VISEO secures a unitranche debt financing of 120M€ from BlackRock

Paris, March 1st, 2021 – CFI France is pleased to announce that it acted as financial advisor to VISEO in securing a unitranche debt financing of 120M€ from BlackRock.

Created in 2000 by Olivier Dhonte and Eric Perrier, VISEO is a French IT Services & Digital player that uses technology as a powerful lever of transformation and innovation to help its clients take advantage of digital opportunities, address new usages and compete with new players who change the rules of the game.

VISEO combines the agility and complementarity of its areas of expertise – design of new products and services, digitization of business processes, data valuation, digital assets development, Unified Commerce & Smart Factory – to make digital a real lever of competitiveness and performance.

VISEO posted more than 220M€ in revenue for 2020, of which almost one thirds is made abroad. Viseo has more than 2000 consultants in 13 countries.

This financing will be used for capital reorganization and future acquisitions.

VISEO’s shareholders hired CFI France to run a competitive process that was conducted with multiple Private Debt Funds.

VISEO showed great resilience to the COVID-19 pandemic by realizing its initial budget.

This transaction further emphasizes CFI’s leading position in the Software & IT Services sector, whichs is made up of teams in France, Benelux, Portugal, UK, ígermany and Nordic Regions.

The transaction closed on 18 January 2021.