APAX Partners

With over 30 years of investing experience, our team has proved its ability to work through different economic cycles, showing significant reactivity. In addition to its knowledge of the economic circles and its network of relations, it has a deep experience in a wide range of transactions (M&A, LBO, build-up, PtoP, IPO, restructuring, …).

Our priority is the company’s long-term growth, which is ensured by pushing all the value-creation levers: internal growth, acquisitions, improvement of the economic model to make it more sustainable, international expansion,… When we sell a company, its value depends on the perspectives for development that can be offered to future shareholders.

We are not limited in terms of size of transactions we carry-out and we can help our portfolio-companies finance the development opportunities available to them. Some investors in our funds may co-invest together with us, as well as Apax Partners LLP (i.e. our joint investment in Capio, the leading European operator of private hospitals).

We have in-depth knowledge of each sector and its challenges on a worldwide scale, owing to specific teams of professionals in-house, and through Apax Partners Worldwide’s network of sector-based specialists. As a sector-based specialist and multi-stage investor, we have a deep knowledge of the whole value-creation chain in each sector and we have demonstrated our ability to carry-out LBOs in the high-technology sectors.

In addition to its representatives on the Boards of Directors of the portfolio-companies, Apax Partners delegates two Partners whose role is to provide financial and human resources support:

       >> Claude Rosevègue, CFO
       >> Martine Clavel, Head of Human Resources

Support is also provided in the information systems and communication fields.

We have a business development team which works in close collaboration with the sector-based teams so as to identify investment opportunities and to ensure that contacts with intermediaries such as merchant banks, audit firms and consultants are both established and maintained.

       >> Monique Cohen, Partner
       >> Guillaume Cousseran, Principal
       >> Franck Hagège, Principal

In 2008, Bernard Bourigeaud, founder and former Chairman and CEO of Atos Origin, has joined Apax Partners SA as a Senior Advisor. Bernard Bourigeaud brings his entrepreneurial experience and contributes to the development of our portfolio of companies, in the information technology sector as well as in Apax’s other sectors of specialisation.

Our model is based on the alignment of financial interests between the shareholders and managers, and on the complementarity between the management team, responsible for the company’s day-to-day management, and our role as a professional shareholder, having sufficient hindsight and experience to make suggestions and to establish growth opportunities for the company.