Deals
Sentinel Capital Partners, a private equity firm that invests in promising companies in the lower mid-market, has recapitalised New Era Technology, a technology solutions provider serving customers in the United States, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, and Australia.
Terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
New Era provides a comprehensive suite of managed services and systems integration capabilities for a wide range of IT solutions, including collaboration, data networking, and security. Employing a customer-centric business model, New Era is a trusted technology advisor to more than 6,500 worldwide customers – often name-brand, blue-chip multinational businesses – that span
CVC Strategic Opportunities II is to acquire a 50 per cent stake in DFE Pharma (DFE), a global excipients manufacturer for the pharmaceutical industry.
DFE is currently a 50/50 joint venture between dairy companies FrieslandCampina and Fonterra. CVC Strategic Opportunities II will acquire Fonterra’s holding in the business.
Headquartered in Goch, Germany, DFE is a global leading excipient manufacturer. Excipients are the inactive substances that are blended with the active ingredients in medicine for purposes such as binding, bulking, disintegration or to aid in the processing of the active ingredient. With operations in Europe, India and New Zealand and
UK-based technology company Everledger has completed its USD20 million Series A funding led by Tencent Holdings Ltd, a Chinese internet-based services provider.
Graphene Ventures, Bloomberg Beta, Rakuten, Fidelity and Vickers Venture Partners have also participated.
Leanne Kemp, founder and CEO of Everledger, says: “Today’s announcement amplifies our commitment to global markets, whilst fuelling our industry momentum as we continue to build Everledger. Having this strong investor cohort join us at this stage in our development is both validation of the innovation we’ve displayed to date, and a statement of future intent. They will support us in bringing more visibility
Development Partners International (DPI), a pan-African focused private equity firm, has invested USD54 million in Channel VAS, a fintech provider of mobile financial and airtime credit services operating in Africa, Asia and the Middle East.
Channel VAS provides Mobile Financial Services, Big Data Analytics and Airtime Credit Services to mobile operators and financial institutions in more than 30 countries, enabling access to micro and nano loans including cash, handsets, airtime and data. Since the business began in 2012, it has helped clients serve hundreds of millions of customers in the region.
The company has a track record of delivery
CI Capital portfolio company Maroon Group has acquired Cambrian Solutions, a distributor of specialty ingredients and chemicals based in Oakville, Ontario, Canada.
This marks Maroon Group’s tenth add-on acquisition and significantly extends the company’s North American footprint, providing Maroon with leading distribution capabilities across key end markets in Canada.
Established in 1995, Cambrian Solutions offers a broad portfolio of specialty ingredients and chemicals to customers in the natural and organic; food; household, industrial, and institutional (HI&I); health ingredients; personal care; and industrial markets. This acquisition broadens Maroon Group’s North American network of customers, suppliers, and facilities and reinforces Maroon’s
Capricorn Capital Partners HK Limited, the Hong Kong arm of the family-owned global direct private investment business Capricorn Capital Group, has made its first acquisition in Asia, taking a majority stake in Asia-Pacific Accounting & Secretarial Services Limited (A-Pass) in Hong Kong.
A-Pass was founded in 2006 by Andrew Burgin, a UK national born in Hong Kong, and since then the firm has grown into a well-respected provider of corporate formation, secretarial, accounting, taxation reporting, trade and payroll services. Capricorn Capital acquired 67 per cent and the firm has already made a number of key strategic hires to bolster the
Orbital Education has received a minority investment from BGF, the UK and Ireland’s most active investor in growing businesses, to support the group’s global growth ambitions.
Headquartered in Manchester, Orbital Education operates premium international schools for local and expat families looking to educate their children within an English-speaking, high-quality school environment. The group was started by serial entrepreneur Kevin McNeany, best known as the founder of Nord Anglia Education, which he led to an IPO in 1997 and is now the world’s largest private education business.
Orbital Education schools specialise in the delivery of English national curriculum for children
Stone-Goff Partners (SGP) has invested in Walker Sands, a marketing agency focused on accelerating the growth of B2B brands.
The investment will fuel further growth for Walker Sands, including new service offerings, new offices and potential acquisitions.
From strategy to execution, Walker Sands offers tailored solutions to drive real business results for its B2B clients. Core capabilities include public relations, demand generation, branding, creative, marketing strategy, and web.
The company is a seven-time member of the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing companies and has received numerous workplace culture awards, including top agency to work for (Holmes Report), a
Hermes Infrastructure, on behalf of Hermes Infrastructure Fund II (HIF II), is to invest in an 813 megawatt (MW) portfolio of five Swedish onshore wind farms in conjunction with consortium partner CGN Europe Energy (CGNEE).
HIF II will take an initial 20 per cent equity ownership stake and CGNEE has underwritten the remaining 80 per cent. Aquila Capital will retain an ongoing role in relation to the portfolio.
The portfolio comprises two operational onshore wind farms with an aggregate capacity of 216MW and three onshore wind projects in late-stage construction with an aggregate capacity of 597MW, all located in
Lookiero, an online personal shopping service for clothes and accessories, has closed a USD19 million funding round led by venture capital fund MMC Ventures with support from existing investor All Iron Ventures, and new investors Bonsai Partners, 10x and Santander Smart.
The funding will allow the company to continue its international expansion and strengthen its leadership position within its main markets: Spain, France and the UK.
Founded in 2015 by Oier Urrutia, Lookiero combines the knowledge of personal stylists, detailed customer profiles and in-house learning algorithms to provide a fully-personalised online shopping experience to its customers. It delivers a
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