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PRIVACCESS XV – EURO TECH 7

a preferred access to Keensight Nova VII

Private Equity opportunity

Let’s introduce Keensight Capital 


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Keensight Capital is a leading private equity firm, specialised in growth buyouts within the technology and healthcare sectors in Europe. Founded in 1997, Keensight Capital is widely recognised for its deep sector expertise and disciplined approach.

Over the past 25 years, Keensight Capital has managed 6 funds in this strategy, and built a strong track record by focusing exclusively on profitable companies.

With a stable investment team of more than 100 professionals, led by 3 managing partners who have been with the firm since its creation, Keensight Capital combines the agility of a mid-market specialist with the operational resources of a larger private equity firm.

Their deep sector knowledge and key operational support enables portfolio companies to scale effectively.

 



2 key sectors of expertise with niche sub-sectors

Over the last 14 years, Tech and Healthcare have outperformed*

Technology and Healthcare are two of the most dynamic and resilient sectors in the global economy driven by strong macro trends.

Firstly, the increasing adoption of digital tools, the massive investment in cybersecurity and the rise of artificial intelligence, are creating interesting investment opportunities in the tech sector.

Secondly, healthcare is an attractive sector for investors, benefiting from secular tailwinds and innovations in medtech, biopharma and healthcare services.



Keensight Capital: a 25 years track record in Growth Buyout, focusing on profitable European mid-market companies

 

Since 1997, Keensight Capital has invested more than €3 billion across 72 companies, showcasing the scope and depth of their expertise.

Since inception, the companies sold by Keensight have generated an impressive performance, with a gross return of 3.4x1,2 the invested amount, a gross IRR of 39%1,2 and a zero-loss ratio3 in the growth buyout space.

Keensight Nova VII will continue to apply rigorous investment criteria, focusing on companies that combine rapid growth with profitability and international expansion.

Keensight’s performance team’s proactive support provides operational and strategic added value to portfolio companies, resulting in an average 5-year annual growth rate of 18%, with an average operating margin of 25%.

Key figures
  1. As at 31 December 2024. Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future performance. No guarantee is given on the success, profitability, return or benefit of this investment. 
  2. All realized deals since inception (1997) in Pre-IPO European Fund (“Fund I”, 1997 vintage), R Capital Technologies (“Fund II”, 2002), R Capital III (“Fund III”, 2010), Keensight IV (“Fund IV”, 2014), Keensight V (“Fund V”, 2019), and Keensight Nova VI (“Fund VI”, 2022). 
  3. 0% Loss ratio on all realized growth buyout investments since inception (excludes VC deals in Pre-IPO European Fund (“Fund I”, 1997 vintage) and R Capital Technologies (“Fund II”, 2002 vintage)). 

Source : Keensight Capital as at 31 December 2024.

 



Private Equity remains a great opportunity

Diversification

Private Equity provides diversification in a portfolio, aiming for high returns to compensate for illiquidity and a long-term maturity. In addition it continues to outperform* stock markets over the long term during different economic cycles.

Good Momentum

Periods of economic downturn are usually good entry points for Private Equity funds to capitalize on attractive entry valuations.

Attractive returns*

Leading Private Equity managers are well equipped to seize attractive opportunities and implement growth strategies based on operational efficiency  and the ability to adapt to complex and uncertain environments.

* Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future performance.
 


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Established presence in an attractive market segment1

  • Keensight Capital is a renowned GP in Europe in Tech and Healthcare.
  • Investing in European mid-market companies for 20+ years.

Experienced & Cohesive Team

  • Stable and international team of 110+, dedicated to growth buyouts 
  • 20+ years average partner experience

Systematic, proactive, and differentiated deal sourcing approach

  • Deal Sourcing: 2/3 Proprietary 
    • Proven and proactive deal sourcing approach 
    • Deep sector networks 
  • Active ownership: 
    • Hands on approach to growth 
    • Driving key operational and strategic decisions

Deep Sector Expetise

  • Expertise and specialisation in 2 key sectors - Technology & Healthcare - resulting in: 
    • Outstanding access to proprietary deals 
    • Better position to support portfolio companies post-investment 
    • Edge over potential competitors

Disciplined investment criteria, with Focus on profitable growth1

  • 6 Investment Criteria: 
    1. Revenue range: €20-400m 
    2. Profitable & Cash-flow   
    3. Positive 10% min Growth 
    4. Located in Western Europe 
    5. Internationally Competitive 
    6. Attractive to Strategic Buyers
  • Average 18% Sales CAGR1 and 25% EBITDA margin1 in Funds III, IV, V & VI.

