Société Française d'Eoliennes (France) - Jan 2008

Platina Finance has exited its 25% share in Société Française d’Eoliennes, with the sale of the company to Sogernia. Lazard was appointed by Platina and other investors to organise the auction process which saw around 20 offers being placed for Société Française d’Eoliennes. The deal with Sogernia was based on the valuation of the company at around €350m which would see Platina recoup more than €86m from their initial investment in 2003.

Company

Société Française d’Eoliennes has built up a 115MW windfarm portfolio and controls a development portfolio of around 850MW. In spring 2007 the company acquired a portfolio of hydroelectric plants from Umweltkontor which Platina assisted with a mezzanine bridge financing of €15m.

People

Alexandre Labouret worked on the deal for Platina Finance.

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