FINANCIAL AND LEGAL INFORMATION
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Business description
several acquisitions undertaken by Altran,
several acquisitions undertaken by Gfi Informatique,
monthly monitoring of the Apax France VII portfolio
companies and Albioma,
quarterlymonitoringof theportfoliocompanies held through
the Apax France VIII, Apax France IX, Apax VIII LP and Apax
IX LP funds;
iv)
valuation:
quarterly reviews of portfolio valuations;
v)
managing cash and credit lines:
optimising investments,
renegotiating overdraft facilities with a banking pool.
CO-INVESTMENT AGREEMENT
As previously indicated, on 23 April 2007, the Company signed a
co-investment agreement with Apax Partners SA. The principal
features of this agreement are detailed below.
Any change to the agreement must be authorised by a two-
thirds majority of the present or represented members of the
Supervisory Board, and based on a report from theManagement
Company.
CO-INVESTMENT AGREEMENT BETWEEN ALTAMIR
AND APAX PARTNERS SA
WhenAltamirmergedwithAmboise Investissement, theManager
of Altamir took advantage of the opportunity to formalise the
rules under which Altamir had been co-investing alongside the
funds managed by Apax Partners SA since 1996, but without
changing them fundamentally, and to codify them in a co-
investment agreement with Apax Partners SA.
This agreement, authorised by Altamir’s Supervisory Board on
23 April 2007, includes the essential terms of the co-investment
agreement that Amboise Investissement had signed with Apax
Partners SA prior to its IPO in March 2006.
Given that the Apax VII fund is 100% invested, this agreement
nowapplies only to follow-on investments in the existingportfolio
and to divestments.
It is organised around the following general principles:
On 1 July 2007, the co-investment percentages were set at 57%
for the Apax France VII fund and 43% for Altamir.
i)
Apax Partners SA agrees to invite Altamir to participate
pari
passu
, at the aforementioned percentage, in any investment
carried out by Apax France VII.
ii)
Altamir performs every divestment, whether partial or total,
that Apax Partners SA proposes. Such divestments are
realised in proportion to the respective holdings of the Apax
Partners SA funds and Altamir.
iii)
Similarly, in the event of a reinvestment, the percentages
invested by Altamir and the fund managed by Apax Partners
are the same as those of the initial investment (and not those
in effect as of the date of the reinvestment, if different).
iv)
Altamir shares expenses of any kind incurred during the
investment or the divestment (
e.g
. due diligence, legal fees
etc.) according to the samepercentages, includingwhen these
expenses pertain to projects that did not come to fruition. The
same applies to the cost of liability insurance for the directors
and corporate officers of portfolio companies proposed by
Apax Partners and to amounts claimed fromthemas personal
liability, except in the event of serious or wilful misconduct.
v)
Apax Partners SAmay inviteAltamir to acquire securities from
a fund it manages only if it will be a nominee for less than six
months or if accompanied by the necessary precautions to
ensure the independent nature of the transaction, such as an
outside investor concurrently taking at least 25% of the new
round of financing, an auction procedure or an independent
expert valuing the transaction.
This agreement went into effect on 4 June 2007, the date the
merger of Altamir andAmboise Investissement became effective.
Apax Partners SAandAltamir have also agreed, with the approval
of the latter’s Supervisory Board, that when the structure of an
initial investment becomes definitive only after a certain period,
the co-investment percentagewill be the one existing at the time
the initial investment was set. The acquisition of a block of shares
of a listed company (such as Prosodie) leading to a mandatory
takeover bid, a delisting or a syndication is an example of this.
No co-investment agreement is planned between Altamir and
ApaxPartnersMidMarketSAS, inasmuchasAltamir has subscribed
directly to the funds managed by Apax Partners MidMarket SAS.
The same applies to the relationship with Apax Partners LLP.
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APAX PARTNERS TEAMS
APAX PARTNERS FRANCE
Apax Partners has one of the largest and most experienced
private equity teams in France.
Over the last 30 years, the Apax Partners France team has
initiated, backed, monitored and sold investments in companies
during all phases of the economic cycle. It has proven its stability,
as the ten partners have an average seniority at Apax Partners of
26 years. Average seniority among the other Apax professionals
– senior principals and principals – is approximately seven years.
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ALTAMIR 2016