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  • Logo Brand Industrial Services
    Co-Investment

    Brand Safway

    USA

    Industrials
    Industrials

    Headquartered in Georgia, Brand is a leading provider of specialized services to the global energy, industrial, and infrastructure markets. Its range of service offerings include work access, corrosion management, atmospheric and immersion coatings, insulation services, fireproofing and refractory, mechanical services, forming and shoring, and other complementary specialty services.

  • Action logo
    Co-Investment

    Action

    Netherlands

    Consumer goods and services

    Exited

    Consumer goods and services

    Founded in 1993, Action is a leading non-food discount retailer with operations in the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, France, Austria and Poland. It offers a wide assortment of frequently renewed unlabeled and A-brands products at the lowest prices across 14 categories. Headquartered in the Netherlands, Action employs ~45,000 FTEs.

  • Palex logo
    Co-Investment

    Palex

    Spain

    Healthcare & life science
    Healthcare & life science

    Founded in 1955, Palex is Spain’s largest independent distributor of medical devices to public and private hospitals. With a wide product portfolio of +150,000 references, Palex covers 22 different therapeutic areas thanks to partnerships with more than 600 OEMs mostly through exclusive contracts. Headquartered in Barcelona, Spain, Palex operates six warehouses across Spain, Portugal and Italy and has 800 FTEs.

  • Logo Emera Group
    Co-Investment

    Emera Group

    France

    Healthcare & life science
    Healthcare & life science

    Founded in 1987, Emera operates a network of nursing homes for dependent elderly people and of senior residences across Europe (France, Ireland, Spain, Belgium, Switzerland, Luxembourg, and Jersey). The Group employs over 7,000 employees in France and Europe.

  • SAAL Digital
    Co-Investment

    Saal Digital

    Germany

    Consumer goods and services
    Consumer goods and services

    Saal Digital is a leading online platform for high-end photo products in Europe and was founded in 1986 by Reinhard Saal in Siegen, Germany. With more than 200 employees, the company develops and makes products such as photo books with special lay-flat bindings and wall prints on aluminum Dibond or under acrylic glass and distributes them in more than 20 countries.

The Ardian team brought a deep sector knowledge, which I think allowed them not only to do a terrific job in that due diligence period, but also meant they could work very efficiently within our deal time frame.

Doug Brody KKR Capital Market

Ardian and Arsenal both want our investments to benefit society and by working together in this case we’ve reduced the time it takes to set up a clinical trial by many months, which means new drugs come to market as quickly and safely as possible.

Steve McLean Partner of Arsenal Capital

During the due diligence phase, we identified Ardian as a future shareholder capable of making a significant contribution to Emera's development. As soon as the transaction closed, we were able to define and launch value-creating initiatives with Naxicap and Ardian, particularly in terms of group structuring, external growth, digital transformation and real estate strategy, in France but also in Spain and other European countries.

Eric Baugas CEO of EMERA