Chronoresto, a major actor in the delivery and take-away market
This start-up, number-two Internet portal in France in its field, founded in 2008 by Charles Dunston, had revenues up +54% in 2011 and +32% in 2012. Chronoresto.fr has developed a multichannel offering – solutions for Internet, mobile phones, tablets, connected TV – allowing a meal to be ordered from locally-listed restaurants, from among 800 partner establishments in France.

PagesJaunes Groupe is completing its ecosystem of digital offers for restaurants
PagesJaunes Groupe already offers digital marketing services such as creating Internet and mobile websites, Facebook fan pages and videos for the food services market. The company is now enhancing its offers with the Chronoresto solution, a new business accelerator for professionals in the sector. And Chronoresto will benefit from increased orders by becoming visible on all of the Group's relevant media (pagesjaunes.fr, mappy.com, mobile applications). Moreover, PagesJaunes Groupe's local sales force will enable the Chronoresto website to increase its audience and business in the area.

The user experience is enriched by being able to order meals over Internet
By integrating Chronoresto, PagesJaunes Groupe will provide its users with a new transactional function, thanks to its various forms of web and mobile media. Fixed and mobile Internet users who are searching for a restaurant on pagesjaunes.fr, on the mobile applications, or on mappy.com, will be able to click on an "order" button and directly make a purchase, as such enriching their user experience. This is now a comprehensive offer adapted to the new "SOLOMO" consumption trends that the Group offers in food services: from searching for good addresses to online ordering, including consulting recommendations and organizing dinners amongst friends. This is yet another step after the development of Rest’Oh!, a mobile application which has become a reference for searching for local restaurants with over 100,000 downloads in 2 months.

"The food services market on the Internet is at the heart of our strategic priorities. We are taking an offensive stance in this sector and with the development of dedicated services - the Rest’Oh! app and the Facebook fan pages, for example - we have shown that we have all of the innovation capabilities needed to gain market shares in this vertical sector. With the acquisition of Chronoresto, we have completed an additional step, with the ambition to become the unrivalled player in the sector. We are very pleased with the arrival in our Group of Chronoresto’s team and are confident in our ability to win over new customers and a new audience", explains Jean-Pierre Remy, CEO of PagesJaunes Groupe.

Charles Dunston, CEO of Chronoresto, indicates that: “We are thrilled to join PagesJaunes Groupe. The teams at Chronoresto have shown the pertinence of their know-how and the plebiscite for their service with food service providers as well as Internet users. By joining PagesJaunes Groupe, we will take advantage of acknowledged expertise in the local communications market and we will increase business performance thanks to the synergies to be formed with the various subsidiaries, especially PagesJaunes and Mappy"

 

3mundi facilitates business travel planning and optimizes business travel procurement. In less than five years, 3mundi has established itself as a serious alternative to traditional networks by combining high-performance technology tools and knowledge of its industry in ways that address the new demands of businesses and their travelers.

Present in France and in Switzerland, 3mundi employs a staff of 40 to serve its 300 corporate clients. Since inception, 3mundi has seen a steady rise in the number of new contracts signed and in fact leads its market in terms of growth (more than 100% per annum). Growth in 2012 is expected to be as dynamic as that of previous years, as new locations open in Europe and targeted acquisitions are completed.

To support its ongoing development, 3mundi decided to seek out an investor of the first rank. With the 2.1 m€ it raised – with Turenne Capital, via the local investment fund (FIP) managed by Turenne Capital Partenaires and Nord Capital Partenaires, organized by Financière Cambon – 3mundi’s leadership will be able to step up the execution of its strategy for achieving international growth.

“This capital boost gives us the means to achieve our goal of becoming the most credible alternative to large integrated networks,” noted 3mundi’s top executives, Simon Renaud and Jordy Staelen. “Our clients choose us because we offer top-notch service while enabling them to streamline business travel expenses for their organization. With Turenne’s support, we can step up our effort to recruit the industry’s leading business travel experts and consolidate our technological lead.”

According to François Picarle and Alexis de Maisonneuve of Turenne Capital, “although the global economic backdrop has deteriorated, the global economy requires all businesses to be global, regardless of their size. For this reason, we think the service offered by 3mundi is particularly relevant today, because it responds perfectly to market expectations: manage business travel at the lowest possible cost while ensuring optimal service quality. A business travel expert that is growing this rapidly is a rare thing and thus worth paying attention to. Given the energy and focus of its executive leadership and staff, we are very confident that 3mundi has what it takes to become a major player in the field of business travel.”

APX’s facilities management business (providing local services along with facilities management) is complementary to that of SPIE Infoservices, a subsidiary of SPIE Communications. The company, which maintains close ties with its customers (major clients and administrations) operates from the following four main services centres: helpdesk in Rungis (Val-de-Marne) and Lyon (Rhône), remote services in Echirolles (Isère) and logistics in Herblay (Val-d'Oise). It has 1,030 employees and achieved sales worth €58 million in 2011.

“Building on its principles of local service, efficiency and responsibility in serving its customers and local authorities, SPIE Communications is now consolidating its position as a leader in communication systems and distributed IT infrastructures. By acquiring the APX facilities management subsidiary, SPIE Communications will continue strengthening its position in this market, with complete mastery in areas of from the workspace to datacentre infrastructures and including all IP networks. As a result, we will be able to step up the pace of implementation of our strategy to become a global IT services company and increase our range of service offerings,” says Gilles Brazey, CEO of SPIE Communications.

“Created by the merger between APX facilities management subsidiary and Getronics in 2006, our business activity has shown constant growth in this field, winning prestigious new customer references every year”, points out Noël Saille, Chairman and CEO of the APX group, “Our personnel have always been responsiveness to our customers’ requirements while being innovative and developing their expertise. The addition of our specialised facilities management unit to the SPIE Group will ensure that our customers’ new needs continue to be anticipated and that its business will continue to expand in the long term.”

