Like anyone living and working in Brussels, we were horrified by the terrible attacks on our city in March. Our thoughts are with the victims and their families. Luckily, none of the Kartesia’s team members nor their families were affected by these attacks.

Coralie De Maesschalck, Head of Portfolio & ESG at Kartesia, is following the online classes recently launched by the UN PRI.

Already a part of EDS’s debt pool, Kartesia became the major lender of the company in December 2015, after purchasing roughly €45 million of senior debt and €27m of subordinated debt from two banks.

In January 2016, team members of the Kartesia Luxembourg and Brussels offices collected school supplies and toys for the benefit of 100 seropositive children and orphans from AIDS in Bonoua (Ivory Coast) in collaboration with the Belgian non-profit organisation Dance4Children.

Invited by the law firm Luther to speak at Munich M&A Forum, Markus Geiger and Thomas Pöhler presented Kartesia’s latest primary transactions. Sausalitos, Kufner and SWATYCOMET were showcased to an audience of private equity advisors and corporate and M&A bankers from the Munich area.

The next KCO III Advisory Committee is scheduled for April 22nd 2016. It will take place at Kartesia’s offices in Brussels. The Kartesia 2016 Annual Information Meeting will be held on October 18th at Cercle de Lorraine (Brussels). Upcoming KCO III quarterly reports will be released in June, September and December 2016.