Strong and Consistent Track Record1

  • Over the last 24 years, the Team invested in 72 companies and completed 51 exits. 
  • 3.4x Gross MOIC1 and 39% IRR1 on realized investments, across market cycles.

Source: BNP Paribas Wealth Management & Keensight Capital – Q1 2025

1. As of 31 December 2024. Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future performances. No guarantee is given on the success, profitability, return or benefit of this investment. Gross IRRs do not reflect management fees, carried interest, taxes, and other expenses related to the transaction costs which will reduce investor returns.

 


 

Introducing BNP Paribas Wealth Management Private Equity Senior Management

Claire Roborel de Climens

Global Head of Private and Alternative Investments · BNP Paribas Wealth Management

 

Since joining BNP Paribas Wealth Management in 2004, Claire Roborel de Climens has set up the Private Equity Group. In 2010 she was also nominated Head of Real Estate. In 2015, she became Head of the Private and Alternative Investments department, adding the Hedge Funds, Strategic-A (asset allocation service), Philanthropy Advisory and AgriFrance activities to her scope of responsibility.

Claire sits on the board of Global General Partner, the AIFM manager of Private Assets feeder funds, as well as on the Advisory Boards of various international Private Equity, Infrastructure and Real Estate funds.

Prior to joining BNP Paribas Wealth Management, Claire worked ten years for PAI Partners, a leading pan-European Private Equity firm, as a manager in the Finance Department, Investor Relations activities and then as an investor in the General Industrials sector where she was involved in many LBO transactions.

She started her career as an auditor at Ernst & Young where she worked for six years for large industrial groups and Private Equity funds. Claire Roborel de Climens is a graduate of the EMLyon business school.



To learn more about this opportunity

DISCLAMER

This document is communicated by the Wealth Management métier of BNP PARIBAS SA a French limited liability company with share capital of EUR 2,261,621,342 whose registered office is located at 16 boulevard des Italiens 75009 Paris, France, registered with the Paris Trade and Companies Registry under number 662 042 449, supervised and authorised as a Bank by the European Central Bank ("ECB") and in France by the French Autorité de Contrôle Prudentiel et de Résolution (“ACPR”) and regulated by the French Autorité des Marchés Financiers (“AMF”) (hereinafter BNP Paribas).​

Keensight Nova VII No.2 SCSp is a special limited partnership (Société en Commandite Spéciale) formed under the laws of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and qualified as an alternative investment fund pursuant to the Directive 2011/61/EU on the alternative investment fund managers (the “AIFM Directive”) and to the Luxembourg Law of 12 July 2013 on alternative investment fund managers as amended (the “AIFM Law”) (the “Master Fund”). Its General Partner is Keensight Nova VII GP S.à.r.l. a Luxembourg private limited liability company (Société à responsabilité limitée). It is managed by Keensight Capital, a French company regulated by the French AMF (Autorité des Marchés Financiers) the French financial authority, appointed to act as the Master Fund’s alternative investment fund manager pursuant to the AIFM Directive and to its French transposition. ​

PrivAccess XV – Euro Tech 7 is a compartment of PrivAccess XV SICAV-RAIF SCA (hereinafter “Feeder Fund“) a Luxembourg investment company with variable capital, structured under the form of a Multi-Compartment Reserved Alternative Investment Fund, registered as a corporate partnership limited by shares, notified to the CSSF. It is managed by its general partner: PrivAccess General Partner S.à r.l. and Global General Partner SA, which is an Alternative Investment Fund Manager authorised by the Luxembourg CSSF, has been appointed to manage the Feeder Fund. ​

This material is confidential and intended solely for the use of the person to whom it has been delivered and must not be distributed, published or reproduced, in whole or in part nor may it be quoted or referred to in any document without the prior consent of BNP Paribas. This document is provided solely for the purpose of providing general information and shall not constitute an offer, a solicitation or an investment advice nor shall it form the basis of or be relied upon in connection with any subscription or commitment. In addition, this document and its content shall not in any way be construed as an advertisement, inducement or recommendation of any kind or form whatsoever. For the purposes herein, “BNP Paribas” means BNP PARIBAS SA and its respective affiliates and related corporations.​

