Elaghmore Partners, a UK-focused private equity firm, has acquired Kesslers International (Kesslers), a designer and manufacturer of retail displays and merchandising for world famous brands and leading UK high street retailers. Elaghmore has bought the business from Enact which invested in Kesslers in February 2016. Founded in 1893, Kesslers
Mid-Atlantic Dental Service Holdings, operating as Mid-Atlantic Dental Partners, has secured commitments for up to USD12.5 million in growth equity led by SC Goldman and Company. Since the company’s launch in March of 2016, Mid-Atlantic Dental Partners has performed significantly ahead of its business plan, with eight existing offices, and
Mishcon de Reya’s Corporate department has advised Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Insurance, a subsidiary of Sompo Holdings, on the sale of its specialist UK insurance subsidiary Sompo Canopius to private equity firm Centerbridge Partners for USD952 million. The sale is subject to regulatory approval and is expected to close in the first quarter
Mourant Ozannes has advised CTBC Bank Co on certain senior loan facilities in connection with the USD800 million acquisition of Tricor Holdings Limited, a provider of integrated corporate services, by Trivium Investment Limited (Trivium). Trivium is ultimately controlled by global private equity firm, Permira. Completion of the transaction was
Orrick has advised Atomico, the venture capital firm founded by Skype co-founder Niklas Zennström, on their investment in the USD90 million Series B financing of Lilium. Founded in 2015, Lilium is a Bavarian developer of the world’s first fully electric vertical take-off and landing jet. The financing was led
Private investment firm Littlejohn & Co has agreed to sell Newgistics, a provider of technology-enabled parcel logistics to the e-commerce and direct-to-consumer retail industry, to Pitney Bowes (PBI) for approximately USD475 million. Since being acquired by Littlejohn in 2013, Newgistics has undergone a period of tremendous growth, including: greater than
Global alternative asset manager The Carlyle Group (NASDAQ:CG) is to acquire French insurance software vendor Prima Solutions, in partnership with its management team. The transaction is expected to close on 30 September, 2017, subject to approval from the relevant authorities. Carlyle Europe Technology Partners III, a EUR657 million Carlyle fund
Global performance improvement solutions provider GP Strategies Corporation has acquired certain assets and the business of CLS Performance Solutions Limited (CLS), an independent provider of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) end user adoption and training services in the United Kingdom. CLS will operate as part of GP Strategies’ Performance Readiness Solutions group
Funds managed by Foresight Group have provided a GBP40 million secured loan note facility for Reward Finance Group Limited. Leeds headquartered Reward is an independent lender which provides secured loans to UK-based SMEs seeking more flexible finance, more promptly than mainstream lenders can deliver. Reward’s bespoke funding solutions take multiple
UK mid-market private equity firm LDC has backed multi-disciplinary engineering consultancy Patrick Parsons with a multi-million-pound development capital investment to support the firm’s UK expansion strategy together with the acquisition of infrastructure engineering specialist THDA. Headquartered in Newcastle, Patrick Parsons has more than 250 specialist engineers and provides design services
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