Christian Baier

Owns, operates, and manages chain of supermarkets

Provides tour, hotel and resort & cruise services

Permira Advisers invests in middle market companies located across the globe. The firm focuses on technology, consumer, healthcare, services and climate sectors. It provides financing in the form of debt and equity for buyout and growth stage capital requirements.

BWK invests in middle market companies located in Germany. The firm focuses on a broad range of sectors and industries. It participates in growth and buyout capital requirements with an investment size of EUR 7- 30 million. It also acquires minority and majority interest.

Operates a chain of supermarkets

Manufactures and distributes polymer materials

Operates as a savings institution.

Owns and operates wholesale grocery stores

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.