M&A Deal Summary

Astorg Partners Acquires Normec

On June 24, 2020, private equity firm Astorg Partners acquired business services company Normec from Summit Partners

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Astorg Partners’ 4th transaction in the Business Services sector.
  • This is Astorg Partners’ 2nd transaction in the Netherlands.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2020-06-24
Target Normec
Sector Business Services
Buyer(s) Astorg Partners
Sellers(s) Summit Partners
Deal Type Secondary Buyout
Advisor(s) Jefferies (Financial)

Target

Normec

Utrecht, Netherlands
Normec is active in the field of testing, inspecting, certification, and compliance mainly in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany. Normec assesses and supports the quality and safety of materials, systems, and products by conducting independent audits, tests, and inspections based on accredited methods. As an independent organization, the work of Normec includes taking care of the quality and safety of their clients’ materials, systems, and products. Normec operates in the Life Safety & Environment and Food & Agriculture segments. Normec was formed in 2015 and is based in Utrecht, Netherlands.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

Astorg Partners

Paris, France

Investor Investor Investor Investor Investor


Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 1998
PE ASSETS 22.0B EUR
Size Mega
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

Astorg Partners is a private equity firm that targets small to midcap company investments primarily in France and to a limited extent, Western Europe. Astorg Partners looks for companies valued between €400 million and €2 billion, requiring at least €15 million in equity. Areas of interest include healthcare, retail, distribution, hospitality, and professional services. Prospective transaction situations include leverage build-ups, divestitures, family transitions, and secondary buyouts. Astorg Partners was formed in 1998 and is based in Paris and has additional offices in London and Luxembourg.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 46 of 69
Sector: Business Services M&A 4 of 5
Type: Secondary Buyout M&A Deals 22 of 38
Country: Netherlands M&A 2 of 2
Year: 2020 M&A 1 of 2
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2019-12-16 Audiotonix

Chessington, United Kingdom

Audiotonix designs, engineerings, and manufactures professional audio mixing consoles, production software, and ancillary products. With pioneering solutions from premium audio brands Allen & Heath, Calrec, DiGiCo, DiGiGrid, Fourier Audio, Harrison, KLANG: technologies, Slate Digital, Solid State Logic, sonible, and Sound Devices, its products are used extensively in live sound, broadcast, theatre production, installations, houses of worship, TV and film production, music creation and recording studios. Audiotonix is based in Chessington, United Kingdom.

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2020-08-07 Surfaces Group

Cenate Sotto, Italy

Surfaces Group is a global developer and manufacturer of value-add abrasive tools and other consumables sold to manufacturers of high-end ceramic, engineered stone, glass and niche mechanical applications. The company offers a complete set of tools and abrasives for post-production value-add operations, including lapping, polishing, coating, cutting and squaring. Surfaces Group is based in Cenate Sotto, Italy.

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Seller(S) 1

SELLER

Summit Partners

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Investor Investor Investor Investor Investor


Category Growth Capital Firm
Founded 1984
PE ASSETS 39.0B USD
Size Mega
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

Summit Partners is a private investment and asset management firm focused on venture, growth, credit, and public equity investing. Sectors of interest include business services, communications technology and services, consumer products, energy, financial services, healthcare and life sciences, industrial products, internet/information services, media/entertainment, semiconductors, electronics, and software. Summit Partners is known for having a proactive business development group for sourcing transactions. Summit will consider both minority or majority investment stakes and is willing to commit as little as $10 million or as much as $500 million in combined debt/junior capital per transaction. The Firm's geographic coverage spans North America and Europe. Summit Partners was formed in 1984 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 245 of 294
Sector: Business Services M&A 18 of 19
Type: Secondary Buyout M&A Deals 44 of 64
Country: Netherlands M&A 3 of 5
Year: 2020 M&A 4 of 8
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2020-06-11 CoderPad

San Francisco, California, United States

CoderPad is an online technical assessment software that makes it easy to interview in the candidate’s language of choice so hiring managers can quickly get a quality signal of an engineer’s skills. The company empowers customers around the world to screen and interview best-in-class engineers with its comprehensive and flexible technology, a responsive customer success team, and devotion to a great candidate experience. CoderPad was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

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2020-08-17 Keeper

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Keeper is a provider of zero-trust and zero-knowledge security and encryption software covering enterprise password management, role-based access control, event tracking, dark web monitoring, secure file storage, secrets management, and encrypted messaging. Keeper was founded in 2011 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.

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