Deals
HIG Bayside Capital (Bayside), the credit-oriented affiliate of private equity firm HIG Capital, has sold its portfolio company, Jackson Hewitt Tax Service, to funds managed by Corsair Capital.
Jackson Hewitt maintains a vast franchise and company-owned nationwide footprint of approximately 6,000 locations. The Company has developed a unique and comprehensive suite of related services tailored specifically to hard-working American taxpayers.
Bayside recapitalised the Company in 2011, and over the last seven years has supported the Company’s significant investments in its new unit buildout, new products, technology and marketing. These investments have enabled Jackson Hewitt to grow its tax preparation
ecobee Inc has raised an additional CAD47 million (USD36 million) of investment led by Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ), AGL Energy Ltd and Business Development Bank of Canada, closing its Series C funding round at more than CAD127 million (USD98 million) and bringing its total funding to over CAD200 million (USD155 million) to-date.
This funding will allow ecobee, the company responsible for inventing the smart thermostat, to continue expanding its suite of smart home technologies. The company’s continued growth will be supported by the introduction of key additions to ecobee’s leadership team including Jackie Poriadjian-Asch as Chief
Alliander has sold electric vehicle (EV) charging solutions specialist Allego to Meridiam, a French investment firm specialising in the development, financing and management of long-term and sustainable infrastructure projects.
Allego develops throughout Europe charging solutions and charging infrastructure for electric transport for municipalities, provinces, companies and transport companies. Drake Star Partners acted as exclusive financial adviser to Alliander in this transaction.
Headquartered in Arnhem, Netherlands, Allego has made a significant contribution to the development of charging infrastructure in Europe, making significant market share gains over the past five years. With Allego, Alliander wanted to learn what the impact of
Equistone Partners Europe (Equistone) and Inflexion Private Equity (Inflexion) are to sell UK Power Reserve, an independent developer and operator of flexible power generation in the UK, to Singapore-headquartered integrated energy group, Sembcorp, for an equity value of GBP216 million.
Following the acquisition of shares, Sembcorp will consolidate all assets and liabilities of UK Power Reserve, including its net debt.
Headquartered in Solihull, UK Power Reserve was founded in 2010 to meet growing domestic demand for highly flexible reserve power capacity. Since Inflexion and Equistone’s joint investment in the company in late 2015, UK Power Reserve has more than
Denver-based private equity firm Revelstoke Capital Partners (Revelstoke) has partnered with the Cincinnati Eye Institute (CEI), to form CEI Vision Partners, a management services organisation, to support CEI’s growth and pursue additional partnerships with other leading ophthalmology providers.
CEI is the only practice in the region that offers “front-to-back” eye care and has leading physicians across all major sub-specialties. CEI completes over 200,000 annual patient encounters and over 25,000 annual surgical procedures across 14 clinics and three ambulatory surgical centers.
“After a multi-year outbound search in the vision care sector, we are very excited to partner with such an
Tender Belly has received an investment from Encore Consumer Capital (Encore), a private equity firm that invests exclusively in consumer products companies.
Tender Belly, based in Denver, Colorado, is a rapidly growing, premium bacon and pork products company founded in 2010 by brothers Shannon and Erik Duffy. Tender Belly’s products stem from their belief in going big and doing things according to their ‘Certified Awesome’ standards.
“We started Tender Belly to do things the right way, not the easy way, and we’re excited to partner with Encore to continue along that path,” says Duffy, Tender Belly Founder and CEO.
Neoen, an independent renewable IPP and the majority shareholder in Paradise Park, a 51 MWp PV farm based in Jamaica, together with the solar park’s co-shareholders, MPC Caribbean Clean Energy Fund and Rekamniar Frontier Ventures, have agreed a deal for the project’s financing.
Proparco (France’s development bank) and FMO will provide the senior debt for the project, with a total investment amounting to USD64 million.
Neoen’s was the winning project out of 19 bids in a tender launched by the Jamaican Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR). Paradise Park will deliver to Jamaica Public Service Company Limited the cheapest electrical
Gen Cap America has sponsored a buyout of Mid America Metals in partnership with management. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Established in 1985, Mid America Metals, based in Ozark, Missouri, is a leading metal and stone refinishing and wood restoration company. With more than 30 years of experience, Mid America Metals provides restoration services to architectural and commercial buildings throughout the United States.
Matt Lane, Managing Director at Gen Cap America, says: “We are excited to have the opportunity to invest in Mid America Metals alongside the management team. Mid America Metals is an excellent company
Edgemont Capital Partners, a middle market healthcare investment bank with a focus on pharmaceutical services and M&A advisor to clinical research site companies, has advised Evolution Research Group (ERG), a portfolio company of DFW Capital Partners (DFW), on its sale to Linden Capital Partners (Linden).
ERG is the largest independent clinical research site services company focused on special populations and a leader in central nervous system (CNS) studies. David Blume, Managing Director and head of the Firm’s Pharmaceutical Services Group led the ERG transaction team.
Edgemont advised Thievon-Wright Consulting Group, Woodland International Research, Woodland Research Northwest and St. Louis
Actis is building an Indian Non-Banking Financial Company focused on secured lending to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) with a plan to fund the platform with up to USD220 million of equity capital over a five-year period.
India has a deep culture of small family businesses with over 30 million SMEs and the sector is experiencing growth in demand for credit. Profectus Capital will exclusively focus on lending to SME businesses operating in a dozen targeted subsectors.
Actis is backing a team led by the ex-CEO of Reliance Commercial Finance (RCF), KV Srinivasan (KV) who built one of the
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