Financial investor Armira raises new billion-euro fund

Berlin — YPOG has advi­sed Munich-based private equity mana­ger Armira, which specia­li­zes in part­ner­ships with entre­pre­neu­rial and family-run “hidden cham­pi­ons”, on the struc­tu­ring and launch of its latest fund­rai­sing program. The fund was closed above the hard cap and reaches a total volume of EUR 1 billion inclu­ding co-inves­t­­ments. With this deal, the Armira plat­form now mana­ges around 5 billion euros in capi­tal. The signi­fi­cant over­sub­scrip­tion under­lines the contin­ued high demand from insti­tu­tio­nal and private inves­tors for Armi­ra’s entre­pre­neu­rial invest­ment model. 

Armira provi­des flexi­ble capi­tal of between 10 million and 1 billion euros and invests in both mino­rity and majo­rity share­hol­dings in order to support compa­nies at decisive turning points — from growth acce­le­ra­tion and inter­na­tio­na­liza­tion to succes­sion and trans­for­ma­tion proces­ses. In Germany, the private equity mana­ger acqui­red the Munich-based data trans­fer specia­list FTAPI for 65 million euros toge­ther with the French finan­cial inves­tor Tike­hau. Toge­ther with the billionaire Viess­mann family, Armira acqui­red a stake in the Greek gene­rics manu­fac­tu­rer Pharos. 

The project marks another mile­stone in the long-stan­­ding coope­ra­tion between YPOG and Armira and included inte­gra­ted legal, regu­la­tory and tax advice across the entire invest­ment platform.

“Placing a billion-dollar fund in the current market situa­tion is a strong sign of Armi­ra’s entre­pre­neu­rial model — and of the effi­ci­ent, trust-based colla­bo­ra­tion between our teams,” commen­ted Dr. Stephan Bank, Part­ner at YPOG. “Armi­ra’s latest fund­rai­sing is an important step in the plat­for­m’s deve­lo­p­ment and we are proud to have helped shape a fund struc­ture that will support Armi­ra’s next phase of growth,” added Dr. Helder Schnitt­ker, Part­ner at YPOG. 

About Armira

Armira is a Euro­pean private equity firm specia­li­zing in part­ner­ships with entre­pre­neu­rial and family-owned “hidden cham­pi­ons”. It is supported by an exclu­sive network of entre­pre­neurs and long-term family inves­tors — now comple­men­ted by inter­na­tio­nal entre­pre­neu­rial fami­lies and insti­tu­tio­nal long-term inves­tors — and provi­des capi­tal for all stages of a company, from mino­rity finan­cing for growth to majo­rity invest­ments. Armira pursues a consis­tent value crea­tion approach based on the para­me­ters of perfor­mance, people and acquisition.
The mana­ging direc­tors of the gene­ral part­ner Armira Betei­li­gun­gen Verwal­tungs GmbH are
Alex­an­der Sche­mann, Chris­tian Bailly (photo: Armira/ tonies) and Dr. Björn-Eric Förs­ter — www.armira.de/en/

Advi­sor Armira: YPOG

Dr. Stephan Bank (Co-Lead, Corporate/Structuring), Part­ner, Berlin
Dr. Helder Schnitt­ker (Co-Lead, Tax/Structuring) , Part­ner, Berlin
Lenn­art Lorenz (Co-Lead, Regu­la­tory), Part­ner, Hamburg
Jens Kretz­schmann (Funds), Part­ner, Berlin
Dr. Michael Fili­po­wicz (Funds), Asso­cia­ted Part­ner, Berlin
Dr. Niklas Ulrich (Funds), Asso­cia­ted Part­ner, Hamburg
Dr. Dajo Sanning (Funds), Senior Asso­ciate, Hamburg
Dr. Wolf­ram Dickers­bach (Funds) Senior Asso­ciate, Hamburg
Axel Zirn (Funds), Senior Asso­ciate, Berlin
Falk Bothe (Funds), Asso­ciate, Berlin
Benja­min von Mangoldt (Funds), Asso­ciate, Berlin
Nico­las Fischer (Funds), Asso­ciate, Berlin
Robert Schramm (Funds), Senior Asso­ciate, Berlin
Sylwia Luszc­zek (Funds), Senior Project Lawyer, Berlin
Marthe Oestrei­cher (Legal Opera­ti­ons), Senior Project Lawyer, Berlin

About YPOG

YPOG stands for You + Part­ners of Game­ch­an­gers and forward-looking tax and legal advice. The firm advi­ses compa­nies focu­sed on future tech­no­lo­gies with the aim of using change as an oppor­tu­nity and jointly crea­ting opti­mal solu­ti­ons. The YPOG team offers compre­hen­sive exper­tise in the areas of Funds, Tax, Tran­sac­tions, Corpo­rate, Banking, Regu­la­tory + Finance, IP/IT/Data Protec­tion, Liti­ga­tion as well as Corpo­rate Crime + Compli­ance + Inves­ti­ga­ti­ons. YPOG is one of the leading addres­ses in Germany for venture capi­tal, private equity, fund struc­tu­ring and appli­ca­ti­ons of distri­bu­ted ledger tech­no­logy (DLT) in finan­cial services. YPOG employs more than 180 expe­ri­en­ced lawy­ers, tax advi­sors and tax specia­lists as well as a notary in its offices in Berlin, Hamburg, Colo­gne, Munich, Cambridge and London. — www.ypog.law