Affiliates of Roark Capital, an Atlanta-based private equity firm focussed on investing in multi-unit businesses, have acquired a majority stake in Fitness Connection from LNK Partners. Fitness Connection has over 500,000 members across its 41 health clubs in Texas, North Carolina, and Nevada. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Midlands-based CET UK has completed the acquisition of the business and assets of Enverity Ltd, a geotechnical and construction materials testing specialist, with the support of Palatine Private Equity. The acquisition comes just three months after Palatine took a majority stake in CET in November 2018, with the intention of
Merfish Pipe & Supply (Merfish), a master distributor of carbon steel standard pipe, fittings and flanges, and a portfolio company of One Equity Partners (OEP) is to merge with United Pipe & Supply under the ownership of Merfish Pipe Holdings (MPH), an entity that is majority-owned by OEP. Financial terms
Eldridge Industries (Eldridge) has increased its investment in Maranon Capital (Maranon) and now holds a majority ownership stake in the business. In addition to the equity investment, affiliates of Eldridge have made further commitments to Maranon’s platform, which will support the firm’s ongoing strategic initiatives, including expanding the company’s underwriting
Crowdcube, a UK equity crowdfunding platform, has formed an exclusive 12 month partnership with Linklaters to be its legal advisor for the ongoing service delivery to technology companies post-funding. Fintech is Crowdcube’s biggest growth area, having raised GBP53 million in investment for fintech companies in 2017 and has worked with
Capzanine has announced the sale of its minority stake in Finance Active, a digital finance solutions provider, to Cathay Capital. The transaction also involves a major investment from Jacques Descourtieux and Patrice Chatard, the Founders, as well as a buy-in from new key managers. Founded in 2000 in Paris, Finance
Aire, which aims to make credit fairer for consumers, and more valuable to lenders, has closed a Series B round of funding from Crane Venture Partners, Experian Ventures and Orange Digital Ventures. Since receiving Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) approval, the company has grown from a start-up with eight people to
Far fewer active fund managers outperformed their benchmarks in 2018, according to an analysis of 15 key equity and bond fund segments by Scope. In fact, under a quarter of active equity funds beat benchmarks in 2018 and just 16 per cent of bond funds outperformed. Scope’s study, which covered
Eiger Advisors – a UK-regulated business assisting alternative and traditional asset management businesses – and Investeam – an established, Paris-based third-party manager – have announced a new commercial partnership. The partnership will support UK based fund managers wishing to access the French, Luxembourg and Belgium institutional investors, and French, Luxembourg
BlackRock Real Assets (BlackRock) is to sell five operating wind farms and one operating solar project (the Portfolio) located across the UK to Equitix Investment Management (Equitix). This marks the fourth realisation in the past three months for BlackRock’s Renewable Power platform and the latest addition to Equitix’s significant capabilities
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