Moneypenny, the UK’s leading outsourced communications provider delivering telephone answering, live chat, switchboard and multichannel customer services, is partnering with private equity investor ECI Partners to help drive the next stage of the company’s growth. ECI’s significant investment will support Moneypenny’s ambitious plans to substantially grow its turnover by expanding
Aquila Capital is to acquire a portfolio of 21 operational small-scale hydropower plants located in Northern and Central Portugal with a total capacity of approximately 100 MW from EDP. The investment marks Aquila Capital’s first step into Portugal’s hydropower market. Aquila Capital is already active in the Iberian Peninsula’s integrated
IK Investment Partners’ (IK) IK Small Cap II Fund has completed its first transaction in the Benelux by acquiring 2Connect, a leading manufacturer of specialised cables and connectors, from the van der Put family. Financial terms of the transaction, which sees the firm’s founder reinvest alongside the fund, have
The Carlyle Group (NASDAQ: CG) has made a strategic investment in alternative investments platform iCapital Network.
Abacus Group, a provider of hosted IT solutions and application hosting for alternative investment firms, has completed the acquisition of Hedgepoint Solutions, a boutique IT consulting firm based in New York City. “Abacus Group has been doing some amazing things in the hosted IT space, growing not just throughout the
Law firm Paul Hastings has advised shareholders and re-investors of France-based Aries Alliance, a manufacturer of machine tools, titanium wing structures, and engine parts for the aerospace sector, in connection with the LBO of the group, structured by Astorg Partners, which acquired a majority stake. BNP Paribas, Banque Populaire,
Middle market private equity firm One Equity Partners (OEP) is to sell PeroxyChem, a worldwide manufacturer of peroxygen chemistries, to German Evonik Industries AG, a publicly-traded global speciality chemicals company, for USD625 million, or 10.4 times EBITDA, before synergies. The transaction is expected to be completed by mid-2019, subject to
FreeOx Biotech, a spin-out of Hospital Clinic Barcelona-IDIBAPS which is developing a new class of neuroprotective drugs, has closed its first round of funding with EUR500,000 from private investors Montserrat Esteve and Francisco Javier Alsina. The biotechnology firm has two highly promising molecules in its pipeline to treat stroke and
MEIF Maven Debt Finance, managed by Maven Capital Partners (Maven), has agreed a six-figure loan funding solution to Tienda Limited (TL), a ‘turnkey’ interior service provider. The capital will be used to finance a new contract, which runs over five years, to refit up to 700 outlets including a Building
The Calumet Wex Group, an omni-channel retail chain for photographic products and services in Europe and a subsidiary of Aurelius Equity Opportunities SE & Co, is to acquire a majority interest in Foto-Video Sauter from its managing partner Bernd Sauter. Foto-Video Sauter generates annual revenues of around EUR22 million, operates
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