Neu-Isen\u00adburg \u2014 Swedish finan\u00adcial inves\u00adtor EQT has sold Neu-Isen\u00adburg-based faci\u00adlity mana\u00adger Apleona to French private equity firm PAI Part\u00adners (PAI) for \u20ac1.6 billion. EQT had itself acqui\u00adred the former real estate divi\u00adsion of the Bilfin\u00adger Group only four years ago in the fall of 2016.<\/p>\n
Apleona will conti\u00adnue to operate as an inde\u00adpen\u00addent company on the market under the new owner, empha\u00adsi\u00adzes Mana\u00adging Direc\u00adtor Dr. Jochen Keysberg. He not only wants to drive digi\u00adtal inno\u00adva\u00adtions, but also play a signi\u00adfi\u00adcant role in the \u201cexpec\u00adted market conso\u00adli\u00adda\u00adtion in Germany\u201d. To this end, the company will comple\u00adment both its service offe\u00adring and regio\u00adnal coverage through inor\u00adga\u00adnic growth, he announced.<\/p>\n
PAI has deca\u00addes of tradi\u00adtion and indus\u00adtry exper\u00adtise as a finan\u00adcial inves\u00adtor and is known for deve\u00adlo\u00adping corpo\u00adrate invest\u00adments in a long-term and sustainable manner, Keysberg adds. He said the ongo\u00ading Covid 19 pande\u00admic will rein\u00adforce exis\u00adting trends, such as outsour\u00adcing of real estate services by large indus\u00adtrial compa\u00adnies, inter\u00adna\u00adtio\u00adnal bidding for ever-larger port\u00adfo\u00adlios, inclu\u00adding cross-border ones, and strong demand for digi\u00adtal solu\u00adti\u00adons and products for buil\u00adding users and for buil\u00adding tech\u00adno\u00adlogy, for exam\u00adple, to save energy and CO2.<\/p>\n
The orig\u00adins of PAI Part\u00adners date back to 1872 as the invest\u00adment arm of Handels\u00adbank Pari\u00adbas, now part of BNP Pari\u00adbas. Follo\u00adwing a manage\u00adment buy-out in 2001, the company now opera\u00adtes inde\u00adpendently on behalf of pension funds, insu\u00adrance compa\u00adnies, banks and private inves\u00adtors. A team of 95 employees mana\u00adges a port\u00adfo\u00adlio of more than 20 Euro\u00adpean compa\u00adnies or 13.9 billion euros in assets under manage\u00adment. PAI invests in compa\u00adnies in the Busi\u00adness Services, Food & Consu\u00admer, Gene\u00adral Indus\u00adtri\u00adals, Health\u00adcare and Retail & Distri\u00adbu\u00adtion sectors. The average holding period for invest\u00adments is five years, accor\u00adding to the PAI website.<\/p>\n
The part\u00adners Dr. Emanuel Strehle, Dr. Daniel M\u00f6ritz (both lead, M&A), Dr. Markus Ernst (Tax) (all Munich), Dr. Alf-Henrik Bischke (Anti\u00adtrust, D\u00fcssel\u00addorf) and Hendrik Bocken\u00adhei\u00admer (Labor, Frank\u00adfurt), the coun\u00adsels Dr. Andrea Schlaffge and Patrick Wilke\u00adning (both Intellec\u00adtual Property\/IT, D\u00fcssel\u00addorf) as well as the asso\u00adcia\u00adtes Dr. Thomas Weie\u00adrer, Johan\u00adnes Schmidt, Chris\u00adtian Linke, Dr. Constan\u00adtin Alex\u00adan\u00adder Wege\u00adner (all M&A), Dr. Tim W\u00fcrst\u00adlin (Tax) (all Munich), Dr. Katha\u00adrina Gebhardt, Dr. Marius Mayer, Dr. Andreas Kaletsch (all Labor Law, Frank\u00adfurt), Dr. Cars\u00adten Bormann (Public Commer\u00adcial Law), Dr. Anja Balitzki, Dr. Kyra Brink\u00admann and Chris\u00adtian Dankerl (all Anti\u00adtrust) (all D\u00fcsseldorf).<\/p>\n
Neu-Isen\u00ad\u00adburg \u2014 Swedish finan\u00adcial inves\u00adtor EQT has sold Neu-Isen\u00ad\u00adburg-based faci\u00adlity mana\u00adger Apleona to French private equity firm PAI Part\u00adners (PAI) for \u20ac1.6 billion. EQT had itself acqui\u00adred the former real estate divi\u00adsion of the Bilfin\u00adger Group only four years ago in the fall of 2016. Apleona will conti\u00adnue to operate as an inde\u00adpen\u00addent company on the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36401,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[886,1364,1365,1366,1367,1368,1369],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-en","category-featured-en","category-private-equity-en","category-news-en","category-lawyers-tax-advisors-auditors-en","category-lawyers-tax-consultants-auditors","category-investors","news-category-deals-news-en","news-category-private-equity-news-en"],"yoast_head":"\n