Ernst & Young’s global technology update for the second quarter of 2013 shows a mixed picture, with private equity (PE) deal-making soaring while corporate deal-making continued a three-quarter-long slide. At USD33.4bn, the aggregate value of all disclosed-value deals is essentially flat year-over-year (YOY) and down eight per cent sequentially
Grant Thornton UK advised on eight private equity mid-market deals last month, accounting for just under a quarter of the 35 investments completed in the mid-market. The deals Grant Thornton advised on were completed across six industries. Mo Merali, head of private equity at Grant Thornton UK, ays:
Independent debt advisory firm Tomorrow Partners has signed three transactions over a busy summer period, following the recent launch of its high yield advisory service. The firm advised Lion Capital and its portfolio company HEMA, the Dutch retailer, on a successful “amend and extend” of circa EUR900m of senior,
Private equity firm Wynnchurch Capital has acquired Imperial Group from Accuride Corporation, in partnership with BMO Mezzanine Fund and a management team led by chief executive officer Terry Wogan. Imperial is a metal fabricator supplying light and medium gauge fabricated metal components, precision metal stampings, and value-added assemblies serving
Halyard Capital, a New York-based private equity fund, has sold its portfolio company Engauge Marketing to Publicis Groupe, the marketing services holding company. Financial terms have not been disclosed. Engauge is a digital advertising services agency in the US. Engauge was founded by Halyard Capital in partnership with
Lyceum Capital has led the acquisition of vehicle tracking and fleet management software provider Isotrak from Saints Chamonix Private Equity to accelerate the company’s UK and North American expansion strategies. Investing alongside the existing management team Lyceum has taken a majority share in the business, which recently won contracts
Wellington Financial, a privately-held specialty finance firm, has provided a USD2m venture debt financing for Salsa Labs of Washington, DC. Salsa provides an integrated toolset for non-profit organisations to grow and engage their supporter base for their respective causes through online fundraising, advocacy and outreach with an easy-to-use, online
EQT has invested CHF44m in Swiss dental chain swiss smile based on a partnership agreement with the founders and majority owners Dr Haleh Abivardi and Dr Golnar Abivardi. The sisters are both dentists and founded swiss smile in 2002. The existing minority shareholders have been bought out with the
Change Healthcare has closed its latest round of financing, securing USD15m led by HLM Venture Partners. New investor Noro-Moseley Partners also participated in the financing round, as did all existing institutional investors – BlueCross BlueShield Venture Partners, Sandbox Industries, Mitsui & Co. Global Investment, Gary and Mary West Health
Frontier Capital has made an investment in MultiLing, a translation services provider specialising in intellectual property (IP) and technical materials for global enterprises. Frontier’s USD10.3m minority equity investment in MultiLing provides growth capital to support the company’s continued expansion. The company will continue to be led by Michael Sneddon,
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