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London for Amsterdam for the planned IPO of the 19 billion EUR software company selected the Software Group Software Group Software Group Software Group Software Group.
The British Buyout company HG has Visma, which has been offering small to medium-sized companies with accounting and salary billing software since 2006, when the company took privately with an evaluation of around 380 million GBP.
Since then, the private equity company based in Great Britain has repeatedly invested in comma Due to his newer funds and embedded from his participations through sales to external supporters.
HG currently has around 70 percent of Visma with its co-investors, with the rest of minority shareholders, including the GIC and the US private equity group TPG in Singapore.
Visma previously considered a persecution of one IPO In 2023, however, a private share sale to investors, including Jane Street and Altaroc, decided in a transaction that the company rated 19 billion euros.
The business, which has grown 350 surveillance and last year 185 million in input tax profits of EUR 2.8 billion, recorded EUR 2.8 billion in income, may now be too great to remain completely private. HG plans to keep a share of Visma in the long term, added it.
The decision to make a list in London at the beginning of next year depends on the implementation of the promised reforms by the government and the stock exchange, which is necessary for the complications caused by Brexit.
The London stock exchange was squeezed Due to a lack of new lists and steady flow of exits from large companies that shift their main entries to New York or accept takeover offers.
Last year, 88 companies deleted or broadcast their main list from the main market in London, with only 18 taking their place. So far, there have been only three IPOs on the country’s main market this year with a combined market capitalization in the listing of less than 100 million GBP.
London has won for the Visma IPO because of its deep capital markets and the presence of more investors who concentrate exclusively on British stocks than those who only buy Dutch stocks, according to the persons familiar with the consultations.
However, they added that the implementation of planned reforms was of essential importance, for example that companies are included in FTSE indices with one euro share price.
The banks are invited to stuck the list this week, people said.
Visma and HG refused to comment.
