Deals
Decisiv, a specialist in Service Relationship Management (SRM) solutions, has secured a GBP30 million in equity funding from Kayne Partners, the growth equity group of Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors.
“The investment by Kayne Partners reflects our position as the leading provider of a highly successful and innovative approach to SRM for asset manufacturers, service providers, and asset owners,” says Dick Hyatt, President and CEO of Decisiv. “With this financial support we can continue to pursue ongoing initiatives in commercial vehicle, heavy equipment, construction, agriculture and mining markets in North America, Japan, Europe, Australia and Latin America.”
Decisiv SRM is
Inflexion Private Equity has expanded into North America with a focus on supporting portfolio company mergers and acquisitions and broader business development. Inflexion-backed businesses will benefit from direct access to an experienced, senior North American professional with an established network, offering local insight and direct access to this key market.
Inflexion’s North American presence will be based in Boston and led by Whitney Bower, who joins as Senior Adviser. Whit brings with him over 25 years of experience in building businesses, including working with BC Partners, HgCapital and 3i, and has an MBA from Harvard Business School. In 2014, he
Goldman Sachs has led a USD8 million Series A investment round in Immersive Labs’ cyber security skills platform. The funding, made alongside smaller private investors, will grow an offering which arms enterprise IT and cyber security teams with the latest skills by combining threat data with gamified learning.
The award-winning Immersive Labs platform uses real-time feeds of the latest attack techniques, hacker psychology and technological vulnerabilities to rapidly build cyber wargames for IT and security teams to learn from. The platform can up-skill people within hours of a threat emerging and can also be used to identify and fix less immediate weaknesses in the talent pool.
Lawyers from Carey Olsen’s corporate team in Guernsey have advised RBS International on a multi-million pound loan facility with Aurigny which enables the airline to purchase three new aircraft.
The loan from RBS International provides the States of Guernsey owned airline with the necessary capital required to purchase three ATR72-600s from Avions de Transport Regional GIE. The new aircraft incorporate ClearVision technology designed to reduce the disruption caused by fog.
Partner Andrew Boyce led the Carey Olsen team advising RBS International and was assisted by senior associate Vaishali Gupta and associate Rachel de la Haye. The firm acted as
Foresight Group (Foresight) has secured a GBP1.5 million investment from the Foresight Williams Technology EIS Fund (into Open Bionics Limited).
The investment has been made alongside an identical commitment from Downing LLP and Ananda Impact Ventures of GBP1.5 million each and Rathbone Nominees to complete the GBP4.66 million round.
Open Bionic, which was advised on the investment by TLT, is is an award-winning designer, manufacturer and supplier of bionic limbs with ambitions to become a market leader in a range of bespoke prostheses and assistive technologies and a global supplier of prosthetic and orthotic products and services. Based in
Gallant Capital Partners (Gallant), a Los Angeles-based investment firm, has invested in Aero Turbine, an aerospace maintenance, repair and overhaul service provider, in partnership with Doug Clayton and Dave Mattson.
The company provides services to the US military as well as foreign militaries and other commercial customers around the world. Aero Turbine’s comprehensive service offering includes a combination of accessory and engine servicing, repairs and on-site testing. With multiple NADCAP certifications and a deep breadth of capabilities, Aero Turbine supports a wide range of commercial and military platforms.
“Gallant is an ideal partner for Aero Turbine as we enter
Arma Partners has acted as exclusive financial advisor to Investcorp on the acquisition of Ubisense’s SmartSpace business and the Ubisense brand, a leader in Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) technology.
SmartSpace is an enterprise software and sensor platform that generates and interprets vast amounts of location data to create visibility of real-world objects and their interactions in real-time, enabling complex manufacturing processes with high levels of variability to be more flexible, easier to manage and easier to control. SmartSpace delivers a compelling value proposition for blue-chip customers across a number of verticals, including Aerospace, Commercial Vehicles, Passenger Vehicles, General Industry
Eventus WholeHealth (Eventus), a full-service, physician-led provider of interdisciplinary healthcare to individuals residing in skilled nursing and assisted living facilities, has secured an investment from Enhanced Healthcare Partners (Enhanced), a private equity firm focussed exclusively on investing in the healthcare industry.
Founded in 2014, Eventus is an on-site, primary care and ancillary service provider of integrated whole-health care for residents and patients of post-acute care facilities. Comprised of highly-trained physicians, psychiatrists, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, psychotherapists, podiatrists, optometrists, audiologists, and support staff, the Company provides residents and patients in post-acute care facilities with a progressive systems-based approach that aligns with
Paul Hastings has represented North Technology Group, a global market leader in sails and spars, and its private equity investor Oakley Capital, on its acquisition of MBrands International BV, operating under the watersports brand, Mystic.
Mystic is a specialist in kiteboarding, wakeboarding and windsurfing apparel and equipment. The Paul Hastings team included corporate partners Anu Balasubramanian and Garrett Hayes, tax partner Arun Birla, and associates Aimée Fabri, Steven King, and Hannah Gray.
Van Doorne advised on the Dutch law aspects of the transaction.
This is Paul Hastings’ first transaction for Oakley Capital, following the arrival of Anu Balasubramanian at the firm in June 2018.
RSK Group, a UK-based integrated environmental, engineering and technical services business, has acquired design, property and construction consultancy Pellings.
This is the ninth acquisition that RSK, a privately owned company with 36 international offices, more than 2700 staff and an annual turnover of GBP200 million, has made in the financial year 2018/2019.
Pellings employs around 125 people with an annual turnover of GBP12.5 million and four offices in London and the South East of England. It provides surveying, architecture, planning and project management and facilities management services for housing, education and healthcare projects. It has recently worked on a
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