After 60 editions of EFIC News Briefing, ‘we change to remain the same.’ In future, we will still publish our round-up of FIC news, but it will be a bigger edition and produced quarterly.
Our Q3 2025, sixty-first edition tracks recent news concerning European FICs, featuring 40 from Italy, Germany, Belgium, Norway, Switzerland, Sweden, France, Denmark, UK, Finland, The Netherlands, Estonia, Bermuda and Poland.
FICs were not lazing on the beach all summer; there was plenty of transaction activity. Acquisitions were made in hotels, consulting, wholesale, healthcare, real estate and OEM. Investments were made, directly by FICs as well as their investment arms and in-house funds, in F&B, biotech, wastewater, automotive, batteries, data centre, software, professional services, medtech, logistics and geothermal. Two FICs used transactions to enter new geographic markets – Japan and Canada.
As ever, transaction traffic was not all one way. There were exits, whole companies as well as minority stakes, in retail, financial services, automotive, aquaculture and software. Two FICs issued new bonds and another announced the launch of a new real estate fund which will seek third party investors.
A host of first half reports were published, mostly self-described as ‘solid.’ Some posting record results, others level pegging, most with notes of caution about the future.
In business news, one FIC’s heritage business will IPO while another’s, long a public company, welcomed a minority investment from another family. A JV is to invest in new and existing forests and a new AI company was launched. A family announced a new FIC after merging two of its existing ones.
Finally, in people news, two FICs brought in external, non-family chairs, two promoted long-standing executives to senior roles (CEO and CFO), and another CEO announced his retirement.
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