BGF has successfully exited Yorkshire-headquartered bakery business, Cooplands. BGF backed the 135-year-old family business with a GBP8.5 million investment in December 2017, supplemented with GBP7.7 million follow-on funding in November 2020. Working with Paul Coopland, BGF has supported the business’ succession planning, helping to identify and recruit Belinda Youngs as
ARM-Harith Infrastructure Investments Limited, a Mauritius-regulated infrastructure fund manager and parent company of ARM-Harith Infrastructure Investment Limited Nigeria, has launched the ARM-Harith Cities and Climate Transition Fund (The ACT Fund), endorsed by the Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance (the Lab). The USD250 million-target fund has been designed in collaboration
Arlington Capital Partners (Arlington), a Washington, DC-area private equity firm, has completed its acquisition of L3Harris Technologies’ (NYSE:LHX) Electron Devices and Narda Microwave-West divisions. The Company will now operate independently as Stellant Systems (Stellant), a standalone platform for Arlington in the mission-critical defence electronics market. The transaction is occurring in
Summit Partners, a global alternative investment firm, has held the first and final closing of its latest flagship US growth equity fund. Launched in June 2021, Summit Partners Growth Equity Fund XI was significantly oversubscribed and closed at its hard cap with total commitments of USD8.35 billion. “With the closing
McDermott Will & Emery has provided legal counsel to Lorient Capital, a private investment firm focused exclusively on the healthcare industry, in the formation of Lorient Healthcare Fund II, which closed with aggregate capital commitments of USD225 million. The McDermott team was led by partner Ian Schwartz, head of the
Comitis Capital (Comitis) has acquired a stake in PetCo, a Austrian supplier of super premium dog and cat food. With its three brands Dog’s Love, Cat’s Love and WOW, PetCo covers the entire premium and super premium segment. PetCo founders Stefan and Katharina Miklauz will continue to lead the company
Tax efficient investment manager Deepbridge Capital has exceeded GBP200 million of funds deployed across its EIS and Estate Planning Service funds, with a current NAV in excess of GBP250 million. Founded in 2010, Chester-based Deepbridge launched its first EIS fund in the 2013/14 tax year and specialises in providing venture
A portfolio company of Leeds-based private equity investor Endless has acquired GBP20 million turnover party brand Ginger Ray which is based in Weybridge, Surrey. Amscan International, which has a turnover of GBP200 million and employs more than 300 people in the UK and 2,500 worldwide, has made the acquisition as
Vanguard has completed the acquisition of Just Invest, a provider of tax-managed, tailored wealth management technology. Just Invest’s offerings, including direct indexing platform Kaleidoscope™, provide financial advisors with technology solutions that cater to their clients’ unique financial needs. The acquisition adds direct indexing, or personalised indexing, capabilities to bolster Vanguard’s
With demand for litigation finance continuing to grow among businesses of all sizes, dispute funder Validity Finance has raised a new managed fund of USD70 million in capital commitments. The newly raised “sidecar” fund further diversifies Validity’s business and advances its experience as an alternative asset manager. To date, Validity’s
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