FAMILY
Entrepreneurial and familial DNA
K2 Business Club
K2 Business Club, a €200m first ever
investment program
Launched in 2019, K2 Business Club is a €200m first ever investment program gathering 13 benevolent family-investors, with the ambition to finance and support French mid-sized companies with high-potential in the long run (up to 15 years) to ensure growth, durability and independence.
Target
Growth mid-sized companies
(turnover: €35-250m)
(turnover: €35-250m)
Program’s
size
size
€200m
Liquidity
Up to 15 years
LPs
13 families
The main advantages of the Club
13 benevolent family-investors, wishing to support promising entrepreneurial projects in the long run and to give meaning to investment
LONG-TERM
Support without any time-related constraints
ADDED VALUE
Close partnership, relying on a vast ecosystem
The transactions
- Securing of the managers’ industrial heritage
- Securities reclassification / Minority shareholders’ exit
- CEO’s departure and company’s transfer
- Disposal of a non-strategic subsidiary
- Change of control, from a financial investor or a family
- Equity and quasi-equity injection to finance growth
THE TARGETS
- Fast-growing mid-sized companies
- All business sectors
- Turnover: €35m - €250m
- Investment ticket by transaction: €15m - €50m
OUR MAIN INVESTMENT CRITERIA
- Talented and committed management team
- Ambitious development plan (growth: 5-25% p.y.)
- Underlying market with growth potential in the long run
- Resilient business model and positive EBITDA