Deals
Align Capital Partners (ACP) has completed the majority recapitalisation of Marco Rubber & Plastics (Marco), a technology-enabled, speciality distributor of elastomer components, including O-rings, gaskets, and other high-performance seals and products.Headquartered in Seabrook, NH, Marco delivers high value performance sealing solutions to thousands of customers annually across a broad array of end markets, including aerospace, medical, semiconductor, chemical, and many other diverse markets. Marco’s experienced team developed the Company’s proprietary technology platform to link a global supply network, representing more than 3,000 material formulations, more than a million SKUs, and custom products to provide fast and cost-effective service to customers
FXI has successfully completed its previously announced merger with Innocor, creating a leading provider of comfort technology solutions. The breadth of the combined company’s capabilities enables it to offer a complete array of end-to-end solutions across the broadest range of end markets – including bedding, furniture, healthcare, filtration, transportation, and acoustics. The combined company will operate under the FXI name.
The combined company possesses a wide range of relationships and capabilities, built through the heritage of two complementary industry pioneers, to deliver solutions that enhance everyday life. Consumers can find FXI’s products in a multitude of applications and experience the
European venture capital fund Speedinvest has raised EUR190 million for its third fund, increasing Speedinvest’s total AUM to more than EUR400 million.
Small World Financial Services, a UK-head headquartered money transfer provider backed by Equistone Partners Europe, has agreed to acquire French international payments company MoneyGlobe.
O’Melveny advised venture capital firm Autotech Ventures as it led the latest round of financing for Digital Motors, an automotive retail and financial technology company.In this round, Digital Motors raised an undisclosed amount of funding from multiple investors including Autotech Ventures as well as Jaguar, Land Rover’s London-based InMotion Ventures, OpenRoad Auto Group, Maryann Keller, and Ryan Kerrigan, Managing Director of Kerrigan Advisors investors. The funds will be used to finance Digital Motors growth strategy.
Autotech Ventures manages over USD200 million focused on the $3 trillion ground transportation sector. It provides startups with capital, ground transportation market intelligence, and access
techspert.io, an AI-driven technology for mapping the world’s expertise and connecting businesses directly to the source of technical and market insights, has raised GBP3.76 million in Series A funding.
BGF has successfully exited its investment in fast-growth web hosting company, Miss Group, as financial backing has been secured from private equity investor Perwyn.Miss Group, which offers services including web hosting, domain registration and VPS to SMEs, received an initial GBP6.4 million from BGF in August 2018. This was followed by a further GBP13 million investment to accelerate its international expansion strategy in 2019.
Led by CEO Mattias Kaneteg, Miss Group has completed seven acquisitions across Scandinavia, Spain and the US since BGF invested as a minority equity partner. The business has also posted strong organic growth, outpacing competitors across
Private equity investors completed 807 deals in Q4 2019, slightly down on the previous quarter, but still the second highest in the last decade, according to the Q4 2019 Unquote Private Equity Barometer, produced in association with Aberdeen Standard Investments.A substantial amount of capital was deployed in the last three months of the year, with quarterly deal value posting its third highest figure of the last decade at EUR67.6 billion.
On the back of three exceptionally strong quarters in succession, private equity activity in 2019 broke new ground, with total deal volume and value reaching all-time annual records.
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McKinsey & Company today published its Global Private Markets Review 2020, a comprehensive analysis of the dynamics and performance of the private investing industry.Entitled A new decade for private markets, the report, which explores private equity, real estate, infrastructure, natural resources, and private debt, finds
Private investment markets completed a decade of growth with another strong year in 2019, raising USD919 billion, close to 2018’s record levels. In the past ten years fundraising totalled more than double the amount raised in the previous decade.
That’s according to McKinsey & Company’s Global Private Markets Review 2020, which provides a comprehensive analysis
European private equity investment firm Oakley Capital is to sell a majority stake in atHome Group, a Luxembourg-based online classifieds and mortgage broking business, to Mayfair Equity Partners.
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