The recent IPO of online building products retailer CMO Group PLC rounded off a busy and productive 12 months for private equity firm Key Capital Partners(KCP). The flotation represented the firm’s third high-value exit in the last 12 months; coming hot on the heels of the sale of nursing business
Global investment firm Carlyle (NASDAQ: CG) has acquired LiveU, a specialist in live video streaming and remote production solutions, from Francisco Partners, a global investment firm that specialises in partnering with technology businesses. Details of the transaction, which is subject to regulatory approvals, have not been disclosed. Founded in
Vantage Health has been acquired by Northgate Public Services (NPS), a leading software and services provider to the public sector in the UK and a wholly owned subsidiary of NEC Corporation. NPS has a market leading screening software for diabetes and hearing. It has helped to screen 10 million babies
EQT’s EQT Exeter Europe Logistics Value Fund IV has held its final close at its hard cap of EUR2.1 billion in fee-paying assets under management. Demand from both existing and new investors was exceptional resulting in the Fund being significantly oversubscribed with commitments coming from a diversified group of high-quality
HIG WhiteHorse, the credit affiliate of HIG Capital (HIG), has closed its latest direct lending strategy, HIG WhiteHorse Direct Lending Fund – 2020. The fund closed with aggregate capital commitments of approximately USD1.65 billion, well exceeding its target. The Fund will continue HIG’s successful investment strategy of originating tailored senior secured
Funds managed by Lindsay Goldberg, a private investment firm that focuses on partnering with families, are to sell Big Ass Fans, a specialist in high volume, low speed and connected fan categories, to Madison Industries’ Indoor Air Quality vertical (Madison IAQ). Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Klar, a leading digital financial services platform providing a transparent, free and secure alternative to traditional debit and credit services in Mexico, has closed its Series B funding round, subject to applicable regulatory approvals, including clearance of the Mexican Banking and Securities Commission (CNBV) and the Mexican Economic Competition Commission
The number of first-time funding rounds into UK seed-stage startups declined for a second consecutive year in 2020, to 36 per cent below the 2018 peak for such deals, according to new research commissioned by SFC Capital. The data also points to reductions both to the amount of money available
Calculus Capital (Calculus) and Foresight Group (Foresight), have sold Mologic Limited (Mologic), a specialist in lateral flow and rapid diagnostic technologies, and founder of Global Access Diagnostics. Mologic’s co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer, Paul Davis, was the originator of the Clearblue pregnancy test, the world’s first commercial application of lateral
Accident repair group AD Williams has secured a multi-million-pound investment from BGF, with the funding set to be used for the partial realisation of shareholder value and to facilitate the long-term growth of the group. Founded in 2013 by CEO Stuart Bacchus, AD Williams is an owner-managed business with 14
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