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Ardian Acquires CCC

On November 16, 2009, private equity firm Ardian acquired business services company CCC

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Ardian’s 13th transaction in the Business Services sector.
  • This is Ardian’s 1st transaction in Austria.
Investment Fate
  • CCC was sold to a consortium of financial buyers in 2013.
  • CCC was sold to a consortium of financial buyers in 2017.
  • CCC was sold to a strategic buyer in 2019.
  • CCC was sold to a strategic buyer in 2019.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2009-11-16
Target CCC
Sector Business Services
Buyer(s) Ardian
Deal Type Buyout (LBO, MBO, MBI)
Advisor(s) Blue Corporate Finance AG (Financial)

Target

CCC

Vienna, Austria
CCC provides customers with care and BPO solutions with 18 locations in eight countries. The company draws on 19 years of experience in handling incoming calls, outgoing campaigns, written customer communication via e-mail, chat, and social media, as well as back-office activities. CCC was founded in 1998 and is based in Vienna, Austria.

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Buyer

Ardian

Paris, France

Investor Investor Investor Investor Investor

Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 1996
PE ASSETS 127.0B USD
Size Mega
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

Ardian is a mega-sized diversified investment group focused on opportunities worldwide. Ardian invests across and manages funds focused on small and mid-sized buyouts, growth capital financings, mezzanine, infrastructure, real estate, and co-investment opportunities. Ardian's small-buyouts group targets controlling interests in French, German, and Italian businesses valued up to €100 million. It's mid-sized buyout group seeks businesses valued up €1.5 billion and does not have any geographic limitations. The Infrastructure team looks for European opportunities and can commit up to €1 billion per transaction. The Mezzanine group supports junior capital commitments of €5 to €80 million. In addition to direct investing, Ardian also manages various private equity fund-of-funds. Ardian was founded in 1996 and is based in Paris.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 128 of 464
Sector: Business Services M&A 13 of 38
Type: Buyout (LBO, MBO, MBI) M&A Deals 59 of 123
Country: Austria M&A 1 of 4
Year: 2009 M&A 7 of 9
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DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2009-09-30 Enel Rete Gas

Milan, Italy

Enel Rete Gas distributed 3.6 billion cubic meters of gas to more than 1,200 municipalities over a network covering more than 2 million users. Enel Rete Gas is based in Milan, Italy.

Buy €516M
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Murlin, France

Charlois is a wood maker, cask manufacturer and a pallet manufacturer (Malviche). Stave woods and casks are mainly sold to premium wine producers all around the world. Charlois was founded in 1928 and is based in Murlin, France.

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