home perfume, and cosmetics.\r\n
              \r\n
              This Italian deal, which displays a compelling performance, marks the first exit of Small Cap Opportunities I fund, no later than 4.5 years after its acquisition.\r\n
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              <strong>Arthur Bernardin, Managing Director of LBO France,</strong> said: “VetroElite investment is a beautiful story, with beautiful products and beautiful people leading to a beautiful performance. We have worked hand-in-hand with Daniele Feletto to help him structure his management team and support the company strong growth. This operation is a perfect example of our capacity to transform successful Italian SMEs into truly European leaders, and we are particularly proud to pass on the baton to TricorBraun which will enable VetroElite to continue its fantastic development”.\r\n
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              <strong>Chiara Venezia, Director of LBO France,</strong> adds: “VetroElite is a jewel in the glass packaging industry, mixing strong technical capabilities and innovative design to create unique packaging solutions. It was a pleasure to work alongside the VetroElite management team, which is now well structured to face the next growth challenges”.\r\n
              \r\n
              <strong>Daniele Feletto, CEO of VetroElite</strong>, concludes: “It has been a beautiful experience. I found not only financial investors but also people who understood the business and the company as an industrial player and who supported and encouraged me in taking decisions”.
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          5 => WP_Post {#7233
            +ID: 5700
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              <strong>PRESS RELEASE</strong>\r\n
              \r\n
              <strong>Fittingbox welcomes JINS as Shareholder, joining Fielmann, while Founders of the Digital Eyewear Leader reinforce their majority position </strong>\r\n
              \r\n
              <strong> </strong><em>Japan’s largest eyewear brand by volume acquires a stake in the share capital of Fittingbox and joins Fielmann, the leading German optical retailer, which has been an investor in Fittingbox since 2018.</em>\r\n
              \r\n
              <strong>TOULOUSE, France — September 28, 2021</strong><strong> — </strong>Fittingbox, the software company that is transforming the eyewear industry with digitalization, today announced that JINS, the Japanese leader in eyewear retail, has become an industrial shareholder in the company. The investment enables earlier investors to exit, mainly French venture capital funds Kreaxi and LBO France with its SISA fund while the founders used the opportunity to strengthen their equity position in the company.\r\n
              \r\n
              <strong> Thomas Ruetzel</strong>, Managing Director of Fielmann Ventures, said, “ ittingbox is a major driver of the technological change that defines the future of our industry. JINS represents customer-centricity, innovation, and forward-thinking – a great match that also broadens Fittingbox’ geographical reach.”\r\n
              \r\n
              Fittingbox is now global as the expansion in Asia will complete that of Europe and USA. JINS, being a key player in Asia, has been innovative since its creation, either instore, through stunning shop designs, original frames collections and lenses made affordable, or online, being at the forefront of eyewear e-commerce.\r\n
              \r\n
              Paving the way for innovative eyewear retailing, this investment will help JINS accelerate in this direction, continuing to grow their market share in Japan, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, the Philippines, and the USA, as well as entering new countries and regions.\r\n
              \r\n
              <strong>Toru Kaieda</strong>, Senior Director of Global Digital Strategies and Alliances, commented, “JINS has strong presence in Asia, where Fittingbox will have a strategic focus in the years to come, and we are very proud to be part of its expansion. For the past few years, we have witnessed a great deal of innovations in the consumer eyewear buying experience. If I had been asked ten years ago whether I would buy a pair of glasses online, I probably answered “No,” because I worried if the frame and lens selected online would actually fit me in real life. Now, thanks to the technologies developed by Fittingbox, we are able to offer our customers with opportunities to try and compare frames and lenses before making purchases and give our customers the confidence to shop them online. With new technologies emerging almost every day, we believe that there are much more innovations to be made in the eyewear industry and we are very excited to join forces with Fittingbox and Fielmann to lead innovations in this time of great change.”\r\n
              \r\n
              The JINS investment comes in the year of the 15th anniversary of Fittingbox, just after a major rebranding, based on four key areas of Fittingbox’s business: Virtual try on, Digital frames, an Optical toolbox for eyewear businesses and Open innovation. As the COVID pandemic forced eyewear retailers into more contactless commerce, the need for virtual eyewear shopping has never been greater. Fittingbox is answering the call for building an ecosystem of innovative solutions as the industry repositions itself for a new era.\r\n
