Deals
A cross-jurisdictional Carey Olsen team has advised Marsh & McLennan Companies (MMC) on its acquisition of Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group plc for USD5.6 billion in fully diluted equity value.
The acquisition, which was first announced in September 2018, has now completed and advances MMC’s leadership position in insurance and reinsurance brokerage, health and retirement. It also builds on the group’s efforts to expand in faster-growing geographies and market segments and invest in data and analytics.
Working alongside Slaughter and May who were advising MMC as an integrated team with Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, Carey Olsen advised on the
Hg Saturn and its investors have agreed to a further circa EUR640 million equity investment in Visma, a provider of business-critical software to private and public enterprises in the Nordic, Benelux and Baltic regions.
The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) will also make a further investment of circa EUR110 million in Visma as part of this transaction.
Hg is already the majority owner of Visma, having led the original delisting of Visma from the Oslo Stock Exchange in 2006. Hg has been the lead or co-lead investor in Visma for the last 13 years. Cinven, who first invested
Bryan, Garnier & Co has acquired Beringer Finance, a Nordic-focused boutique investment bank with offices in Stockholm, Oslo, Reykjavik and Palo Alto.
Throughout the past 10 years, Beringer Finance has advised on over 140 transactions, building a strong track record in the TMT, IT Services, and Fintech markets. The closing is subject to pending regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions.
Olivier Garnier, Co-founder and Managing Partner of Bryan, Garnier & Co, says: “Bryan, Garnier & Co is an independent partnership that combines highly experienced, entrepreneur-minded investment banking professionals with the services and expertise of a top-tier investment bank. The
Alsid, an active directory protection solution provider announces a Series A funding record of EUR13 million (USD15 million) in investment led by Idinvest Partners, a European capital-investment company.
This capital will be used to continue and accelerate the international success they have already achieved in France and Hong Kong.
Alsid was founded in 2016 by Emmanuel Gras and Luc Delsalle, both experts at the ANSSI (NCSC – France’s National Cyber Security Center). The company rapidly developed its own revolutionary approach to Active Directory security, a vital infrastructure for the security and business continuity of enterprises. Thanks to their proven
Cytora, a provider of AI-powered solutions for the commercial insurance industry, has secured GBP25 million in Series B funding round led by the EQT Ventures.
Other participants include existing investors Cambridge Innovation Capital, Parkwalk, and a number of angel investors. The funding will be used to accelerate the expansion of Cytora’s product suite and scaling into new geographies.
Cytora was founded and spun out of the University of Cambridge in 2014 by a team of machine learning scientists, data engineers and strategists. The founding team recognised that – unlike the simplicity of consumer car insurance – applying for commercial insurance
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
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