Deals
Independent infrastructure investment manager Ancala Partners (Ancala), on behalf of its managed funds, has sold its majority interest in Fore Freedom for an undisclosed sum to funds managed by HRL Morrison & Co. Fore Freedom is an independent developer, owner and operator of fibre networks across the Netherlands.
Ancala acquired a majority interest in Fore Freedom and its related entities in September 2018 and through a buy-and-build strategy has helped transform the business into a leading fibre network developer, owner and operator in over 80 business parks across the Netherlands. Fore Freedom provides essential broadband connectivity to businesses via high-speed,
Chicago-based private equity firm CORE Industrial Partners (CORE), has sold Prototek Holdings (Prototek), a rapid prototyping service provider, to Snow Phipps, a middle-market private equity firm.Founded in 1987, Prototek manufactures CNC machined and fabricated parts and components across both metal and plastic materials with a specialty in difficult and complex parts. Prototek serves a diverse customer base across a variety of end markets, including aerospace, defense, medical, robotics, electronics, consumer, telecommunications, and general industrial. Based outside of Boston with additional facilities in Milwaukee and Silicon Valley, the Company conforms to a variety of rigorous customer and industry standards and holds
Enhanced Healthcare Partners (EHP), a healthcare-focused private equity firm specialising in middle-market healthcare services businesses, has made an investment in NeuroPsychiatric Hospitals (NPH), a provider of integrated healthcare for patients with acute psychiatric disorders and complex medical and neurological disorders.Founded in 2006, NPH utilises an integrated model of care supported by an interdisciplinary team of healthcare practitioners to ensure the diverse needs of each of their patients are addressed. Unlike the traditional hospital emergency room or a psychiatric care facility where the clinical staff is not equipped to care for patients with both psychiatric and medical issues, NPH’s clinical staff
Mirabaud Asset Management’s private equity vehicle, Mirabaud Patrimoine Vivant fund, has acquired a stake in the Alain Ducasse Group – which has shone as a beacon of excellence in French culinary prowess and art de vivre for more than 30 years.Michelin-starred chef, Alain Ducasse, founder and CEO of the group, was one of the first in the industry to make naturalness the key ingredient in nourishing French cuisine. His move to bring in new shareholders is aimed at steering his group toward manufacturing and distribution. The continued momentum of the Alain Ducasse La Manufacture de Chocolat and La Manufacture de
Fibre optic and cabling technology specialist Lumenisity Limited has closed a GBP7.5 million funding round from a consortium of investors, including a GBP5 million investment from BGF, and GBP2.5 million from Parkwalk, an investor in UK university spinouts.The company’s existing industrial strategic investors have also supplied significant additional funding.
Lumenisity develops and manufactures advanced cable solutions to address the need for high speed transactions and bandwidth increases in high capacity communications systems.
Hollowcore fibres, where light propagates in an air containing core formed by microscopic capillaries, are long recognised as the next stage of advancement in fibre optic cable technology.
Presteigne Broadcast Hire (PBH), supplier to the TV studio and worldwide live broadcast market, has secured a GBP3 million working capital and refinance package from ThinCats, an alternative lender to mid-sized SMEs.PBH was founded in 1991 and bought by management with backing from funds managed by NVM Private Equity in 2016. It operates from bases near Gatwick Airport and in Warrington, providing a range of technical production solutions from dry hire supply to the full turn-key provision of portable production units with engineers for many prestigious events including the Boat Race, European Football Championships, FIFA World Cup and Rugby World
Border to Coast Pensions Partnership (“Border to Coast”), has secured GBP1 billion of commitments to Private Equity investments as it continues to develop new investment opportunities for its eleven local government pension schemes, which collectively have assets of cGBP46 billion.
Border to Coast has completed GBP500 million of private equity investments from its first offering (Series 1A) in line with expected timescales. The portfolio consists of nine investments with high quality managers providing exposure to Border to Coast’s targeted themes within Private Equity.
Border to Coast has also secured a further GBP485 million of commitments from eight Partner Funds to
One Equity Partners (OEP), a middle market private equity firm, is to sell Simplura Health Group (Simplura), a provider of high-quality home care services for the elderly and disabled, to Providence Service Corporation (: PRSC).
Through its subsidiary, Logisticare, Providence Service Corporation is the nation’s largest manager of non-emergency medical transportation programmess.
The sale of Simplura will result in the successful realisation of OEP’s 2016 investment in the market-leading provider of non-medical home care services. Headquartered in Valley Stream, New York, the Company employs over 15,000 professionals, including 14,300 direct caregivers from a network of 57 locations in seven states
The debt advisory team at Zeus Capital has advised on GBP1 billion of debt facilities, completing 21 transactions in the two years since its inception.Since starting in September 2018, the three-strong Zeus Capital Debt Advisory team has provided debt advisory services across a broad range of transaction types, including acquisition financings, re-financings, covenant amendments, balance sheet restructurings and lender education processes.
The team has been particularly active during the lockdown period caused by Covid-19, completing five transactions since March, primarily assisting companies to raise liquidity lines as well as assisting in restructuring their banking facilities.
In total, more
Vienna-based investment and trading platform Bitpanda has raised a USD52 million Series A funding round, Europe’s largest series A funding round of 2020, led by Peter Thiel’s Valar Ventures.
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