Acquisitions are currently high on the agenda in many German M&A departments – companies are showing increasing confidence in the mergers and acquisitions market and relying on their own liquidity to finance transactions. In contrast, bankers and advisers in the market are working primarily on sales at present. Both
Venture capital investor Albion Ventures is in the process of disposing its investment in Opta following the conditional sale of the company to Perform Group for GBP40m. Opta is a provider of sports data and analysis. Formed in 1996, the company uses proprietary technology to collect and analyse statistical
Private equity firm Avista Capital Partners is to acquire Zest Anchors from The Jordan Company. Zest is a designer and manufacturer of LOCATOR branded overdenture abutment solutions used in the treatment of edentulous patients. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Sriram Venkataraman, partner at Avista, says: “The
Patron Capital Partners has acquired a 20,000 square metre office complex in Malakoff, an emerging district in the south of Paris, from a subsidiary of one of the funds managed by Centuria Capital on behalf of one of its historical clients. The building is fully let to a single
Steinway Musical Instruments is to be acquired by an affiliate of private equity firm Kohlberg & Company in a transaction valued at approximately USD438m. Upon the completion of the transaction, the Steinway will become a privately held company. Under the terms of the agreement, an affiliate of Kohlberg
Private equity firm Trilantic Capital Partners has acquired a substantial minority interest in Traeger Pellet Grills, a designer, manufacturer and marketer of wood pellet grills, wood pellets, sauces and spices, and grilling accessories. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The company was founded in 1985 in
Private equity and alternative asset manager Maven Capital Partners has invested GBP3.8m into Paisley based Lambert Contracts. Maven’s investment will help to position the business for further growth and accelerate its strategy for expansion into new geographic markets. The business, which was founded in 1986 and now employs
Key Capital Partners, the private equity firm focused on smaller buyouts, has led a GBP3m equity investment in WHP Projects, a provider of support services to the mobile phone industry. As part of the transaction, Royal Bank of Scotland, led by Stuart Watson, director of the corporate transactions team,
Tully & Holland has acted as exclusive financial adviser to Cains Foods on its definitive sale agreement with TreeHouse Foods, an Oak Brook, Illinois food manufacturer. Cains, based in Ayer, Massachusetts, manufacturers shelf stable mayonnaise, dressings and sauces sold under the Cains, Naturally Delicious, and Olde Cape Cod brands, and
Applied Predictive Technologies (APT) has received a USD100m minority investment from the merchant banking division of Goldman Sachs, representing a substantial investment in the growing field of cloud-based predictive analytics. The challenge for most large organisations today is not in collecting enormous quantities of data, but how to rapidly
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