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3i is a leading international investment manager focused on mid-market Private Equity, Infrastructure and Debt Management.
The combination of our international relationships, extensive experience, on-the-ground knowledge and capital enables us to identify attractive investment opportunities.
Working in partnership, we apply our operational and financial skills to maximise returns. We invest in businesses across Europe and the US, and currently manage £13 billion of assets.
In Private Equity, we have been investing in fast growing companies for over 65 years, working with entrepreneurs, management teams and other key stakeholders to substantially enhance value by helping to make their companies the best they can be.
We have built relationships around the world with thousands of companies, experienced businesses leaders, advisers, governments and regulators and have an extensive track record of success across a range of sectors. This rich international network together with the calibre of our people delivers the insight and capability necessary to identify and partner with ambitious market-leading businesses.
We provide tailored investment solutions for a variety of situations. Access to 3i’s balance sheet capital and LP funds gives us significant flexibility in terms of both financing deals and the length of time we hold our investments.
Our focus lies on four core sectors: Business Services, Consumer, Healthcare and Industrial.
We are always looking for talented individuals to join our team- whether as interns, graduates for our 2016 intake or experienced hires.
We want people who share our values, will thrive in our culture and can help our teams across the world to succeed. Our international reach and our highly dynamic and collaborative culture make 3i an exciting place to be.
Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company, with more than 319,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Combining unparalleled experience, comprehensive capabilities across all industries and business functions, and extensive research on the world’s most successful companies, Accenture collaborates with clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments.
Strategy consulting today requires the ability to see how business, technology and operations all intersect. At Accenture Strategy, you will work closely with the world’s top organizations and leverage Accenture’s expertise in these areas to develop strategies that turn your ideas into actions. You’ll provide actionable insights to clients, helping them address priority C-suite issues with strategies they can execute with speed and at scale. Our deep understanding of our clients’ industries and our global perspective on progressive business ideas and emerging technologies enables us to drive and deliver transformational change.
You will apply your expertise in one of our three practices: Business Strategy, Technology Strategy or Operations/Function Strategy. Each area offers a unique career experience and unparalleled opportunity for you to grow and advance. Great things can happen – they already are. Come and be a part of the next level of high performance.
ACXIT Capital Partners is an independent, privately owned corporate finance firm. With almost 60 professionals and offices in Frankfurt, Berlin, Munich, Zurich, Vienna, Hong Kong as well as alliances in China and India, we are one of the leading corporate finance advisory firms for mid-market clients in Europe. Since 1998, we offer our clients comprehensive corporate finance advisory services including mergers & acquisitions, capital markets as well as restructuring and strategic advisory. Our advisory expertise is founded on an in-depth understanding of the key industries served by our company, covering both the industrial and technology sectors. We have successfully advised clients in Internet & Media, Software & IT, Mobile & Telecom, Healthcare & Pharma, Retail & Consumer Goods, and General Industries.
In February 2015, Acxit Capital Management and Corporate Finance Partners merged to form ACXIT Capital Partners. Both companies have a combined track record of more than 30 years of successful corporate finance advice with almost 300 transactions and a total volume of approx. EUR 15bn. Through our merger, our clients can benefit from a stronger expert pool, greater global reach and even stronger industry and transaction know-how.
Our clients are listed corporations, family-owned businesses and entrepreneurs, financial sponsors and family offices. While our home market is the German-speaking region, most clients are international and transactions cross border. We assist clients by starting earlier in investment decisions and corporate transactions (e.g. feasibility, de-risking, restructuring) and staying on longer (e.g. post-merger integration, transitional services).
Our senior partners have each over 20 years international investment banking experience having worked for investment banking firms in Frankfurt, London and New York as well as on transactions in most geographies. In addition, they have also held corporate leadership positions in the industry. They combine cross over skills in advisory, capital markets and investment activities.
