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AnaCap acquires performing personal loan portfolio from Secure Trust Bank

Financial services private equity firm AnaCap Financial Partners (AnaCap) is to acquire a portfolio of seasoned, performing UK unsecured personal loans from Secure Trust Bank (STB) via AnaCap Credit Opportunities III. The portfolio is highly diversified, covering more than 10,000 individual loans geographically spread across the UK, with an average

Forward Industries acquires Intelligent Product Solutions

Forward Industries has acquired Intelligent Product Solutions (IPS), an industry leading product design and development company based in Long Island, New York for a material consideration comprising of cash, equity, and contingent earn outs. IPS clients include leading brands in consumer electronics, medical devices, enterprise and security solution providers and Internet

Cerea Capital II acquires Monviso

Céréa Capital II, managed by Céréa Partenaire, alongside the company’s management and supported by Capzanine and Céréa Mezzanine, has acquired Monviso, an Italian manufacturer of crackers, bread substitutes and sweet and savoury biscuits, from PM & Partners. With 130 employees and 4 facilities in northern Italy, Monviso had sales of

PM & Partners sells Monviso to Céréa Partenaire

PM & Partners SGR has sold Monviso, a manufacturer of gourmet and healthy bread substitutes to Céréa Partenaire. PM & Partners invested in Monviso in 2012. After strengthening the company’s operations and management, including the appointment of Alessandro Manfredi Cusmano as CEO in 2013, the company has grown organically through

BGF invests in CHS Healthcare

BGF has provided an investment of GBP10 million to CHS Healthcare, a national provider of specialist services for the NHS. The funding will be used to expand CHS’s infrastructure and operations, supporting the provision of services to the NHS nationwide. Dr Richard Newland established CHS Healthcare in 1995 while working

Wynnchurch Capital acquires Anderson Metals

Wynnchurch Capital has completed an investment in Anderson Metals Corporation, a manufacturer of brass fittings, valves, pipe nipples and related products to the plumbing, hardware and general industrial end-markets. The Company is headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri and was founded in 1947.   Chris O’Brien, Managing Partner at Wynnchurch, says:

Informa to acquire UBM in GBP3.8bn deal

UK-based Informa Group, which runs around 200 exhibitions a year, is planning to acquire UBM in a cash and stock deal worth GBP3.8 billion (USD5.2 billion), creating an GBP8billion events and exhibitions group in the process. Under the terms of the Proposed Combination, UBM shareholders would receive 1.083 Informa Shares and

Equitis optimistic on outsourced ManCo services to European regulated PE funds

Founded in 2000, Equitis Gestion is one of France’s leading private equity management companies and sees big opportunities ahead as both non-PE groups and US PE groups look to invest in the European markets.  Philippe Bertin (pictured), Managing Partner and one of the three founders of Equitis, tells Private Equity

AnaCap backed heidelpay acquires mPAY24 in Austria

heidelpay Investments, a German and Germanic-speaking countries (DACH) payment service provider (PSP) backed by AnaCap Financial Partners (AnaCap), has acquired mPAY24, an Austrian PSP. Founded in 2001, mPAY24 is a Vienna-based PSP primarily focussed on e-commerce technical payment processing services. The e-commerce payments platform is used by over 2,000 merchants

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