Deals
UK relocations and storage businesses, Doree Bonner Holdings Limited, has secured a GBP multi-million debt finance package from Connection Capital, the specialist private client investment business. The package will enable Doree Bonner to refinance its existing senior secured debt facilities, and provide working and growth capital as it pursues a value-enhancing acquisition strategy, with several targets already identified.
Connection Capital says that the deal highlights that SMEs are increasingly considering private capital as a suitable provider for their loan financing needs, and that demand from private investors and family offices for direct debt investments, which provide regular income, continue to grow.
Twin Brook Capital Partners (Twin Brook), the middle market direct lending subsidiary of Angelo Gordon, has committed over USD3.3 billion to private equity sponsors in support of healthcare transactions, including over USD1.3 billion last year alone. In 2019, Twin Brook completed 24 healthcare transactions across 14 subsectors, bringing the Firm’s total number of healthcare transactions closed to more than 80 since inception.
Twin Brook served as lead agent on all the healthcare transactions it supported in 2019, which included 14 new platform financings and 10 add-on financings.
“We achieved increased momentum in 2019, putting over USD1.3 billion to work
Dun & Bradstreet, a provider of business decisioning data and analytics, has acquired Orb Intelligence, a prominent digital business identity and firmographic data provider. “The acquisition of Orb Intelligence cements our strategy to link the digital and physical worlds in the largest global repository of B2B data, and to provide enriched firmographic data to customer profiles to help our clients more effectively execute campaigns to improve customer interactions and revenue returns,” says Michael Bird, President, Sales & Marketing Solutions, Dun & Bradstreet. “Clients can rely on Dun & Bradstreet as the one-stop-shop for all of their data-driven, decision-making and customer engagement
Graycliff Partners has sold 901D Holdings (901D) to Curtiss-Wright Corporation for USD132 million. 901D is a leading designer and manufacturer of mission-critical integrated electronic systems, subsystems and ruggedised shipboard enclosure solutions supporting every major US Navy shipbuilding program.
Since being acquired in 2016, Graycliff has worked to carve out 901D as a fully independent company from its prior ownership within a conglomerate of related businesses. Through a combination of internal promotions and external recruitment, Graycliff worked with the company to build a world class management team. During Graycliff’s ownership, 901D substantially expanded its production capacity and added increasingly complex systems
ARQIS has advised the listed Swiss technology group Oerlikon on the acquisition of D-Coat, a German supplier of diamond coating technologies. The Parties have agreed not to disclose the purchase price.The acquisition is a further step in Oerlikon’s strategy to strengthen its surface coating portfolio. Day-to-day operations at the existing D-Coat site as well as business and cooperation with D-Coat customers and partners will continue as before, but now with D-Coat as part of Oerlikon Balzers.
D-Coat GmbH was founded in 2006 and is one of the technology leaders in the field diamond coatings for cutting tools. This applies in
Augusta & Co (Augusta), a specialist financial adviser to the renewable energy industry, has overseen the sale of an 80 per cent stake in Finnish utility firm Fortum’s wind portfolio across Norway, Finland and Sweden, accounting for approximately 500MW of operational and construction projects, to funds advised by Credit Suisse Energy Infrastructure Partners (CSEIP).
UK mid-market private equity investor Livingbridge is re-investing as a minority shareholder in Sykes Holiday Cottages (Sykes), a UK-basedindependent holiday home provider with over 25 years’ experience in the market.Livingbridge first invested in Sykes in January 2015, when the business managed 5,000 properties in the UK and Ireland. Livingbridge successfully sold Sykes to private equity firm Vitruvian Partners in October 2019, at which time it managed over 17,500 properties, having successfully delivered market leading organic growth and completed 12 acquisitions underpinned by a digital transformation strategy.
Livingbridge was offered the opportunity to re-invest in Sykes and following a full
Intertrust, a provider of tech-enabled fund and corporate solutions to clients operating and investing in the international business environment, has expanded its presence in the aviation finance sector with the acquisition of London-based Wells Fargo Trust Corporation Limited.
Private equity firm MCI Group’s MCI.EuroVentures fund is selling a portion of its shares in Netrisk, an online insurance brokerage in Hungary, to global growth private equity firm TA Associates for EUR55 million (PLN 235 million). As a result of the partial exit, MCI.EuroVentures (buyout fund of MCI Group) has realised a return on investment of 3.0x CoC and 73 per cent IRR.
MCI Group, one of the leading investors in the Central and Eastern European (EU-CEE) region, remains an important investor in Netrisk and is retaining a 23.7 per cent stake in the company to actively help build value for
Options, a provider of cloud-enabled managed services to the global capital markets, has secured a significant growth investment from Abry Partners, a Boston-based sector focused private equity firm. The transaction will enable the firm’s executive team to significantly accelerate its growth strategy, pursue strategic M&A targets, invest further in the firm’s technology platform and expand Options’ reach in key financial centres globally. No further terms of the transaction were disclosed.
Options, founded in 1993 as a hedge fund technology services provider, has expanded rapidly in recent years and now finds itself as an established market leader in outsourced financial technology and managed
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