Private equity and infrastructure investment specialist Omnes Capital has made a number of key promotions and appointments with Eric Rey appointed as managing partner, responsible for the firm’s mid-cap business.
Rey also joins Omnes Capital’s executive committee.
In addition, Pierre-Axel Botuha and Etienne Chemel have joined the mid-cap team as principals.
The mid-cap team invests in SMEs offering strong growth potential via Omnes Croissance 4. This fourth-generation fund has just closed at EUR210 million (above its initial target size of EUR180 million) and has four investments in portfolio: Bimedia, Capcom, Cogepart and Dispam.
Laurent Espic, partner, has been appointed head of the small-cap business, which targets French SMEs with an enterprise value lower than EUR25 million. It has made 40 investments in the past 10 years, including in particular Nomios and SIMP, which were recently exited at an average multiple of 4.7x.
The team invests its second-generation funds launched in late 2014 (LCL PME Expansion 2 and LCL Expansion 2), which currently hold six investments: Groupe Eyssautier, Aryes, Heidrich, Camerus, APF and Ducatillon.
Camille Delibes has been appointed partner, responsible for the private debt business, which has made 36 investments in 15 years, and is a long-standing player in the French market. The team currently manages the Omnes Mezzanis 3 fund (target size of EUR150 million), a third-generation private debt fund dedicated to French SMEs and very small enterprises, making investments of between EUR3 million and EUR15 million.
These three teams – small and mid-cap buyout and growth capital and private debt – are headed by Benjamin Arm, managing partner.
Fabien Collangettes has joined the venture capital team as an Associate, reporting to Michel de Lempdes, managing partner. With 30 business disposals including over 10 IPOs carried out in 17 years, Omnes Capital’s venture capital team is one of the key players in France in financing innovative SMEs with expertise in both the deep tech and healthcare sectors.
Corentin Defond has joined the green building team as an analyst, reporting to Serge Savasta, managing partner. Omnes Capital is a frontrunner in the field of energy transition, having launched its first Capenergie fund in 2006. Since then, the company has made over 35 renewable energy investments in France and Europe corresponding to a generation capacity of 1.5 GW. In 2016, Omnes Capital launched Construction Energie Plus, the first French fund dedicated to the construction of high environmental performance buildings.
