01 / À propos

Eurazeo is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in growth capital, leveraged buyouts, and buyins of a private company, and investments in listed public companies. The firm seeks to invest in medium-sized or large companies, SMEs, high growth companies, and real estate management and investment acitivities. It primarily invests in France and Italy and other European countries. It does not have any restrictions regarding the sectors in which it invests but prefers to invest in services, leisure and mobility, real estate, investment activities, distribution, industry, luxury, and health sectors. It identifies companies upstream, carefully selecting them primarily from sectors driven by digital transformation and focusing on changes in lifestyle and consumption (mobility, online buying, collaboration models, etc.) The firm typically invests between ?15 million ($16.37 million) and ?800 million ($892.55 million) in companies with enterprise values of more than ?150/200 million ($163.74 million/$218.30 million) and $7108.9 million. It limits each investment to less than 10 percent to 15 percent of its net asset value. The firm can also invest where its equity or quasi-equity stake is between ?175 million ($195.25 million) and ?800 million ($892.55 million). It prefers to acquire majority stakes in its portfolio companies. The firm may invest in public companies either taking the public company to private, and then doing a leveraged buyout or in the form of private investment in public equity (PIPE). The firm invests for a period of five to seven years. It exits its investment by sale to a manufacturer, sale to a financial investor, or through an IPO. Eurazeo was founded in 1969 and is based in Paris, France.