Finorpa Gestion

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Finorpa Gestion is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing direct and fund of funds investments in seed/startup, loan, early venture, mid venture, and late venture stages investments. It also specializes in growth capital, limited partnership funds investment, leveraged buyouts, financial consolidation, mezzanine, and turnaround transactions. The firm invests through, convertible stocks, convertible bonds, participative loans, bonds with stock warrant, and medium term loans at preferential rates. It also makes investment in shareholder's equity and quasi equity in small and medium size companies. It does not invest in real estate, retail trade and financial activities. The firm seeks to invest in all sectors with a focus on industrial and service activities, information technology, healthcare, logistics tourism and leisure, personal services, textile sectors, clothing, food, beverage, industrials, commodity chemicals and forest and paper products. The firm seeks to invest in companies based in the former French region of Nord-Pas de-Calais with a focus on the following former departments: Béthune, Lens, Douai, Valenciennes, Arras, Montreuil, Boulogne-sur-Mer, Calais, Dunkirk, Lille, and Cambrai. It typically makes debt investments between €0.05 million ($0.07 million) and €2.5 million ($3.61 million) in its portfolio companies. While investing in start-up stages, the firm typically invests between €0.15 million ($0.17 million) and €0.5 million ($0.7 million), whereas, while making growth capital and buyout transactions, it invests between €0.30 million ($0.35 million) and €1 million ($1.17 million) in companies with sales values up to €40 million ($51.38 million). The firm can invest on its own or co-invest. The firm also can offer financing in convertible bonds to firms reporting revenues under €10 million ($11.61 million). For these cases, the firm usually invests between €0.1 million ($0.17 million) and €0.40 million ($0.46 million). When investing in equity, the firm seeks to take a minority stake and typically holds its investment between five and seven years. When investing in convertible bonds, the firm typically holds its investment for five years. It seeks to exit its investments through sale to the director or group that manages the company, trade sale, secondary buyout, creation of a holding or IPO. The firm seeks to take a seat on the Board of Directors or Supervisory Board in its portfolio companies or ask for the creation of a committee associating the financial partners of the company. Finorpa Gestion was founded in 1984 and is based in Lille, France, with additional offices in Saint-Omer, France.

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