Altamir SCA

Altamir SCA, formerly known as Altamir Amboise, is a private equity investment arm of Amboise SAS, specializing in both direct and fund of fund investments, small and mid-cap companies. In direct investing, the firm specializes in middle market, buyout and growth capital investments. The firm prefers to invest in high-growth companies, diversified by size and geography. The firm prefers to invest in under-developed divisions of larger corporations. It prefers to invest in private equity funds specializing in growth capital and leverage buyouts investments from Europe, United States and Canada. The firm typically invests in the following sectors like commercial services and supplies, industrial, technology, telco, healthcare services, commercial, professional services, consumer durables and apparel, TMT, digital companies, consumer services, education services, hotel, restaurants, leisure, retail and distribution. It also invests in retail and consumer, business and financial services. In financial services firm seeks to invest in specialized finance, multi-sector holding, diversified financial services. In healthcare, it seeks to focus on companies with strong growth potential in areas such as health services (hospitalization structures, home health care and medical analysis); medical devices; in niche pharmaceutical laboratories; and companies in related activities such as dermo-cosmetics, galenic development, and services and databases for health organizations. The firm seeks to invest in unlisted companies based in Europe, with a particular focus on Belgium, France, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Monaco, Italy, Netherlands, Germany and French-speaking Europe; United States and Canada and in larger emerging markets such as China, India and Brazil. In small and mid-cap companies firm prefers to invest in Continental Europe with a focus in France, Italy and Benelux, & larger size companies in Europe, North America and emerging countries like China, India and Brazil. In small and mid-cap size companies it prefers to invest with enterprise value between €50 million ($55.36 million) and €500 million ($553.6 million) and in larger size companies it prefers to invest with enterprise value between €500 million ($553.60 million) and €3000 million ($3321.62 million). It invests in funds that seek to have a majority stake in its investments or be a lead shareholder. The firm seeks to exit its investments within five years. It makes balance sheet investments. Altamir SCA was founded in 1995 and is based in Paris, France.