SPAIN - Highgrowth forms partnership with French ICSO

Highgrowth, the management company of the private equity fund Fonsinnocat, has signed an agreement with the French fund ICSO Gestion to invest in small-to-medium sized companies in Catalonia and the south-east of France. ICSO Gestion, based in Toulouse and Burdeos, manages three private equity funds: Icso1, FIP Aquitania Pyrénées Languedoc Capital PME 2004 and Aquitania Pyrénées Languedoc FIP 2005. Later this year ICSO plans to launch SOCRI2, which will invest in technology companies.