Deals
Prestige Funds, a specialist private debt fund manager, has loaned over GBP 100 million in secured finance to biogas and anaerobic digestion projects in the UK over the last nine months.
The financing is managed through Privilege Finance, part of the same group of companies and a specialist in lending to businesses in the UK’s agricultural sector.
With the growth in this activity, Prestige has also relocated Privilege Finance to new offices north of Cambridge. This reflects the growing headcount with more than 30 additional personnel, and the scope of the group’s agri-lending activities.
Craig Reeves, Founder of
CAPZA – a private investment platform specialising on small and mid-caps – has acquired, alongside Bpifrance, a minority stake in the Coutot-Roehrig group, a specialist in inheritance genealogy.
The purpose of this operation is to support the group’s growth, both organic and external, and to establish its leadership in the sector worldwide.
Founded in 1894, Coutot-Roehrig’s core activity consists in identifying heirs in the context of successions, a profession of “long-term” investigator (from a few months to a few years, in France and across the world).
In its more than 120 years of existence, the Coutot-Roehrig group has
Real estate technology company Blueground has closed a USD50 million (GBP40 million) Series B round and expanded of its global footprint by launching in London.
The round was co-led by two prominent investment firms: Prime Ventures and WestCap Investment Partners. WestCap’s founding partner, Laurence Tosi, is an experienced investor and operator, who served as the long-time CFO of private equity firm Blackstone, and subsequently, as the CFO of Airbnb, the leading home-sharing marketplace.
Blueground envisions a world in which people feel at home wherever they choose to live, through their offering of beautifully designed, tech-powered flats for stays starting from
Broadstone, one of the UK’s leading employee benefits and pensions consulting businesses, has acquired Bristol-based BBS Consultants and Actuaries.
This is Broadstone’s fourth and largest acquisition in 2019 following the purchases of Liverpool-based CS Financial Solutions, Thomson Dickson Consulting in Glasgow and the London-based 3HR Benefits Consultancy.
Founded in 1997, BBS has established itself as a technology-led, highly respected specialist firm of workplace pensions consultants, actuaries, investment advisers and administrators. With some 250 clients, BBS is a significant player in the South West and is focussed on providing high quality pensions solutions to both trustees and employers.
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ARQIS has advised SkyFive on the acquisition of the core assets of the Air-to-Ground (A2G) business division from Nokia. Both parties have agreed not to disclose the purchase price.
Nokia’s A2G technology is designed to provide broadband telecom connectivity for continental air travel and has significant technology and cost advantages over today’s satellite telecom solutions. The acquired assets make SkyFive the world’s first A2G communications specialist. SkyFive assumes responsibility for the end-to-end solution, which comprises avionics, telecommunications and IT systems. Nokia remains responsible for the sale and implementation of the backbone network – an integral part of the solution –
Private equity fund Trilantic Capital Partners IV Europe (Trilantic Europe), via its subsidiary TCP Lux Eurinvest (Eurinvest) is to sell 8.6 million shares (equal to 28.67 per cent of the share capital) of Gamenet Group, a operator in the Italian sports betting and gaming sector, to a company formed on behalf of funds managed by Apollo Management IX (Apollo).
The agreed price is equal to EUR12.5 per share. Completion is subject to, inter alia, Antitrust and Agenzia delle Dogane e dei Monopoli clearances and is expected to occur by year end 2019. Upon completion, the buyer will be required to
Foresight Group LLP (Foresight) has made its thirteenth investment from the Foresight Williams Technology EIS Fund into Sheffield-based, Additive Manufacturing Technologies Limited (AMT), a developer of industrial additive manufacturing (3D printing).
The investment is part of a GBP4.2 million round led by DSM Venturing.
AMT was founded in 2017 by Joseph Crabtree, who serves as CEO of the company. It was set up with the aim of developing industrial technologies to enable the deployment of 3D printing for mass production and address the shortcomings of existing post-process technologies. AMT’s first product, PostPro£D, is based on the boundary layer automated
Anacapa Partners, a private equity firms focused on acquisitions in the lower middle market, has completed a growth investment in I4PRO Informática LTDA (I4PRO). The financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Founded in 2005, I4PRO is an end-to-end enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution for the insurance market in Brazil. It provides a suite of products designed for insurance workflow processes, including selling, underwriting and administering policies, collecting premiums and processing claims. I4PRO provides customised implementation of these products and facilities ongoing updates for maintenance and regulatory compliance. The company also offers modules for specialty business lines, such
By Paul Bryant – “We had a hunch that small and mid-cap managers had more ‘juice to squeeze’ from their deals and deliver higher returns than large-cap managers. But we didn’t have hard evidence to back that view up,” says Dr Andrea Carnelli Dompé, vice president at Pantheon, an investor with USD46 billion of assets under management in private equity, infrastructure and real assets.
“As we already had an extensive database of deal data, it just made sense to review that critically, and test to see if our hunch was right.”
Pantheon analysed 2,237 buyout deals from around the world,
Middle market private equity firm One Rock Capital Partners is to acquire Innophos Holdings (Innophos), an nternational producer of essential ingredients, for USD32.00 per share in cash in a transaction valued at approximately USD932 million, including the assumption of debt.
The transaction has been unanimously approved by Innophos’ Board of Directors.
The offer price represents an 18% premium to the 30-trading day volume weighted average closing share price of Innophos’ common stock ended September 9, 2019, the last trading day prior to published market speculation regarding a potential transaction involving the Company.
“After careful consideration and a thorough
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