Eaton Partners, a placement agent and advisory firm and wholly owned subsidiary of Stifel Financial Corp, has served as lead placement agent for PA Direct Credit Opportunities Fund II (PADCOF II), which held a final close of approximately USD740 million. The fund, part of the Portfolio Advisors direct investing platform,
Alterity Investments, advised by MMX Retail, has sold 12/15 High Street in Winchester for GBP15.825 million. The property is situated on the prime retail pitch of Winchester’s High Street and comprises three integrated buildings forming a single department store offering 50,612 sq ft of retail space across five floors.
Maven Capital Partners has completed the GBP6 million management buy-out of ProspectSoft to support the roll-out of the new cloud-based SaaS software – Prospect365. ProspectSoft provides customer relationship management (CRM) and e-commerce software for the business-to-business (B2B) market. Its technology can be fully integrated with clients’ existing accounting and
Align Capital Partners’ platform company Alliance Source Testing (AST) has acquired the stack testing operations of Golden Specialty, a provider of source emission (or stack) testing services to industrial facilities in the western US. Partnering with AST will allow the combined company to deepen customer relationships through greater proximity to
Law firm Howard Kennedy has advised Lynx Equity on its acquisition of specialist label printer Label Express. The acquisition completed on 12 April and is Lynx Equity’s second UK investment. Lynx Equity is a Canadian-based private equity firm with a diverse portfolio of companies across North America. It invests in
The Gores Group is to sell Fotona Holdings to AGIC Capital, a European-Asian cross border private equity firm focused on industrial technology and healthcare investments in Europe and the US. The Gores Group acquired Fotona in 2014 through its Small Capitalisation Partners investment fund. Founded in 1964, Fotona is
Sfoglia Torino has acquired 100 per cent of the capital of Idea Quick, an Italian frozen puff pastry producer, with growth capital provided by Unigrains. The acquisition follows an expansion process launched in February 2017, in which Enzo Perrino, the CEO of Sfoglia Torino, acquired Righi Srl in view of
Private equity firm Omnes Capital invested a total of EUR167 million invested in 2016, supporting 13 new companies such as Bankin’, Mes Docteurs and Ducatillon. It also completed 24 disposals representing EUR416 million – an increase of 58 per cent compared with 2015. These included SIMP (4.9x), Nomios (4.8x)
AnaCap Financial Partners, a European financial services private equity firm, has acquired French business intelligence firm Ellisphere from Natixis. Ellisphere provides a range of business and marketing information services, which allow its clients to develop their portfolio of customers, manage risk and monitor client exposure. AnaCap says there is
Schroders is to acquire Adveq Holding, a private equity solutions business, accelerating the growth of its private assets business. The acquisition complements Schroders’ existing capabilities and expertise in the real estate and infrastructure finance sectors. With more than USD7 billion of client commitments and a predominately Swiss and German
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