Livingbridge, one of the UK’s leading mid-market private equity investors, has invested in World of Books Group (Wob), a UK online re-seller of second-hand books. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, Wob is a re-commerce business operating within the books sector, committed to acting as a force for
Global investment firm KKR is to acquire Global Infrastructure Partners’ (GIP) entire interest in Highway Concessions One (HC1) and seven highway assets with a total length of 487 kilometres. HC1 is a platform in India that manages GIP’s road portfolio which spans across seven states including Gujarat, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh,
Tesseract Holdings Limited (THL), a subsidiary of the Aquila European Renewables Income Fund (AERIF), has successfully completed the acquisition of a 50 per cent interest in the unlevered Portuguese solar project Ourique. Ourique is located in Alentejo, Portugal, and has an installed capacity of c60 MWp. The solar farm started
Fysios, the largest private physiotherapy company in Finland, will become part of Mehiläinen through a share transaction signed on 1 July 2021. The strong development of Fysios’s operations will continue in the future. The aim of the acquisition is to develop operating models that renew the industry and emphasise the
Private equity firm American Securities’ opportunistic credit business, Ascribe Capital, has merged with Birch Grove Capital (BGC), a credit asset management business. The combined entity, which will be named AS Birch Grove, manages approximately USD5 billion in assets across an opportunistic hedge fund, private credit vehicles, and par credit and
Rwanda Finance Limited (RFL) and the East Africa Venture Capital Association (EAVCA) have formed a new partnership to enable private investment in Africa through their respective mandates. The partnership between RFL and EAVCA will provide a platform for Rwanda to increase its attractiveness and competitiveness as a business and financial
Waystone, a provider of institutional governance, risk and compliance services to the asset management industry, has secured significant investment from Montagu Private Equity, a European private equity firm, to accelerate its global growth strategy. The investment represents a significant opportunity for Waystone to build upon its current expansion plans
IK Investment Partners-backed LINXIS Group, a provider of specialised equipment for the food and health industries, has acquired Bakon, a specialist in food processing and bakery equipment from managers and current investor Rabo Investments. Bakon’s activity complements the “Portion Process” division of LINXIS, represented today by the company Unifiller, and
An affiliate of HIG Capital (HIG) has successfully completed the sale of Bigsal, an animal nutrition company in the north region of Brazil, to Trouw Nutrition, a subsidiary of the Nutreco Group, a leader in the sector. Over the last five years, HIG partnered with Bigsal’s management to invest in
A record number of refinancings and recapitalisations have been completed in the first quarter of 2021 in the UK, according to research from global investment bank GCA Altium. The firm’s ‘MidCapMonitor’ report, which analyses debt transactions across several major European markets, found that 71 deals were completed in the UK
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