Inflexion Private Equity Partners acquires Calco Group, a leading Dutch provider of outsourced IT recruitment and training services to large blue-chip corporates, specifically focused on the provision of junior professionals mainly to the finance and insurance sectors with customers including the main banks and the top insurance companies in the Netherlands. Calco Group, founded in 2004, has developed a MasterClass programme where new joiners are intensively trained over two months, tailored to customer specifications, and then placed at customer sites under contract. At the end of their placement the customer has the option, but not the obligation, to offer an employment contract to Calco’s employee. Calco’s customers therefore have effectively outsourced part of the recruitment and training of junior IT staff. Alongside the MasterClass programme, Calco also provides junior and experienced IT employees of MasterClass quality to clients on a temporary basis.

The Osborne Clarke deal team, acting for the Sellers, comprised of partner Cristine Brinkman, senior associate Geoffrey Beurskens and associates Guusje Cornelissen, Niels Dolk, and Michelle Pagie. EY acted as the financial advisors to the Sellers.

The Taylor Wessing deal team, acting for Inflexion, comprised of partners James Goold and Edwin de Rooy and associate Willem Thijssen. PWC acted as the financial and tax advisor to Inflexion.

The Van Doorne deal team, acting for Management, comprised of partner Onno Boerstra and associate Ellen de Kok.

BCMS acted as the corporate finance advisor to the Sellers.