Third time lucky for HgCapital and Visma

Leah Alger — Fri, 30 Jun 2017 14:00:54 +0000

For the third time since 2006, UK based private equity firm, HgCapital, has announced that it will re-invest into Visma, a small business software developer.

Yesterday, Visma agreed to a £4.2 billion deal with HgCapital, which saw American multinational private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KRR) sell its 31% stake by more than 50% to 17.1%.

When HgCapital invested in Visma in 2006, it was worth £328 million – it’s now completed over 120 bolt-on acquisitions, through expanding to Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Norway.

For HGCapital to take its stake to 41%, it invested another £1.4 billion into Visma, because of their being “several reasons to reinvest for the third time”, according to HgCapital’s Managing Director.

“Firstly, it has just performed really well. Secondly, the chief executive Oystein Moan has been incredible to work with. Thirdly, we’re huge believers that a good business invests a lot in research and development – which Visma does,” he added.

Intermediate Capital Group’s (ICG) Asset Manager, European Investor Montagu and Singapore’s Sovereign Wealth Fund, Guaranteed Investment Clinic (GIC) also invested in Visma, according to CITY.A.M.

Written by Leah Alger

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