Sebastian Mertes

Permira is an active, contrarian manager which utilizes their partnership culture to work closely with investee management teams, aiming to create value by combining extensive geographic coverage with deep vertical sector knowledge. The firm's funds seek to invest in companies with transaction sizes of €500 million or more and typically seek to take majority or significant minority stakes in their investee companies. Permira employs a three-tiered investment sourcing strategy, seeking transactions sourced through sector focus, local networks and opportunistic identification of unique situations for value creation. They specialize in the chemicals, consumer, industrial products & services and technology, media & telecoms sectors, investing in a variety of transaction types including financial acquisitions, LBOs, LBIs, public-to-private transactions, turnarounds and growth buy-outs. In addition, the Permira Funds actively seek situations where a path to value creation can be identified, such as by divesting non-core assets, developing family businesses, driving organic business growth, operationally improving underperforming assets and acquisition-driven sector consolidation.