Ranked regularly amongst the fastest growing companies in the world (Inc. 5000, Crain’s Fast 50, Sunday Times Fast Track etc.), AlphaSights is a next-generation information services firm with offices in New York, London, Dubai, and Hong Kong. We operate at the nexus between our global client base (decision-makers from private equity, hedge funds, consultancy and corporate strategy) and experienced industry practitioners who bring highly relevant insight and expertise to our clients’ decisions.
ARDIAN is an independent private investment company (formerly known as AXA Private Equity). We are managed by the team who founded the company and, since September 2013, we are majority-owned by our employees. Through the international presence with offices in Beijing, Frankfurt, Jersey, London, Luxembourg, Milan, New York, Paris, Zurich and Singapore, we offer our international investor base a wide range of private equity products: Direct Investments (Mid Market Enterprise Capital, Small Market Enterprise Capital, Venture Capital and Co-Investment), Funds of Funds, Infrastructure and Private Debt. With a total of $50bn of assets under management, we are one of the largest European private equity players.
ARDIAN’s most recent Mid Market Enterprise Capital fund (September 2013) has a size of approx. €2.8bn (including €400m co-investments commitments) and invests in majority stakes in fast-growing, profitable companies with a distinct business model across various sectors in DACH, France and Italy and an enterprise value between €200m and €1bn.
Our investment philosophy holds three values at its core: excellence, loyalty and entrepreneurship. In that spirit, we thrive to invest in a responsible way that creates enduring value, superior returns and shared benefits for investors, partners, portfolio companies and their employees. In this way, it is our overall goal to help create growth and prosperity in economies across the world.
In the last years, ARDIAN was one of the most active and successful market participants in the Pan-European buyout market and has been honoured by various awards.
Who we are
The success of AUCTUS is based on the team's professional competence, experience and eagerness to perform. All of our investment professionals have an in-depth knowledge of private equity as well as expertise in various industries. They are particularly familiar with the special requirements of medium-sized businesses in Germany.
We act according to our principles:
Partnership
We understand private equity as a business based on trust between equal partners. Consequently, we act as a long-term oriented investor and partner of the management.
Creativity
We solely offer tailor made solutions which are based on the individual situation of owners, managers and requirements of the companies.
Trust and truthfulness
Our behaviour towards our business partners is always honest and fair. They can trust our word in all phases of the collaboration. We thus achieve completion rates of more than three times the industry average.
Discretion
We treat the affairs of our partners with the strictest confidentiality. Sensitive relationships with employees, customers and suppliers remain unaffected.
Speed
We have an interest in implementing transactions as quickly and smoothly as possible. Our standardised due diligence processes as well as our internal decision making processes are structured very efficiently. Our internal investment committee enables fast decisions, which are not subject to approval reservations.
Respect for business cultures
While we search for options to realize growth potential and increase the company value through the management of the company, we always remain sensitive towards the business culture and the situation of the employees.
Independence
AUCTUS is operated independently and owned by the management. Therefore investment decisions can be made in an entrepreneurial manner, based on transparent and well-defined criteria. Our portfolio companies trust in this as much as our investors do.
AUCTUS - Facts and Figures
The company
- Founded in 2001
- Independently operated private equity firm; owned by the management
- Accredited member of the BVK (German Private Equity and Venture Capital Association)
- Winner of Small / Mid Cap Exit of the Year Award 2007
- Numerous European Awards as leading private equity company
- Market leader in the small-cap private equity segment, both with regard to team size as well as to number of transactions and returns
AUCTUS Management Team
- Team of 14 experienced investment professionals with expertise in all classic private equity segments and specific industrial knowledge
- Cumulated more than 60 years of experience in private equity and investment business
- Track-record of the AUCTUS funds encompasses more than 45 private equity transactions in the last ten years
The Funds
- Assets under Management of more than EUR 300m
- Highly reputable institutional investor and entrepreneur base
Bain & Company, founded in Boston in 1973, is a global player in management consulting. With 51 offices in 33 countries around the world, Bain & Company reaches out to its international clients with its knowledge and experience.