              \r\n
              <strong>Benjamin Hakoun</strong>, Fittingbox CEO and Cofounder commented, “We created the business when we were students fifteen years ago, the previous financial investors helped us setup the business and accelerate it and we thank them for their commitment and help during all those years. We have opened a new chapter in 2018 with the entry of Fielmann as a minority shareholder and this was the right momentum to let enter a second industrial, JINS, which will bring value both as an investor and as a strategic customer. A tech company still there after 15 years is not common, so it proves that the vision was right. We want to build the best digital ecosystem so that the entire eyewear industry can benefit from it. Our most disruptive innovation is yet to come to celebrate our 15 years in the business: we will launch it before year end, stay tuned.”\r\n
              \r\n
              <strong>Michel Desbard</strong>, LBO France Gestion, added, <em>"We are very pleased to have supported the technological and commercial development of FittingBox since 2014 to make it a world leader in the digital transformation of the optics sector. We are highly confident in the company’s ability to achieve its ambitious roadmap, notably in terms of international deployment alongside its two key strategic shareholders."</em>\r\n
              \r\n
              Fittingbox is emerging as the world leader in the field. The company had 54 million virtual try ons in 2020 - a 300% increase from the previous year and will beat it significantly this year as it has already achieved those numbers in June 2021. The database of 3D frames now tops 110,000 designs. The company is producing over 4,000 digitized frames per month, a level of productivity unmatched in the industry. Customers like Dior, Maui Jim and Transitions are working with Fittingbox as well as thousands of retailers, eyecare professional centers, manufacturers, and brands around the world. The company’s research and development team has almost tripled in size over the last thirty months.\r\n
              \r\n
              “We’re problem solvers,” said <strong>Ariel Choukroun</strong>, Fittingbox CTO and Cofounder. “People want to look good in eyewear, irrespectively of their path to purchase - online, instore or omnichannel -, so we have invested our resources in making the virtual eyewear shopping experience as pleasant and effective as possible. Our rebranding reflects our renewed focus on the power of technology to change the eyewear industry.”\r\n
              \r\n
              “We are a deeptech company,” added <strong>M. Choukroun</strong>. “We have 60+ talented experts on our R&amp;D team, bringing knowledge of Artificial Intelligence, Computer vision, Machine learning and UX/UI to the eyewear industry. With these incredibly innovative resources, we are able to co-create with our partners and the players in its ecosystem to support the eyewear industry during a period of major changes.”
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              <strong>Press release</strong>\r\n
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              <strong>Paris and Floirac, September 23<sup>rd</sup>, 2021</strong>\r\n
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              LBO France announces the acquisition of a majority stake in Baobag, a leading European player in the distribution of FIBC (“Flexible Intermediate Bulk Containers”)\r\n
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              <strong>LBO France, through its Small Caps Opportunities II fund, has acquired a majority stake in the French company Baobag, alongside BNP Paribas Développement, AfricInvest and the management team – the latter led by Fabrice Saffré, to increase the company's position in its markets.</strong>\r\n
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              Baobag originated from the merger of Sacherie du Midi and Framapack in 2007. The company is a pure distributor of Flexible Intermediate Bulk Containers (“FIBC”), commonly known as <em>big bags</em>. The company operates throughout the value chain, including design, sourcing, transportation and storage. Through the development of tenured and exclusive relationships with trusted manufacturing partners around the world and the intricate knowledge of customer requirements across a wide range of end-markets, Baobag has grown into the leading player in the French FIBC market and has successfully penetrated the Moroccan and Spanish markets through organic growth. Since inception, Baobag has exhibited robust growth, outperforming underlying market, and has reached over €50m in revenue.\r\n
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              The M&amp;A advisory firm Financière Monceau had been selected by the company’s historical shareholders – iXO Private Equity and Bpifrance – to lead the sell-side process, which exclusively targeted investment funds bidding for majority stakes.\r\n
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              LBO France’s investment allows for the exit of iXO Private Equity and Bpifrance, who acquired a majority stake in the Company in 2016 to support the managerial transition and to initiate internationalization efforts. Baobag’s management team, led by Fabrice Saffré, significantly re-invest in this secondary LBO round, which also includes an investment on behalf of BNP Paribas Développement and AfricInvest. All aforementioned parties are fully aligned on the growth levers that will drive value creation: acceleration of expansion into Africa (which features the strongest market growth prospects), external growth in select European countries and further market share gains on the domestic market. The shared objective is to create a pan-European leader, spearheading the substitution of bulk transport and storage by <em>big bags</em> in Africa.\r\n
