Houlihan Lokey Advises Acture Group and IK Partners
Houlihan Lokey is pleased to announce that Acture Group (“Acture” or “the Group”), a leading provider of holistic employee welfare solutions, has signed a definitive agreement to be acquired by Rivean Capital (Rivean) from IK Partners (IK). Co-Founder and CEO Maudie Derks, as well as the management team, will be reinvesting alongside Rivean.
Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Nijmegen, Netherlands, Acture is a specialised outsourced service provider supporting corporates and staffing agencies in managing employee absence. The Group has an integrated approach to employee welfare, offering complementary services such as absence management and reduction, including case management and reintegration programmes, combined with an absence insurance proposition.
Acture’s heritage and long-standing experience as a pioneer in the private social security services market in the Netherlands have resulted in large amounts of valuable data being translated into innovative case management solutions supported by proprietary technology. With IK’s support since 2020, the Group completed four add-on acquisitions in the Netherlands and three in Germany to further complement its proposition and expand its geographical footprint. Acture is also currently rolling out a mental health absence management platform, Evermood, in the Netherlands and the DACH region. Through its full-service offering, Acture is well positioned to fully unburden customers who are confronted with labour market shortages and rising absenteeism costs. At present, the Group employs approximately 390 full-time employees across its offices in the Netherlands and Germany.
The Group’s ambition to reinforce its position as a leading European provider of specialised outsourced services and insurance products requires further investment in the organisation to help develop its digital offering and platform capabilities. With Rivean’s support, Acture will continue along its international growth trajectory, accelerating the execution of its strategic growth plan and transforming from a leading Dutch player in the social security market to a European total employee welfare platform.
Completion of the transaction is subject to obtaining merger clearance, AFM, and works council approval.
Houlihan Lokey served as the exclusive financial advisor to Acture and IK. This transaction further strengthens Houlihan Lokey’s leadership in the European employee benefits and insurance ecosystems, where the team has recently advised on a number of transactions.
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