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11/2022

NEOXAM acquired by EURAZEO

FRANCE Software / Industry-Specific Software / Financial Services / Banking EV 300M - 700M EUR

Context

Eurazeo, through its Small-Mid Buyout team, has entered into an agreement to invest over €100 million in NeoXam, becoming the majority shareholder alongside founder Serge Delpla and the management team led by Florent Fabre. The transaction enables the exit of historical shareholders, led by Cathay Capital and Bpifrance, who have been invested in the company since 2018, having supported its transformation and internationalization. This deal aims to support a new phase of growth for NeoXam, a leading financial software publisher specializing in data management, reporting, portfolio management, and post-trade operations solutions for asset managers, banks, and financial institutions. In recent years, the company has strengthened its international positioning and transformed its business model by significantly increasing the proportion of recurring revenues from SaaS subscriptions, which now account for the majority of its approximately €75 million revenue. The arrival of Eurazeo is expected to accelerate the group's development in its most dynamic segments, particularly Data Management and Reporting, while enhancing its presence in strategic markets such as Asia, the UK, and North America. The investor also intends to support NeoXam in executing an external growth strategy to enrich its software offerings, expand its customer base, and consolidate its position among the world's leading providers of technological solutions for asset management.

It is worth noting that the fund Cathay Capital took control of Neoxam through an LBO in 2018.

NEOXAM, which reported an EBITDA margin of LOGIN in 2021, is valued in this transaction at an EV/EBITDA multiple of LOGIN, representing a LOGIN to the average currently observed in the TMT (Tech, Media, Telecom) sector (14.4x).

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Target

NeoXam is a French financial software publisher specializing in data management, portfolio management, and transaction processing solutions for financial institutions. The company offers a comprehensive software suite that covers data management, asset management, regulatory reporting, transaction management, and back-office functions, enabling buy-side and sell-side firms to streamline their operational processes and meet increasingly complex regulatory requirements. Born out of the consolidation of several financial software assets, NeoXam has established itself as a leading international player in financial technologies. Its offering is built on integrated platforms that allow asset managers, banks, insurance companies, and other financial institutions to centralize, control, and leverage their data throughout the entire investment value chain.

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Other operations with NEOXAM

List of similar M&A transactions (Date, Acquirer, Target, Country, Sector, Deal Context)
DateAcquirerTargetCountrySectorDeal Context
05/2018CATHAY CAPITALNEOXAMFRANCESoftware

Cathay Capital and Bpifrance have entered into an agreement to acquire NeoXam from BlackFin Capital Partners, with the goal of supporting the company's next phase of growth. Following BlackFin's successful backing of NeoXam's creation and international expansion after its carve-out in 2014, the firm is now passing the torch to a new ownership structure comprising two investors who share the ambition of accelerating the financial software publisher's global growth

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Valuation range: EV 300M - 700M EUR

Revenue range: 50M - 100M EUR

EBITDA range: 5M - 25M EUR

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Target: neoxam

Acquirer: eurazeo