BPIFrance and Qualium Investissement completed the $113m investment in the emlyon business school.

BPIFrace and Qualium Investissement, French private equity company completed the investment of $113m in emlyon business school, a French Business School, recognized by the State. This partnership is designed to support the school in its developments worldwide and in its commitment to excellence. The transaction would be structured through a €100m equity injection over the next five years, which will be used to foster the group’s development projects. In addition, a new emlyon business school campus, to be ready in 2022 in the heart of metropolitan Lyon in the Gerland district, is being launched for €110m and is a significant component of this transaction. “In a context of unprecedented change in tertiary education and the significant constraints that have been placed on all CCIs, the heads of companies who are elected representatives of CCI Lyon Métropole have had the entrepreneurial courage, audacity and vision to create a pioneering and ambitious solution that is designed to ensure the best possible future for the school created by their predecessors in 1872,” Emmanuel Imberton, CCI Lyon Métropole Saint-Etienne Roanne President.