This transaction, completed by Financière Cambon, should be finalised by the end of August.

Infinancials delivers business valuation and equity research solutions to corporate finance, private banking, asset management and private equity professionals. Its unique combination of in-depth data covering more than 80,000 listed companies with expert analysis and powerful modelling tools has made Infinancials a leading player in its field.

The deal will ensure that the high-quality Infinancials service remains open to a worldwide customer base of over 7,000 finance professionals, including many Infront customers already accessing the service via the Infront terminal.

“This acquisition is great news for Infinancials customers as they will continue to use their current solutions, and benefit from faster product development, new data sets and other synergies”, says Infinancials CEO Vincent Nahum. “Moreover, our expertise and technology will perfectly complement Infront’s assets, and this is a great opportunity for the Infinancials Paris office to grow and become a major R&D centre for the group."

"Infront customers benefited from the excellent Infinancials service for years" comments Kritian Nesbak, Infront CEO. "Through this acquisition, we are able to ensure that Infinancials can grow as an open service that is available to all finance professionals, whether they access the service in the Infront terminal, on the web, or via another plateform."

Paris, May 21, 2012 – Founded in 2006 and chaired by Daniel Derderian, the Axelliance Group is a commercial insurance brokerage firm specializing in the design, distribution and management of insurance solutions and services for business professionals throughout France. A multi-specialist in the field of commercial insurance, the Group currently has a staff of more than 65 employees who work out of Lyon, Paris and Bordeaux.

After CM CIC Développement became a capital stakeholder in October 2010, and following the successful acquisition of SART Assurances and the Solyas Group in April and September of 2011, respectively, the Axelliance Group is pursuing its business growth strategy with an investment from Turenne Capital, an independent asset management firm with AMF approval, specializing for more than a decade in providing growth capital to expanding businesses.

The addition of this new investor enables the Axelliance Group to increase equity and thereby pursue the sustained external growth strategy that has already led to the acquisition of eight specialized structures in five years.

With annual revenue of €15 million, more than €130 million in premiums collected and growth of more than 47% in 2011, the Axelliance Group – which already ranks among the top 20 insurance brokers in the French market – seeks to double in size by 2015 and become one of the top 10 insurance brokerage firms in France.

Ebuzzing, Europe’s leading platform for social media advertising, is merging with BeeAd, a French specialist in media site advertising videos. Thanks to the complementary nature of their businesses, the merger of BeeAd and Ebuzzing gives rise to the new European leader in online video advertising.

For Bertrand Quesada, Chairman & CEO and co-founder of Ebuzzing: "This perfect fit between the offer of BeeAd, a specialist in the dissemination of premium formats on media sites, and that of Ebuzzing, which focuses on social networks, will enable us to provide ad agencies and advertisers with a full range of formats combined with power that is unrivaled in Europe.”

Exporting the BeeAd model across Europe

The model for monetizing premium content invented by BeeAd will get a boost from the strong presence Ebuzzing has built up in Europe (with offices in France, the UK, Germany, Italy, Spain, Luxembourg and Switzerland). BeeAd will also gain access to a network that spans 90 countries in which Ebuzzing already does social media advertising.

BeeAd, which becomes a business unit of the Ebuzzing Group, will continue to develop under its own brand name in Europe. Other parties to the agreement with Ebuzzing include the leading site for free and legal music downloads www.beezik.com and WeSpread, a specialist in innovative performance-based advertising formats.

Jean Canzoneri, Chairman & CEO and co-founder of BeeAd, explains: "Ebuzzing offers us a genuine launching pad for exporting our unique advertising model across Europe. The co-founders of BeeAd and I are very enthusiastic about the idea of offering our knowhow to advertisers throughout Europe by building a network of publishers with continental reach."

Driven by the growth dynamic in this market, the new Group expects revenues to reach 40 million euros this year, and hopes to double that amount within a year. The European market for online video-based advertising amounted to 1 billion euros in 2011.

For Pierre Chappaz, Chairman & CEO of the Ebuzzing Group, "Internet video ads have become a key aspect of media plans thanks to the development of adapted offerings like BeeAd’s. Eventually, the internet monetization model and that of television will converge, but with the targeting and engagement capacities which are unique to the Internet in addition. This deal strengthens our leading European position in this market segment.”

FASTMAG Group (www.fastmag.fr) offers a complete management tool for the retail business with a major footprint in fashion. Based on a “full web” technology, the software is mainly composed of four modules: retail management, production management, creation and management of e-commerce websites, and management of distributors, importers and purchasing centers.

FASTMAG Group is a fast growing company which employs 27 people. Revenues for 2011 reached 3.9 million Euros.

FASTMAG group’s founder & CEO, Serge Chelli, was looking for a strong financial partner to accelerate the geographical development of the group.

Consort NT, the French IT consulting and outsourcing services provider, has undergone a secondary leveraged buy-out (LBO) operation, which saw EPF Partners, a private equity firm, acquire an unspecified minority stake, according to a company statement.

The French-language statement added that the management team, led by CEO Jason Guez and General Director Marc Adler, increased its interest in the company to 70%. The current investors Naxicap Partners and AXA Private Equity made a significant investment in the company, the item added.

The transaction, which was advised by Financière Cambon, was financed by a senior debt and a cash contribution, the item said.

Consort NT registered revenues of EUR 104m last year, the statement said. It has over 1,600 employees.

