PAI Partners
AUM : $ 13.1 billion
PAI Partners is a private equity firm specializing in leveraged buyouts, buyins, and mature companies transactions.
The firm seeks to make controlling investments in leveraged buyouts acquiring majority stakes in mid to large size companies.
The firm is particularly focused on investing in consolidating sectors and in markets where growth can be sustained through economic and financial market cycles. It typically invests in medium to large size public or private companies headquartered in Europe, France, Spain, Italy, United Kingdom, Benelux countries, Germany, and Scandinavian countries.
The firm prefers to make control equity investments with transaction values in excess of €300 million ($398 million) in which it carries out capital investments ranging between €100 million ($132.6 million) and €300 million ($398 million). It seeks to invest in companies having enterprise values between €300 million ($434.67 million) and €1500 million ($2173.04 million). It is a long-term investor with a holding period of its investments generally between four and six years.
PAI Partners was founded in 1993 and is based in Paris, France with additional offices across Europe and North America.
Areas of expertise
The firm typically invests in following sectors: food and consumer goods; business services; capital goods; general industrials; healthcare; and retail and distribution. Within the services sector, it focuses its investment activity on the consumer retail industry; professional distribution; building materials, contracting, construction and activities; media; energy sector; electronics, information technology; telecoms sectors; and the business services and industrials. The firm’s consumer goods investments cover the food industry; consumer goods, transport, pharmaceuticals; chemistry/new materials, industrial automations, healthcare; hospitality; financial services and real estate.
For its investments in the capital goods and general industrials sector, it focuses on automotive; aeronautic; paper and packaging; electrical appliances; specialty chemicals sectors, household equipment including heating, air-conditioning, and security; other capital goods; building materials; equipment and advanced materials sectors.
