Altamir - Registration Document 2016

FINANCIAL AND LEGAL INFORMATION

Business description

Agathe Heinrich (46) graduated fromToulouse Business School in 1993 andbegan her career as a credit analyst at Crédit Lyonnais in NewYork. She has held various positions in corporate banking in Paris, at Crédit Lyonnais from 1995 to 1998, then at Paribas from 1998 to 2000. Following the merger between BNP and Paribas, she joined BNP Paribas’ press service, where she was in charge of managing the group’s international media relations, with a particular focus on the corporate and investment banking, private equity and asset management. In 2004, she joined Paris-based private equity firm Apax Partners as Communications director. She joined Altamir in September 2014 as Investor Relations and Communications director. Éric Sabia (38) is a graduate of Montpellier business school and holds a BA inManagement andBusiness Administration from the University of Reading in theUnitedKingdom. He began his career in 2003 at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Luxembourg and then in Paris, where he spent five yearsworkingas aSupervisor/Auditor in the Financial Services department. He has significant experience in private equity, having spent eight years at Fondinvest Capital, a fund-of-fundsmanagement company, where he held the position of deputyCFO fromMarch 2008, andCFO fromJanuary 2013. He was appointed Chief Financial Officer of Altamir in August 2016. Maurice Tchenio (73) is Chairman of Altamir Gérance and Chairman and CEO of Apax Partners SA. He is also Chairman of theAlphaOmega Foundation. He began his career as an assistant professor of finance at HEC, before taking a position as project leader at the Paris-based Institut de Développement Industriel (IDI), an investment bank specialising in equity investments. In 1972, he founded Apax Partners with Ronald Cohen and Alan Patricof. Today, Apax Partners is a global private equity leader. From 1972 to 2010, hewas the Chairman &CEOof Apax Partners, the Group’s French arm. In 1995, he created Altamir, a listed private equity company. In 2010, he created AlphaOmega, a venturephilanthropy foundation recognised for its public interest. He is the co-founder of the AFIC (Association Française des Investisseurs pour la Croissance) and former director of EVCA (European Private Equity and Venture Capital Association). He has degrees from HEC and Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker scholar, obtaining his diploma with High Distinction. Apax Partners MidMarket SAS Apax Partners MidMarket SAS is the management company of the Apax France VIII fund raised in 2011 (€704m) and Apax France IX (currently being raised). It is also Apax Partners SA’s investment advisor. Based in Paris, it has an investment team of 22 professionals, of which seven are partners: Eddie Misrahi (Chairman), Monique Cohen, Bruno Candelier, Franck Hagège, BertrandPivin, GillesRigal andThomasdeVilleneuve. Thepartners have an average seniority at Apax of 17 years. They have in-depth knowledge of the sectors inwhich they invest andhave previously held management positions in companies or consulting firms.

This stability is strengthenedbyasystemof collectiveperformance bonuses, which align the interests of themanagement teamwith thoseof investors. In thisway, the teambenefits fromapercentage of the overall capital gain realisedby the funds, in accordancewith industry practices (see section 1.3.2). Any professional who leaves during the life of a fund loses all or part of thesebonuses, whichdo not vest until after a minimum period of time with the Company. Owned by their respective partner-executives, these two companies, Apax Partners SAandApax PartnersMidmarket SAS, whosedecision-makingbodies are independent,managedifferent funds in France. Apax Partners SA Apax Partners SA is the management company for the French private equity funds from the first fund created in 1983 (Apax CR) through to the Apax France VII fund raised in 2006. Based in Paris, Apax Partners SA has a team of five executives, three of whom are partners: Maurice Tchenio (Chairman), Martine Clavel and Patrick de Giovanni. Apax Partners SA has been Altamir’s investment advisor since its creation in 1995. Martine Clavel (67) joined Apax Partners in 1994 as a partner. A graduate of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC), she began her career at ColgatePalmolive as a productmarketing manager. After five years of experience in consumer goods, she joined American Express France where she held the position of Sales and Marketing Director, then Vice-President covering Card, Travel Agency and Travellers Cheques activities in France. In 1987, she was named president of a trade publishing house in which Apax had become a majority shareholder. She has been president of the Professional Directory Publishers industry body. After specialising for several years inmedia and communications, she is now responsible for assisting portfolio companies in the area of human resources. Patrick deGiovanni (71) joinedApax Partners in 1983 as a partner, whenthefirstfundwascreated.AgraduateofEcolePolytechnique, he began his career at Cofror, a French consultancy specialised in IT systems, before serving for four years at the Neiman group (automotiveequipment) as an internal controller. After three years in the industry surveys department of Société Générale, Mr. de Giovanni formed a partnershipwith another entrepreneur to turn around Criss, an industrial valves and fittings manufacturer. At Apax Partners, he has carried out many investments in industrial andbusiness services companies, throughall types of transactions (venture capital, growth capital, LBO). He is a former president of the AFIC (Association Française des Investisseurs pour la Croissance).

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