Squire Patton Boggs has advised environmental private equity firm Oraxys on its investment in VAM WaterTech, as lead investor alongside Swen Capital Partners and VAM Water Tech’s Managing Director Hans Blaak.
The team advising Oraxys was led by Corporate partners Selma Baouch in Amsterdam, assisted by Vivan IJzerman and Jurriaan Puijpe, and Maxime Dequesne in Paris.
ORAXYS is a European private equity firm financing buyout transactions and accelerating expansion. It specializes in investing in profitable SMEs that market products or services with a positive contribution to the environment, public health or resource efficiency.
VAM WaterTech is a Dutch SME developing, producing and servicing water re-use technology for the agri-food sector. Founded in 1995 in Zeeland in the Netherlands by Eduard van Antwerpen, who exits the company through this transaction, VAM WaterTech designs, develops and manufactures modular water purification and recycling equipment. The technology enables the company’s clients, fruit and vegetable processors and fresh packers, to fully re-use their washing water in the same process. With a presence in the Benelux countries and German and Swiss markets, VAM WaterTech will look to accelerate international growth, in both Europe and North America.
