Deals
Turnspire Capital Partners (Turnspire), a special situations-focused private equity firm, has completed the acquisition of the Goodyear air springs business from EnPro Industries.
Goodyear Air Springs is the first acquisition of Infinity Engineered Products, a new platform formed by Turnspire.
Goodyear Air Springs, headquartered in Fairlawn, Ohio, is a leading provider of premium air springs for trucks, trailers, buses, and specialty vehicles, and is a preferred partner to original equipment manufacturers (OEM) and trucking fleets globally. Infinity acquired the assets of Goodyear Air Springs, including full brand licensing rights, the technical and R&D center located in Fairlawn, all manufacturing
M Squared, a photonics and quantum technology developer, has secured GBP32.5 million in new financing to support its growth and technology developments.
Santander UK will be providing a GBP20 million debt facility, allowing M Squared’s founders and management team, led by Dr Graeme Malcolm OBE, to fund the acquisition of the substantial part of BGF’s current shareholding along with fuelling the next stage in business and technological growth. The newly formed Scottish National Investment Bank will also support M Squared with GBP12.5 million of growth capital.
Richard Mathison, Structured Finance Director, Santander UK, says: “Santander is delighted to
Private investment firm GI Partners has acquired Valet Living, a full-service amenities provider to the multifamily housing industry.
GI Partners acquired Valet Living from a fund managed by the Private Equity Group of Ares Management Corporation and Harvest Partners, LP.
Valet Living pioneered the doorstep waste and recycling industry and has broadened its service offering to include turns, maintenance, pet solutions, fitness, and other app-enabled resident services. Founded in 1995 and based in Tampa, Florida, Valet Living has achieved double-digit organic growth every year since its inception and currently performs more than 415 million service events annually across 1.6
Reckitt Benckiser’s venture arm RB Ventures has backed laundry and dry-cleaning startup Oxwash, which provides laundry services to the Oxford University coronavirus vaccine trial.
RB Ventures is partnering with early-stage start-ups who share its ‘fight for access’, with Oxwash being one of its first investments. Founded in 2017 by former NASA scientist Kyle Grant, Oxwash is using technology and methods that are aiming towards net zero carbon emissions.
The company has raised a total of GBP1.75 million in seed funding so far from RB, TrueSight Ventures, Biz Stone (co-founder of Twitter), Paul Forster (founder of Indeed.com), Founders Factory, Oxford Technology
YFM Equity Partners (YFM) has boosted its growing portfolio of high-growth technology businesses with an investment into marketing automation platform, Force24.
Force24 is a cloud-based marketing automation platform that allows an in-house marketing manager to deliver personalised marketing campaigns with Customer Relationship Management (CRM) integration. The platform is already trusted by a number of household brands including Michelin, Tarmac and BBC Children in Need, to deliver over 900 million marketing emails so far this year, and the business saw turnover leap by 40 per cent from 2018 to 2019, with revenues expected to reach over GBP3.5 million this year despite
Quantum Health, a consumer healthcare navigation and care coordination company, has secured a significant investment from Warburg Pincus, a global private equity firm focused on growth investing.
Great Hill Partners, which invested in Quantum Health in 2017 and is the company’s current majority shareholder, will retain a significant stake.
This investment will further accelerate Quantum Health’s investment in its technology platform and service delivery capabilities, as the company continues to provide high quality services to its growing customer base of self-insured employers.
“We look forward to partnering with Warburg Pincus, whose successful track record and experience in the healthcare and
European private equity firm PAI Partjers has acquired a majority stake in Euro Ethnic Foods (EEF), the company which owns and operates the grocery section of leading food retailer Grand Frais.
PAI will hold a 60 per cent stake in EEF with the company’s founders Léo & Patrick Bahadourian continuing to own the remaining 40 per cent of the business. Having helped to oversee the strong growth to date, the founders will remain closely involved in the strategy and the development of EEF.
Founded by the Bahadourian family, EEF operates primarily the grocery section of the Grand Frais stores (in
Ross Trustees, an independent professional trustee and pensions support services business, has secured investment from LDC, a mid-market private equity investor.
The investment provides a financial platform for the company’s future growth. Financial details of the investment are undisclosed.
Ross Trustees was founded in 2010 by Steven Ross and provides professional trustee and pensions support services, as well as pensions manager and secretariat services through its Ross Corporate Services division.
Ross Trustees has since grown to support more than 100 pension schemes, with asset values from GBP1 million to GBP6 billion. The business employs a team of 45
Edge Investments (Edge), a growth investor in the UK creative economy, has invested GBP1.7 million into BLAST, a global esports media network.
BLAST has contracted the best teams in the world, works with top broadcast talent in the space and utilises its leading production technology to offer world class media and entertainment experiences to an ever-expanding audience, be it across intimate broadcast shows, arena events, digital platforms, or top-class multi-platform content. The network is best known for the operation, production and broadcasting of BLAST Premier, a series of worldwide Counter-Strike tournaments, as well as launching tournaments in DOTA and Valorant
CVC Credit Partners (CVC Credit) has provided a GBP37.5 million first lien credit facility to Nurse Plus, a healthcare services business backed by Sovereign Capital Partners. The new funding has been fully underwritten by CVC Credit and will be used to refinance the company’s existing debt facility and to support the business’s ongoing growth strategy.
Founded in 2005, Nurse Plus is a provider of nursing and care personnel to both the UK’s health and social care sectors. The business is the second largest provider in the industry with 50+ branches, from which it recruits, develops and manages an extensive and
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