Having been launched by Keyrus as part of its " Web Agency " business, the hosting services business had been extensively modernized by the Keyrus Group in 2009 so as to allow it to offer, as early as the beginning of 2010, a new generation of "Cloud" infrastructure, based on virtualization technologies and capable of enabling the deployment of new services of the "Software as a Service" and "Infrastructure as a Service" type. This development had allowed the group to feature amongst the first service players to offer, and master, this type of hosted services for the entirety of its business lines: e-Business, Business Intelligence, ERP/CRM for the Mid-Market.

The specialists of IT Infrastructure having extensively developed their proposed services in the field of these now-mature technologies, Keyrus is today choosing to concentrate its financial and managerial resources on its business of Consulting and integrating performance management solutions and to transfer its infrastructure-on-demand services to a specialist, which at the same time becomes its strategic partner in this field.

When looking for alternatives for this project, it quickly became apparent that the best solution, as much for the continuity of the activities of ‘’Keyrus Hosting Services’’ and quality of service to its clients as for the operational and financial interests of Keyrus, was that proposed by ITS Integra, notably due to the strong technical synergies between the services offered and the complementary nature of the client base.

Eric COHEN, Founder & CEO of the Keyrus Group, comments : " After an initial stage of purely organic development of new "Cloud" mode services : Business Intelligence, Search, Collaborative and ERP/CRM, and given the investment necessary to achieve rapid growth in this segment and reach a critical mass, it appeared to us to be more sensible to sell off this business to a player which is specialized, and recognized, in this field and to enter into a strategic partnership with them which allows us to continue offering our application solutions in hosted mode. In this regard, ITS Group seems to us to be the ideal partner and the initial services proposals that we have build together are a real success. "

Egencia™, an Expedia, Inc. company, today announced that it has acquired Traveldoo, a leading provider of Web and mobile platforms for business travel management, at the end of a process organized by Financière Cambon.

Traveldoo’s leading corporate travel booking tool complements Egencia’s fully-integrated Travel Management Company services platform, with its innovative corporate travel technologies.  Traveldoo’s unique combination of user-friendly technology and broad content are aligned with Egencia’s strategy of leveraging technology to provide a better corporate travel management solution.

“With technology and innovation at the core of our business, Traveldoo is a natural addition to our company,” said Rob Greyber, President of Egencia. “This acquisition positions Egencia to continue to expand our reach and further differentiate our offering in the market.”

Traveldoo will remain autonomous, operating as a business unit of Egencia.  There will be no changes for Traveldoo’s clients and partners.  All Traveldoo employees will remain with the company, including the company’s co-Founder, Nabih El Aroussi.  Mr. El Aroussi will continue to lead the company as the Managing Director, overseeing the day-to-day business as well as shaping its strategic direction; he will report directly to Rob Greyber, President of Egencia.

“Being under the Egencia umbrella will provide Traveldoo with a unique opportunity to accelerate our growth globally while strengthening our financial position,” said Nabih El Aroussi.  “We are thrilled about the opportunity to grow with and contribute to a fast-growing innovator like Egencia.”

Founded in 2000 in France, Traveldoo’s solutions and services simplify travel planning and booking, help  centralise travel data, optimise travel spend, improve risk and crisis management and make business travellers' and travel arrangers' lives easier.  Traveldoo today serves more than 4,000 clients in over 50 countries.

So far, 2011 is shaping up to be as dynamic as previous years (growth forecast in excess of 100%), thanks to the successful launch of its B to B business (wholesale brokerage).

In a bid to support this growth, Santiane.fr decided to seek out an institutional player of the first rank that had no ties to the traditional insurance industry. The resulting fundraising, with BNP Paribas Private Equity and organized by Financière Cambon, stands among the biggest deals of the year in the e-business market. BNP Paribas Private Equity is a member of BNP Paribas Investment Partners, the arm of BNP Paribas that handles most of its third-party private equity business. The funds raised will be mainly used to make investments in the Santiane.fr brand and to develop the Group’s network of non-proprietary broker partners.

Santiane.fr is currently reaping the benefits of two strong and durable growth trends that have a multiplier effect on one another: that of the health insurance market itself (which is expected to double in size by 2015) and that of online comparison shopping-policy purchase. In light of the company’s current growth dynamic and the multi-year recurrence of its revenues, it expects revenues to reach 50 m€ by 2013.

“We are delighted to welcome BNP Paris Private Equity to our board of directors. Its experience with growth companies will be of great value to our executive management team. In addition, having a player of this rank among our shareholder base gives a solid boost to our development plans. At the same time, the fact that it has a minority stake allows us to maintain our independence,” noted Christophe Courtin, Chairman of the Santiane.fr Group.

Positioned among the top players in its business, DevisProx allows consumers to make online comparisons of offerings in insurance, consumer lending, and personal asset management, as well as in the areas of home repair, services and tax optimization.

An ambitious development strategy

Now that it has successfully raised two million euros with CM-CIC Capital Privé, DevisProx is in a position to step up its growth and develop in other verticals such as home repair and renovation and personal services. In addition, DevisProx plans to expand into Southern Europe (Spain, Portugal and Italy) as of 2012.

“DevisProx has successfully combined strong revenue growth and profitability. For us, this investment attests to our confidence in the company’s management and its growth strategy, both in France and across Europe,” noted François Collet of CM-CIC Capital Privé.

“Thanks to this success, DevisProx now has the assets it needs to reach its new development objectives. We are delighted with the support we will be receiving from CIC as we pursue our development,” said Gérald Loobuyck, the founder of DevisProx.
Financière Cambon was selected by DevisProx to assist the company with this equity raising transaction.

