Growth & Leveraged Finance deals

Vermaat

The deal

Investec acts as underwriter and bookrunner for the €520m debt package supporting Bridgepoint’s acquisition of Vermaat, a Dutch market leader in the high end catering hospitality services.

Background

Established in 1978, Vermaat is a specialist in tailor-made hospitality, providing premium outsourced catering services to a variety of markets including corporates, museums, hospitals and travel hubs. Today it operates over 350 premium food and beverage outlets across the Netherlands, including restaurants, cafés and canteens and has a growing presence in Germany.

Our role

Investec was able to deliver a significant underwrite commitment to support Bridgepoint’s bid in a timely manner.

“Investec supported us with a sizeable underwrite commitment in record time, which was greatly appreciated at a critical time of the process”

Kit Tuke, Bridgepoint

December 2019

Alexandre Neiss

Growth & Leveraged Finance

Alexandre Neiss

I joined Investec in 2013 with responsibility to originate, structure and execute financing for financial sponsors and corporate clients. In this role I focus on arranging funding for buyouts, refinancings and restructurings across the spectrum of the capital structure. I joined Investec from Deutsche Bank, where I worked in corporate finance in the Healthcare Investment Banking team. As part of this role, I was responsible for client coverage and M&A execution as well as working on debt and equity opportunities. Prior to this, I worked in the Leveraged Finance division of Royal Bank of Scotland