Profile

  • iXEN (formerly Natexis Industrie) has been supporting dynamic companies with an enterprise value between €40 and 300 million since its establishment in 1998.
  • With €800 million under management, iXEN invests €10 to 80 million of equity capital in leading companies. iXEN is involved in management buy-outs and buy-ins (MBOs/MBIs), leveraged build-ups, owner buy-outs (OBOs), and public to private deals.
  • iXEN is an active partner to its portfolio companies and draws on a strong industrial culture to develop a close partnership with the management team based on trust, motivation and a dynamic approach. iXEN supports the company in its business plan and shares the same goals as the managers and employees, who always have a significant financial interest in the company's value creation.
  • iXEN organizes the financial and legal structure of the deal and arranges the financing required (equity capital, senior debt, mezzanine debt).
  • iXEN's sponsor is Natixis Private Equity, the Natixis group's private equity arm. iXEN also draws on the opportunities offered by Natixis Private Equity's international network in Europe, China and Brazil to provide its partners companies with new business horizons.

iXEN at a glance:

  • €400 million invested to date
  • 90% in MBOs, MBIs and OBOs
  • 20% in international deals
  • €10 to 80 million investments