International legal practice Osborne Clarke has advised Calco Group, a leading Dutch provider of outsourced IT recruitment and training services to large blue-chip corporates, on its sale to Inflexion Private Equity Partners.
Calco Group specifically focuses on the provision of junior professionals mainly to the finance and insurance sectors with customers including the main banks and the top insurance companies in the Netherlands.
The group, founded in 2004, has developed a MasterClass programme which effectively outsources part of the recruitment and training of junior IT staff. As part of the programme new joiners have intensive training over two months, which is tailored to customer specifications, they are then placed at customer sites under contract. At the end of their placement the customer has the option, but not the obligation, to offer an employment contract to Calco’s employee.
Alongside the MasterClass programme, Calco also provides junior and experienced IT employees of MasterClass quality to clients on a temporary basis.
The Osborne Clarke that advised on the matter was led by Partner Cristine Brinkman, who was supported by Senior Associate Geoffrey Beurskens and Associates Guusje Cornelissen, Niels Dolk, and Michelle Pagie.