Although the information provided herein may have been obtained from published or unpublished sources considered to be reliable, and while all reasonable care has been taken in the preparation of this document, BNP Paribas does not make any representation or warranty, express or implied, as to its accuracy or completeness and does not accept responsibility for any inaccuracy, error or omission nor any liability for the use of or reliance on this document or any part of the information contained herein. Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future performance. BNP Paribas is not giving any warranties, guarantee or representation as to the expected or projected success, profitability, return, performance, result, effect, consequence or benefit (either legal, regulatory, tax, financial accounting or otherwise) of any security.​

Prior to making any commitment, the investor should take advice from his legal, tax and financial advisors. Subscribers should be in a position to fully understand the features of the subscription and be financially able to bear a loss of their investment and be willing to accept such risk. Save as otherwise expressly agreed in writing, BNP Paribas is not acting as financial adviser of, or in any fiduciary capacity to, the subscriber in any subscription. ​

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This document contains only a summary of certain sustainability related aspects of the Feeder Fund and is not purported to be complete nor does it constitute an offer to invest in the Feeder Fund. It is not intended to be complete and will be qualified in its entirety by reference to the Issuing Document, which should be read in its entirety, in particular as regards the pre-contractual disclosure obligations under the SFDR, including how applicable sustainability risk factors are integrated into the decision-making process and their impact on returns. The descriptions or terms regarding sustainability-related aspects of the Feeder Fund in the Issuing Document shall prevail. See SFDR Sustainability-Related Disclosures (i) in the Issuing Document which has been communicated to you before your potential commitment into the Feeder Fund and which will remain available after your commitment into the Feeder Fund on the page https://services-uk.sungarddx.com/LogOn/128060, and (ii) in the Website SFDR Sustainability-related Disclosures and its Summaries which are available before your potential commitment into the Feeder Fund on pages: https://wealthmanagement.bnpparibas/content/dam/no-index-prod/ggp/Website_Sustainability-Related_Disclosures.pdf and https://wealthmanagement.bnpparibas/content/dam/no-index-prod/ggp/Summary-Website_Sustainability-Related_Disclosures_FR-IT-DE-SP-NL.pdf which will remain available after your commitment into the Feeder Fund on the page https://services-uk.sungarddx.com/LogOn/1280600

Any document containing additional information concerning the Feeder Fund and in particular the Issuing Document, the annual reports (which are made available to the investors on a regulatory basis after its investment in the Feeder Fund), the subscription document and the Master Fund documentation are available in English upon request from your relationship manager and from

PrivAccess General Partner S.à r.l. (contact details below). If you want more information, especially on the structure of the Feeder Fund and the risks associated with an investment in this Feeder Fund, we advise you to read these documents. ​ PrivAccess General Partner S.à r.l. – 50, avenue J.F. Kennedy,​

L-1855 Luxembourg – Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg​

contact@ggp.bnpparibas.com – 00 352 4242 2000​

The summary of investor rights is available on the public page https://wealthmanagement.bnpparibas/lu/en/global-general-partner/Summary-of-investors-rights.html. ​

An investment in the Feeder Fund should be conditioned upon the previous reading and understanding of its Issuing Document and its Subscription Agreement, which are available in English only, and – in relation to the offer to non-professional investors in Italy, Germany, Belgium and Luxembourg - its KIDs, which are available in the relevant language; such documents describe the rights and obligations of the investors. Therefore, prospective subscribers should not rely on any other information not contained in such Issuing Document, Subscription Agreement and Key Information Document (KID).​

Under no circumstances will the Feeder Fund, PrivAccess General Partner S.a.r.l, Global General Partner SA, BNP Paribas, the Master Fund, Keensight Nova VII GP S.à.r.l. and Keensight Capital pay or reimburse any current or future taxation in the subscribers’ country of origin, residence or domiciliation or wherever subsequent to the subscription, holding, conversion, sale or liquidation of ordinary shares in the Feeder Fund. The subscriber will be responsible for such payment or reimbursement.​

No measures have been nor will be taken in any country or territory for the purposes of allowing a public offering of the investment described in this document, or the holding or distribution of any document relating to this investment. These ordinary shares are not recommended by any federal or state securities commission or any other regulatory authority. Furthermore, the foregoing authorities have not confirmed the accuracy or determined the adequacy of this document. BNP Paribas, PrivAccess General Partner S.à r.l, Global General Partner SA, Keensight Nova VII GP S.à.r.l. and Keensight Capital entities are separate legal entities and none of them is representing or acting as an agent for the other.​

