{"id":143,"date":"2017-12-31T07:20:56","date_gmt":"2017-12-31T07:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalmind.eu\/deals\/sofiproteol-raises-e100m-in-equity\/"},"modified":"2020-03-16T09:39:44","modified_gmt":"2020-03-16T08:39:44","slug":"sofiproteol-raises-e100m-in-equity","status":"publish","type":"deals","link":"https:\/\/www.investec.com\/advisory\/deals\/sofiproteol-raises-e100m-in-equity\/","title":{"rendered":"Fundraising of \u20ac100m for Sofiproteol"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>What we did<\/h2>\n<p>Investec actively advised Sofiprot\u00e9ol on the deal structure, ensuring that it fit its corporate culture and the relevant regulatory constraints of the ACPR, while also offering an attractive transaction for investors.<\/p>\n<p>Investec supported Sofiproteol throughout the fundraising process: drafting the marketing and financial documentation, coordinating interactions with more than 10 different investors, driving the due diligence process, negotiating the final legal documentation and supporting deal execution up to closing on the timeline required by Sofiprot\u00e9ol.<\/p>\n<h2>About the deal<\/h2>\n<p>Sofiprot\u00e9ol, the evergreen growth and buy-out investment vehicle of the AVRIL Group, has announced the completion of a \u20ac100 million round of equity funding. This latest fund raising will provide Sofiprot\u00e9ol with additional resources to carry out its mission to support companies in the French and European Food &amp; Agro sectors, using minority stake-holdings and loans.<\/p>\n<p>Sofiprot\u00e9ol will now be able to invest up to \u20ac60 million per company (as opposed to \u20ac50 million before the operation), providing additional investment capabilities in its core targeted sectors &#8211; notably in seeds, agricultural supplies, agro-environment, animal nutrition &amp; health, genetics, ingredients, meat processing, food consumer goods, and agro-technologies.<\/p>\n<p>The additional equity has been provided by most of Sofiprot\u00e9ol\u2019s historical partners &#8211; Cr\u00e9dit Agricole, Natixis, Unigrains, Terres Univia, the French Association for Oilseed Seed Producers, the National Federation of Seed Growers, the Federation of Agricultural Traders, the French Association of Oilseed Processors, and the National Association for the Animal Feed Industry. Two French institutional investors, Ark\u00e9a and Groupama, have also joined the funding as new partners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What we did Investec actively advised Sofiprot\u00e9ol on the deal structure, ensuring that it fit its corporate culture and the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","dt":[25,23,19],"sector":[28],"dealtype":[36],"clienttype":[41],"class_list":["post-143","deals","type-deals","status-publish","hentry","dt-financial-investor-involved","dt-landmark-deal","dt-listed-party-involved","sector-food-agro","dealtype-equity-growth-capital","clienttype-corporates"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Fundraising of \u20ac100m for Sofiproteol | Investec Business Advisory<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Investec advised Sofiproteol, the buy-out investment vehicle of the AVRIL Group on 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