Augur Financial Opportunity SICAV (Luxembourg), a private equity fund specialising in investments in financial services in Europe, has acquired all shares in the German investment company Veritas Investment Trust GmbH (Frankfurt) by its German branch Augur Financial Holding Eins GmbH & Co. KG (Frankfurt). Seller, the listed Boursorama S.A. (Paris), is part of the French Société Générale Group.
Veritas was founded in 1991 and has assets under management in an amount of more than EUR 1 bn. Its successful and repeatedly decorated products are covering funds-of-funds as well as equity and debt security funds, asset allocation funds and money-market products.
Augur Capital Group was advised by:
BEITEN BURKHARDT (Frankfurt): Dr. Günther M. Bredow (project leader), Finn-Michael Liebscher, Daniel Klofat, Alexander J. Thum (all corporate), Stefan Feckl, Dr. Marcus Schwab (all banking law/investment law), Wolfgang Klövekorn, Dr. Rudolf Mikus (all tax), Nico Neumann (IP/IT), Dr. Barbara Geck (labour), Georg Philipp Cotta (competition law)
KPMG (Frankfurt): Johannes Helke, Dorothee Kron, Frank Aussendahl, Christian Birker Seller was advised by:
Clifford Chance (Frankfurt): Dr. Thomas Gasteyer, Elke Behrens-Johnson, Berndt Hess Lincoln International (Frankfurt): Richard-Benedikt Floto, Mathias Bimberg
Veritas was founded in 1991 and has assets under management in an amount of more than EUR 1 bn. Its successful and repeatedly decorated products are covering funds-of-funds as well as equity and debt security funds, asset allocation funds and money-market products.
Augur Capital Group was advised by:
BEITEN BURKHARDT (Frankfurt): Dr. Günther M. Bredow (project leader), Finn-Michael Liebscher, Daniel Klofat, Alexander J. Thum (all corporate), Stefan Feckl, Dr. Marcus Schwab (all banking law/investment law), Wolfgang Klövekorn, Dr. Rudolf Mikus (all tax), Nico Neumann (IP/IT), Dr. Barbara Geck (labour), Georg Philipp Cotta (competition law)
KPMG (Frankfurt): Johannes Helke, Dorothee Kron, Frank Aussendahl, Christian Birker Seller was advised by:
Clifford Chance (Frankfurt): Dr. Thomas Gasteyer, Elke Behrens-Johnson, Berndt Hess Lincoln International (Frankfurt): Richard-Benedikt Floto, Mathias Bimberg
