March 23, 2017
Talde Private Equity, the main shareholder of Biopolis through its vehicle Talde Promotion and Development, SCR, with an accumulated experience of 40 years in the Spanish private equity market, has sold the entirety of its stake to the North American multinational group ADM. The other strategic partners of Biopolis, CAPSA (Corporación Alimentaria Peñasanta) and Naturex, have also joined this operation, which has allowed ADM to take control of the company with a 90% interest. The Superior Council for Scientific Research (CSIC), which gave rise to Biopolis as a spin-off, maintains its minority stake in the company.
BIOPOLIS, S.L. is an innovative company offering RDI products and services with high added value. The company has been consolidating itself as a benchmark in the Spanish biotechnology industry with a multidisciplinary team of highly qualified personnel with proven experience in the fields of biochemistry, molecular biology, fermentation process scaling, genetics, chemical engineering, microbiology, nutrition, and technology food.
Biopolis is a success story for both the Spanish scientific industry, thanks to its ability to create projects of true innovation and added value, and its shareholders.
Montalban Atlas Capital and Cuatrecasas have acted as financial and legal advisors in the transaction for the sellers.
About Talde
Talde, which celebrated its 40th anniversary last year, is a private group pioneering in private equity management in Spain. Founded in 1976, the group has taken part in over 150 investment projects, where it has given support in both their initial steps and their consolidation and expansion phase, in industrial and services sectors. Since November 2015, it has had two vehicles in the investment phase: the traditional vehicle, Talde Promoción y Desarrollo, SCR, and the new fund, Talde Capital Crecimiento, FCR, with joint resources exceeding €120 million.
The Grupo Talde portfolio includes companies such as: Rotecna (design, production and marketing of plastic products mainly applied to farm equipment in the pork sector), Deltalab (manufacturing and marketing of laboratory consumables), Ñaming (processing and distribution of fresh and ready-to-eat foods) Retineo (restoration of buildings and unique monuments), and Residencias Nostem (operation and management of two residences and two day centers). The most recent divestments include those made in Palacios Alimentación, Noa Visual Group, Neo Group (telecommunications services) or Grupo BC, recently given the award for the best Expansion Capital operation of 2015 by the Spanish Association of Capital, Growth and Investment.
About Archer Daniels Midland (ADM)
For more than a century, Archer Daniels Midland Company (NYSE: ADM) has transformed crops into products that serve the vital needs of a growing world. Today, ADM is one of the world's largest agricultural processors and food ingredient providers, with approximately 32,000 employees serving customers in more than 160 countries. With a global value chain that includes approximately 500 crop procurement locations, 250 ingredient manufacturing facilities, 38 innovation centers and the world's premier crop transportation network, ADM connects the harvest to the home, making products for food, animal feed, industrial and energy uses. Learn more at www.adm.com<http://www.adm.com>.