FOCUS ANGUS Ardian Buyout makes its first North American deal Thibault Basquin, David Neuberger, Head of Americas CEO of ANGUS Investments, Ardian Buyout Agreement to invest in specialty chemicals that fitted our investment criteria and strategy. company ANGUS demonstrates the value of We have a lot of experience in healthcare and Ardian’s strong international networks specialty chemicals in Europe, and we heard very positive things about David and his management Thibault Basquin: ANGUS is our first North Americanteam, so we started work immediately. Luckily, our acquisition for the Buyout group and it’s a deal ofdiscussions began before the pandemic so we could size, which makes it doubly important. After we setmeet in person and visit their factories in the US and up our US team in 2018, ANGUS quickly came Germany, but when we saw how they performed on to our radar as a tier-one potential opportunitythrough the crisis we were even more convinced. 58 INVESTMENT ACTIVITIES