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Recapitalised, the French group EDG affirms its ambitions in the digital sector

12/18/2023, 4:00:35 PM

Highlights: French digital specialist EDG has just finalised a major LBO (leveraged debt financing) transaction. After eight months of negotiations, it was the French fund Latour Capital that ended up winning against the British TowerBrook or the American Marilin Equity Partners. EDG, which likes to define itself as "halfway between a Publicis and an Accenture", promises to chase several hares at once. Cybersecurity is EDG's focus, but the group is also interested in digital advertising.


This group, co-founded by Vincent Klingbeil, aims to make around ten acquisitions per year.

The co-founder of European Digital Group (EDG), Vincent Klingbeil, has never hidden his acquisition spree. "To build our group, we have made about twenty acquisitions in just four years, in parallel with the ten or so entities we founded," the EDG director told Le Figaro. At the dawn of 2024, the French digital specialist has just finalised a major LBO (leveraged debt financing) transaction, in order to ensure its future development. After eight months of negotiations, it was the French fund Latour Capital that ended up winning against the British TowerBrook or the American Marilin Equity Partners, as recently revealed by L'Informer. Latour Capital thus acquires a 30% stake in EDG, for an estimated valuation of around €700 million.

EDG, which likes to define itself as "halfway between a Publicis and an Accenture", promises to chase several hares at once. Cybersecurity...

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