Sofina Société Anonyme, Ergon Capital Partners III managed by Ergon Capital Partners, and several Ergon LPs signed an agreement to acquire unknown majority stake in Deutsche Intensivpflege Holding.
November 21, 2016
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Sofina Société Anonyme (ENXTBR:SOF), Ergon Capital Partners III managed by Ergon Capital Partners and several Ergon LPs signed an agreement to acquire unknown majority stake in Deutsche Intensivpflege Holding recently. The founders of Deutsche Intensivpflege Holding, Kai Herold and Peter Boesensell, will remain shareholders in Deutsche Intensivpflege Holding and continue supporting Deutsche Intensivpflege Holding in the future. Ergon Capital Partners is looking forward to pursuing together further organic and inorganic growth opportunities for Deutsche Intensivpflege Holding. Closing of the transaction is subject to customary antitrust approvals.
Thomas Weitkamp and Matthias Töke, Jennifer Seipelt, Christoph Nensa of Clifford Chance in Germany, Ulf Renzenbrink, Andreas Stoll, Marc Kotyrba, Niels Maier, Maximilian Preisser of Renzenbrink & Partner, Andreas Hahn of Oppenländer Rechtsanwälte and Michael Kuhnke of Schramm Meyer Kuhnke acted as legal advisors to Ergon Capital Partners. Bernd Egbers, Carsten Endres, Holger H. Ebersberger and Martin Bünning of Ashurst acted as legal advisors to Ares Management Limited with the financing of the acquisition of Deutsche Intensivpflege by Ergon Capital Partners. The financing was carried out through a unitranche. CMS Hasche Sigle, Peter Ruby, Georg Lauster of CMS Hasche Sigle acted as legal advisor to Delta. Marc Henze, Kai- Michael König of Orth Kluth acted as legal advisor in the transactions. Linklaters De Bandt advised Sofina SA in t his transaction.
Sofina SA is a holding company owning shares, directly and indirectly through funds, in listed and unlisted companies. At the end of 2023, its portfolio, valued at a fair value of EUR 8,928.2 million, breaks down by activity as follows:
- acquisition of minority stakes in private and listed companies (53.1%; Sofina Direct). The portfolio breaks down by market between consumer goods and services (34.6%), digital transformation (20.6%), education (11.1%), health and life sciences (12.8%) and other (20.9%) including recent focus on Sustainable supply chains;
- investment in venture and growth capital funds (46.9%; Sofina Private Funds).
The portfolio by value is distributed geographically across Western Europe (37.8%), North America (35.2%), Asia (26.8%) and other (0.2%).
Sofina Société Anonyme, Ergon Capital Partners III managed by Ergon Capital Partners, and several Ergon LPs signed an agreement to acquire unknown majority stake in Deutsche Intensivpflege Holding.
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