Degroux Brugère has advised TSS, a European B2B software group and subsidiary of Total Specific Solutions, on the acquisition of its subsidiary Creative Information Technology (Creative IT) from the Ardèche-based industrial and commercial weighing specialist Precia Molen.

Acquired in 2021, Creative IT is a publisher and integrator of Qubes Manufacturing Execution System (MES) software, and generated sales of €3.6 million in 2023, representing 2.1% of the Precia group’s consolidated sales.

A subsidiary of Constellation Software Inc (CSI), a global provider of vertical software companies, TSS is a group of business solution publishers and integrators with over 7,000 employees in Europe, covering some 30 vertical markets. TSS benefits from a network of nearly 1,200 B2B software publishers worldwide.

Jérémie Swiecznik, Partner in the Transactional Division, and Marguerite Galois-Boyé, Counsel, were involved in this transaction.

Toulouse-based start-up Infinite Orbits, which specializes in “clean technology in orbit” services, has just completed its first round of financing amounting to 12 million euros.

Faced with the explosion in the number of satellites launched in recent years, Infinite Orbits is developing a vision-based autonomous navigation technology that enables space assets to approach and dock with satellites running out of fuel, thereby extending their lifespan.

The financing round, led by French fund Newfund Capital, with the participation of EIC (the European Innovation Council fund), IRDI Capital Investissement and Space Founders France (the Cnes investment fund), confirms the start-up’s position as a major international player in the in-orbit services sector, and in particular enables it to scale up its new project, entitled “Endurance”. Scheduled for launch in the second half of 2026, this European satellite will be capable of carrying out space surveillance missions to ensure the sustainability of space equipment such as telecoms satellites.

Jérémie Swiecznik, Partner, and Marguerite Galois-Boyé, Counsel, were involved in this operation.