eFront’s latest quarterly private equity data shows that LBO performance reached a 10-year high in 2017, while overall risk levels reduced and average time to liquidity improved. According to eFront, LBO funds posted their best performance in a decade in 2017, while multiples on invested capital of active private equity
Funds managed by Equistone Partners Europe (Equistone) have invested in BOAL Group, a designer and manufacturer of high-performance aluminium greenhouse roof and side-wall systems for glass and poly greenhouses. Equistone will acquire a majority stake in BOAL Group from its current CEO Ronald Boers and the founder of the business,
Clearlake Capital Group has completed fundraising for Clearlake Capital Partners V (Fund V) with over USD3.6 billion in commitments. Fund V exceeded its target and was substantially oversubscribed, reaching its hard cap. At over USD3.6 billion, Fund V is Clearlake’s largest private equity fund to date. This brings Clearlake’s total cumulative capital
Ropes & Gray has advised Ensono, a hybrid IT services provider based in the US and Europe, on its USD405 million acquisition of a hosted data centre services business from Wipro Limited. As a result of the deal, which was announced on 14 March 2018, Ensono – a portfolio company
iM Square, a European investment and development platform dedicated to asset management, has secured a new financing commitment from Eurazeo, one of its founding shareholders. Eurazeo is committed to support iM Square’s investments over the next few years and is expected to become its reference shareholder. Other founding shareholder Le
Metro Bank has provided the highly prestigious Z Hotels with GBP18 million of funding. The capital will be used by the company to acquire a five-story office building just off Trafalgar Square in central London. Branded as ‘The Urbanite Stay’, Z Hotels offers luxury hotel accommodation in prime city locations
Compass Group Equity Partners has acquired Logic PD, a designer and developer of embedded and connected devices serving the aerospace, defence, control and automation, Internet of Things (IoT), and medical/life sciences markets. Established in 1960, Logic has evolved into a leading provider of electronics manufacturing services offering a complete suite
Funds advised and managed by YFM Equity Partners (YFM), a specialist private equity fund manager, have backed an investment into Ncam Technologies Limited, a provider of innovative and leading Augmented Reality solutions for the entertainment industries. YFM’s investment comes from its two advised VCTs, British Smaller Companies VCT plc and
Mid Atlantic Capital Group, a provider of custody, brokerage, trade processing, and financial services technology is to partner with Parthenon Capital Partners, a growth-oriented private equity firm, and Waterfall Asset Management, an alternative asset manager. The transaction, which will not be consummated until applicable regulatory approvals (including an approval from
The Finance Durham Fund, established by Durham County Council and managed by Maven Capital Partners (Maven), has helped raise GBP850,000 for insurance technology start-up, Honcho Markets Ltd. The Finance Durham Fund provided GBP150,000 of the total investment with CrowdCube investors providing the remaining GBP700,000. Funds raised will be used to
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