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HOLLAND VENTURE ESTABLISHES NEW PRIVATE EQUITY FUND

Holland Venture has established a new 70 million euro private equity fund aimed at expansion and buy-out investments in the Benelux. The fund targets existing companies with an enterprise value between 5 and 50 million euro, that can benefit from the following long term trends:

The fund will acquire majority stakes or minority stakes with control rights and invests equity amounts of 3 to 13 million euro.

This new fund is the fifth fund managed by the Holland Venture organisation. The fund is headed by managing partners Hubert Verbeek and Ewout Prins, who have an extensive experience in the Dutch private equity market. They both worked as investment managers for the previous Holland Venture fund and Verbeek also worked as director for Rabo Private Equity. They took over the helm from Holland Venture’s founder Rolf Deves, who is managing partner of the four previous Holland Venture funds. Deves has a vast experience with all aspects of company development and private equity transactions and shall be associated with the new fund through his role in the Advisory Board. Jos Houben is the third partner of the team. Houben is an experienced entrepreneur and investor with an broad track record, amongst others in deregulation projects.

Furthermore, the team consists of two experienced analysts, a legal expert and a financial specialist.

The new Holland Venture fund is sponsored by Natixis Private Equity (NPE), the private equity branch of the French investment bank Natixis. Leader in France in private equity devoted to SMEs, NPE is also a leading player in Europe with a rising profile in the high potential markets of Asia, South America and India. NPE is active in all areas of Private Equity – Venture, Expansion, Transmission and Funds of funds – with 18 teams, 194 professionals, 695 equity investments and more than 4 billion dedicated to the growth of SMEs.