Florian D. Kreuzer

Functions as a College/University

Provides a broad range of contract research services for pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical companies

CECP Advisors (CECP-UK) is an active manager which specializes in large buyout operations across a wide variety of sectors throughout Europe including automotive components, media and publishing, telecommunications, manufacturing, aerospace, specialty building products, consumer products and services, biofuel, defense and specialty chemicals. The firm seeks to invest in early-stage and small companies, backing strong management teams and not participating in daily investee company operations. They develop partnerships with large industrial groups and service providers, investing in subsidiaries being spun off and family-owned businesses in need of expansion capital.

Permira is an active, contrarian manager which utilizes their partnership culture to work closely with investee management teams, aiming to create value by combining extensive geographic coverage with deep vertical sector knowledge. The firm's funds seek to invest in companies with transaction sizes of €500 million or more and typically seek to take majority or significant minority stakes in their investee companies. Permira employs a three-tiered investment sourcing strategy, seeking transactions sourced through sector focus, local networks and opportunistic identification of unique situations for value creation. They specialize in the chemicals, consumer, industrial products & services and technology, media & telecoms sectors, investing in a variety of transaction types including financial acquisitions, LBOs, LBIs, public-to-private transactions, turnarounds and growth buy-outs. In addition, the Permira Funds actively seek situations where a path to value creation can be identified, such as by divesting non-core assets, developing family businesses, driving organic business growth, operationally improving underperforming assets and acquisition-driven sector consolidation.

Engages in contract research and contract manufacturing of stages of small molecule and synthetic peptide drugs

Functions as a College/University

Carlyle Group focuses on companies located across the globe. The firm targets companies operating across a broad range of sectors and industries. It provides financing for buyout and ghrowth stage capital requirements.

Operates as a holding company whose subsidiaries engages in research, development and manufacturing of pharmaceutical activities