Vallis Capital Partners

Vallis Capital Partners, SGPS, S.A. is a private equity firm based in Porto, Portugal, with an additional office in Luxembourg City. Founded in 2010, the firm specializes in management buy-outs, growth capital, and consolidation investments, primarily targeting middle market companies in Spain and Portugal. Vallis Capital Partners focuses on sectors such as food, health, water, waste, energy, and industrial machinery, among others. The firm typically makes equity investments ranging from €5 million to €15 million in companies with revenues between €5 million and €50 million. Vallis Capital Partners is committed to socially responsible investing and takes a proactive ownership approach, often acquiring majority voting rights or significant influence over the governance of its portfolio companies. Its strategy emphasizes long-term value creation and alignment with the interests of its Limited Partners, supported by a robust management team and best practices in governance.

João Paulo Bessa

Investment Manager

Luís Santos Carvalho

Founding Partner

Luis Palma da Graca

Founding Partner

Natalia Malysheva

Investment Manager

Luís Mendes

Partner

Nuno Ramos

Associate

Eduardo Rocha

Founder, Chief Executive Officer, Partner & Chairman

Francisco Seixas

Junior Analyst

Luís Soares

Investment Manager

9 past transactions

Raclac Sa

Acquisition in 2016
RACLAC SA specializes in development, manufacture, commercialization, and export of disposable products for the health, industry, and esthetics area. It offers aprons, bibs, caps, coveralls, dermocosmetics, disposable gloves, examination miscellaneous, masks, non surgical gowns, shoe covers, spa miscellaneous, surgical gloves, and surgical gowns. The company’s products are used in hospitals, clinics, and others; food, pharmaceutical, and mechanical industries; in the field of esthetics, such as spas, beauty centers, and among others; and nursing homes, day care centers, and laboratories. RACLAC SA was founded in 2007 and is based in Vila Nova De Famalicão, Portugal.

DoctorGummy

Private Equity Round in 2016
DoctorGummy Europe, Lda., established in 2014 and headquartered in Porto, Portugal, specializes in the production and sale of gummy sweets. The company focuses on creating healthy options, offering sugar-free, gluten-free, and dairy/lactose-free jelly sweets. DoctorGummy distributes its products through various channels, including distributors, resellers, and online platforms, catering to customers around the globe.

Castelbel Porto

Acquisition in 2016
Castelbel Porto production and retailing of soaps and other fragranced luxury products, such as candles, drawer liners and sachets, fragrance diffusers and room sprays, fragranced hand creams, shower gels and body lotions, carrying the renowned brands

Vortal

Private Equity Round in 2015
Vortal is a leading G2B2B (Government to Business to Business) eMarketplace operator, serving more than 50,000 companies and 2,000 contracting authorities in 3 continents. The company was founded in 2000 with a mission “to help our clients buying better and selling more", to achieve superior performance” in a high performance collaborative cloud-based solution. Vortal supports its customers through its offices in Portugal, Spain, UK and the Czech Republic , with a team of highly-motivated people from 7 nationalities. Business foundation has been built on becoming the leader in Portugal, both in the Private and Public markets regarding electronic procurement. Since 2010, Vortal has been consecutively distinguished as one of "100 best companies to work in Portugal", in a survey carried out by “Accenture" and "Exame" magazine. In 2011, the Association of Electronic Commerce and Interactive Advertising distinguished Vortal as the "Best B2B e-commerce website". At an International level, Vortal was included in the Deloitte “Technology fast growing 500 EMEA ranking” and recognized by Gartner regarding expertise and capabilities, namely in the publications “Strategies for Public-Sector Investment in Procurement Applications" and "Cool Vendors in Procurement Applications".

Imperial

Acquisition in 2015
Imperial is the producer and holds renowned brands such as "Jubileu", "Regina", "Pantagruel" and "Pintarolas".

CGC Genetics

Private Equity Round in 2014
CGC Genetics medical genetics services with great technological capacity in Clinical Genomics, Molecular Diagnostics, Cytogenetics, Prenatal Screening and Pathology.

32 Senses, S.A.

Private Equity Round in 2013
32 Senses carries an investment strategy aimed at the establishment of a leader in the Portuguese dental care industry, through a wide consolidation play, in a market featuring extremely high fragmentation – mainly driven by family-run business – with attractive growth rates and sustained margins. Accordingly, overall investment includes the acquisition of approx. 150 dental clinics and the roll-out of another 30 greenfield clinics up to 2016.

Smile.up SGPS SA

Acquisition in 2013
Smile.up SGPS SA is a nation-wide network of dental clinics with a comprehensive and segmented offering, including Dental Implants, Orthodontics?, Restorative dentistry? and General dentistry.

Solana fruits

Acquisition in 2012
Hubel Agrícola is dedicated to hydroponic production of red berries (raspberry and strawberry) in greenhouses.