Ridgemont Equity Partners, a middle market private equity investor, has closed an investment in Backstage, a global platform that enables productions, brands, marketing agencies, and businesses to discover and work with creative talent. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed. “Ridgemont is focussed on identifying data, information,
Insight Venture Partners (Insight), a global venture capital and private equity firm based in New York City, has acquired the majority of Israeli Venture Capital Fund’s Genesis Partners IV (Genesis Partners) portfolio. Dr Eyal Kishon, Eddy Shalev, Jonathan Saacks and Gary Gannot of Genesis Partners will continue to serve on
LBO France has acquired a stake in Moustache Bikes, a company that specialises in designing, assembling and distributing electric bikes. The private equity firm Initiative & Finance is selling its 55 per cent stake held since 2015, and the company’s founding managers, Emmanuel Antonot and Grégory Sand, who hitherto owned
Palamon Capital Partners’ (Palamon) portfolio company Simplify Group (Simplify) is to acquire My Home Move. The businesses will be combined under the group name Simplify to become one of the largest conveyancing services business in the UK. My Home Move owners Smedvig Capital will continue to hold a significant minority
Varagon Capital Partners (Varagon) is serving as administrative agent on a senior secured credit facility to support the acquisition of Worksoft by Marlin Equity Partners. Headquartered in Dallas, TX, Worksoft is the industry’s leading continuous robotic test automation platform for enterprise packaged applications, offering a diverse ecosystem of service providers,
UBS Asset Management’s (UBS-AM) Real Estate & Private Markets (REPM), in separate transactions undertaken on behalf of clients, has disposed of two properties for a combined total of GBP77 million. The properties are at 21 Wilson Street, EC2M, and 158-164 Bishopsgate, EC2M, in the City of London. 21 Wilson
Tantalum, a specialist in connected car software and payments, has sold Tracker, its UK stolen vehicle recovery business, to CalAmp. The sale follows swiftly on Tantalum’s acquisition of Springworks, a Stockholm-based connected car software house. The sale of Tracker and Tantalum’s restructuring enables the enlarged group to deliver global connected
Souter Investments has invested in the fintech interest-free-only credit provider, DivideBuy. The investment from Souter Investments and Jon Moulton through his family office Perscitus, alongside debt funding from Shawbrook Bank and Paragon Bank, will enable DivideBuy to grow further and offer many more UK retailers access to its market leading technology. DivideBuy
Noerr has advised CEMEX, one of the world’s leading building materials companies, on the sale of its activities in Scandinavia and the Baltic states to Schwenk, a building materials group headquartered in Ulm, Germany in a EUR340 million deal. In Latvia, Schwenk is taking over, a cement production plant with
AnaCap-backed heidelpay Group, a fintech service provider in Germany, has acquired point-of-sale specialist Alpha-Cash Payment GmbH. The purchase of Alpha-Cash Payment is heidelpay Group’s second investment in 2019 following the acquisition of PayLater and collection specialist Universum Group back in late January. Alpha-Cash Payment GmbH is now the third
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