IK Investment Partners’ (IK) IK Small Cap II Fund has completed its first transaction in the Benelux by acquiring 2Connect, a leading manufacturer of specialised cables and connectors, from the van der Put family. Financial terms of the transaction, which sees the firm’s founder reinvest alongside the fund, have
Following the initial boom of liberalisation, new restrictions are having a severe cooling effect on the nascent international Chinese PERE market – fund managers that are in it for the long-haul will need to up their game during this period of tightening, writes Jimmy Leong, Managing Director in Asia, at
The Carlyle Group (NASDAQ: CG) has made a strategic investment in alternative investments platform iCapital Network.
Abacus Group, a provider of hosted IT solutions and application hosting for alternative investment firms, has completed the acquisition of Hedgepoint Solutions, a boutique IT consulting firm based in New York City. “Abacus Group has been doing some amazing things in the hosted IT space, growing not just throughout the
Law firm Paul Hastings has advised shareholders and re-investors of France-based Aries Alliance, a manufacturer of machine tools, titanium wing structures, and engine parts for the aerospace sector, in connection with the LBO of the group, structured by Astorg Partners, which acquired a majority stake. BNP Paribas, Banque Populaire,
Middle market private equity firm One Equity Partners (OEP) is to sell PeroxyChem, a worldwide manufacturer of peroxygen chemistries, to German Evonik Industries AG, a publicly-traded global speciality chemicals company, for USD625 million, or 10.4 times EBITDA, before synergies. The transaction is expected to be completed by mid-2019, subject to
FreeOx Biotech, a spin-out of Hospital Clinic Barcelona-IDIBAPS which is developing a new class of neuroprotective drugs, has closed its first round of funding with EUR500,000 from private investors Montserrat Esteve and Francisco Javier Alsina. The biotechnology firm has two highly promising molecules in its pipeline to treat stroke and
F2i has held the final close of its third fund with EUR3.6 billion in capital commitments, EUR600 million higher than the target set in December 2017 at the time of the launch of the Fund. This excellent result, and the short amount of time needed to complete the fund raise,
MEIF Maven Debt Finance, managed by Maven Capital Partners (Maven), has agreed a six-figure loan funding solution to Tienda Limited (TL), a ‘turnkey’ interior service provider. The capital will be used to finance a new contract, which runs over five years, to refit up to 700 outlets including a Building
The Calumet Wex Group, an omni-channel retail chain for photographic products and services in Europe and a subsidiary of Aurelius Equity Opportunities SE & Co, is to acquire a majority interest in Foto-Video Sauter from its managing partner Bernd Sauter. Foto-Video Sauter generates annual revenues of around EUR22 million, operates
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