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              <strong>Jean-Marie Leroy, Partner and Head of Small Cap at LBO France</strong>, comments, <em>“We are fully convinced of the robustness of Baobag’s positioning, evidenced by its leading market position in France, a highly diversified end-market exposure and a tenured customer base. Growth prospects are exciting, namely the acceleration of expansion in Africa, where big bag penetration rates show the most whitespace, and the consolidation of the European market. The track record of Fabrice Saffré and his team at the head of Baobag speaks for itself, and they will have LBO France’s full support as they carry out these growth projects.</em>”\r\n
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              <em> </em><strong>Fabrice Saffré, CEO of Baobag</strong>, adds, <em>“After 5 years of international growth, highlighted by the opening of subsidiaries in Morocco and in Spain, it was key for Baobag to be able to rely on high-profile partners in order to further our expansion, especially in Africa, all the while maintaining our independence and core values. In this critical stage of our development, our growth trajectory will be supported by LBO France’s expertise, specifically via the input of their team dedicated to operational performance.”</em>
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              <strong>Cambridge (USA), Paris (France), September 2, 2021 11pm CET</strong> – Voluntis (Euronext Growth Paris, Ticker: ALVTX - ISIN: FR0004183960), a leader in digital therapeutics, and its reference shareholders (Bpifrance Participations, LBO France Gestion, Debiopharm Innovation Fund, SHAM Innovation Santé, Vesalius Biocapital and Indigo) announced today that following the signature of a share purchase agreement with AptarGroup, Inc. (NYSE: ATR) (“Aptar”) on July 22, 2021 and the approval of the French Ministry of Economy under the foreign investment clearance regulations, Aptar has completed the acquisition of a majority stake in Voluntis from the company's reference shareholders and certain members of the management, representing approximately 64.6% of the share capital of Voluntis (on a non-diluted basis), at a price of €8.70 per share.\r\n
              In accordance with applicable regulation, Aptar will launch a mandatory cash tender offer to acquire Voluntis’ remaining shares for the same price of €8.70 per share (the “Tender Offer”). The Tender Offer is intended to be filed with the French Markets Authority (the “AMF”) in September 2021 and will be subject to the regulatory clearance from the AMF.\r\n
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              <strong>Milano, 22 luglio 2021 - Demas</strong> <strong>Group</strong>, Italian leader in the distribution of veterinary products controlled by Petinvest srl, a vehicle controlled by Gioconda, an Italian investment fund of the <strong>LBO France</strong> Small Caps Opportunities fund, together with Banca Ifis and the Giovanni Ambrosetti group as minority investors, <strong>has acquired 85% of the capital of Punto Azzurro</strong>, a company active in the distribution of medicines for pets.\r\n
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              Punto Azzurro, the second company of the Veneta Zootecnici Group owned by the Fracalanza family, boasts a solid presence on the market for the distribution of veterinary products in Veneto and Friuli-Venezia Giulia, where it is present with seven shops.\r\n
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              As a result of this operation, the Fracalanza family will retain a 15% shareholding with Sergio Fracalanza, former Chairman of Punto Azzurro, who will become Chairman of the Board of Directors. In this role, he will be supported as Managing Director by Fabrizio Foglietti, former President and CEO of the Demas Group.\r\n
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          <strong>Press release</strong>\r\n
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          <strong>Paris, Soliers and Tours, France, 25 November 2021</strong>\r\n
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          <strong> </strong>\r\n
          \r\n
          <strong>LBO France announces the acquisition of a majority stake in ID Market and Sourcidys, leading BtoB and BtoC distributors of home &amp; garden products in France</strong>\r\n
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          &nbsp;\r\n
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          <strong>LBO France has acquired a majority stake in the French companies </strong><strong>ID Market and Sourcidys, alongside their long-standing shareholder/managers Emmanuel Antunes, Guillaume Besnier and Olivier Roor, in order to accelerate the group’s growth across all digital channels</strong><strong>.</strong>\r\n
