Sale of NEOCENTER OUEST to ETIX EVERYWHERE Group

Paris, October 15, 2018 – TwinL, specialized in Acquisitions, Evaluations, Financial Engineering and Business Disposals, announces the sale of  NEOCENTER OUEST to the ETIX EVERYWHERE group.

Mandated by the 3 founders, shareholders and managers of NEOCENTER OUEST, a company created in 2010 under the name HITS DATACENTER, TwinL has just concluded successfully, for a transaction amount that will remain confidential, this transaction of sale to the ETIX EVERYWHERE Group, known in France as a manufacturer of datacenters, particularly on behalf of Bull, before focusing on the operation of colocation datacenters.

NEOCENTER OUEST has built and operates two datacenters in the western region, one in Saint-Herblain (Nantes) and the other in La Roche-sur-Yon. With more than 150 loyal customers and a turnover of 3.6 million euros in 2017, Neocenter has conquered the 1st place in the market of «neutral» datacenters of this large and particularly dynamic western region. Initially called Hits Datacenter, the company was called NEOCENTER OUEST for 6 years following the entry into capital in 2013 up to 35% of the operator Neo Telecom then bought by Zayo who had preferred to exit the capital in 2017.

With the acquisition of 100% of the shares of NEOCENTER OUEST, now called ETIX EVERYWHERE OUEST, the group is now the undisputed leader in the Pays de la Loire-Vendée region with four datacenters in operation and a fifth in project.

One of the 3 co-founders, Fabien Richard joins ETIX EVERYWHERE as General Manager France.

For the ETIX EVERYWHERE Group, a start-up created in 2012 in the Grand-Duché du Luxembourg, its international headquarters, its ambitions are not limited to the West region, nor even to France. With 5 French datacenters, and six datacenters abroad (Belgium, Iceland, Sweden and Morocco), ETIX EVERYWHERE aims to build an international network of colocation datacenters. Five new units are expected to be delivered in the coming months to Ghana, Brazil and Colombia. And a dozen other projects are already ready to start.

To finance this strategy, ETIX EVERYWHERE raised €15 million during a round table in 2015 with the investment funds InfraVia (France) and Tiger Infrastructure Partners (US) and since May 2018, the Japanese fund SBI Crypto Investment, which takes 41% of the ETIX EVERYWHERE Group via a capital increase.

The TwinL team was responsible for the overall management of the divestiture process: for this mission, TwinL first approached the main market players in France and Europe before completing the discussions and negotiation of agreements with the selected Group until closing in less than 12 months.