Deals
SYZ Group has launched SYZ Capital, a private market investment and advisory specialist. As the fourth business arm of the group, it focuses on selecting attractive investment opportunities across private markets, offering tailor-made solutions through thematic funds and co-investment vehicles, as well as advisory services around financing solutions and capital structuring.
SYZ Capital is a private markets investment and advisory specialist founded by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs. It focuses on investment opportunities in segments of private markets overlooked by traditional market participants because of size, complexity or varying investment horizons.
Based in Zurich, Switzerland, and co-managed by Marc Syz and
Private equity firm TA Associates is to invest, alongside GI Partners, in Netsmart Technologies (Netsmart) a healthcare software company delivering management process solutions and electronic medical records to the health and human services (HHS) and post-acute end markets.
TA Associates and GI Partners, a current shareholder in Netsmart, will acquire the stake in Netsmart held by Allscripts Healthcare Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ: MDRX). The transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2018 and is subject to customary closing conditions. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Founded in 1968, Netsmart provides software and services to the
Puma Private Equity, the private equity division of Puma Investments, has closed an investment of GBP3.6 million into Dymag Group, the British designer and manufacturer of carbon hybrid automotive wheels.
Established in 1974, the company is a pioneer in carbon wheel technology and expects a record 2019, with the investment fuelling its global growth plans.
Puma Private Equity advises Puma Investments on discretionary funding to SMEs across all sectors, and partners with SME management teams to accelerate growth and help businesses achieve their potential. So far this year, funds managed by Puma Investments have invested GBP25 million into seven
Italmatch Chemicals, a global speciality chemical group focussed on the production and marketing of performance additives for water & process treatment, oil & gas, industrial lubricants and plastics, is to acquire BWA Water Additives, a global provider of sustainable water management solutions for the oil & gas, industrial water treatment and desalination industries.
This combination of two highly complementary companies allows the development of strategic, commercial and industrial synergies, consistent with the aim of expanding and broadening Italmatch Chemicals’ current production and marketing capabilities for water management chemicals. BWA Water Additives, having more than 40 years’ experience in the marketing
Two investment management platform firms have formed a partnership to offer a one-stop hosting solution to their international client base of hedge funds, private equity and real estate funds.
Laven Partners will provide UK Appointed Representative and AIFM solutions as well as its unique and world-leading compliance technology monitoring solutions. Fuchs Asset Management meanhwile, an established management company in Luxembourg covering UCITS AIFMD and MIFID solutions, will provide an umbrella to suit every client’s needs. Laven Partners has offices in London and New York. Fuchs Asset Management has offices in Luxembourg, Belgium and Switzerland.
The partnership will give Laven’s
A consortium of growth-oriented private equity investors led by CX Partners Fund 2 Limited has acquired a significant equity ownership in Veeda Clinical Research Private Limited.
The investors will make additional investments in the company over a period of time to fund the growth requirements of the company.
The Board of Directors of the company will be reconstituted to have representatives from the incoming investors. Apurva Shah and Binoy Gardi, the promoters, will continue on the Board of the company and lead the management team.
Veeda is the largest independent Clinical Research Organisation in India established in 2004
Adams Street Partners, a private markets investment management firm with USD35 billion of assets under management, has provided a senior secured term loan and a revolving credit facility to Permira, the global private equity firm, for its acquisition of Jayhawk Fine Chemicals (Jayhawk).
Adams Street served as sole lead arranger and administrative agent for the transaction.
Jayhawk, based in Galena, Kansas, is one of the leading fine chemicals companies in the US. The company is a custom manufacturer of specialty chemicals used in various end markets, including pharmaceutical, animal health, agriculture, and consumer electronics. It provides outsourced manufacturing solutions
Funding Circle UK, a small business loans platform, and Waterfall Asset Management (Waterfall), an institutional asset manager focussed on structured credit, have entered into a strategic partnership to support the growth of UK small businesses.
Under the terms of the agreement, Waterfall will invest in GBP1 billion of loans originated through Funding Circle’s UK platform over a two-year period. Waterfall’s investment will be partially financed by Deutsche Bank.
This significant investment will support the growth of approximately 14,000 small businesses, creating and sustaining thousands of new jobs across the UK. Waterfall joins a diverse group of investors lending to small
Cross River, a provider of banking services for financial technology companies, has completed a funding round of approximately USD100 million, led by a USD75 million equity investment from KKR.
KKR is joined in the round by new investors, CreditEase and Lion Tree Partners, and by returning investors Battery Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz and Ribbit Capital.
In addition to traditional banking, Cross River has developed partnerships with financial technology companies to build fully compliant and integrated products for the marketplace lending and payment processing arenas. Current clients consist of leading technology brands, start-ups and financial services firms disrupting global finance including
Indigo Telecom Group has secured a strategic investment from Growth Capital Partners (GCP) which it will use to accelerate growth and M&A activity.
Indigo Telecom Group is a provider of multi-vendor managed and project services to international telecom network operators, equipment vendors and multi-national corporations.
The Group’s heritage can be traced back to 1997 and following a management buyout led by CEO Stephen Thompson in 2016, the business initiated an M&A strategy with its first acquisition Belcom247, a specialist provider of data centre connectivity solutions. Today, Indigo can boast a wide range of telecom services for an array of
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