Private equity firm IK Investment Partners’ (IK) IK VII Fund is to sell Transnorm Group (Transnorm), a provider of automation technology used in parcel, distribution and e-commerce warehouses, to Honeywell International (Honeywell) for approximately EUR425 million. Founded in 1957, Transnorm has grown to become a global market leader for high-performance
Owlstone Medical, a global diagnostics company developing a breathalyser for applications in early disease detection and precision medicine, has completed a USD50 million financing round to drive the global commercialisation of its Breath Biopsy platform. The round brings the total raised by the company to circa USD73 million since founding
Piper, a specialist investor in consumer branded businesses, has led a GBP15 million investment into Bloom & Wild, the online flower gifting brand that is disrupting Europe’s GBP14 billion fresh cut flower market. Founded in 2013 by Aron Gelbard and Ben Stanway, Bloom & Wild has transformed the online flower
Inverleith, a specialist consumer brands investor, has taken a majority stake in Planet Organic, the London health and wellbeing supermarket, food-to-go chain and online retailer. Inverleith has injected equity into the Company to expand the existing store footprint in London, to more than double the current portfolio of stores
Forbion, a European life science venture capital firm, has held the final close of its new flagship fund, Forbion IV. The oversubscribed fund closed at EUR360 million in capital commitments, significantly above its original target of EUR250 million. Forbion IV, like its predecessor fund, Forbion III, will primarily focus on
AnaCap Financial Partners (AnaCap), a specialist European financial services private equity firm, has acquired EUR225m of Italian NPLs in two separate portfolios. A EUR141 million NPL secured portfolio was acquired from Volksbank, primarily comprised of SME loans. The majority of the portfolio is backed by property in Northern Italy. In
BGF has exited its minority investment in NewVoiceMedia, the market-leading cloud customer contact platform, to NYSE-listed communications provider Vonage Holdings Corp for USD350 million. BGF invested in the London-headquartered business in 2015, joining a round of funding to accelerate NewVoiceMedia’s international growth plans, which was principally focussed on the North
Piper, a UK specialist investor in consumer brands, has exited its investment in Orlebar Brown, the luxury swim and resort-wear brand, to Chanel SA. The terms of the transaction have not been disclosed. Founded in 2007 by Adam Brown and former business partner Julia Simpson-Orlebar, Orlebar Brown pioneered the
Ultimus Fund Solutions is the latest firm to join the The North American Fund Administration Association (NAFAA), a representative group for the alternative investment fund administration industry. “With the recent acquisition of Woodfield Fund Administration, Ultimus has broadened its mutual fund administration services to include alternative investment funds and we
After obtaining the necessary regulatory authorisations, Unigrains, the agri-food and agro-industry investor, has completed the acquisition of Mecatherm, a specialist in industrial baking equipment, from Wendel. Olivier Sergent, President of Mecatherm, says: “We are delighted to begin this new, ambitious development phase with Unigrains. This partnership will enable us to
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