Deals
Senior Architectural Systems, the UK’s largest privately owned aluminium fenestration systems manufacturer, has announced a structured management buy-out (MBO) of the company by its current board of directors.
The MBO deal has been led by Senior’s managing director Mark Wadsworth and includes three other members of the board – sales director James Keeling-Heane, technical director Mark Wheatley and financial director Les Buxton. Senior’s founder Lennart Jonsson, who helped establish the company back in 1991, will continue as a shareholder and director.
The move marks an important milestone in Senior’s 27 year history, throughout which time the company has consistently
An affiliate of middle-market private equity firm Peak Rock Capital has acquired Pretzels, a supplier of pretzels and extruded snack products.
Headquartered in Bluffton, Indiana, Pretzels provides an extensive portfolio of salty snack products that includes traditional, peanut-butter-filled, flavoured, seasonal, and gluten-free pretzels, as well as extruded snack products. The company serves a diverse, blue-chip customer base that includes leading grocers and national brands. Through its 40-year history, Pretzels has built an outstanding reputation for providing excellent customer service and exceptional product quality.
Robert Strauss, Managing Director of Peak Rock, says: “Our investment in Pretzels reinforces Peak Rock’s focus on investing
International law firm Fieldfisher has advised TSX-V-listed Canadian company, Strongbow Exploration, on successfully closing a conditional “synthetic” offtake agreement with specialist mining private equity fund, Orion Mine Finance.
Strongbow is the owner of South Crofty, the iconic former-producing copper and tin mine near Camborne and Pool in Cornwall. The company plans to bring the mine back into production following a proposed dual listing on London’s AIM market.
Strongbow announced its offtake deal with US-headquartered Orion on 17 October, marking yet another example of the use of non-traditional forms of financing in the mining sector.
The offtake provides for
TripleTree has advised private investment firm Clearlake Capital Group on its acquisition of symplr, a healthcare governance, risk and compliance (GRC) software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform, from Pamlico Capital and The CapStreet Group. The sellers were advised by Moore & Van Allen on the deal.
symplr provide management, credential management and payer enrolment services to over 1,500 customers representing more than 4,000 healthcare facilities in North America. symplr’s broad platform provides an end-to-end software solution for healthcare organisations to manage the compliance and credentialing requirements of their provider, staff and contractor communities.
“Healthcare professionals are faced with an increasing amount of stringent and
Custom Glass Solutions has been acquired by affiliates of Stellex Capital Management (Stellex), a middle market private equity firm with offices in New York and London. The financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Based in central Ohio, CGS is a leading manufacturer of large-format laminated, tempered, value-added glass products used in vocational and recreational vehicle applications. Prior to the transaction, the Company was a subsidiary of Guardian Glass, LLC, which itself is part of Koch Industries, Inc.
“We are tremendously excited about the acquisition of Custom Glass Solutions,” says Mike Stewart, Managing Partner at Stellex. “We believe
Livingstone’s healthcare team has advised Total Spectrum, a premier provider of Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA) services for families and children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), on its partnership with LEARN Behavioral, a portfolio company of LLR Partners.
LEARN Behavioral is a network of provider serving children with ASD and other developmental disorders. Livingstone acted as exclusive financial advisor to Total Spectrum.
Total Spectrum, based in Elmhurst, Illinois with operations across Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and Wisconsin, provides high-quality in-home and clinic-based ABA services for families and children with ASD. Total Spectrum has experienced an average of more than 80% average annual
Limerston Capital-backed HR services group AdviserPlus has acquired Succeed Consultancy and made an investment in Elementsuite. The new deal is part of Limerston Capital’s bid to create the UK’s leading data and technology-enabled HR services group.
Succeed is a major provider of human capital management (HCM) solutions to large enterprise customers. Succeed has nearly 20 years advising companies on HR transformation needs and implementing leading HCM software solutions including PeopleSoft, Oracle and Elementsuite.
Elementsuite is a cloud-based HR software platform, providing a full-suite of solutions from recruitment, onboarding and learning, to core HR, scheduling and performance management to large enterprise
K4Connect, a technology company that creates solutions for older adults and individuals living with disabilities, has closed a USD12 million Series B funding round led by AXA Venture Partners.
This latest round brings the funding total to over USD22 million and will be used to further develop the Company’s K4Community solution and underlying Fusion platform/OS technologies. K4Connect will also use the proceeds to expand its customer base, which already includes over 13,000 residents across dozens of senior living communities from Florida to California, as well as to accelerate its partnerships across a spectrum of consumer and senior living-specific companies. The
Corporate gifting company Snappy has secured USD10 million in funding to date, led by 83North with participation from Hearst Ventures.
Snappy believes that companies are looking for creative ways to reward employees, but gift cards, paper weights, and other generic corporate gifts don’t make employees feel valued.
Snappy allows employees to choose their favourite gift from a curated collection of personalised options, which include local experiences like cooking and yoga classes, global getaways, as well as trending products like Amazon’s Echo Dot and drones. Gifts are sent via email or text and are sourced from leading brands and retailers, with
Specialist provider of medical devices and equipment, IQ Medical, has received a GBP250,000 funding package through the Midlands Engine Investment Fund, WM Debt Finance fund, managed by Maven Capital Partners.
The funding will be used to fuel the development of new, high-performance products – allowing it to diversify its NHS Hospitals and Care Home portfolio and strengthen its sales and marketing team.
IQ Medical provides specialist medical equipment, disinfection services and planned and preventative maintenance to both the NHS and private sectors across the UK. Its cornerstone product is a portfolio of highly-effective and clinically-proven, Pressure Area Care
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