• Sogetrel designs, deploys, upgrades and maintains voice/data/image networks in France for a range of customers including fixed and mobile telephone operators, cable operators, equipment manufacturers, major public corporations, public sector bodies (proprietary networks linking groups of hospitals, for example) and public service agencies (providing broadband facilities for the French regions in 2003).

• Chairman : Xavier Vignon
• http://www.sogetrel.com
• Nature of the deal: Secondary LBO
• Date of initial investment: March 2006

• Capzanine decided to invest in this secondary LBO on the strength of its prior knowledge of the management team and the track record of Sogetrel, the French leader in the expanding telecoms network market.