Created in Paris in 1998, Sushi Shop developed on its own until 2006, and then began operating as a franchise, first nationwide in France and then internationally, in response to building demand that became massive as of 2005. Present today in 5 countries, the network is growing at a sustained pace. In 2008, it opened 15 new outlets; in 2009, it added 17; the increase was 23 in 2010; and 30 new outlets agreements have been signed so far in 2011. With 75 units at year-end 2011, the Group is today the European leader in its segment and seeks to be over 200 units in 2014.

Abroad, the brand got off to a successful start: 8 units end 2010 in Belgium, Luxembourg, and more recently in Spain and in Italy. Its product range features fresh items, combining original creations (spring rolls, tulips, etc.) and traditional elements of Japanese cuisine, prepared to order and sold daily under various formats: takeout, home delivery and on premise.

“This operation symbolizes the beginning of a long-term relationship between Sushi Shop and a strong and ambitious investment firm. The national and the international networks are now going to grow at a stronger pace.” said Gregory Marciano, Sushi Shop chief executive officer. “We are excited about the opportunity to move forward with an investor that has an in-depth understanding of our business and industry, and we will be tremendous partners as we continue to pursue our strategy.”

Naxicap Partners has been shortlisted at the end of a competitive process organized by Financiere Cambon between a dozen of European investing firms. “We are thrilled to be investing in such a fast-growing company in a booming sector” said Eric Aveillan, Executive Chairman of Naxicap Partners Management Board.

 

Sofactory.fr lie on the bottom-of-the-line contemporary furniture market, a “jeune habitat” boosted market in growth since 2003 (+70%), and considered today as the powerhouse of the internet furniture market estimated between €400m and €500m.

Created at the beginning of 2009, the website rapidly became one of the market leaders, thanks to its founders’ double expertise: the sourcing in quantity and in quality (historical savoir faire) and web skills.

The company employs about 40 FTE in Athis-Mons (91). This round will able Sofactory.fr  to take the lead of a new more ambitious development plan, essentially through web marketing actions, to invest in its logistic tool and to expand the offer.

“Seventure has a cross-functional knowledge of the web profession, acquired when supporting some leaders of the sector. This mechanism knowledge, associated to a performance analytic approach, convince us of the pertinence of making of Seventure, a key partner to reach our growth objectives. ” said Michael Koskas, Sofactory.fr co-founder.

“We are enthusiastic about supporting Sofactory.fr project. The offer positioning and the great experience of the team on all the furniture value chain: range choice, sourcing, commercialization via internet, logistic, after sale service, convince us that the company has the adequate assets to rapidly develop itself and to become a major player of its market.” said Didier Piccino, Equity interests Manager at Seventure.

Financière Cambon has been mandated by Sofactory.fr to assist it on this fund raising operation.

 

Dailycall conciliates a B2C approach, with a lead generation business model of professionals of various segments, such as lesartisansdemenageurs.fr for the moving industry, and a B2B approach providing to corporates customers’ acquisition and retention services.

Set up at the end of 2009, the company has demonstrated its ability to offer qualified leads to a professional’ network it federates in the moving tradesmen and it captures several big accounts with a customer relation’s value-added.

The company has around 20 employees in Paris and Tel-Aviv. This round of financing will enable the company to intensify its marketing activity, speed up its commercial spread out and improve its services on several vertical fields.

Set up in 2007 and managed by Nicolas Gaume, Mimesis republic is a french company that develops social playgrounds. In order to finance its development and the launch of Mamba Nation universe that targets 13-25 years old, Financière Cambon has advised the Company for its 6.5m€ round of financing with DotCorp (Steve and Jean-Emile Rosenblum’s investment company), Jaina Capital (Marc Simoncini’s investment company), Kima Venture (Xavier Niel and Jeremie Berrebi’s investment company), Verlinvest and Artémis. The company, that counts 47 employees, was funded by private investors for an amount of 5 m€.

The public beta version was launched in April 2011 with 175.000 registered members. Mimesis Republic plans an international development of Mamba Nation in 2012.

Within the group APX, the activity of design and maintenance of computer applications totaled 144 employees, or 9% of the total workforce, with an annual turnover of ten million.

“This acquisition allows Ausy to meet its development objectives by completing its geographical coverage including Rhône-Alpes/PACA/Ile of France, acquiring expertise in industry sectors Health / Distribution / Procurement and strengthening its Centres Services, “said APX.

Financière Cambon has been appointed as sole financial advisor by Easyvoyage, to execute its external growth strategy. Founded in June 2000 by Jean Pierre Nadir, this travel portal offers editorial content, price comparison, hotel reviews, travel deals and a community forum. Following the acquisition of dealchecker.co.uk, TravelJungle and FSI Travel, Easyvoyage estimates that it will generate 800 million Euros worth of travel sales for its clients in 2011. The group now covers the five main European markets; France, UK, Germany, Spain and Italy, and has an average of 10 million unique users annually. Easyvoyage also has eight million active newsletter subscribers in Europe, boasting the largest number of newsletter subscribers for a travel portal in Europe.

Financière Cambon assisted Valtech, leading player in e-business and Agile technologies, in selling Axelboss, its Management Consulting business. This entity of 40 highly experienced consultants provides services to leading companies in various verticals, with a focus on industry, retail and finance.
With this acquisition, Sia Conseil will strengthen its workforce, now up to 300 people, and add €7m to its €38m Net Sales. The company aims to become, thanks to its external growth strategy, a European leader in the Management Consulting business.

From a Valtech standpoint, this transfer is part of a wider strategy to refocus on its core business. It follows the ambitious project initiated by the new management team, set up in March 2010, after the success of a tender offer launched by SiegCo and led by Financiere Cambon, to bring Valtech as European leader in digital optimization.