We deliver true results, focusing on strategic decisions and practical actions tailored to our clients' unique reality. We engage all levels of an organization from day one, building momentum and capabilities to sustain the success.
We're looking for all-rounders — independent thinkers who thrive as part of a team. The learning curve is steep, but exhilarating. Every assignment presents a new chance. At Bain, you will make a clear impact and build your own results story. You will not only grow as an individual, but also build lasting relationships with your colleagues and clients.
For the eleventh year in a row, Bain has been ranked No. 1 as the “Best Firm to Work For” in the Consulting magazine’s annual survey.
For further details regarding the recruiting process please visit www.joinbain.de.
Oliver Wyman is a global leader in management consulting. With offices in 50 cities across 25 countries, Oliver Wyman combines deep industry knowledge with specialized expertise in strategy, operations, risk management, organizational transformation and leadership development. The firm's 3,000 professionals help clients optimize their business, improve their operations and risk profile, and accelerate their organizational performance to seize the most attractive opportunities. Oliver Wyman is part of Marsh & McLennan Companies [NYSE: MMC].
Oliver Wyman Financial Services Consulting
Consultants on this track specialise in the financial services industry and become content experts early in their careers, which affords high responsibility. Financial services is one of the largest and most dynamic industries in the world. Strategic challenges in retail banking, investment banking, trading, insurance, asset management, and risk represent the largest sampling of financial services project work.
Your career is just that; yours. You choose it. You live it. You make it happen. To get the best from it, you need the best opportunities. That’s why opportunities are at the heart of a career with us. Opportunities for you to grow as an individual, to build lasting relationships and make an impact in a place where people, quality and value mean everything.
What are you seeking in your career?
Whether you’re an accomplished professional or a promising new talent, you’ll be challenged by the work, the people on your team, and the clients we serve — from rocket-fuelled start-ups to the world’s leading organisations. You’ll be constantly learning, and your ideas will be welcomed in an atmosphere of collaboration and teamwork.
Whether it’s geographical mobility, practice-area mobility — or upward mobility — we can deliver. With offices in 150 countries, and a deep practice organised around key industries and services, we have an extensive International Assignment Programme to offer you virtually unlimited opportunities. And ours is a culture that rewards merit over seniority, providing opportunities such as the PwC EPIC programme. We’re all about positive movement.
We continually encourage and support your growth. With world-class training and development programmes such as Genesis Park, as well as abundant ongoing professional learning opportunities, you will have all the room you need to grow and reach your highest potential.
Diversity and Inclusion – We’re committed to the diversity of our people and to the career advancement of women in our organisation. We’re committed to the communities where we all live and work, to the diversity of our people and are proud to be a leading CR organisation.
If you share our standards, and our values, we want to know you. Take the opportunity of a lifetime. Join PwC.
Quadriga Capital is the oldest established independent German private equity firm, specializing in the acquisition of majority shareholdings in the medium-sized companies. For more than 25 years, the team of Quadriga Capital has been supporting management teams in Germany and neighbouring countries in pursuing long-term transformation and growth strategies. Investors in Quadriga Capital funds are international institutional investors, such as pension funds and insurance companies.
Roland Berger Strategy Consultants, founded in 1967, is the only leading global consultancy of German heritage and European origin. With 2,400 employees working in 36 countries, we have successful operations in all major international markets. Our 50 offices are located in the key global business hubs.
Roland Berger advises major international industry and service companies as well as public institutions. Our services cover the entire range of management consulting from strategic advice to successful implementation: e.g. new leadership and business models; innovative processes and services; M&A, private equity and restructuring; and management support on large infrastructure projects.
Our firm is owned solely by a group of 220 Partners. We share the conviction that the firm's independence provides the basis for unbiased advice to our clients.
At Roland Berger, we combine sound analyses with creative strategies that generate real and sustainable value for the client. We develop and consolidate our expertise in global Competence Centers that focus on specific industries and functional issues. We handpick interdisciplinary teams from these Competence Centers to develop the best solutions.