After the exit at the beginning of the year from the capital of RINA Spa of Naus Spa, special purpose vehicle jointly owned by VEI funds Capital and NB Renaissance which owned 27% of the capital, the Italian classification and certification society takes a board Fondo Italiano d'Investimento SGR, a fund established in 2010 on initiative of the Ministry of Economy and Finance with the aim of to support the competitiveness of the industrial system Italian and participated by CDP Equity, Intesa Sanpaolo, UniCredit, ENPAM Foundation, ENPAIA Foundation, ABI, Banco BPM and BPER Banca.

Registro Italiano Navale, the private non-profit organization that holds 70% of the capital of RINA, Fondo Italiano d'Investimento and RINA Spa have in fact signed an agreement aimed at the entry into the capital of the fund whose closing is expected next autumn and provides for its completion an injection of Capital up to €180 million in the form of equity for a distribution of the quotas that will see the Italian Naval Register keep the majority, Fondo Italiano d'Investimento and others co-investors take over a minority stake of up to 33% and the company management participate in the capital with 2.5%.

The parties specified that "the entry of Fund Italian in the capital of the multinational based in Genoa is aimed at further supporting growth, for organic and inorganic path, and to the internationalization of the group. RINA S.p.A. in the last twenty years has developed and diversified significantly worldwide always affirming plus its own brand in the reference sectors of the engineering consulting and testing, inspection & Certification (TIC)'.

Recalling that it closed 2022 with pro-forma revenues of over 700 million euros, RINA has announced that "2023 is confirming the expected growth targets of almost 800 million of euros'.

RINA Spa has been supported in this agreement by Lazard as financial advisor, by Banca Akros as co-financial advisor, PwC (financial due diligence) and Linklaters and Studio Legale Gattai, Minoli, Partners as of legal advisor. Fondo Italiano d'Investimento was supported in the operation by BCG (business due diligence), Legance (legal due diligence), New Deal Advisors (financial due diligence), Kpmg (tax due diligence), ERM (ESG due diligence), Marsh (Insurance due diligence) and E&Y Parthenon (tech due diligence).