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          For 15 years now, Emmanuel Antunes, Guillaume Besnier and Oliver Roor, founding managers, have created and developed ID Market and Sourcidys, two companies that are now French leaders in the design and online sale of home &amp; garden products. Both companies have expanded rapidly, based on a strategy of tapping all digital channels to sell to BtoC customers for ID Market and BtoB customers for Sourcidys. In less than 10 years, they have become leaders on their markets by outperforming their sector on growth. They now offer tremendous development potential through their virtuous and duplicable model that is based on accelerated digitalisation of the market. Thanks to a daily datamining of sales and market trends, their product lines organized across three high-potential universes offer "best of web" products:\r\n
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           \t<li>Home &amp; decoration;</li>\r\n
           \t<li>Leisure and outdoor furnishings;</li>\r\n
           \t<li>Gardening and DIY.</li>\r\n
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          In order to strengthen and perpetuate both companies’ activities, the founding managers have decided to seek the backing of a recognised investor and to merge ID Market and Sourcidys.\r\n
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          Their plans are to continue and accelerate their development, while promoting operating and sales synergies in the coming years.\r\n
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          The founders will remain shareholders in the group and will remain fully operational as managers.\r\n
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          The group’s business plan is based on the following value creation drivers:\r\n
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           \t<li>Pursue the omnichannel distribution strategy, including marketplaces, Idmarket.com, private sales and traditional retail;</li>\r\n
           \t<li>Expand continously the offering by launching new product collections, developing new universes of high-potential ancillary products and gradually opening up to consumer goods in order to promote repeat business;</li>\r\n
           \t<li>Step up web-marketing investments, including SEO, SEA, set up a new customer-loyalty programme and develop the platform’s brand name;</li>\r\n
           \t<li>Reach critical size in order to initiate its strategy of external growth and international expansion.</li>\r\n
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          <strong> </strong>The completion of the acquisition is subject to prior approval by the French antitrust authority (<em>Autorité de la Concurrence</em>).\r\n
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          <strong>Jérôme Guez, Midcap Partner at LBO France</strong>, said: <em>“We were very favourably impressed by the performance achieved by ID Market and Sourcidys since their inception, driven by their managers. We are especially proud that the founding managers placed their trust in us to assist them in the coming stages of their development. We will do our utmost to provide them with the expertise that will allow them to strengthen their online visibility while continuing to enhance their product offering.”</em>\r\n
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          <em> </em><strong>ID Market and Sourcidys managers</strong> said:<em> “We are very pleased to put this partnership into action with the LBO France team, backed by its well-regarded expertise We share a vision with LBO France in both management aspects and in the strategy needed, in order to continue and accelerate our development.”</em>
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          <strong>Paris, 16 November 2021</strong>\r\n
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          LBO France announces the purchase of a majority stake in Alliance Marine\r\n
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          <strong>LBO France has taken a majority stake in French company Alliance Marine, alongside the management team led by Jean-Paul Roche, to increase the company’s position on its markets.</strong>\r\n
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          &nbsp;\r\n
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          Alliance Marine is the expert in third-party and proprietary equipment and spare parts, for renovation and maintenance in the boating and marine industry sectors. With 650 employees and a portfolio of more than 500 brands, Alliance Marine is not only the undisputed industry leader in France but also in Europe, where it has a nearly 10% market share with revenues in excess of €210m. Following several external growth transactions, the group, created in 1999, is now made up of 18 operational companies including Accastillage Diffusion, Ocean-Safety and Typhoon Bukh-Bremen, Forniture Nautiche Italiane, Kent, Plastimo, Vidal Diffusion Marine-Rey, and Seimi. The group is pursuing its international development with the recent acquisitions of Dismarina, Navinordic, and 12Seemeilen.\r\n
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          Investment bank Natixis Partners had been selected by Weinberg Capital Partners for the market launch of their stake and the bidding process with majority-only investment funds.\r\n
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          LBO France’s investment means that Weinberg Capital Partners, which had taken a majority stake in the company in 2016, can exit. The management team, led by Jean-Paul Roche, is reinvesting alongside LBO France, marking their alignment on growth and value creation drivers.\r\n
