• $5.5 Billion in Fund IX LP Commitments
• $1.1 Billion Committed Overage Capacity
• Expanded Group of Global Investors

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 25, 2019—Genstar Capital, a leading private equity firm focused on investments in targeted segments of the financial services, software, industrial technology, and healthcare industries, today announced the final closing of Genstar Capital Partners IX with $5.5 billion in limited partner commitments.  In addition, Genstar has raised committed overage capacity of $1.1 billion from select limited partners.  The General Partner and affiliated entities are the largest investor in Fund IX, with over $400 million of committed capital.  Total capital raised, including Fund IX, the General Partner, affiliated entities, and the overage capacity is approximately $7 billion.

The General Partner will continue to be led by J. Ryan Clark, Jean-Pierre L. Conte, Rob S. Rutledge, Tony J. Salewski, and Eli P. Weiss.

Ryan Clark, President and Managing Director at Genstar said, “As we build our firm to endure for the future, our focus is on our people, our portfolio leadership teams, and our investors.  All three constituencies are responsible for our continued success, and we want to thank them as we begin to invest Fund IX.”

Commenting on the fundraising, Tony Salewski, Managing Director, said, “We appreciate the tremendous support from our existing limited partners and the expansion of our base among leading global investors.  The focus of this group allowed us to move quickly to close Fund IX within 15 weeks of the fund launch.  We believe that our thesis-driven investing model of growing and building industry leading businesses will continue to deliver superior performance for our investors.”

Jean-Pierre Conte, Chairman and Managing Director, said, “We are excited to continue our long history of building a leading and sustainable investment firm.  Genstar operates with one-team from one-office and maintains the same disciplined and innovative investment approach that has helped us develop a strong track record over the past 30 years.”

The investor base includes an expanded group of limited partners, including leading global endowments and foundations, public and corporate pension plans, sovereign wealth funds, financial institutions, and family offices.  Genstar closed its previous fund, Genstar Capital Partners VIII, in 2017 with approximately $3.95 billion of total committed capital.

Over the past 12 months, Genstar invested in four new platform investments and realized proceeds in six companies.  Genstar continues to invest in and take control positions in middle market companies headquartered in North America.  Genstar has 21 members on its investment team operating from a single office in San Francisco.  They are supported by a senior operations team and complemented by a group of 26 strategic advisors, who are current and former operating executives, working side by side with the Genstar investment team.

Evercore Partners served as Placement Agent for the fund, and Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP provided legal advice.

About Genstar Capital

Genstar Capital (www.gencap.com) is a leading private equity firm that has been actively investing in high quality companies for 30 years.  Based in San Francisco, Genstar works in partnership with its management teams and its network of strategic advisors to transform its portfolio companies into industry-leading businesses. Genstar currently has approximately $17 billion of assets under management and targets investments focused on targeted segments of the financial services, software, industrial technology, and healthcare industries.

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Paris, February 14th, 2019 – Eurazeo Brands, Eurazeo’s investment division dedicated to fast growing consumer brands, has built a new team in Paris to lead the investment strategy in Europe, with the appointment of Laurent Droin as Managing Director, and Célia Nataf as Senior Associate.
Laurent Droin brings extensive consumer, retail and luxury expertise, having worked for 20 years in the industry in both corporate and advisory roles. Prior to joining Eurazeo, he spent 10 years at BNP Paribas as a Managing Director focused on mergers and acquisitions. He was most recently based in New York, where he successfully rebuilt the bank’s consumer franchise, focusing on beauty, personal care, and apparel. Previously, he spent nine years at Danone in various strategic and operational roles in France, Argentina and Russia. This brand enthusiast has been personally investing alongside successful entrepreneurs for many years.

Célia Nataf is joining the Eurazeo Brands team in Paris and will be responsible for sourcing, executing and monitoring European investments. She previously spent five years as part of Eurazeo Capital, specializing in the consumer, retail and luxury industries. She participated in the creation of Carambar & Co, a European carve-out in the branded food industry, and in the structuring and monitoring of Planet, a global tax free and payment company. Prior to Eurazeo, she worked in the mergers and acquisitions team at Barclays Capital in Paris, where she carried out assignments for investment funds and industrial players.