The site was launched in October 2006 by David Dayan (20 years of experience in the destocking business) and Thierry Petit (12 years of experience as an Internet entrepreneur). It climbed to number 2 in the French market in less than 3 years, behind venteprivee.com, without recourse to outside financing and is the France's 7th largest e-business site (Nielsen - Dec 09). By the End of 2009, the site had more than 3 million members and 75 millions euros of revenue. It’s now aiming in for 140 millions euros and 6 millions members in 2010. 

From an Accel perspective, this investment is part of a wider range of investments that they’re making in the area of ‘social commerce’ – where retailers use the social graph in some way to create new e-commerce models.

Financière Cambon acted as shareholders advisor and led all the M&A process with a team combining London and Paris offices.

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This fund raising led by Financière Cambon will enable Nexway to speed up its positioning in all international markets and better anticipate its response to the new issues and usage of digital consumption.

Nexway is a leading digital e-commerce player and a strategic partner for Software vendors, PC Games publishers and e-merchants worldwide. The company has enjoyed a rapid growth thanks to strong and diversified partnerships with leading retailers and e-merchants, including: 01net, Dell, Fnac, Orange, Gamestop, Pixmania, VirginMega, ElCorteIngles, Tom’sGuide, Softwareload; key software vendors, such as: Microsoft, Avanquest, Kaspersky, Lavasoft, Mindscape, and Nero; and video-game publishers, including: EA, Ubisoft, THQ, Sega, Atari and Take 2. Being a leading provider of turnkey e-commerce solutions to e-content publishers and major Internet players Nexway is committed to delivering high-quality, cutting-edge titles to consumers through its broad portfolio of exciting software and video games, enriched by its acquisition of Boonty in January 2009 (www.boonty.com). Nexway has established subsidiaries in 10 countries and distributes software and games for download in more than 50 countries globally. In 2008, Nexway reached the million download milestone and in 2009, for the third year in a row Nexway ranks in the Top 100 of Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500 EMEA. To learn more, please visit www.nexway.com

 

 

Subventium is a consulting firm specialized in innovation company funding. Through the transaction, Subventium is joining GSM Consulting, a French leading company in cost killing advisory.

Founded by Philippe Amand (formerly co-founder and managing director of Ciel® sold to Sage Group®), Idylis offers a large range of SaaS software for accounting, payroll and management tasks in the French market. The solution is primarily dedicated to  microbusinesses, SMEs and CPAs. Idylis installed base to date includes more than 2,500 clients representing more than 6,000 users.

Created in 1982, Divalto Group is a ERTP software provider specializing on SMEs. The Group has sold its products to more than 11,000 clients representing more than 300 business areas (distribution, industry, service). Revenue for 2009 exceeded 9,9 million euros resulting from direct and indirect sales (150 vendors network). 

Since its inception in 2006, the company has made a significant growth : 4,1 m€ of revenue in 2009 with EBIT of 1 m€. 

Resto’In (www.restoin.com) is the leading portal for online takeaway in France and Belgium, with more than 100 up-market restaurants. Launched in 2006, it enables corporate and individuals to order and be delivered restaurant meals within 45 minutes.

The company aims to expand in other cities in France and Europe and started with the opening of Lyon and the acquisition of Eatingdesk, the leading player in Belgium (Brussels based). To back its strategy, both founders, Pilar Granell and Clément Benoit, were looking for a financial sponsor sharing the same vision. Financiere Cambon was appointed to advise the Company and succeeded with a €2m fundraising with Nextstage.

Turenne Capital along with Centre Ouest Expansion have jointly invested €1.1 million in Weekendtour, the French specialist of all inclusive holiday packages developed in partnership with works Councils and local tourist offices. This investment is meant to support Weekendtour strong growth.

The company offers thematic short stay holidays sold as gift sets and distributed by major retailers, on the Internet and through works Councils. Weekendtour was set up in 2006 by Alexis Vervelle and Richard Alexander. The company has grown thanks to strong partnerships with work councils, local tourist offices, and with different labels (“Gîte de France”, “Bienvenu à la Ferme” and “Tables et Auberges de France”). The company, which owns a travel agency license has, since its creation, always laid emphasis on the quality of its offer and guarantees availability.

 Financière Cambon was hired to advise the company on its first financing round.

SiegCo is a Belgian company co-held by Verlinvest, Sebastian Lombardo and Laurent Schwarz, bringing together the credit and the financial strength of an industrial holding company with the top management experience and the vision of two seasoned entrepreneurs in the IT/Internet field.

SiegCo aimed to take control of Valtech, the leading player in e-business and agile technologies. It offers to all the shareholders to contribute their shares against 0,44 euros per share (overbid).

Valtech benefits from many assets (highly skilled consultants, diversified large accounts portfolio, strong brand) which can be leveraged thanks to a stable and reliable major shareholder having an ambitious company project and financial strength. The industrial ambition driven by SiegCo is to bring Valtech as European leader in digital optimization.

Financiere Cambon was hired very early in the process to define the transaction structure and advise SiegCo on the strategy to launch the tender offer..

All the documents about the tender offer can be downloaded on www.siegco.be website.

INDOM is the French market leader for business domain name registration, offering a full range of services designed to optimize, manage and secure domain names.

Under the ownership of its founders, the company has experienced sustained growth since 2004 and has been profitable since its inception in 1999. It employs 40 domain name specialists, ranging from legal experts to internet marketing advisors, network administrators and engineers. They work out of the company’s head office in Paris or in its Strasbourg office.

Managed by Pierre Berecz and Stéphane Van Gelder, the company has more than 20 000 clients, 40% of which are included in the CAC 40. In 2008, Indom earned 7 million euros in revenues, and has posted growth of 25% every year since 2005.

Financière Cambon organized INDOM’s fund-raising with AXA Private Equity. The goal of this transaction was to fund the growth of the company and seize on promising opportunities for external growth.

