Greenbriar Equity Group LLC signed an agreement to acquire an unknown stake in World Freight Company from ACG Capital, Groupe IDI Mezzanine, FCPR, fund of IDI (ENXTPA:IDIP), 3i Growth Capital Fund, backed by 3i Group plc (LSE:III), and others for €130 million on February 2, 2015. Ares Management Limited and funds managed or advised by Ares Management and Avenue Capital Group provided financing for the acquisition. The financing implemented is a private unirate-type bond financing totaling €147 million.

For 2014, World Freight Company reported revenues of €1 billion. Arnaud Fromion Frédéric Guilloux, Nathalie Barzilai and Laurent Bonnet of Shearman & Sterling LLP and Stéphane Braun, Cyril d'Herbes, Charline Lesniarek and Nam Nguyen-Groza of MNKS acted as legal advisors for Ares Management and Avenue Capital. Jean Beauchataud, Gautier Elies, Doriane Salimon, Cassandre Porgès, Yaëlle Cohen and Lorène Sani of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, Paris acted as legal advisors to World Freight Company. Ira Wolfson, Jonathan Wober of Rothschild acted as the financial advisor for Greenbriar Equity. Ernst & Young acted as accountant for 3i Group, ACG Capital and Groupe IDI.