WAMEX Private Equity

WAMEX Private Equity Management is a private equity firm established in 1999 and headquartered in Mexico City, Mexico, with additional offices in Stuttgart and Ottobrunn, Germany. The firm specializes in middle market investments, focusing on established family-owned businesses in Mexico and Europe, primarily in the manufacturing and services sectors. WAMEX typically targets companies with annual revenues around $10 million and aims to take influential minority or majority stakes through privately owned equity or convertible debt. The firm generally invests between $10 million and $15 million per transaction, with an investment horizon of three to five years for its portfolio companies.

Luis Carrera

Partner

José Antonio Contreras

Senior Managing Partner

Hernández, Christian

Principal

Ernesto Warnholtz

Senior Partner

12 past transactions

IPS

Private Equity Round in 2021
IPS offers services such as gas delivery, water treatment service, and plant cooling in addition to the power supply. IPS improves the competitiveness of businesses in the transformation sector and removes bottlenecks in the National Electric System (SEN) using commercial schemes that are just B2B (without CFE) to assist the industrial development of Mexico.

Awen Developers

Private Equity Round in 2019
Awen Developers specializes in designing, building, operating, and commercializing wellness lifestyle real estate communities. Awen Developers is the leading company of Awen Group.

Ecofrio

Private Equity Round in 2017
Ecofrio is a company that operates a temperature-controlled distribution center. The company specializes in providing access to other roads and roads of significant logistical importance. It also specializes in climate-controlled facilities with refrigeration equipment with high efficiency and low power usage.

Productos Medix, S.A.

Private Equity Round in 2013
Productos Medix, S.A. de C.V. develops and supplies pharmaceutical products for obesity, metabolism, central nervous system.

KUA Mex Foods

Private Equity Round in 2013
KUA Mex Foods is an investment provider in food and beverage companies. The investment is made in companies of different niches strategically attractive because of the growth and consolidation opportunities of healthy food. The industry anticipates developing synergies, presenting a greater supply to the various distribution channels identified.

Hoteles City Express

Private Equity Round in 2013
City Express Hotels is a Mexican company founded in 2002 with the goal of serving a strategic market niche within the hotel industry: the economic segment of the business traveler. In 2003 they opened their first hotel under the brand City Express. A year later, the City Suites brand was born, and in 2008 they introduced the City Junior brand. Today, with more than 96 hotels and a broad presence in Mexico, City Hotels is the chain with the fastest growth in Mexico. Additionally, their chain is the first and only one in Latin America to obtain LEED (Leadership and Energy in Environmental Design) Certification, which was granted to their City Express hotel in San Luis Potosi. At all their hotels they have attained notable level environmental efficiency thanks to the implementation of a comprehensive water- and energy-savings program, emissions reductions, waste management, and care of natural resources. The high quality standards in design, construction, sustainability, and safety, combined with a team of workers with extensive careers in the industry, have made City Hotels one of the best alternative options for lodging for business travelers, and one of the best investment options for those who wish to increase their capital through a modern, innovative franchise and a leader in the business traveler market.

Hoteles City Express

Private Equity Round in 2010
City Express Hotels is a Mexican company founded in 2002 with the goal of serving a strategic market niche within the hotel industry: the economic segment of the business traveler. In 2003 they opened their first hotel under the brand City Express. A year later, the City Suites brand was born, and in 2008 they introduced the City Junior brand. Today, with more than 96 hotels and a broad presence in Mexico, City Hotels is the chain with the fastest growth in Mexico. Additionally, their chain is the first and only one in Latin America to obtain LEED (Leadership and Energy in Environmental Design) Certification, which was granted to their City Express hotel in San Luis Potosi. At all their hotels they have attained notable level environmental efficiency thanks to the implementation of a comprehensive water- and energy-savings program, emissions reductions, waste management, and care of natural resources. The high quality standards in design, construction, sustainability, and safety, combined with a team of workers with extensive careers in the industry, have made City Hotels one of the best alternative options for lodging for business travelers, and one of the best investment options for those who wish to increase their capital through a modern, innovative franchise and a leader in the business traveler market.

MediAccess

Private Equity Round in 2008
MediAccess offers healthcare administrator services.

Aladia

Private Equity Round in 2006
Aladia is a tourism company focused on the sale of accommodation, ground and air transportation packages for foreign tourists. Monterrey-based Sistemas Aéreos de México (Aladia) travel agency specializes in selling lodging, ground transportation, and air transportation packages to foreign travelers visiting Mexico.

VOIT Automotive GmbH

Private Equity Round in 2005
OIT Automotive is a multinational system supplier for the automotive industry. As a technology partner for the engineering, process development, and mass production, they focus on high-precision, customer-specific components for drive technology and driver assistance systems. The core competence is to optimize the complex product designs of his customers at an early stage and manufacture them in series with a reliable process. VOIT offers solutions from a single source: from product and process engineering to prototyping, toolmaking, large-scale production in foundries and stamping shops, surface processing, component assembly, and functional testing to just-in-time delivery of ready-to-install series parts. VOIT is already moving in the world of electrification and autonomous driving of tomorrow.

Ruhrpumpen

Private Equity Round in 2004
Ruhrpumpen is part of the group Corporación EG, which began manufacturing operations in 1979. The company started as a small machine shop with state of the art technology since day one. Through capital investments, acquisition, product development and strong focus on customer needs, the company has become a global supplier of centrifugal pumps.

Eckerle Holding

Private Equity Round in 2003
Eckerle Holding develops brush systems and EC modules and offers solutions for automotive, automation, electronics, and plastic technology.
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