Founded in 2001 by two graduates of Polytechnique, Hervé Tanguy and Edouard Lesieur, Ykems is involved in the areas of strategy and competition analysis, business modeling and supply chain optimization in all business sectors, with strong positioning in the manufacture of staples and food products. The company applies the latest research in managerial economics to the strategic challenges facing major accounts in France and abroad.

The Paris-based SME generates around €5 M in annual revenues and is highly profitable.

La PME parisienne réalise environ 5 M€ de chiffres d'affaires pour une forte rentabilité.

Financière Cambon conducted the Ykem-Beijaflore alliance. Directed and founded in 2000 by Guy-Hubert Bourgeois, who is also a co-founder of Devoteam, the performance and management advisory firm with particular expertise in telecoms that generated 85 million euros in revenues in 2008 (versus €77M in 2007 and €60M in 2006), it employs more than 850 people.

Blue Consulting is a software engineering firm that was founded in 1999. In 2008, it generated revenues of €15 million and had a workforce of 150.

Financière Cambon conducted the call for capital that enabled the company (www.blueconsulting.fr) to benefit from the support of a financial partner for its external growth ambitions, while also allowing the company’s executives to secure a portion of their assets. In connection with this transaction, Financière Cambon was also responsible for securing bank financing.

Based in Sophia-Antipolis, Axylog is a software engineering firm that employs 70 engineers specializing in the micro-electronics field. Its portfolio of major accounts includes such giants as Texas Instruments, Infineon and Amadeus.

Financière Cambon advised the company’s shareholders during the sale of Axylog to the Ausy group. For the latter, this was the second major acquisition in the Southeast of France.

Beezik (www.beezik.com) is a music website that offers free and legal downloads of more than 2.5 million titles. Founded in early 2008 by Jean-Christophe de Launay, Thomas Pasquet and Jean Canzoneri, Beezik has an innovative revenue system: in return for access to a catalogue of more than 2 million titles free of charge, as soon as they went online in mid-June of 2009, site visitors agree to first watch a full-screen advertisement of their choice. With more than 1 billion titles downloaded in France, only 50 million of which have been acquired legally, Beezik has a tremendous potential market. The start-up hopes to go global in the near future.

Financière Cambon assisted and advised Beezik on this fund-raising transaction with Axcel Loisirs France.

AssurOne is an insurance brokerage firm that specializes in the design and online distribution of personal insurance products for consumers. Founded in 2004 by Ludovic Dumont, Jeremy Garamond and Hubert Saltiel, the company works with some of the biggest insurance companies in the market, and is the only broker in France that offers a service that is fully accessible and pilotable via the Internet—from pricing and underwriting to policy administration and claims management. This means that 100% of assurOne’s clients have the option of managing their own policies, adding clauses and riders, and printing their insurance certificate from their own computer.

Financière Cambon completed a dual transaction: it helped to raise funds from CDC Entreprises, Seventure and Philippe Louis-Dreyfus and to acquire Distind. The aim of the deal was to enable assurOne to gain a lasting position as a leading provider of insurance via the internet.

Financière Cambon supported the Teleca group (2 000 people in 11 countries – REV of €140m) in the sale of its French subsidiary based in Rennes. The latter, a specialist in the development of real time onboard applications for mobiles, was acquired by AFD Technologies. This transaction allowed AFD Technologies to extend its presence in Brittany and acquire sophisticated mobile skills for its clients, manufacturers and operators alike.

Founded in 2003 and located in Paris, Techviz develops and distributes a range of software solutions that accelerate the real-time display of complex 3D data and enables the multi-screen display of all types of applications.

Financière Cambon led a round of fund-raising for TechViz, concluded with Alto Invest and IDF Capital. This investment enabled TechViz to intensify its business development in France and abroad.

REALVIZ is a leading developer of image-based creation software, headquartered in Sophia Antipolis, France, with satellite sales offices in Los Angeles, U.S.A., London, England and Paris, France. REALVIZ develops a suite of mage-based content creation solutions for the film, broadcast, gaming, digital imaging, architecture and Internet communities. Derived from years of research efforts at the renowned INRIA Lab in France, the Company's applications enable 2D and 3D artists to easily tackle complex digital imaging projects.

Financière Cambon conducted a global M&A process that led to REALVIZ’s sale to the world’s number one publisher of digital design and creation software for PCs (>5 000 people, total sales of USD2.2 billion in 2007).

Financière Cambon supported Consort NT (Euronext Paris: MLCNTwww.consort.com), an IT consulting and integration firm and a major player in selective facilities management, in the completion of an LMBO by its management in partnership with Naxicap Partners and AXA Private Equity. Naxicap Partners and AXA Private Equity were persuaded by the fundamentals of Consort NT and intend to support the company as it develops via targeted and relutive acquisitions.

Founded in 1992, Consort NT is a software engineering firm that offers consulting, systems integration and facilities management services to major prime producers/subcontractors in manufacturing, services, banking and insurance. Its innovative focus and culture of commitment make Consort NT one of the biggest players in selective facilities management in France. At year-end 2007, the group had a workforce of 770 and earned revenues of nearly €50 million. The Group’s culture of innovation was recognized with an “innovative company” label awarded by OSEO, which enables Consort NT to work alongside its clients as they enter new and promising markets.