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          <strong><em> </em></strong>\r\n
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          <strong>Jérôme Guez of LBO France</strong> comments:\r\n
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          “By supporting Alliance Marine in its second LBO, LBO France has chosen a premium partnership with the French and European leader in equipment distribution for leisure boating and the marine industry. We are thoroughly convinced that this is a resilient market and by the robustness of its business and logistics, driven by its founder since 1999. Alliance Marine shows a great potential to consolidate its offering and its presence in Europe, by pursuing strategic acquisitions all along the value chain.”\r\n
          \r\n
          <strong> </strong><strong>Jean-Paul Roche, CEO of Alliance Marine</strong>, adds:\r\n
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          “In the past few years, Alliance Marine has resized while maintaining the balances that optimise its model, with high after-market exposure, a diversified presence on the recreational boating and professional marine markets, and a competitive portfolio of its own brands. We are pleased to continue our development alongside LBO France which, in addition to its reputation in private equity, has acquired great expertise in specialised distribution.”\r\n
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          &nbsp;\r\n
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          <a href="https://preprod.lbofrance.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/PR-LBO-France-announces-the-purchase-of-a-majority-stake-in-Alliance-Marine-_16112021-1.pdf">PR - LBO France announces the purchase of a majority stake in Alliance Marine _16112021</a>
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          <strong>Press release</strong>\r\n
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          <strong>Paris, 21<sup>st</sup> October 2021</strong>\r\n
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          <strong>Signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between Haixia Capital and LBO France in view of setting up a €500m Franco-Chinese investment program</strong>\r\n
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          <strong> </strong><strong>Paris, 21<sup>st</sup> October 2021 – As part of their international development strategy, LBO France and Haixia Capital, a subsidiary of China SDIC Gaoxin Industrial Investment Corp. Ltd, one of the five private equity management firms of SDIC, announce the signing of a Memorandum Of Understanding (MoU). Such MoU aims at establishing a long-term partnership between the two entities with, as a first step, the creation of a joint-venture in view of investing €500m in companies with high development potential in China and Europe. </strong>\r\n
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          As a pioneer in private equity in France, with a more than 30-year track record and €6.5bn of commitments raised, LBO France thus confirms its ambitions to penetrate the Chinese market by joining with Haixia Capital, the private equity and international investment subsidiary of China SDIC Gaoxin Industrial Investment Corp.Ltd (SDIC Gaoxin). Based mainly in Beijing and Fuzhou, Haixia Capital has been one of the best-known private equity firms in China in recent years (with €6.9bn in assets under management by the end of 2020).\r\n
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          As the EU’s leading country in foreign investments, the world’s fourth-largest exporter of services, and the second-largest EU market, with GDP of €2,303bn in 2020 (source: INSEE), France offers considerable potential for Asian investors. China, meanwhile, is the world’s largest consumer market, with 1.4 billion potential consumers.\r\n
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          It is against this backdrop that LBO France and Haixia Capital have decided to pool their know-how, in order to unlock synergies on their respective markets and strengthen their capacity to spot investment opportunities. The joint-venture arose from this common ambition. In addition, LBO France plans to set up an office in China.\r\n
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          Haixia Capital will gain access to LBO France’s ecosystem with entrepreneurs and investors, which is backed by a 30-year-plus track record on the French market. Through its new partner, LBO France will enjoy special access to an extremely large market and an influential network that will allow it to strengthen its ties with some of its invested companies that have suppliers and/or clients in Asia, and to provide support to European companies that want to make inroads there.\r\n
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          <strong>This announcement points to a long-term partnership between Haixia Capital and LBO France. Together, the two partners will be able to explore the growth potential of European and Chinese markets by pooling their respective resources and experience, while setting an example for cross-border cooperation. </strong>
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          <strong>Press release</strong>\r\n
