Abenex invests in Europa Group

FRANCE Professional Services / Marketing & Events REV €50–100M

Context

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.

Europa Group, which reported an EBITDA margin of [members only] in 2017, is valued in this transaction at an EV/EBITDA multiple of [members only], to compare with the average currently observed in the Business Services sector (11.5x in 2026).

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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.

Ent. Value

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Equity Value

[members only]

Multiples

EV / Revenue

[members only]

EV / EBITDA

[members only]

EV / EBIT

[members only]

Historical Financials (EUR)

Year

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EBITDA

EBIT

2017

2016

Other operations with Europa Group

Other operations with Europa Group
Date	Acquirer	Target	Country	Sector
04/2024	ABENEX	EUROPA GROUP	FRANCE	Marketing & Events

Other operations with Abenex

Other operations with Abenex
Date	Acquirer	Target	Country	Sector
05/2026	ABENEX / BPIFRANCE	TETHYS	FRANCE	Electronics
04/2024	ABENEX	EUROPA GROUP	FRANCE	Marketing & Events
09/2022	ABENEX	ORIGIN GROUP	FRANCE	Valves, Pumps & Taps
07/2021	ABENEX	GROUPE LEADER INSURANCE	FRANCE	Brokerage
05/2021	ABENEX	EDL	FRANCE	Healthcare
09/2020	ABENEX	INLOG	FRANCE	Healthcare
04/2018	ABENEX	EUREKA EDUCATION	FRANCE	Education Providers
07/2011	ABENEX	VULCANIC	FRANCE	Boilers & Thermal Solutions

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Revenue range: REV €50–100M

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Target: europa group

Acquirer: abenex

FAQ

What transaction does this page cover?

This page covers the acquisition of a minority stake in Europa Group, a French company specialised in Marketing & Events, by Abenex in 2017, structured as a leveraged buyout (LBO). Ownership has since evolved, leading to a subsequent transaction with Abenex in April 2024 (see the dedicated deal page for details).

What was Europa Group’s revenue at the time of the deal?

At the time of the transaction, Europa Group’s annual revenue was estimated within the €50–100M range (FY 2017). Detailed financial figures are available to members.

How does the valuation of Europa Group compare to benchmarks in the Business Services sector?

Transaction multiples for this specific deal are exclusively reserved for mynth members. By way of comparison, in 2026 companies in the Business Services sector are valued at a multiple of 11.5x EBITDA.

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