Jason Guez, Chairman of the Management Board of Consort NT became the majority shareholder of the Consort Group. He was accompanied in the deal by the company’s key executives (including CEO Marc Adler). “This deal achieves a dual aim: rally a team of shareholding managers around a shared mission and acquire the additional financial resources needed to executive an ambitious development plan that seeks to generate revenues of €100 million by the end of 2012,” noted Jason Guez. Together, the executive management team owns a 58% stake in the group. This transaction coincides with the company’s steady growth: revenues from existing businesses rose by more than 25% in 2007, reaching €49.4 million and providing operating profitability of 7.5%. “Consort NT is in an enviable position, with a fully developed facilities management offering that allows us to meet the needs of big clients and join the ranks of the select group of preferred partners for large account clients with nationwide reach,” commented Marc Adler, CEO.

An online only business, Welcome Office generated sales revenue in excess of 7 million euros in 2007, and projects 10 million euros for 2008. Welcome Office will capitalize on the logistical platforms of RAJA to begin international expansion, developing in countries where RAJA is already present. For RAJA, the deal with Welcome Office beefs up its own product range and, in particular, gives the group access to the online marketing and technological expertise that Welcome Office has built. The group intends to step up its own online presence, where it last year earned 10% of its revenues. By 2010, it hopes that online sales will account for more than 25% of the total.

Financière Cambon worked on behalf of the shareholders of Welcome Office on the deal: the founders, the business angels and the private equity fund.

Anyware Technologies was founded in 2000 by Ludovic Le Moan and underwent rapid development (REV: €5 million) with the support of several venture capital funds (IRDI, SOCRI and Seventure). Via this acquisition, Wavecom intends to establish a single and radically innovative platform for the M2M market, which will allow clients to connect regardless of their hardware configuration to their information systems via M2M wireless applications.

Founded in 2005, Agorad is the number one independent media agency (TNS Secodip, Sept. 2007). Leveraging its expertise in strategic consulting, internet ad space buying, sponsored links and performance marketing, Agorad successfully supports major e-business retailers, including 3 Suisses, Intermarket, Monabanq, Daniel Jouvance, Kiabi, Becquet, Cofidis and Yves Rocher. The Company was bought from its founders, Dimitri Ducourtieux and Michaël Amar. Thanks to this acquisition, Agorad constitutes the new media division of the Referencement.com group. The new division now offers all clients major synergies to ensure the success of their internet strategies. Already present in Paris, Bucharest, London, New York, and Los Altos (CA), Referencement.com continues to pursue its bid for international expansion.

The BTD Group (2006 revenues of 54 million euros; a staff of 700) is an IT service company founded in 1981. It is very strong in the French market, particularly in the banking-finance-insurance industry. In addition to obeying the simple logic of sector concentration, GFI Informatique was also motivated by the high value added horizontal expertise that the BTD Group had developed. GFI acquired all equity in BTD in a cash payment. It financed the acquisition with a medium-term loan of €30 million, and paid for the rest out of its own cash resources. In 2006, GFI Informatique generated revenue of €633.1 million, and had more than 8 000 employees. The Group has more than 40 branches in France and 9 additional offices in Southern Europe, Northern Europe, Morocco and Canada.

Financière Cambon conducted the process of selling Alphaméga (REV: €10 million), preferred HP partner specializing in server and storage solutions, to Cheops Technology, a rapidly expanding company that recently went public. Absys Cyborg (Keyrus Group) had inherited this business in 2005, when the Alpha Technologies group, of which Alphaméga was a member, was acquired. Because the latter fell outside the realm of its core business, the group decided in early 2007 to sell the business. It asked Financière Cambon to intervene. In acquiring Alphaméga, Cheops Technology gained market clout and significantly reinforced its presence in the Greater Paris Area.

KDP Informatique was jointly owned by its founding executives and AXA Private Equity. Financière Cambon led the sale process on behalf of all the shareholders.

This acquisition reinforces the Sage group’s leadership in France in the area of CRM. KDP Informatique offers Sage the largest installed base in the French CRM market. KDP Informatique was jointly owned by its founding executives and AXA Private Equity. Financière Cambon led the sale process on behalf of all the shareholders.

Financière Cambon successfully led the bid to acquire Autoreflex.com

Financière Cambon conducted the acquisition by AUSY of the IT consulting and engineering firm Aequalis.

With 150 employees and revenues of 12 million euros in 2006, Aequalis is one of the Southeast’s largest IT engineering firms. This acquisition enables the Ausy group to gain significant strength in this region and also enhances its skills base in the areas of infrastructure and IT security.

Founded in 1990, NESSEL is an IT consulting and engineering firm that specializes in the banking business. With its 60 consultants, NESSEL is a preferred partner of France’s largest banks, and earned revenues of around €7 million in 2006, an increase of more than 10% versus the previous year.

Financière Cambon was mandated by NESSEL’s shareholders to assist in the disposal process. The CELLA Group, a French IT services firm, announced the acquisition of NESSEL, an IT consulting and engineering firm that specializes in banking. This transaction will allow the CELLA Group to strengthen its positioning with respect to major accounts in the financial services industry and to enhance its new technologies range. In addition, the CELLA Group will leverage the expertise of NESSEL in Systems and Network consulting. With this alliance, the CELLA Group acquires the capacity to offer its clients a full range of services related to the management of their information system, from drawing up specifications to monitoring production. Thanks to its sophisticated technological expertise (object technology, internet, SOA architectures, decisional, C/S, mainframe, etc.), the Group offers its clients an alternative to large general service providers and effective business approaches (market finance, asset management, lending and credit, information traceability, life and health insurance, etc.).

DCI is one of the major French integrators of voice data convergent infrastructure solutions. Its product range covers every key area of IP infrastructures: System, Network, Security, VoIP. The solutions provided are based on the technologies of world-renowned software publishers and makers: Mc Afee, Avaya, Fortinet, Checkpoint, etc.

Financière Cambon structured an OBO (Owner Buy Out) involving the capital of Data Concept Informatique (DCI). This leveraged deal included the acquisition of a minority share (38%) in DCI for the investment fund EPF Partners.

