A company backed by European private equity firm Permira has completed the acquisition of more than USD200m of the outstanding equity of LegalZoom, a provider of online legal document preparation services. The Permira funds are now LegalZoom’s largest shareholder and will appoint a majority of the company’s board of directors.
Omnes Capital has sold its stake in the Melkonian Group, a provider of mining and underground works equipment, to the founding family as well as Bpifrance, Amundi PEF and Sofipaca. Based in Aix-en-Provence (Bouches-du-Rhône), the Melkonian Group is a family-owned company that designs, manufactures and sells equipment and spare parts
An affiliated investment fund of financial services private equity firm Lightyear Capital is to sell Antares Holdings, a specialist insurer and reinsurer operating in the Lloyd’s market, to Qatar Insurance Company SAQ. Through Antares Syndicate 1274 the company underwrites a worldwide diversified range of property, casualty, marine and aviation insurance
High Road Capital Partners’ portfolio company Celco Controls has completed the add-on acquisition of Canadian Process & Control. Based in British Columbia, Canadian Process & Control designs, manufactures, and installs customised process control systems for the resource, refining, chemical, wastewater treatment, and manufacturing industries. “Canadian Process & Control is
Grupa o2 and private equity fund Innova Capital have completed the acquisition of Wirtualna Polska. The combined companies will operate on the market under the name Grupa Wirtualna Polska. The management board of the new company is led by Jacek Świderski, while Łukasz Wejchert will support its development holding
Alternative asset manager The Carlyle Group has named Jackie Roberts as chief sustainability officer, a newly created position. Roberts comes to Carlyle from the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), where she was a senior director of the Idea Bank for the US Climate and Energy Program. Roberts begins her duties
M&A activity for the global chemical industry will likely increase on 2014 due to downstream value-added opportunities, continued strength in specialty chemicals, and portfolio realignments in North America. That is according to the Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited (DTTL) 2014 Global chemical industry mergers and acquisitions outlook, which also projects M&A
Elbrus Capital, a private equity business in Russia and the CIS, has held the final closing of Elbrus Capital Fund II with capital commitments of USD550m. The fund was oversubscribed, exceeding its target of USD500m and reaching its hard cap. Additionally, the fund secured USD150m financing from the Overseas
JTC Group’s funds arm has invested in an IT platform, FrontInvest, to bolster its capabilities in the funds sector. The platform, provided by eFront, follows best practice processes and systems and helps to ensure that JTC Group can fulfil regulatory, financial and tax reporting requirements for its growing roster of
CVC Capital Partners has competed its acquisition of a controlling stake in Skrill Group from a consortium of investors led by Investcorp, which remains a shareholder. Founded in 2001 and with operations across Europe and in the US, Skrill is among the world’s largest providers of digital wallet technology, with
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