CAPZA joins Magellan Partners as minor shareholder for growth

Founded in 2008 by Didier Zeitoun, Claude Aulagnon and Michel Hatiez, Magellan Partners Group, a catalyst for the digital transformation of companies, welcomes CAPZA, a leading private equity investor in SMEs/middle-market companies, as a minority shareholder. This transaction aims to speed up the organic development of Magellan Partners through a targeted, ambitious acquisition policy. CAPZA will support Magellan Partners’ development with an investment of €100M over the next 5 years.

 

Magellan Partners is a group specializing in Organizational Consulting and Information Systems, deeply rooted in Technologies and Data. With some 1,200 consultants and revenues of nearly €140 million in 2020, it is a leader in corporate digital transformation in France. Magellan Partners defines operational, data and digital strategies, defines and supports business strategies for energy transition supported by digital technology, leads project execution, and implements innovative technological solutions to support its clients through its 6 specialized entities.

 

The strength of Magellan Partners Group lies in its dual skills: business expertise and the deep technological specialization of its teams, allowing it to support customers throughout their digital transformation project. With 400 digital strategy consultants, the Group operates in Organization and Information Systems Consulting in 5 business sectors with 8 cross-functional practices supported by 800 experts in leading technologies: Microsoft, Salesforce, Amazon AWS, French players in the trusted digital and sovereign cloud, and various cybersecurity solutions. It has excellent coverage within France thanks to its 13 offices, and is also present in Morocco.

 

Magellan Partners is joining forces with CAPZA in order to achieve the strategic and growth objectives set out in its 2025 Strategic Plan: to continue and strengthen the development of its current activities in specialized IT and organization consulting, and to expand into new activities. By 2025, Magellan Partners plans to reach €350 million in revenues and employ 3,000 staff. This growth will be based on a combination of organic growth of 15% per year as demonstrated since its launch and a targeted external growth strategy.

 

CAPZA’s entry into Magellan Partners’ capital will thus allow Magellan Partners to speed up its external growth strategy, aimed at acquiring some €100 million in revenues on the French and European consulting and tech market.

Magellan Partners’ expertise, and the quality and diversity of its offers attracted CAPZA, which decided to support the Group in the performance of its projects and its targeted acquisition strategy so as to strengthen its pole position among consulting firms in organization and information systems in France.

 

This is the third transaction made by the CAPZA 5 Flex Equity fund.

• Investors : Benoit Choppin, Fabien Bernez, Clément Colin, Cédric Sabbah – CAPZA

 

• Vendor M&A consulting : Arnaud Petit, Gregory Fradelizi, Alexandre Aron-Brunetiere, Aude-Amel Cheraitia, Leonard Garcia – Edmond de Rothschild CF

 

• Vendor legal consulting, legal and corporate VDD : Patrice Frovo, Adrien Frovo – S.E.G.I.F – D’ASTORG, FROVO ET ASSOCIES

 

• Vendor tax structuring consulting, tax VDD : Laurent Borey, Nicolas Danan, Sarah Rahmoun – Mayer Brown

 

• Vendor financial consulting : Patrick Teboul, Maud Bischoff, Constance Bouchet – Mayer Brown

 

• Financial VDD : Aurelien Vion, Nicolas Boucher, Antoine Huge – Oderis

 

• Investor M&A consulting : Jonathan Journo, Florian Grison, Yvette Nou – Cambon Partners

 

• Investor legal consulting : Henri Pieyre de Mandiargues, Fanny Rech, Lucas Tabouret – McDermott Will & Emery

 

• Investor financial consulting : Pierre-Arnoux Mayoly, Shirin Deyhim, Hugo Lamour – McDermott Will & Emery

 

• Investor tax consulting : Antoine Vergnat, Côme de Saint-Vincent- McDermott Will & Emery

 

• Financial BDD : Fabien Thieblemont, Francois Gallizia (Eight Advisory)

 

• Strategic and Commercial BDD : David Toledano (Indefi x Singulier)

 

• Lawyers : SEGIF

 

• Tax and financing lawyers : Mayer Brown

 

• Financial auditors : Oderis

 

• Merchant bank : Edmond de Rothschild