Investments

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  •  Groupe-La-Centrale
    Co-Investment

    Groupe La Centrale

    France

    Technology, Media and Telecom
    Technology, Media and Telecom

    Founded in 1969, as a newspaper (today only digital), Groupe La Centrale is the French #2 car marketplace, behind Leboncoin. It serves as a one-stop-shop for car dealers and prospective buyers through its portals for both used and new cars sales from car dealers, and the one for C2B used car sales to car dealers. Headquartered in Paris, it employs 200 people and 35 freelancers.

  • Imagine Learning
    Co-Investment

    Imagine Learning

    USA

    Technology, Media and Telecom
    Technology, Media and Telecom

    Founded in 2010 and headquartered in New York, Imagine Learning, formerly known as Weld North Education, is the largest provider of digital curriculum solutions to K-12 grades students in the US, serving more than 7,000 school districts. Its offering includes 300 customizable online, standards-aligned courses and curriculum for first-time credit and credit recovery, programs designed for students who require extra assistance, digital-first academic material use to provide an organized sequence of instruction and instructional services.

  • Galway Holdings logo
    Co-Investment

    Galway Holdings

    USA

    Financial services
    Financial services

    Galway Holdings is a vertically integrated property and casualty insurance and employee benefits brokerage platform formed in 2020 through the combination of EPIC Insurance (retail broker) and JenCap (wholesale broker/MGA). The company operates over 100 offices throughout the US and manages $7 billion of premium for clients.

  • Elsan
    Co-Investment

    Elsan

    France

    Healthcare & life science
    Healthcare & life science

    Elsan is the leading private hospital operator in France. Founded in 2000, Elsan has built a network of 120 facilities to which it welcomes 2 million patients per year. The group employs 25,000 people of which 6,500 practitioners work independently. The company specializes in medicine, surgery, obstetrics and other medical services (dialysis, post-acute rehabilitation, imaging and radiotherapy and home hospitalization).

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

Ardian and Arsenal both want our investments to benefit society and by working together in this case we’ve reduced the time it takes to set up a clinical trial by many months, which means new drugs come to market as quickly and safely as possible.

Steve McLean Partner of Arsenal Capital

During the due diligence phase, we identified Ardian as a future shareholder capable of making a significant contribution to Emera's development. As soon as the transaction closed, we were able to define and launch value-creating initiatives with Naxicap and Ardian, particularly in terms of group structuring, external growth, digital transformation and real estate strategy, in France but also in Spain and other European countries.

Eric Baugas CEO of EMERA