Easyvoyage is the internet’s top editorial portal devoted to travel that offers comparison shopping.

Financière Cambon conducted the LBO and fund-raising round for Easyvoyage. The total amount invested was 9 million euros. Natixis, via its Spef LBO and Seventure funds, acquires an equity interest along with Jacques Maillot, the founder of Nouvelles Frontières, and Francis Reversé, the founder of Degriftour.

Financière Cambon coordinated the alliance of Projipe with Aubay. Projipe is one of the major consulting and engineering groups in France that specializes in financial services (banks and insurance companies). The deal allows Aubay to join the ranks of the top 15 software engineering firms in France, with nearly 2 000 employees.

With 280 employees based in 7 different locations, the Diwan group (listed on Alternext) is an acknowledged leader in the field of voice data integration and convergence. The transaction valued Diwan at 39.2 million euros.

This acquisition, housed within Orange Business Services, which combines all of France Telecom’s global business services, is consistent with its service development strategy, focused in particular on integration services expertise. After the acquisition of a controlling interest of 72%, France Telecom offered a stock price guarantee to minority shareholders, for a price per share that was a 44% premium over the average quoted price for the 20 prior trading days.

EOVIA EUROPE is a publisher of 3D graphic creation software. Its two leading products are Amapi and Carrara. EOVIA EUROPE was founded in March 2004 as a holding company for the assets of the EOVIA division of TGS EUROPE when it was acquired by MERCURY COMPUTER SYSTEMS.

This transaction allows DAZ to supplement its product portfolio with Carrara and Hexagon software, and also gives it access to a seasoned team based on the West Coast of the United States. The combined offer of the two companies gives users a more refined panel of 3D tools that responds more effectively to their needs. DAZ plans to continue to develop Eovia Corp’s existing products and will provide existing users with the support they need.

Exsyde is a key player in product information management.

Access Commerce, a publisher of Multi-Channel Business Solutions that is traded on Eurolist C, is acquiring Exsyde in order to complete its product portfolio.

 

Financière Cambon initiated and coordinated the deal.

On behalf of the Aubay Technology Group, Financière Cambon conducted the acquisition of Why Not Engineering, an IT engineering firm with 130 employees. Aubay has just acquired a 75% interest in Why Not Engineering, sharing ownership with company management. Why Not Engineering works exclusively in the Greater Paris Area; two of its biggest and most strategic clients are BNP Paribas and France Télécom, which added Aubay as a preferred supplier in 2005. This acquisition is consistent with the strategy of Aubay, which seeks to drive development through a combination of organic growth and targeted acquisitions.

Aubay is a technological and integration consulting firm that specializes in information systems, networks and telecoms. With 862 employees working out of 5 countries (France, Belgium, Spain, Italy and Luxembourg), Aubay projects revenues of €71 million in 2005.

Cristal Décisions, a firm that was founded in 2002 by its chairman Hervé Corlay, helps large corporations and mid market companies achieve savings in the area of overhead and non-strategic procurement. At year-end 2005, it boasts expertise in six areas: spending on telecoms, water, hygiene and sanitation, long-term vehicle rental and temporary staffing, with dedicated expert consultants for each one.

Alma Consulting Group, a European leader in operating cost reduction consulting (€67.5 million in revenues in 2004, 535 employees, 9 000 clients in 5 countries), has acquired control over Cristal Décisions, a specialist in operating cost reduction consulting. In doing so, it consolidates its position in France and also enables Alma Consulting Group, a key player in the area of employer tax and social charges, as well as in the financing of innovation, to offer its clients a new range of audits aimed at optimizing overheads.

Financière Cambon advised CGBI on its successful bid to raise 8 million euros from, among other investors, Prado Finance. CGBI is a software engineering firm with more than 300 employees. It is listed on Eurolist.

An international company whose specialty is technological consulting for e-business infrastructures, systems, networks and telecoms, announces its reinforcement in the area of IT security with the acquisition of Cyber Networks, a service firm that specializes in consulting, integration and facilities management for information system and internet security solutions.

In connection with the development of its mid market business activities, Sage acquires Amalthis, a company that specializes in the interactive management of Human Resources. Amalthis is France’s largest publisher of software for interactive human resource management.

Financière Cambon was the advisor to all of the selling shareholders, including IDI, Banques Populaires, and Entrepreneur Ventures.

Amalthis brings Sage a high-performance collaborative portal solution dedicated the managing the employee relationship, as well as acknowledged expertise. This acquisition enables the Sage group to continue to build on its range of products for mid market businesses.

On behalf of Teamlog, Financière Cambon helped a group of investors (Thalès Corporate Venture, I-Source, IXCORE) sell its equity interest (91.9%) in Teamlog Digital Media System, specializing in software solutions for the digital television industry.

 

TEAMLOG has just sold its 91.9% interest in TEAMLOG DMS, a specialist in software solutions for the digital television industry, to a group of financial investors (I-Source, Thalès Corporate Ventures and IXCORE) associated with the management of the company. In 2003, this subsidiary earned revenues of €6.7 million, contributing a negative -0.54 million euros (-0.9 million euros in group share of net income) to group earnings. The deal was completed for a total of €2.5 million in cash and is consistent with the sale completed in October 2003 of the equity interest in NEOTION SAS, as well as with TEAMLOG’s decision to refocus on its core IT services business.

On behalf of COLT Telecom, Financière Cambon completed the deal leading to the sale of two of its subsidiaries, Apogée Communications and Asthéa Ingénierie. Both companies specialize in the integration of infrastructure and IT security solutions.

Financière Cambon successfully completed the fund-raising deal for this promising young company.