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When was EUROPA GROUP acquired by ABENEX?

EUROPA GROUP was acquired by ABENEX in 2024.

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04/2024

EUROPA GROUP acquired by ABENEX

FRANCE Professional Services / Marketing & Events REV 100M - 200M EUR

Context

Abénex has successfully structured a continuation vehicle to acquire a 55% majority stake in Europa Group, facilitating a major secondary leveraged buyout and the transfer of assets from its fifth flagship fund. This strategic operation marks a pivotal shift in the group's governance, allowing the founders to trigger a structured managerial transition while retaining a significant 35% minority stake. The primary objective is to aggressively finance Europa Group's ongoing multiple build-up strategy in specialized medical media to double the group's size by 2029.

As a reminder, the company had previously received an investment from Abenex in 2017.

EUROPA GROUP, which reported an EBITDA margin of LOGIN in 2024, is valued in this transaction at an EV/EBITDA multiple of LOGIN, a level to compare with the average currently observed in the Business Services sector (11.0x).

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Target

Founded in 1987, Europa Group is a premier Europeanorganizer of medical conferences and professional congresses across Europe. Originally focused strictly on event management, the enterprise has successfully executed a major diversification strategy through targeted external acquisitions, expanding deeply into healthcare content, medical publishing, data marketing, and digital health communication. The company now operates two equally balanced core divisions: professional medical events and specialized healthcare media. Driven by a newly structured executive team undergoing a planned managerial transition, the group actively pursues aggressive buy-and-build strategies to continuously integrate specialized media and communication agencies, aiming to vastly multiply its operational scale in the coming years.

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List of similar M&A transactions (Date, Acquirer, Target, Country, Sector, Deal Context)
Date	Acquirer	Target	Country	Sector	Deal Context
05/2017	ABENEX	EUROPA GROUP	FRANCE	Professional Services	Abénex has successfully completed a strategic equity investment in Europa Group, acquiring a minority stake to support a new phase of international growth and consolidation. This primary transaction constitutes a minority leveraged buyout, allowing the target to reorganize its capital structure while ensuring the founding management team, retains absolute majority control (~60%). To adequately capitalize this next expansion phase, Abénex provides substantial financial resources and strategic expertise to fuel the group's aggressive cross-border acquisition pipeline. This partnership follows Europa Group's recent successful integration of Insight Outside and is strictly engineered to accelerate its transition from a pure-play event organizer to a diversified scientific services provider.

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Revenue range: 100M - 200M EUR

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Press release: view release

Target: europa group

Acquirer: abenex