Deals
Cooper’s Hawk Winery & Restaurants, an lifestyle brand centred around food and wine, has secured an investment by a fund managed by the Private Equity Group of Ares Management Corporation (ARES). Terms of the investment have not been disclosed.
Since its founding in 2005, Cooper’s Hawk has built the world’s largest wine club and a highly differentiated and experiential restaurant concept. Today, the company has nearly 400,000 wine club members across its 36 restaurants and tasting rooms. The concept was created with a vision to create memorable moments that enrich lives by bringing a wine country experience to local communities,
Audax Private Equity (Audax), in partnership with management, has completed the sale of Preferred Compounding Corporation (Preferred Compounding) to HEXPOL (STO:HPOL-B).
Headquartered in Copley, OH, Preferred is a leading provider of proprietary and custom mixed rubber compounds, including strips, slabs, pellets, and calendered sheet end forms. The Company maintains relationships with a broad set of blue-chip customers across several end markets, such as automotive, general industrial, and infrastructure. Under Audax ownership, Preferred completed three add-on acquisitions and significantly increased sales volume.
Jay Mitchell, Managing Director at Audax Group, says: “We are proud to have partnered with Ken Bloom and the
Maven Capital Partners (Maven), has led a GBP900,000 investment in supercomputing technology specialist, ebb3 Limited (ebb3’).
A total of GBP750,000 was invested by NPIF – Maven Equity Finance (NPIF), managed by Maven and part of the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund, with a further GBP150,000 provided by the Maven VCTs.
The funding will enable ebb3 to further scale the business, double its headcount and support the growing demand for the company’s complete high-performance virtual workspace.
ebb3 redefine the concept of VDI for organisations that rely on data-intensive applications. Unlike any other service provider, ebb3 securely bring virtual desktops and high-performance
The Kempen European Private Equity Fund has acquired a significant direct interest in Wilvo Group a family business in the province of Brabant in the Netherlands that specialises in the processing of thin sheet metal and precision parts assembly.
Wilvo Group employs 230 people and has an annual turnover of approximately EUR50 million.
The participation of the Kempen European Private Equity Fund is a co-investment with the German investment company Steadfast Capital. The investors have backed the management buy-out by the Wilvo management team, who, as new co-owners, are highly motivated to drive further growth for Wilvo Group, both
Private equity manager Keensight Capital has acquired Infarco’s majority stake in 3P Biopharmaceuticals, a Contract Development and Manufacturing Organisation (CDMO) specialised in the process development and GMP manufacturing of biologics.
Founded in 2006 and based near Pamplona, Spain, 3P Biopharmaceuticals offers a complete biologics production service, from preclinical and clinical stages, all the way to full-scale commercial manufacturing.
3P provides a comprehensive service which is focused on quality, flexibility and a strong, two-way partnership with its clients.
With more than 240 employees and a wide number of customers located in Europe, North America, Australia and Asia, 3P Biopharmaceuticals has successfully
CEE private equity firm Innova Capital is to acquire Optiplaza, one of the major players in the Romanian optical market. The transaction marks further stronger entry of the fund into the attractive and growing optical market.
The funds managed by Innova Capital have signed an agreement to acquire 100 per cent of shares in Optiplaza. This is the second transaction by Innova Capital in the optical space in Romania this year. Both transactions are currently being assessed by the Competition Council and will be implemented following their clearance by the competition authority.
Optiplaza was set up in 2004 and
Cairngorm Capital Partners’ second fund, Cairngorm Capital LP II, has acquired Millbrook Healthcare Limited (Millbrook), together with its subsidiaries, Ultimate Healthcare Limited and Consolor Limited.
The transaction marks Cairngorm Capital’s entry into the assisted living sector, a long-held objective for the firm, which was facilitated by the appointment of Dr Amit Thaper as Investment Director in April 2017. Dr Thaper, who practiced as an orthopaedic surgeon with the NHS for several years, will use his knowledge and expertise to help Millbrook to respond proactively to the challenges presented by an ageing population and to enhance service users’ experiences.
Established in
Foresight Group (Foresight) has invested a further GBP4 million of growth capital into portfolio company ONFAB to fund the acquisition of Lancashire based designer and manufacturer of clean air containment products, Envair Holdings Limited (Envair).
ONFAB produces flexible clean-air enclosures and consumables, designed and manufactured in-house from sites in Cheshire and Spain. Founded in 2005 by Oliver Nulty, ONFAB received investment from the GBP60 million Foresight Regional Investment LP fund in September 2017 to facilitate a majority buyout of the business. Since then, with an enlarged team and renewed focus on sales, margins and new products, it has grown by
Global investment bank GCA Altium has advised Cawood Scientific, a UK-based provider of accredited analytical testing and sampling services in the agriculture and environmental renewables sectors, on its partnership with Waterland Private Equity.
This is the second time that GCA Altium has advised Cawood, having supported the business on its secondary buyout by Inflexion Private Equity in 2017.
Cawood offers multi-disciplinary analytical sampling and testing services to the agronomy, livestock, agrochemical and environmental renewables sectors, and currently serves over 3,000 customers. Headquartered in Berkshire, the company operates across five accredited laboratories and an accredited sampling business, and is supported
Investment company Fortino Capital Partners has taken a majority stake in the Odin Group, an independent ICT service provider consisting of the companies Previder, Heutink ICT and Winvision.
The management of the Odin Group believes that Fortino is the right partner to support their growth ambitions and the further development of the Odin Group, whereby delivering excellent customer service will be paramount.
Odin Group specialises in IT solutions, cloud hosting, security, managed services and consultancy. The Odin Group relies on the knowledge of its 470 employees to provide its customers with the required expertise in making strategic ICT decisions.
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