Dubai, June 3rd, 2025
The advisor teams of SAXUM GLOBAL, Norton Rose Fulbright, Amsterdam and DMZ Legal have advised Carlyle Europe Technology Partners(„Carlyle„) in connection with a strategic growth investment in SurePay B.V., a European leader in payment verification software. The investment was made in close partnership with Rabobank’s investment arm Rabo Investments. The parties have agreed not to disclose specifics of the transaction.
Founded within Rabobank in 2016 and headquartered in the Netherlands, SurePay is a leading provider of payment verification technology solutions to financial institutions and corporates across Europe and the UK. The company reduces fraudulent and misdirected payments through its trusted real-time IBAN-name check, Confirmation-of-Payee (CoP), Verification-of-Payee (VOP), and Fraud Risk Indicator (FRI) products, supporting 200+ banks and 750+ corporate customers. Once implemented, SurePay reduces impersonation scams by 81% and erroneous payments by 67% on average. To date, SurePay has processed more than 10 billion payment checks, playing a critical role in helping clients improve payment accuracy, prevent fraud, address continuously evolving regulatory and compliance demands, and optimise operational efficiencies.
Backed by Carlyle and Rabo Investments, SurePay plans to further expand its suite of payment verification and fraud prevention solutions and broaden its geographic presence across Europe and beyond, with a continued focus on delivering highly reliable services to its blue-chip customers.
Carlyle is investing through its CETP V fund, a €3.2 billion vehicle focused on growth-stage technology businesses across Europe. The CETP team has extensive experience in scaling European financial technology and Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) software platforms, with notable investments including FRS Global, ITRS, Calastone, VWD, and Trema.
The advisory teams of SAXUM GLOBAL, Norton Rose Fulbright and DMZ Legal, which specialize in Corporate Development Transactions with a focus on Private Equity and Venture Capital, have again advised Carlyle on the Transaction Services aspects and structuring of the transaction as well as on the full scope Dutch legal and tax aspects of the deal.
Advisors to Carlyle:
SAXUM GLOBAL, Dubai, Norton Rose Fulbright, Amsterdam, DMZ Legal, Germany:
Holger Scheer, Saskia Blokland & Joeri Noteborn (joint Team Lead – Private Equity / Venture Capital), Anika Seidenfaden, Jan de Witt (both M&A/PE), Geert-Jan van Rijthoven, Iris Heins, Stefanie Walthaus (all Corporate), Carlo van Haasteren (Employment), Dr. Jochen Deister (Data Protection and Regulatory), Marit van den Elshout, Ademir Sehomerovic (Regulatory), Jasper Geerdes, Jasper Geerdes, Tilly Berkhout (both IT/IP), Bart Le Blanc (Tax).
Advisors to the Sellers:
Florent (The Netherlands): Robert-Jan Dekkers, Claire Overduijn (both team lead – Corporate M&A)
Contact:
Holger Scheer – SAXUM GLOBAL Tel: +971 54 578 5620 hs@saxumglobal.com | Saskia Blokland – Norton Rose Fulbright Tel: +31 61090 9828 jsaskia.blokland@nortonrosefulbright.com |
About SAXUM GLOBAL:
SAXUM GLOBAL is an IT based and globally operating Transaction Services Platform of professional service providers, consisting of Corporate Finance advisors, Legal, Financial and Tax advisors as well as IT-specialists who are specialized in all sorts of Corporate Development Transactions.
For more than 25 years our teams have processed hundreds of strategic M&A transactions, Private Equity and Venture Capital transactions, growth and leveraged financings as well as distressed transactions, both on the sale and buyside. We use cutting-edge cloud-based technology to build and coordinate tailor‑made teams for our customers’ projects and ongoing portfolio services.
Being able to add to ourplatformany professional suitable for or desired by our customers, we accept no compromises in quality or resources. We use our platform technology to support our customers with high end professional or corporate development services, such as: M&A and corporate finance services, IT analysis and integration services, financial advisory, legal advisory in all relevant areas, tax advisory and structuring, due diligence support and integration.
Our client portfolio comprises leading international Private Equity and Venture Capital Funds, enterprises from various industry sectors with a focus on IT driven or platform based business models, Family Offices and High Potential Individuals.
About Norton Rose Fulbright:
Norton Rose Fulbright is one of world’s leading law firms and provides a full scope of legal services to the world’s preeminent corporations and financial institutions. The global law firm has more than 3,000 lawyers advising clients across more than 50 locations worldwide, including London, Houston, New York, Toronto, Mexico City, Hong Kong, Sydney and Johannesburg, covering Europe, the United States, Canada, Latin America, Asia, Australia, Africa and the Middle East.
With its global business principles of quality, unity and integrity, Norton Rose Fulbright is recognized for its client service in key industries, including financial institutions; energy, infrastructure and resources; technology; transport; life sciences and healthcare; and consumer markets.