August Equity has completed a buy-in management buy-out (BIMBO) in Aspirations Care Group (Aspirations), a community care services provider specialising in supporting individuals with complex and challenging behaviour. Aspirations is headquartered in Gloucester and provides high quality and specialist supported living and community support for children and adults who have
Macquarie Group Ltd (Macquarie) is acquiring a 42.5% stake in sugar and ethanol advisory, supply chain management and trading firm C Czarnikow Ltd from Wilmar International Ltd, which will cease to be a shareholder. Bringing significant expertise in agricultural risk management, Macquarie will work alongside co-shareholders, Associated British Sugar and
Global financial information services company Markit has agreed to acquire Cadis, a global enterprise data management specialist platform. Cadis’s platform addresses a multitude of data management needs including front-to-back office integration and data frameworks for trading, pricing, risk and compliance management. The acquisition comes at a time when financial institutions
Golden Seeds has joined a list of top-tier investors in Triptrotting, Inc’s Series A financing of USD1.5 million. Triptrotting is a global community connecting world travellers with like-minded local hosts for meet-ups and authentic experiences. Co-investors included Google Ventures, Idealab, LaunchpadLA, 500 Startups, WI Harper Group and individual angel investors.
Scandinavian-German dairy group Arla plans to merge with Milch-Union Hocheifel and the UK’s Milk Link. The transaction is currently awaiting approval from the EU competition authorities and the consent of the membership meetings of the companies involved. A team from CMS Hasche Sigle led by Dr Malte Bruhns advised Milch-Union
Oaktree Capital Management is to recapitalize Diamond Foods’ balance sheet with an investment of USD225 million in the branded, packaged food company. Concurrent with the closing of this investment, Diamond will amend its credit agreement with its existing lenders. The recapitalization will result in a capital structure that supports the
SEI has extended its relationship with Key Capital Investment Management Limited to include an operational outsourcing solution for the firm’s private equity business. Key Capital’s private equity offering is designed to provide family offices and high-net-worth private clients with exposure to a pre-identified list of Europe’s leading private equity firms
Pangaea Ventures Ltd has held a first close of Pangaea Ventures Fund III, LP, having attracted the initial USD50 million into the target USD100 million USD fund. Limited Partners in the new fund include world-leading industrials Asahi Glass Co Ltd, Asahi Kasei Innovation Partners, Inc, nv Bekaert sa, 9th Street
Munich-based venture capital firm Target Partners has led a seven-figure financing round for adeven GmbH, a technology company headquartered in Berlin and London, that verifies and optimizes mobile advertising campaigns for publishers and advertisers in real time. The financing will support the company’s international growth. Adeven GmbH analyzes the overall
Some 30 emerging markets private equity funds raised USD7.8 billion in the three months ended 31 March 2012, compared to 46 funds that raised USD9.9 billion in the first quarter of 2011, according to figures released by the Emerging Markets Private Equty Association (EMPEA). On the investment side, 198 deals
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