Press release
Paris, 5th September 2019
Digilinx, maison mère des BigBoss, lève 18M€ auprès de Montefiore Investment Levine Keszler conseille Montefiore Investment
Montefiore Investment is acquiring a majority stake in Digilinx, a company specialising in BtoB lead generation through events, in order to accelerate its development and enable it to become a European leader in BtoB events.
Founded by Hervé Bloch in 2011, Digilinx will now have the resources to match its ambitions and ensure strong organic and external growth.
Since its creation, Digilinx, which increased its sales by a factor of 12 between 2013 and 2018, has developed a resolutely innovative concept of business networking. The BigBoss format is based on a business-oriented approach and informal networking that is highly conducive to exchanges. The 80 events held brought together 2,500 decision-makers with projects and nearly 300 service providers, generating over €90m in business volume. Initially focused on the digital sphere, the format is now being extended to other key corporate functions: Human Resources, Finance & Management, Purchasing, Communications & Marketing, Information Systems, Data, Customer Experience, Legal, Real Estate, etc.
Levine Keszler advised Montefiore Investment on this transaction.
Counsel to Montefiore:
Levine Keszler (corporate: Serge Levine, partner, Pierre Plettener and Rebecca Zbili; financing: Aude Manzo-Keszler, partner): legal audit, structuring and contractual, corporate and financing aspects of the transaction
Mayer Brown (Benjamin Homo, partner, Sarah Rahmoun): tax audit, structuring and tax aspects of the transaction
Forward Management (Olivier Vialle): strategic audit
D’Ornano & Associés (Raphaëlle d’Ornano, Adrien d’Hauthuille): financial audit
Digilinx’s advisors:
Benjamin Garçon: contractual and corporate aspects of the transaction
Victoria Advisory (Samuel Bokobza): M&A advice