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          <strong>Paris, 20 October 2021</strong>\r\n
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          <strong>LBO France announces the closing of Digital Health 2, its second digital healthcare fund, at €155m</strong>\r\n
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          LBO France’s digital health venture strategy continues to gain ground with the Digital Health 2 fund, which has just completed its fundraising, with 155 million euros collected, twice as much as its predecessor fund, SISA (Services Innovants pour les acteurs de la Santé et de l’Autonomie, or “Innovative Services for Healthcare and Autonomy”), which closed in 2017 at 70 million euros.\r\n
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          As a pioneer in digital healthcare since 2014, LBO France received a renewed vote of confidence from almost all investors who had put their money in the first SISA fund, including institutional LPs such as Bpifrance, about 15 insurance companies and family offices. Most of these long-standing investors put even more money into the new fund. Digital Health 2 also welcomed on board new, well-known corporate investors, such as Orange via its Orange Digital Investment holding company.\r\n
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          Digital Health 2 aims to finance by 2024 about 15 B2B-dedicated SMEs in France and Western Europe, most of whose revenues are expanding rapidly.\r\n
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          The fund has already made five investments:\r\n
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           \t<li><a href="https://www.quantificare.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/QUANTIFICARE-LBO-France-Press-Release-final-2.pdf"><strong>QuantifiCare</strong></a>, a medical imaging specialist in skincare for clinical trials and aesthetic specialists;</li>\r\n
           \t<li><a href="https://preprod.lbofrance.com/lbo-france-annonce-un-investissement-dans-la-societe-tribvn-healthcare/"><strong>Tribvn Healthcare</strong></a>, a publisher of digital pathology software for managing, analysing and sharing cellular images;</li>\r\n
           \t<li><a href="https://preprod.lbofrance.com/lbo-france-investit-dans-feetme-via-son-fonds-digital-health-2/"><strong>FeetMe</strong></a>, a maker of medical devices that produces smart insoles and real-life gait analysis solutions for walking disorders;</li>\r\n
           \t<li><a href="https://preprod.lbofrance.com/lbo-france-investit-dans-la-societe-meditect-leader-dans-la-tracabilite-des-medicaments/"><strong>Meditect</strong></a>, a leader in drug traceability in sub-Saharan Africa;</li>\r\n
           \t<li><strong><a href="https://preprod.lbofrance.com/lequipe-venture-de-lbo-france-mene-le-tour-de-table-de-23-millions-usd-de-la-societe-antidote/">Antidote</a></strong>, an Anglo-American company that offers a patient recruiting solution based on a proprietary digital technology to facilitate clinical trials.</li>\r\n
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          The fund invests between 5 and 20 million euros in each company.\r\n
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          Led by Valéry Huot, the venture investment team consists of professionals from both the tech and healthcare sectors. It expanded in 2018 with the arrival of two Franco-American physicians – Sébastien Woynar as Investment Director, and Philippe Chambon as Venture Partner.\r\n
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          <strong>Valéry Huot, Partner and Head of Venture at LBO France</strong>:<em> “With €155m raised at this final closing, we have achieved our objective of being twice the size of our first fund. This allows us to more closely support the growth of companies in the portfolio. The portfolio that we have set up in Western Europe pursues the strategy that we have offered to our investors, i.e., identifying and supporting e-health start-ups to transform them into sector leaders. We will also be expanding our activities in Western Europe, particularly in Germany, which possesses a robust healthcare system that is ripe for innovations.” </em>\r\n
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          <em> </em><strong>Franck Noiret, Venture Managing Director</strong>:<em> “Digital Health 2’s larger size gives LBO France’s venture team the means to fund a larger number of ambitious digital health projects. We are delighted to provide long-term support to new entrepreneurs and to avail them of our know-how and experience in this area.” </em>\r\n
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          <em> </em><strong>Sébastien Woynar, Venture Investment Director</strong>: <em>“The pandemic has revealed the full importance of new healthcare technologies. Some practices – such as teleconsultation, remote recruiting for clinical trials, widespread adoption of tools for compiling and analysing data for better diagnoses and prognoses, etc. – have moved into the mainstream and increased the need to roll out greater resources in this sector.”</em>\r\n
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          Digital Health 2 was one of the private equity funds dedicated to tech firms in the official report presented to the French government by Philippe Tibi’s on 17 July 2020.\r\n
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          New investments are expected to be announced soon.
