///// Key strengths and values
Our key strengths:
Flexibility in arranging transactions:
- Our philosophy consists of tailoring our approach to the specific needs of each company, its shareholders and the entrepreneur’s development plan. Depending on the project, we may therefore invest a majority or minority stake, either with or without leverage.
- We have extensive experience of partnerships with other shareholders (families, founders and trade investors) or consortiums with other financial investors.
- We are also strongly familiar with carrying out complex transactions, such as spin-offs or carve-outs.
A highly experienced team endowed with complementary skills, underpinned by the followings:
- The seniority of team members:
> Each partner has more than 20 years' private equity experience,
> each investment directors have developed an extensive breadth of expertise through their hands-on experience of growth capital and buyout transactions; - A diverse range of professional backgrounds: private equity, strategic consulting, mergers & acquisitions, financial audit, and investment and financing banking in France and abroad;
- Sector expertise, notably healthcare and retail;
- A sizeable network of contacts steadily enriched through the deals managed by the team.
Two major institutions support:
Owing to its history, NiXEN benefits from close ties with two key institutions players, AXA Private Equity and Natixis.
Our values:
- We aim to foster long-term partnerships with entrepreneurs, based on mutual cooperation and trust.
- We are committed to social responsibility and sustainable development – a major requirement for most economic and social institutions.
- We have signed the charter published by AFIC (French private equity association) and we are also a member of AFIC’s Sustainable Development Club.