Eurazeo Brands’ mission is to invest a total of $800 million in high potential North American and European consumer companies with differentiated brands across a wide range of verticals including beauty, fashion, home, wellness, food and beverage, and leisure. The firm partners with visionary founders and strong management teams to drive transformational growth and accelerate value creation by leveraging Eurazeo’s unique capabilities. Investments to date include Pat McGrath Labs and Nest Fragrances. The founders of these companies selected Eurazeo Brands due to its sector and operating expertise, proven track record building brands, and extensive international reach with offices across four continents. These new appointments will enable Eurazeo Brands to be the investment partner of choice for aspirational, consumer driven companies in Europe seeking value-added capital to develop their businesses globally.

About Eurazeo
Eurazeo is a leading global investment company, with a diversified portfolio of €17 billion in assets under
management, including nearly €11 billion from third parties, invested in over 300 companies. With its
considerable private equity, venture capital, real estate, private debt and fund of funds expertise, Eurazeo
accompanies companies of all sizes, supporting their development through the commitment of its 235
professionals and by offering deep sector expertise, a gateway to global markets, and a responsible and stable
foothold for transformational growth. Its solid institutional and family shareholder base, robust financial
structure free of structural debt, and flexible investment horizon enable Eurazeo to support its companies over
the long term. Eurazeo has offices in Paris, New York, Sao Paulo, Buenos Aires, Shanghai, London,
Luxembourg, Frankfurt and Madrid.

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On 11 December 2018, Quimper AB (a company that has been or will be indirectly invested in by CVC Funds) (“Quimper”)¹, announced a public cash offer to the shareholders in Ahlsell AB (publ) (“Ahlsell” or the “Company”) to tender all their shares in Ahlsell to Quimper (the “Offer”). The offer document regarding the Offer was made public on 19 December 2018.

The shares tendered in the Offer at the end of the initial acceptance period on 11 February 2019, together with the shares already held or otherwise controlled by Quimper, and closely related parties, amount to in aggregate 403,296,725 shares in Ahlsell, corresponding to approximately 93.9 percent² of the share capital and the voting rights in Ahlsell.

Quimper hereby announces that all conditions for completion of the Offer have been fulfilled. Accordingly, the Offer is declared unconditional in all respects and Quimper will complete the acquisition of the shares tendered in the Offer. Settlement for shares tendered in the Offer during the initial acceptance period will take place in accordance with previously communicated plan, i.e. around 19 February 2019.

To provide the remaining shareholders of Ahlsell who have not tendered their shares time to accept the Offer, the acceptance period will be open beyond the end of the initial acceptance period, until 27 February 2019 at 15.00 (CET). Settlement for shares tendered in the Offer during the additional acceptance period is expected to start around 7 March 2019. Quimper reserves the right to further extend the acceptance period for the Offer.

Prior to announcement of the Offer, Quimper, and closely related parties, held in aggregate 109,578,323 shares in Ahlsell, corresponding to approximately 25.1 percent³ of the share capital and the voting rights in Ahlsell. At the end of the initial acceptance period on 11 February 2019, the Offer had been accepted by shareholders representing in total 293,718,402 shares in Ahlsell, corresponding to approximately 68.4 percent⁴ of the share capital and the voting rights in Ahlsell.

Quimper does not hold any financial instruments that give financial exposure to Ahlsell shares and has not acquired any such shares or financial instruments outside the Offer.

Quimper will initiate compulsory acquisition of the remaining shares in Ahlsell as well as promote a delisting of Ahlsell’s shares from Nasdaq Stockholm.

^{1 Quimper is a newly formed entity that has been or will be indirectly invested in by funds or vehicles (“CVC Funds”) advised by CVC Advisers Company (Luxembourg) S.à r.l. and/or its affiliates. “CVC” means CVC Advisers Company (Luxembourg) S.à r.l. and its affiliates, together with CVC Capital Partners SICAV-FIS S.A. and each of its subsidiaries.}

^{2 Based on all 436,302,187 outstanding shares in Ahlsell, excluding the 7,000,000 shares which are held by Ahlsell in treasury.}

^{3 Based on all 436,302,187 outstanding shares in Ahlsell, including the 7,000,000 shares which are held by Ahlsell in treasury.}

^{4 Based on all 436,302,187 outstanding shares in Ahlsell, excluding the 7,000,000 shares which are held by Ahlsell in treasury.}

The firm has announced that it has reached the final close of 541 millions of euros for its latest secondaries Fund, Altamar Global Secondaries IX FCR. The vehicle was launched in 2016 with a 500 millions of euros target, and has closed not far short of reaching its 550 millions of euros hard cap.

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