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          <strong>Paris, October 13<sup>th</sup>, 2021</strong> – LBO France has signed an SPA for the sale of Italian premium glass packaging supplier VetroElite to world-wide leader TricorBraun.\r\n
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          Founded in 1994, VetroElite is one of Europe’s leading designers and distributors of high-end glass packaging. The company offers an exclusive range of glass containers (bottles, carafes, flasks and jars) for liquid products, food products, room fragrances and other perfumery, cosmetic and body care products.\r\n
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          Since its acquisition in May 2017 through the Small Caps Opportunities I fund, VetroElite has experienced spectacular growth with sales which nearly tripled, thanks to the add-on of Valery Glass in 2018, and most of all an uninterrupted organic top-line growth. As a result, VetroElite has become a leading provider of high-end glass packaging for craft distilleries, while expanding in all its other key industries, including wine, craft food, home perfume, and cosmetics.\r\n
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          This Italian deal, which displays a compelling performance, marks the first exit of Small Cap Opportunities I fund, no later than 4.5 years after its acquisition.\r\n
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          <strong>Arthur Bernardin, Managing Director of LBO France,</strong> said: “VetroElite investment is a beautiful story, with beautiful products and beautiful people leading to a beautiful performance. We have worked hand-in-hand with Daniele Feletto to help him structure his management team and support the company strong growth. This operation is a perfect example of our capacity to transform successful Italian SMEs into truly European leaders, and we are particularly proud to pass on the baton to TricorBraun which will enable VetroElite to continue its fantastic development”.\r\n
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          <strong>Chiara Venezia, Director of LBO France,</strong> adds: “VetroElite is a jewel in the glass packaging industry, mixing strong technical capabilities and innovative design to create unique packaging solutions. It was a pleasure to work alongside the VetroElite management team, which is now well structured to face the next growth challenges”.\r\n
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          <strong>Daniele Feletto, CEO of VetroElite</strong>, concludes: “It has been a beautiful experience. I found not only financial investors but also people who understood the business and the company as an industrial player and who supported and encouraged me in taking decisions”.
