About the deal

GUYOT environnement is a French family-owned group specialized in the “green business”, and especially in metal recycling and waste management. With a strong regional footprint in Brittany (14 locations and 280 environment experts), the group generated €102m of revenues in 2018 and processed 500,000 tons of waste.

Hirumet is a Spanish family-owned company based in Atxondo in the Basque Country, dedicated to the recycling of ferrous and non-ferrous scraps. This merger of two companies who share the same core business marks an historical agreement in the development of GUYOT environnement. The acquisition will most notably strengthen the commercial relations with GUYOT’s historical clients on the Iberian Peninsula, while also gaining access to a new foundry market, as well as wider international export markets. This latest international development means GUYOT environnement will manage 400,000 tons of ferrous metal per year, for a turnover of  €190m.

What we did

Capitalmind Investec assisted GUYOT environnement structuring, negotiating and coordinating this acquisition. We also reorganized its debt financing, which has been underwritten by Crédit Agricole Finistère and Banque Populaire Grand Ouest (lead arrangers), and CIC Ouest, Caisse d’Epargne Bretagne Pays de Loire and BPI France.

Capitalmind Investec has been advising GUYOT environnement in corporate finance and M&A since 2013.