Private equity firm Sycamore Partners has completed its acquisition of The Jones Group, a designer and marketer of clothes and shoes, in a transaction valued at approximately USD2.2bn. "We are excited to have finalised the acquisition of The Jones Group and are confident this will be a long and successful
Maven Capital Partners has invested GBP7.5m in support of the GBP14m MBO of Rmec Ltd, a specialist mechanical and hydraulic engineering company. This is the private equity firm’s seventh oil and gas transaction over the past nine months, and takes Maven’s recent investments in energy services companies that are active
Gatehouse Bank, a wholesale Shariah-compliant investment bank based in the City of London, has completed the sale of its Rolls Royce manufacturing and logistics facility in Scotland. The total amount of the sale reached GBP55m, which yielded a profit on equity of 29.2 per cent post costs and taxes and
Private equity firm Warburg Pincus is to acquire a majority stake in mercator, a provider of software and technology-enabled outsourcing solutions to the global aviation industry, from dnata. dnata will retain a minority stake. Headquartered in Dubai, mercator helps airlines move passengers and cargo to their destinations safely and
Albert Medical Devices (AMD) has secured GBP940,000 in funding supported by the Angel CoFund, the GBP100m government and British business bank-backed fund, alongside existing investors North West Fund for Biomedical (managed by SPARK Impact) and the London Business Angels. This is the third round of funding for the Liverpool-based med-tech company,
Virtual reality (VR) games developer and publisher nDreams and Mobile app creator No Yetis Allowed have both secured funding from Mercia Fund Management (MFM), a provider of investment, accommodation and business support services across the UK. These businesses are just two of Mercia Fund Management’s growing portfolio of gaming companies
Waterton Global Resource Management has held the final closing of its flagship private equity fund, Waterton Precious Metals Fund II (Fund II), with total capital commitments of USD1.016bn. With Fund II, Waterton Global aims to continue investing in the metals and mining space. Fund II will generally target production
West Partners has closed an investment in NoteVault, a San Diego-based provider of voice-to-text-based mobile reporting solutions for the engineering and construction industry. Terms of the investment have not been disclosed. NoteVault offers construction companies a cloud-based subscription solution that enables users to post real-time notes throughout the day
Cinven has decided to roll its entire residual holding in Numericable into Altice following Altice/Numericable’s agreement to acquire SFr from Vivendi. Cinven and Altice created Numericable via a series of acquisitions through a classic “buy and build” strategy, latterly in partnership with Carlyle. Cinven (70 per cent) and Altice
Private equity firm Encore Consumer Capital has completed the sale of its portfolio company, tarte Inc, to KOSÉ Corporation, a Tokyo-based global cosmetics business with a primary focus on Asia. tarte is a natural cosmetics company based in New York. Kevin Murphy, managing director of Encore Consumer Capital, says:
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