Bignon Lebray advises Financière Fonds Privés (FFP) in connection with the acquisition of the Collin group
Edouard Waels, Partner and Quentin Dosda, Associate, have advised Financière Fonds Privés (FFP) as part of the acquisition of the Collin Group, distributor of medical equipment specializing in the field of otolaryngology.
As part of this transaction, FFP invested 6 million euros. The former directors, Paul Jaeckel and Michel le Masson, retain a minority stake in the capital and will accompany their successor, Nicolas Prévost, for the next twelve months.
The medical equipment distribution company posted € 11 million in revenues for an EBITDA margin of nearly 7%. After launching a surgical navigator, the DigiPointeur, in 2002, it has since 2005 developed a remotely-operated robot for middle and inner ear surgery, the RobOtol, marketed since last year.
The purpose of this transaction is to enable the company to double its turnover within five years. To this effect, a budget dedicated to the financing of growth was planned to invest in favor of RobOtol via the recruitment of engineers and salespeople.
Financière Fonds Privés, set up in 2008, is the result of a passion shared by a team of experienced professionals with extensive expertise in Private Equity, high added-value transactions, and management of companies of all sizes.
Their ambition is twofold: to allow private investors who wish to invest in unlisted companies to achieve it with a professional approach, to enable entrepreneurs seeking equity financing to find capital and partners involved in their development project. Their trade is to organize between private investors and companies, capital-intensive partnerships that are highly value-creating for each party.
Involved in the transaction:
| Purchaser or Investor | FINANCIERE FONDS PRIVES (FFP): Baptiste Proveau, Arthur Droin, Pierre-Michel Deléglise, Matei Costa-Foru;
Nicolas Prévost |
| Seller | Fondateurs: Paul Jaeckel, Michel Le Masson |
| Purchaser Business Bank /
M & A Advisor |
WAGRAM CONSEIL: Olivier Larrat |
| Purchaser Corporate Counsel
Tax Structuring |
BIGNON LEBRAY: Edouard Waels, Quentin Dosda,
CMS FRANCIS LEFEBVRE AVOCATS: Pierre Le Roux, Matias Labé |
| Seller Corporate Counsel
Tax Structuring |
Caroline Wittmar Dufour |
| VDD Intellectual Property | AUGUST DEBOUZY : Geoffroy Thill |
| VDD Financial | BM&A: Emmanuel Conjard, Yannick Pasteur |
| VDD Other | ADAQ CONSEIL: Didier Assous |
| Corporate Business Bank / M & A Advisor | Henri Fages |
| Managers Other Counsels | SQUARENESS: Jérôme Fortin |
