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GenNx360 Capital Partners acquires Salford Farm Machinery

GenNx360 Capital Partners, a private equity firm focused on investing in middle market industrial business-to-business companies, has acquired Salford Farm Machinery for an undisclosed amount. Salford is a Canada based manufacturer of tillage, seeding and fertilising equipment for the global marketplace.   Salford currently serves the North American and European

CIC Partners sells OmniSYS

CIC Partners, a Dallas-based middle-market private equity firm, has sold OmniSYS to New York-based private equity firm Moelis Capital Partners (MCP), the private equity business of Moelis & Company. OmniSYS will continue to be led by its current president and chief executive Tricia Fringer.   CIC Partners has been invested

Fiona Le Poidevin, chief executive of Guernsey Finance

Guernsey’s finance industry on China mission

Guernsey’s banking, private wealth, investment and insurance sectors are all featuring in meetings between an island delegation and regulatory authorities, association networks and financial services businesses in Beijing and Shanghai. Kevin Stewart, Guernsey’s commerce and employment minister, says: “This week has been very positive. We have had a large number

Dave Calhoun joins Blackstone to head PE portfolio operations

David Calhoun, the chief executive of Nielsen Holdings, is to join Blackstone as a senior managing director and head of private equity portfolio operations. Calhoun (pictured) will oversee a team of 21 professionals within the portfolio operations group which partners with portfolio company chief executives to drive key value creation

CMS Hasche Sigle advises Seafort on acquisition of three companies from Auctus

Private equity fund Seafort Advisors I is acquiring three companies operating in different sectors from Munich-based private equity fund Auctus. The Seafort fund was set up specifically for this transaction.   The synchronised deal involves the Noventiz Group of Cologne, Nuremberg-based DialogFeld Communication Group and Bayreuth's Dieter Braun Group.  

Growth in lower market M&A activity driven by LBOs

Private equity houses may still be focusing their efforts on the best assets, but the combination of significant amounts of dry powder and a growing sense of optimism on macroeconomic indicators throughout Europe means activity in the small to mid-market has improved significantly, according to NBGI Private Equity. Deal completions

Sobera Capital acquires BayTech

Sobera Capital has acquired the venture capital fund BayTech Venture Capital from Bayerische Landesbank, European Investment Bank, Bpifrance, Versicherungskammer Bayern, and BayernLB Capital Partners. Among others, the fund holds participations in EnOcean (Munich), Pieris (Freising), Scaleo chip (Sophia Antipolis), and OneAccess (Paris).   Sobera Capital was backed in this secondary

KKR to acquire Winoa Group

A consortium led by KKR Asset Management (KAM), a sub-investment grade manager that is wholly owned by KKR, is to acquire Winoa Group from LBO France. The acquisition facilitates a recapitalisation of the business through a significant reduction of the debt and access to new money for growth.   Winoa

Atlante Seed and Digital Magics to co-invest in tech start-ups

Atlante Seed, the Intesa Sanpaolo Group Fund and start-up incubator Digital Magics have signed an agreement for the joint development of investment activities in digital start-ups. The goal of the partnership is to increase investment capacity for the start-ups selected and incubated by Digital Magics, guaranteeing adequate financial resources for

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Linedata strengthens European custodian and fund administrator presence

Linedata has recently upgraded four Luxembourg-based custodian and fund administrator clients to the latest version of Linedata Compliance.  Leveraging Linedata Compliance for its breach management and stronger internal controls through a maker/checker (four eyes) review process, investor service providers are able to take advantage of full audit trails and enhanced

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