AGELEC, France's leading provider of supervision and control solutions for sensitive infrastructures, joins VIDELIO, an international group specializing in audiovisual & IT solutions and services.

About Societex

Tech

  • Founded in 1959, AGELEC specializes in the design, manufacture, integration and installation of high value-added audiovisual solutions dedicated to end-users.
  • Initially positioned as an audiovisual equipment manufacturer, AGELEC today stands out as the specialist in supervision, control and visualization solutions dedicated to critical environments, meeting the constant demand for availability and security of sensitive infrastructures.
  • Since its creation, AGELEC has built up its expertise in the architecture of complex, mission-critical environments by developing its own skills to adapt to the specific constraints and operational challenges of its customers.
  • As part of the process led by Societex Corporate Finance, VIDELIO quickly emerged as a natural buyer.
  • This strategic merger will enable VIDELIO and AGELEC to strengthen their expertise, by combining their operational and commercial resources to develop a model capable of combining the best technologies in open architectures guaranteeing both security and interoperability.
  • This industrial synergy will focus in particular on the development of advanced collaborative incident management solutions, agile and robust AVoIP architectures and intelligent video walls, while meeting today’s major challenges with innovative offerings in AI, cybersecurity and augmented reality.

Client testimonial

“A big thank you to the SOCIETEX team for their support in this sale project. We would like to pay tribute to their professionalism, active listening and commitment throughout the process. Their ability to understand our challenges, anticipate the key stages and advise us rigorously and sympathetically was invaluable. A real relationship of trust was established to bring this project to a successful conclusion. Thank you to the whole team.” – Guillaume GUÉRIN & Patrice PINIEAU – General Manager & Deputy General Manager of AGELEC

Stakeholders

Sellers

  • BYZENS (Guillaume GUÉRIN), P.E.R.L (Patrice PINEAU)
  • Advisors :

oM&A advisor : SOCIETEX CF (Yoann SUZANNE, Pascal RIVIERE, Babacar NDAW-BASTIEN, Solène FRADIN)

oCorporate lawyer : Antélis (Céline ROUANET, Clara PASSERON)

Buyers

  • VIDELIO (Xavier RENAUD, Nadia FLET, Guillaume DURIEUX, David SARLABOUS)
  • Advisors :

Corporate lawyer : W-Legal (Grégory GUISSARD)

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