HIG Growth Partners (HIG), the growth capital investment affiliate of HIG Capital, has invested in the Series D growth financing for Passport Labs, a mobility management platform. Founded in 2010 and based in Charlotte, North Carolina, Passport serves nearly 1,000 clients worldwide, helping them solve mobility challenges with solutions for parking, enforcement, permits, transit, and micro-mobility. Passport processes more than 100 million curbside transactions each year, resulting in more than USD1.5 billion processed to date. The Company’s suite of solutions enables cities to take control of the curb, optimise mobility and create an interface between cities’ infrastructure and vehicles. Passport’s

Cinesite announced has secured investment from Gryphion Capital Investments along with new banking facilities from Barclays and NatWest which amount to USD112 million. Working together Barclays and NatWest will initially provide Cinesite with up to USD52 million for general funding and revolving credit facilities. The independent studio group has a further USD20m in future flexible facilities to deal with acquisition or expansion. In parallel, Gryphion Capital Investments has taken a minority equity position in the company which will further support Cinesite’s strategy for growth.    Headquartered in London, the Cinesite Group operates world class facilities in Berlin, Montreal, Munich &

Dust Mobile, an innovative “secure-by-design” mobile network operator, has raised an initial EUR3 million to launch its commercial deployment. Dust Mobile aims to become the European leader in secure mobile communications with an offer that meets the growing need for protection against cyber threats. Founded by Jean Michel Henrard and François d’Ormesson in mid-2017, Dust Mobile sells secure proprietary SIM cards – compatible with all smartphones and connected objects – combined with a fully fledged secured mobile communications plan. This offer provides not only full voice, SMS and data communications encryption, but also protects against attacks on cellular network signalling

The Riverside Company, a global private equity firm focused on the smaller end of the middle market, has invested in HealthTech BioActives (HTBA). HTBA is a Spanish manufacturer of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs), excipients, flavourings and sweeteners for the pharmaceutical, nutraceutical and cosmetic industries, as well as ingredients for human and animal feed with a total sales of EUR51 million in 2018. T he company’s products, derived from citrus and vitamin B12 derivatives, sell in more than 90 countries worldwide. HTBA is a carve-out of Ferrer, a well-known international pharmaceutical company headquartered in Barcelona, Spain. The deal includes the 140

Middle market private equity firm One Equity Partners (OEP) has made a significant minority investment in Nexion, an automotive solutions business, focused on garage equipment, diagnostics, and advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) aftermarket solutions. Financial terms of the private transaction have not been disclosed. Founded in 1954 and headquartered in Correggio, Italy, Nexion manages a portfolio of historic brands, including Corghi, Sice, Hpa-Faip, Mondolfo Ferro, Teco, Tecnomotor, Orlandini, Bright, Stenhoj, Sherpa, Autopstenhoj. The Company specializes in tire changers, wheel balancers, aligners, lifts, diagnostics, and ADAS solutions. Nexion has approximately 2,000 employees and 14 manufacturing and design facilities in Italy, Denmark,

Great Point Media (Great Point), a London-based media and investment group and US institutional fund manager MC Credit Partners (MCCP), have partnered to finance film and television programming globally. Funds managed by MCCP will invest up to USD100 million in the partnership and Great Point has already committed a minimum of USD80 million. It represents the first institutional investment for Great Point’s global project finance fund and will be used to finance larger-scale media projects. Commenting on the investment, Robert Halmi, Chairman of Great Point Media, says: “Since 2013, Great Point Media has produced, financed and distributed more than USD600m

Waracle, one of the UK’s largest mobile apps and digital products developers, has received a GBP4.8 million investment from BGF, the UK and Ireland’s most active investor in growing businesses, to support its long-term growth plans. Waracle designs, develops and manages mobile apps and other digital products, working with some of the UK’s largest businesses across sectors including fintech, digital health and energy. Waracle continues to develop industry-leading digital solutions across the full mobile app development spectrum, including mobile, IoT, and Extended Reality (AR and VR). Founded in Dundee in 2007, the business has since scaled across Scotland with 140