Sovereign Capital portfolio company City & County Healthcare Group has acquired ISS Healthcare (ISS), extending the group’s complex care offering and marking its first acquisition in Wales. ISS provides care in the home from its two branches in Torfaen, South Wales and Birmingham. The Torfaen branch was established in 2001,
GI Partners, a Bay Area-based multi-strategy private equity investment manager, has acquired a data centre-anchored property in Hayward, California. The investment was made through DataCore, a fully discretionary core real estate fund managed by GI Partners. The California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS) created DataCore in 2012 as a core
Private equity firm Nautic Partners has completed the sale of Big Train to Kerry Group. The terms of the transaction have not been disclosed. Headquartered in Lake Forest, California, Big Train is a manufacturer and marketer of liquid and powdered beverage concentrates used for blended ice coffee, fruit smoothies, chai
Osborne Clarke has hired Mark Spinner, a former head of the UK private equity practice and the UK corporate practice at Eversheds. Spinner (pictured) joins the Osborne’s Clarke’s private equity team in the firm’s London office. Spinner has a strong track record of private equity transactions, acting for both institutional investors
Lyceum Capital-backed Access Group, the business management software provider, has acquired Tech City start-up Sazneo for an undisclosed sum. The transaction represents Access’ ninth add-on since Lyceum Capital invested in the company in March 2011. The deal for the online communication and collaboration technology, likened to Chatter and Yammer,
Trac ID Systems, a provider of RFID solutions for asset tracking and process optimisation in the oil and gas industry, has completed a EUR3m round of funding led by Northzone. Trac ID’s main value proposition to the oil and gas industry is significant annual cost savings and improved safety by
NBGI Private Equity has acquired Stiplastics for an undisclosed sum. Stiplastics is a manufacturer of injection-moulded plastic dosing, packaging solutions and medical devices for the pharmaceutical industry including pillboxes, medication blister packs, and “tamper proof” systems. The company employs around 70 staff and operates production facilities in Beauvoir en Royans,
Nearly all retail chief financial officers (94 per cent) expect merger and acquisition (M&A) activity will increase or remain steady in 2013, according to a survey from BDO USA. CFOs’ bullish forecasts follow USD324.6bn in global retail and consumer M&A activity in 2012, which was up 33 per cent over
Poorer-performing private equity firms are increasingly being squeezed out as investors look to partner with the best performers, according to the latest research from private equity placement agent Acanthus Advisers. Acanthus’ European Mid-Market Fundraising Review 2013 shows that in the past two years, just three per cent of capital raised
Advanced Capital, the European alternative investment specialist founded by financier Robert Tomei, has appointed Robert Berlé as the firm’s new chief executive officer. Berlé has over 30 years’ investment and corporate banking experience alongside considerable experience in private equity gained at some of the leading names in the industry. For
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