As part of the transaction, Pierre-Antoine MICHEL, an entrepreneur selected and supported by Trajan, takes over as CEO of the Group from founder Fabien MATHIVET. Fabien MATHIVET retains a stake in the business and will support the handover. Two long-serving managers are also joining the shareholding.

Initiative et Finance announces the signing of the sixth transaction of its midcap fund “Tomorrow”, through the acquisition of a majority stake in Airess, a specialist in the installation and maintenance of automatic water-based fire suppression systems (sprinklers). Initiative et Finance succeeds the Transmission et Croissance I fund (Trajan), managed by Edmond de Rothschild Private Equity (France) and advised by Trajan Investment Advisor.

The Transmission et Croissance I fund (Trajan), managed by Edmond de Rothschild Private Equity and advised by Trajan Investment Advisor, divests its stake in Essences et Parfums, one of the last remaining independent houses specialising in fine perfumery in Grasse.

The French investment vehicle Trajan Capital, part of the Edmond de Rothschild Group, is coming to the Benelux countries. Trajan helps companies find a buyer.

Transferring the business that one has created or inherited is often a headache. Unlike what is practiced in Germany and Italy, where the majority of SMEs remain in family hands, in France, less than 20% of managers pass on the business to their children…

These weeks of lock-down have been ideal for a proliferation of enthusiastic reflection on the future of our economy, and one major opinion has emerged which, while in no way new, seems at last to have taken its rightful place: there is an urgent need to reconstitute a…