Mourant Ozannes has advised on three of the most significant private equity transactions in Europe during the first quarter of 2017, according to the league tables published by global deal research agency Pitchbook. Pitchbook’s latest report, entitled 1Q 2017 European PE Breakdown, includes the largest PE exit and the
Concurrent, a specialist in storage, protection, transformation and delivery of visual assets, has sold the European operations portion of its real-time business segment to technology-focused investment firm Battery Ventures. The completion of the sale followed approval of the transaction by the French Ministry of the Economy. Concurrent received
Lithium Technologies, a specialist in cloud-based social media management and online community solutions, is to be acquired by private equity firm Vista Equity Partners. Lithium’s board of directors has unanimously approved the transaction, although terms have not disclosed. “This marks a new chapter for Lithium, and the next
Mergers and acquisitions adviser Generational Equity has sold its client Imperial Packaging to Seaboard Folding Box Company, a platform company of private equity firm Charter Oak Equity. Imperial Packaging, based in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, produces folding cartons, packers, tags and inserts, and headers utilising conventional offset and UV-curable inks
Audax Private Equity has completed the sale of Rough Country to private equity firm Gridiron Capital. Rough Country is a customer-focused provider of suspension lift kits to the off-road SUV and truck market. Rough Country also offers a full set of off-road products, including shocks, stabilisers, lights, fender
Hawksmoor Partners, the London-based specialist in structuring and project management solutions for asset managers and fast-growing companies, has established its first overseas presence in Estonia to work with new clients in the technology sector in the Baltic region and Finland. Founded in 2013, Hawksmoor Partners has specialised in the
UK private equity house Maven Capital Partners has invested GBP1 million in ebb3, with the potential for an additional GBP0.5 million of follow-on funding. ebb3 is a technology services business operating in a niche part of the high performance computing market. It delivers data intensive 3D graphical applications to
Peapack-Gladstone Financial Corporation, parent company of Peapack-Gladstone Bank, is to acquire New Jersey-based Murphy Capital Management (MCM). After up front transaction costs, the purchase will be immediately accretive to earnings. Doug Kennedy, president and chief executive officer of Peapack-Gladstone Bank, says: “We have found what we feel is
Private equity firm Irving Place Capital (IPC) has agreed to sell thermal technology company Chromalox to Spirax-Sarco Engineering, a UK-based company specialising in the control and efficient use of steam and other industrial fluids, for USD415 million in cash. Completion of the transaction is subject to customary closing conditions.
Bluebee, a provider of high-performance genomics analysis and storage solutions, and MediSapiens, a biomedical big data curation, management and interpretation company, have formed a partnership to provide customers with analytical solutions for next generation sequencing data. Sequencing technology is maturing and being optimised for performance, while becoming increasingly affordable.
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