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MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS PRIVATE PLACEMENT BUY OUT

Easyvoyage supports strong European


growth with 3 acquisitions

4th February 2011 – Paris

Easyvoyage, Europe’s second largest travel portal, has strengthened


its European footprint thanks to the acquisition of 3 companies in UK
and Germany.

Financière Cambon has acted as sole financial advisor. It has been appointed by
Easyvoyage to execute its external growth strategy.

 Created in 2005 by Alex Saint, Troy Collins and Andrew Bredon,


dealchecker.co.uk has grown rapidly to become one of the UK’s most
successful online travel companies. Its website offers search engines for
flights, hotels, holiday packages and car hire. The company also provides a
weekly selection of great, hand-picked travel offers known as Real Deals -
to its one million newsletter subscribers.

 TravelJungle was created in Germany in 2001 and has been present in the
UK since 2003 and Spain since 2005. In partnership with leading OTA’s
including Ebookers, Opodo and Lastminute, this leading price comparaison
website, part of the Top 3 in Germany, reaches 1M€ turnover at its peak.

 Founded by Thomas Thollier, FSI Travel is an online agency managing 4


millions subscribers in the UK. This agency monetizing third party
subscriber databases through advertising campaigns, should make
easyvoyage able to reach 7 millions subscribers by 2013. Targeted turnover
for FSI Travel is up to 2m€ for the first year and should reach 5m€ from the
third year.

 Jean Pierre Nadir, founder and CEO of the Easyvoyage Group, said:
“We’re incredibly pleased to have made these important additions to our
business which have reinforced our leading position. Our footprint already
reaches 21 per cent of travel internet users in the world, and these new
acquisitions provide a great worldwide growth potential. Financiere Cambon
team has demonstrated a tremendous support to identify, target and
negociate the terms of these transactions
BUYER  As a result of these three acquisitions, which total just over 10 million
Easyvoyage Euros, in 2011 Easyvoyage estimates that it will generate 800 million Euros
worth of travel sales for its clients. The group covers the five main
Jean Pierre Nadir
European markets; France, UK, Germany, Spain and Italy, and has 3.4
and Hervé Lemoine million unique users per month – an average of 10 million unique users
annually. Easyvoyage also has eight million active newsletter subscribers in
FINANCIAL ADVISOR Europe, boasting the largest number of newsletter subscribers for a travel
Financière Cambon – portal in Europe. Founded in June 2000 by Jean Pierre Nadir, Easyvoyage is
a travel portal offering editorial content, price comparison, hotel reviews,
Morgann Lesné
travel deals and a community forum.
and Michael Azencot

LEGAL ADVISOR
 Morgann Lesné, Partner, Financière Cambon, « We have built a long-term
Morgan Lewis – relationship with Easyvoyage having been involved in the last two rounds of
Anne Tolila, financing. Due to the consolidation of the e-travel merchants, with likely
Keith Black mergers such as Go Voyages-Edreams-Opodo, the company was facing the
and Ed Savory challenge of accelerating its geographical reach. We are very happy to have
successfully led this first step and very excited to continue helping Easyvoyage
create a world-class company in infomediation.”

TARGETS
Dealchecker.co.uk  Easyvoyage now ranks as the second largest travel portal in Europe
FINANCIAL ADVISOR
IBIS Capital Ltd – Number Media
Number of unique
visitors (in thousands)*
Toby Ramsden
1 Tripadvisor Sites 13 165
and Graham Smith 2 Easyvoyage + Dealchecker + TravelJungle 4 083
LEGAL ADVISOR 3 Trivago Sites 2 757
4 Yahoo! Travel 2 189
Olswang LLP –
5 Routard.com 1 979
Gordon Ker, 6 Cheapflights Sites 1 835
Mark Bertram 7 Skyscanner Sites 1 722
8 Zoover Sites 1 646
and Nick Crosbie 9 Travelsupermarket.com 1 640
10 Kayak.com Network 1 432
11 MSN Travel 1 420
TravelJungle
12 Travelzoo.com 1 329
LEGAL ADVISOR 13 Voyageforum.com 1 235
Beiten Burkhardt – 14 Officiel-des-vacances.com 1 099
15 Teletextholidays.co.uk 1 039
Hans-Josef Vogel 16 Voyagermoinscher.com 913
17 About.com Travel 881
18 Paesionline 843
FSI Travel
19 Swoodoo.com 836
LEGAL ADVISOR 20 Vivado.com 790
Pierre Cottaz Cordier
* Number of visitor unique in France, UK, Germany, Spain, Italy
Source: Comscore July 2010

Contact
Financière Cambon
About Financière Cambon
Morgann Lesné - Partner Financière Cambon offers growth business and their shareholders support for their equity
mlesne@financierecambon.com transactions: disposals, fund raising, financial engineering, asset and business
transferts, acquisitions, sales of subsidiaries, valuation.
Michael Azencot - Partner
mazencot@financierecambon.com With some fifty deals completed over the past five years, Financière Cambon ranks
among the major independent mergers and acquisitions specialists in Europe.

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