Levine Leichtman Capital Partners (LLCP), a Los Angeles-based private equity firm, has partnered with management to acquire Tropical Smoothie Cafe. Tropical Smoothie Cafe is a leading franchisor of fast casual cafes with over 870 units across 44 states. The Company inspires a healthier lifestyle by serving better-for-you smoothies, wraps, sandwiches, and
Renatus Capital Partners, an investor in Irish SMEs, has agreed to make a significant minority investment in CRS Mobile Cold Storage to support the business’s growth plans.First founded in 1992, CRS is today led by brothers John Tyrrell (Managing Director) and Patrick Tyrrell (Technical Director). The business is a market
AppyWay, a kerbside management and smart parking technology firm, has launched a GBP20 million Series B funding round, which will be used to support organic growth of the platform, strategic acquisitions, further technological investment and international scalability.AppyWay is helping to difitalise and integrate what is a highly fragmented, but high
Mid-market private equity investor LDC has invested more than GBP 17million into Beekman Associates, a developer and provider of the data-driven marketing procurement platform RightSpend. The deal will help the management team to drive organic growth, further develop its software as a service (SaaS) offering and continue to expand into new
Faegre Drinker has advised EPAM Systems, a provider of digital platform engineering and software development services, on its acquisition of Ricston Ltd, expanding EPAM’s global Application Programming Interface (API) practice and salesforce capabilities. This was the second international acquisition on which Faegre Drinker’s London office has advised EPAM. Ricston, which has
Funds advised by Warburg Pincus, have reached an agreement to invest in Infoniqa, a supplier of HR software and service solutions in DACH countries, alongside existing investors Elvaston and Infoniqa management.Infoniqa, founded in 1988 in Austria, is a software and services solutions specialist across all areas of administrative and strategic
By Sergey Sheshuryak, Adams Street Partners – To gain a perspective on the private equity market in Europe in the second half of 2020, we start by looking back to the seemingly distant past of 2019 – before pandemic-related shutdowns, social distancing, central bank stimulus plans, and Zoom meetings.
By Richard Beresford, partner and chairman of McCarthy Denning – Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs) have been grabbing the headlines recently in the US, with record amounts being raised for these so-called “blank-cheque” companies: over USD27.5 billion so far this year, including the USD4 billion garnered by Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square Tontine
Mezzanine Management has sold its significant minority stake in MBL Group, a European manufacturer of medical mobility devices it has backed for nearly four years, in a sale to INVL Baltic Sea Growth Fund. This is the seventh successful exit for Mezzanine Management’s AMC Funds in the last 12 months.
Intercontinental Exchange, an operator of global exchanges and clearing houses and provider of mortgage technology, data and listing services, has received regulatory approval for, and completed, its USD11 billion acquisition of Ellie Mae from leading private equity firm Thoma Bravo.“We are excited to begin the next important chapter in our
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