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          <strong>PRESS RELEASE</strong>\r\n
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          <strong>Fittingbox welcomes JINS as Shareholder, joining Fielmann, while Founders of the Digital Eyewear Leader reinforce their majority position </strong>\r\n
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          <strong> </strong><em>Japan’s largest eyewear brand by volume acquires a stake in the share capital of Fittingbox and joins Fielmann, the leading German optical retailer, which has been an investor in Fittingbox since 2018.</em>\r\n
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          <strong>TOULOUSE, France — September 28, 2021</strong><strong> — </strong>Fittingbox, the software company that is transforming the eyewear industry with digitalization, today announced that JINS, the Japanese leader in eyewear retail, has become an industrial shareholder in the company. The investment enables earlier investors to exit, mainly French venture capital funds Kreaxi and LBO France with its SISA fund while the founders used the opportunity to strengthen their equity position in the company.\r\n
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          <strong> Thomas Ruetzel</strong>, Managing Director of Fielmann Ventures, said, “ ittingbox is a major driver of the technological change that defines the future of our industry. JINS represents customer-centricity, innovation, and forward-thinking – a great match that also broadens Fittingbox’ geographical reach.”\r\n
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          Fittingbox is now global as the expansion in Asia will complete that of Europe and USA. JINS, being a key player in Asia, has been innovative since its creation, either instore, through stunning shop designs, original frames collections and lenses made affordable, or online, being at the forefront of eyewear e-commerce.\r\n
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          Paving the way for innovative eyewear retailing, this investment will help JINS accelerate in this direction, continuing to grow their market share in Japan, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, the Philippines, and the USA, as well as entering new countries and regions.\r\n
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          <strong>Toru Kaieda</strong>, Senior Director of Global Digital Strategies and Alliances, commented, “JINS has strong presence in Asia, where Fittingbox will have a strategic focus in the years to come, and we are very proud to be part of its expansion. For the past few years, we have witnessed a great deal of innovations in the consumer eyewear buying experience. If I had been asked ten years ago whether I would buy a pair of glasses online, I probably answered “No,” because I worried if the frame and lens selected online would actually fit me in real life. Now, thanks to the technologies developed by Fittingbox, we are able to offer our customers with opportunities to try and compare frames and lenses before making purchases and give our customers the confidence to shop them online. With new technologies emerging almost every day, we believe that there are much more innovations to be made in the eyewear industry and we are very excited to join forces with Fittingbox and Fielmann to lead innovations in this time of great change.”\r\n
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          The JINS investment comes in the year of the 15th anniversary of Fittingbox, just after a major rebranding, based on four key areas of Fittingbox’s business: Virtual try on, Digital frames, an Optical toolbox for eyewear businesses and Open innovation. As the COVID pandemic forced eyewear retailers into more contactless commerce, the need for virtual eyewear shopping has never been greater. Fittingbox is answering the call for building an ecosystem of innovative solutions as the industry repositions itself for a new era.\r\n
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          <strong>Benjamin Hakoun</strong>, Fittingbox CEO and Cofounder commented, “We created the business when we were students fifteen years ago, the previous financial investors helped us setup the business and accelerate it and we thank them for their commitment and help during all those years. We have opened a new chapter in 2018 with the entry of Fielmann as a minority shareholder and this was the right momentum to let enter a second industrial, JINS, which will bring value both as an investor and as a strategic customer. A tech company still there after 15 years is not common, so it proves that the vision was right. We want to build the best digital ecosystem so that the entire eyewear industry can benefit from it. Our most disruptive innovation is yet to come to celebrate our 15 years in the business: we will launch it before year end, stay tuned.”\r\n
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          <strong>Paris and Floirac, September 23<sup>rd</sup>, 2021</strong>\r\n
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          LBO France announces the acquisition of a majority stake in Baobag, a leading European player in the distribution of FIBC (“Flexible Intermediate Bulk Containers”)\r\n
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          <strong>LBO France, through its Small Caps Opportunities II fund, has acquired a majority stake in the French company Baobag, alongside BNP Paribas Développement, AfricInvest and the management team – the latter led by Fabrice Saffré, to increase the company's position in its markets.</strong>\r\n
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          <strong>Cambridge (USA), Paris (France), September 2, 2021 11pm CET</strong> – Voluntis (Euronext Growth Paris, Ticker: ALVTX - ISIN: FR0004183960), a leader in digital therapeutics, and its reference shareholders (Bpifrance Participations, LBO France Gestion, Debiopharm Innovation Fund, SHAM Innovation Santé, Vesalius Biocapital and Indigo) announced today that following the signature of a share purchase agreement with AptarGroup, Inc. (NYSE: ATR) (“Aptar”) on July 22, 2021 and the approval of the French Ministry of Economy under the foreign investment clearance regulations, Aptar has completed the acquisition of a majority stake in Voluntis from the company's reference shareholders and certain members of the management, representing approximately 64.6% of the share capital of Voluntis (on a non-diluted basis), at a price of €8.70 per share.\r\n
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