Deals
Blufolio, a Swiss blockchain investment firm and manager of the Luxembourg-registered blufolio venture capital fund, has made its first investment in YAPEAL, a Zurich-based digital banking start-up founded by an experienced team of finance and technology professionals.
YAPEAL is initially addressing a specific section of the Swiss consumer market, with strong potential for mid-term growth via a B2B proposition.
“We are delighted to support the growth of YAPEAL, which targets a clear gap in the Swiss banking market. We see great opportunities for YAPEAL’s world-class management team to scale the company’s offering via partnerships in the Swiss and broader European
Electronics For Imaging (EFI), a specialist in in customer focused digital printing, is to be acquired by an affiliate of Siris Capital Group (Siris) in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately USD1.7 billion.
Siris is a leading private equity firm focused on investing and driving value creation in technology companies that provide mission-critical solutions and are facing technology transitions.
Under the terms of the Agreement, which has been unanimously approved by EFI’s Board of Directors, an affiliate of Siris will acquire all the outstanding common stock of EFI for USD37.00 per share in cash. The purchase price represents an approximately
TA Services, the third-party logistics (3PL) and brokerage division of private equity firm One Equity Partners’ (OEP) portfolio company PS Logistics (PS Logistics), has completed the acquisition of Celadon Logistics Services (rom Celadon Group.
Headquartered in Indianapolis, Celadon Logistics is a leading 3PL provider of managed transportation, supply chain and warehousing services across North America. Celadon Logistics has over 500 employees who operate four offices and 11 warehouse facilities across seven states, supported by more than 15,000 carriers that ship FTL (full truckload) and LTL (less than truckload) deliveries.
“The addition of Celadon Logistics’ dry-van brokerage expertise and complementary customer
The Midlands Engine investment fund, through Maven Capital Partners, has provided Aurelius Environmental (Aurelius”), an environmental management and materials recycling business, with a GBP1.5 million debt funding package.
The funding will be used by Aurelius to purchase new machinery to improve efficiencies, reduce the company’s carbon footprint and help to support its sustainable development strategy and strong social and economic ethos.
Black Country-based Aurelius recycles lead acid batteries using an energy positive process that deals with the hazardous chemicals in lead acid batteries to produce enhanced products for re-use in the battery manufacturing industry. Working in partnership with Cambridge
Glennmont Partners has completed the divestment of a portfolio of five car park canopy solar PV projects in northern France. With a total operating capacity of 55MWp, the solar projects have been sold to the global solar independent power producer (IPP), Sonnedix.
The five solar PV car park canopy projects; Batilly (10.4MWp), Douai (11.9MWp), Flins (10.6MWp), Maubeuge (11.8MWp), and Sandouville (10.4MWp), commenced operations between December 2011 and January 2012.
The sale continues to demonstrate the successful divestment of Glennmont’s Clean Energy Fund Europe I (“Fund”), which was fully invested in 14 onshore wind, solar PV and bioenergy assets across
Foresight Group (Foresight) has made a GBP5 million growth capital investment into Northern Ireland’s largest private healthcare business, 352 Medical Group Limited (3fivetwo).
The investment was made via a new fund managed by Foresight in partnership with 57 Stars, dedicated to investing in businesses with the potential to boost the economy of Northern Ireland.
Founded in 2004 by NHS Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist, Suresh Tharma, 3fivetwo began by providing services such as health screening, 3D obstetrics and gynaecology scanning. Since then the Company has grown significantly, first and foremost as a service provider for private patients and also as a
Eldridge Industries (Eldridge) has closed USD1.36 billion of common equity issued to a partnership owned substantially by Swiss businessman and philanthropist, Hansjörg Wyss, and Eldridge Co-Founder, CEO and controlling-member, Todd Boehly.
This marks the second investment the Wyss and Boehly partnership have made into Eldridge. The new proceeds will further capitalise Eldridge and will drive strategic growth across the Company’s businesses.
“The new capital raised is a testament to our Company’s positive trajectory, strengthens our balance sheet, and positions us to further invest in our initiatives,” says Boehly. “We believe this additional capital will benefit all stakeholders of our businesses
LA-based private investment firm Atar Capital has acquired Sustainable Solutions Group (SSG) through its portfolio company, Recycling and Waste Solutions (RWS).
RWS provides US supply chains with managed solutions for commodity recycling and waste services.
SSG provides and manages recycling, waste and sustainability programs for regional and national companies throughout North America. Atar says consolidating the two companies into a single firm expands their ability to deliver sustainable, economic waste solutions and broadens opportunities for growth. Financial terms of the agreement have not been disclosed.
Robert Lezec, senior managing director at Atar, says: “We strongly believe in the future
Scottish Equity Partners (SEP) has sold its portfolio of onshore wind farms to Pensions Infrastructure Platform (PiP) for an enterprise value of GBP50 million.
Comprising 64 turbines in locations across the UK and Ireland the SEP portfolio contains all five of the wind farm investments made by the Environmental Capital Fund (ECF), a specialist infrastructure fund managed by SEP. The portfolio ranges from single-turbine sites across the Orkney and Shetland Islands to utility-scale turbines in Curraghderrig, Ireland and the Port of Tilbury in London.
The acquisition will supplement PiP’s existing wind assets including Aura, one of the largest stand-alone Feed
Canadian alternative asset manager Ninepoint Partners has acquired the assets of LOGiQ Global Partners, a global institutional advisory business, from Flow Capital Corp.
The LOGiQ Global Partners team has a long history of helping institutional investors achieve greater portfolio diversification by providing strategic access to differentiated global asset managers.
With this acquisition, Ninepoint Partners adds seasoned sales and client service professionals, CAD3.5 billion of institutional contracts and almost 20 years of longstanding relationships with Canadian Institutional investors. The combined platforms will further enhance Ninepoint’s ability to bring innovative alternative solutions to Canadian retail and institutional clients.
“This is a great
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