EdRip, BPI France invest in Finsecur

The two firms have taken minority stakes, and are believed to have collectively invested €25m.

EdRip invested in the company via its Winch Capital 3 fund, which held its final close on its hard-cap of €300m in September this year. The fund, which launched in the third quarter of 2013, invests tickets of €7-25m in French SMEs.

BPI backed the business via the ETI 2020 vehicle, which is a €3bn fund that invests equity tickets of more than €10m.

Company
Founded in 1998, Finsecur is headquartered in Paris with additional bases in Belgium, the UK and Spain. The company manufactures fire safety equipment such as fire alarms and detectors.

Finsecur employs 300 staff and expects to generate €45m in turnover this year.

People
Stéphane Di Marco is the president of Finsecur. François-Xavier Mauron, Sylvain Charignon and Tanguy Tauzinat worked on the deal for EdRip, alongside Thierry Sommelet, Maxime Faguer, Stephen Fargis and Julien Holeindre for BPI France.

Advisers
Equity – Ayache Salama, David Ayache, Magda Picchetto, Bruno Erard, Gaël Chatelain (Legal, tax); Altana, Caroline André Hesse, Justine Coret (Legal); Grant Thornton, Sylvie Scelles Tavé, Nadia Aloui, Nicolas Rémy Néris, Frédéric Garnier, Nathalie Margraitte, Zakariyae El-Qotni, Guillaume Schaeffer, Emilie Descroix (Financial due diligence); Advancy, Patrick Pudduy, Sebastien Revel, Florent Chapuis (Other due diligence).
Company – Clipperton Finance, Nicolas Von Bulow, Antoine Ganancia, Caroline Landré (Corporate finance); Gide Loyrette Nouel, Karen Noël, Louis Oudot de Dainville (Legal).

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