Global General Partner SA and/or PrivAccess General Partner S.a.r.l. may decide at any time to terminate the arrangements made for the marketing of the Feeder Fund. This document is not for distribution to US Persons and US Persons are not eligible to apply to become Shareholders in the Feeder Fund. The ordinary shares of the Feeder Fund will be offered and sold only outside the United States to persons who are not US Persons, in reliance on Regulation S.

The Feeder Fund has been notified, under the relevant provisions of the AIFMD, for marketing in Italy towards professional investors (as defined in Italy pursuant to art. 6, parr. 2-quinquies and 2-sexies, of the Legislative Decree n. 58/1998 as amended – “TUF” - and its implementing measures) and other categories of investors as identified pursuant to art. 14. 2 of the regulation implementing art. 39 of TUF adopted by the Italian Treasury with Decree n. 30 of 5 March 2015, as amended by Decree n. 19 of 13 January 2022 (and, in particular, pursuant to art. 14.2.b), to non professional investors who – within the context of the provision of investment advisory services – subscribe for or acquire shares of the Feeder Fund for an initial amount not lower than 100,000 Euros (initial amount not lower than 100,000 Euros for this Feeder Fund) (always provided that, by effect of such subscription or acquisition, the total amount of their investments in reserved AIFs does not exceed 10% of their financial portfolio; the initial participation amount is not fractionable). ​

In relation to the offer to non-professional investors in Italy – the Key Information Document (KID) in Italian of the Feeder Fund have been communicated to you before your potential commitment into the Feeder Fund (and in particular through dedicated URLs) and will remain available after your commitment into the Feeder Fund on the page https://services-uk.sungarddx.com/LogOn/128060 and the information on “Facilities available to retail investors” (both in English and in Italian) are available or on the public page https://wealthmanagement.bnpparibas/lu/en/global-general-partner/Information-about-the-facilities-Italy.html​

In relation to the offer to potential investors in Belgium - the ordinary shares in the Feeder Fund may only be offered in Belgium (i) under the AIFM’s passport to “professional investors” (within the meaning of the AIFM Directive), or (ii) in reliance of the private placement conditions as set forth in article 5, §1 of the Belgian law of 19 April 2014 on alternative collective investment undertakings and their managers (the “Belgian AIFM Law”). By way of private placement, the ordinary shares in the Feeder Fund may only be offered, sold, resold or otherwise transferred, directly or indirectly, in Belgium to “professional clients” and eligible counterparties within the meaning of Directive 2014/65/EU, as well as retail investors who will each invest a minimum amount of at least EUR 100,000 (or the equivalent in another currency) each and per ordinary share class, provided that higher requirements in terms of minimum commitment for the subscription of ordinary shares in the Feeder Fund are provided for in the Feeder Fund’s Issuing Document. ​

This document may not be used in connection with an offer or sale of securities in Belgium unless permitted by law.​ This document is made available to you in Belgium on the condition and with your express declaration that (i) you are a “professional investor” within the meaning of the AIFM Directive, or (ii) you are a “professional client” or an eligible counterparty within the meaning of Directive 2014/65/EU, or (iii) you are not a “professional investor” within the meaning of the AIFM Directive or a “professional client” or an eligible counterparty within the meaning of Directive 2014/65/EU and you will invest a minimum amount of EUR 100,000 (or the equivalent in another currency) per ordinary share class, provided that higher requirements in terms of minimum commitment for the subscription of the ordinary shares in the Feeder Fund are provided for in the Feeder Fund’s Issuing Document.​

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More globally and in relation to the offer to non-professional investors in Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg and Italy, the Key Information Documents (KID) written in French, Flemish, German, Italian and English have been communicated to you before your potential commitment into the Feeder Fund (and in particular through dedicated URLs) and will remain available after your commitment into the Feeder Fund on the page https://services-uk.sungarddx.com/LogOn/128060

The Issuing Document of the Feeder Fund is also available for investors only on the same page https://services-uk.sungarddx.com/LogOn/128060.

By accepting this documentation, the subscriber agrees to be bound by the foregoing limitations.​

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