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  • Logo Evergreen
    Co-Investment

    Evergreen

    USA

    Business services

    Exited

    Business services

    NAIS and Evergreen are two regional industrial cleaning companies, acquired simultaneously, to create a national industrial cleaning platform that offers a one stop shop solution to its customers with best-in-class service quality. The combined entity serves a wide range of end markets including refining, petrochemical, power generation, manufacturing, mining and waste-to-energy. It provides base cleaning services as well as specialty services.

  • WCG logo
    Co-Investment

    WCG

    USA

    Healthcare & life science

    Exited

    Healthcare & life science

    WIRB is the largest US « IRBs » (Institutional Review Boards), which are federally mandated to approve ethical issues in research protocols involving human subjects.

  • Logo Kangji Medical
    Co-Investment

    Kangji Medical

    China

    Internet Software & Services
    Internet Software & Services

    Kangji Medical is a leading Chinese medical device and consumable manufacturer with focus in abdominal minimally invasive surgery. The company offers a comprehensive portfolio of reusable and disposable instruments for laparoscopy, thoracoscopy, gynecology, urology, gastroenterology and ENT specialties.

  • Logo Mirion
    Co-Investment

    Mirion

    USA

    Healthcare & life science

    Exited

    Healthcare & life science

    Mirion-Canberra group is a global provider of radiation detection, measurement, analysis and monitoring products to the nuclear, home security & defence, and medical markets. The group derives most of its revenues from segments where it holds global #1 market positions: radiation monitoring systems, radiochemistry and health physics. It operates 18 industrial sites and employs ~ 2,000 people.

  • Logo Sequens
    Co-Investment

    Seqens

    France

    Industrials
    Industrials

    Seqens is a producer of essential chemicals for use in everyday products. The group is structured across 3 divisions: Pharmaceutical & Cosmetics, Performance Chemicals and Mineral Specialties. Seqens is an industry leader across a wide range of products including aspirin, paracetamol, salicylic acid, para-aminophenol, soda ash, sodium bicarbonate, phenol and oxygenated solvents. It targets a set of five resilient and diversified end-markets including pharma & healthcare, food & feed, cosmetics, flavors & fragrances, home care and environment. Seqens serves 750 customers from 14 industrial sites located in Europe and Asia, and employs ~1,600 people.

The Ardian team brought a deep sector knowledge, which I think allowed them not only to do a terrific job in that due diligence period, but also meant they could work very efficiently within our deal time frame.

Doug Brody KKR Capital Market