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Advent International to sell Circet stake

Global private equity firm Advent International (Advent) is in exclusive negotiations with ICG for the sale of its stake in Circet, a European telecoms infrastructure services company.  As part of the potential deal, Circet’s founding team and managers will further increase their stakes in their company.   Circet provides its customers

Retail therapy

Why should private equity firms invest in retail?

By Gopi Krishnan, VP & managing partner, Consumer Domain & Consulting Practice at Wipro Ltd and Siddharth Raghuvanshi, manager of strategy, alliances & partnership, Consumer Domain & Consulting Practice at Wipro Ltd – Historically, private equity firms have always shown interest in retail. For instance, in the US itself, private

Ogier advises Reference Capital as Guernsey PIF attracts tech sector

Increasing levels of activity from venture and private equity funds over the last 12 months has continued into 2021 with significant interest from new managers looking to launch their first fund in Guernsey, according to Ogier’s funds team in Guernsey. The team recently acted as lead counsel to Reference Capital

Global investor Corinth Group invests USD100m in Morepen Laboratories

Global investment group Corinth Group has made a USD100 million investment in Morepen Group, Delhi (India), a 36-year-old, listed Indian pharmaceutical company with two USFDA approved facilities. At an Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) held yesterday through video conferencing, the shareholders approved the direct investment of USD32.50 million in Morepen’s equity.

Procuritas sells SOFACOMPANY to Lars Larsen Group

Procuritas Capital Investors VI (Procuritas) has sold Danish sofa brand SOFACOMPANY to the Danish Lars Larsen Group.  Founded in 2012, SOFACOMPANY was bought by Procuritas from the founders Cathrine and Christian Rudolph in 2017.    Utilising its decades of value creation experience, Procuritas has worked closely with management to transform

PSG makes majority growth investment in billwerk

PSG, a growth equity firm that focuses on partnering with middle-market software and technology-enabled services companies, has acquired a majority stake in billwerk, a  European provider of subscription management and recurring billing software solutions. The billwerk subscription management platform offers European companies across industries a one-stop shop to manage their

Marlin Equity Partners backs Exegy-Vela merger

Exegy Incorporated, a specialist in low-latency solutions for global market data, predictive trading signals, and hardware-acceleration technology, and Vela Trading Systems (Vela), a provider of data and execution technology for global multi-asset electronic trading, have merged business operations in an agreement backed by Marlin Equity Partners, a global investment firm

Trimountain leads significant investment in ABCA

Trimountain Partners has led a significant investment round in fire and security firm ABCA Systems (ABCA) alongside investor partners including The Vorsprung Partnership and Cambridge Capital Partners. With over 30 years of experience behind it, ABCA is one of the UK’s preeminent fire and security experts, providing installation and maintenance

Polywork secures USD3.5m in seed funding

New York based startup Polywork, a professional social network founded by Peter Johnston, has secured USD3.5 million in a seed funding round led by Caffeinated Capital (Ray Tonsing, first investor in Clubhouse, Airtable and Brex) with participation from the founders of YouTube (Steve Chen), Twitch (Kevin Lin), PayPal (Max Levchin),

HIG Capital to acquire Travis Perkins’ UK Plumbing & Heating Business

An affiliate of HIG Capital (HIG) is to acquire Travis Perkins Plc’s Plumbing & Heating business (P&H), one of the UK’s leading plumbing, heating, and bathroom related products specialist merchants.  The divestiture is valued at approximately GBP325 million, and the transaction is expected to be completed within the next three

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