Deals
IK Investment Partners’ (IK) IK VII Fund is to sell the Ramudden Group, a Nordic provider of work zone safety solutions, to funds managed by Triton.
Founded in 2005, Ramudden is a specialist provider of work zone safety solutions for the road, construction and industrial sectors. The service offering includes rental of road barriers, signage, traffic and road signs, concrete systems, industrial heating solutions, traffic arrangement plans, surveillance and maintenance service as well as safety education programmes.
With a presence in Sweden, Norway, Finland and Estonia through their own depots, the Company has an unrivalled ability to quickly adapt to
Kirkland & Ellis is advising a consortium comprised of funds affiliated with Baring Private Equity Asia and CITIC Capital Holdings on its USD300 million proposed acquisition of Wall Street English (WSE), a global private English language school business, from Pearson, a leading global learning company.
In 2016, WSE served 180,000 learners and operated 70 corporate owned centres in China, 9 corporate owned centres in Italy and 321 franchised centres across 27 territories.
The Kirkland team is led by Hong Kong corporate partners Daniel Dusek and Xiaoxi Lin.
RSM’s capital markets team has advised Keystone Law Group, a UK Top 100 law firm, on its GBP50 million initial public offering (IPO).
The AIM listing will help the ambitious law firm, which was founded in 2002, to increase brand recognition and redeem outstanding shareholder loans to leave the Group debt free.
Keystone is a full service networked law firm which utilises technology to drive efficiencies and has the capacity through over 200 consultants to deliver all types of legal work to rival mid-market law firms.
The RSM capital markets team, led by partner Diane Craig with support
VITL, the personalised nutrition platform, has finalised a GBP550,000 round of follow on funding, led by the Angel CoFund and backed by Zoopla founder and CEO Alex Chesterman, and Bulldog founder and CEO Simon Duffy.
The company will use the investment to expand its features and products, as it aims to become the most advanced health and wellbeing platform in the world.
VITL uses advanced diagnostic technology to create tailor-made nutritional solutions based on a user’s unique profile. Users complete a short consultation in the app or on the web, which has been developed in partnership with a panel
The Pensions Infrastructure Platform (PiP) is to acquire a portfolio of interests in ten UK public-private partnership projects for just over GBP400 million from Aberdeen UK Infrastructure Partners (Aberdeen). PiP will manage the interests directly.
The acquisition, by the PiP Multi-Strategy Infrastructure Fund (MSIF), includes hospitals, highways operations and maintenance contracts, energy from waste projects and social housing.
Over the last 18 months PiP has acquired 2 infrastructure debt portfolios, a portfolio of 31 onshore wind turbines, a portfolio of six solar energy parks, a stake in a ferry company and now 10 social infrastructure assets, bringing all of
IK Investment Partners’ (IK) IK Small Cap I Fund has reached an agreement to sell svt Group (svt), a provider of passive fire protection products and services as well as restoration management services, to Ergon Capital Partners III (Ergon).
Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
svt is the leading company in Passive Fire Protection (PFP) and Restoration Management (RM) in Germany with c. 50 years of experience. The PFP business comprises the full value chain from R&D to manufacturing as well as installation services of fire preventing and resistant products that are sold either to OEM
BTL Group (BTL) has closed previously announced brokered and non-brokered private placements raising a gross total of approximately CAD15.3 million.
BTL will use the capital raised to deliver its blockchain platform Interbit in early 2018. The company is targeting enterprises that can license Interbit to either build their own applications or form partnerships. BTL is also aiming to encourage
“We are delighted to have completed this funding round, where we saw significantly increased investor demand given the recent progress and exciting news from the Company,” says Dominic McCann, CEO of BTL. “The capital will be used to rapidly expedite
Britbots, an organisation devoted to promoting the fortunes of UK-based robotics companies, has invested the first part of a GBP300,000 funding package for Tethered Drone Systems.
Britbots operates the British Robotics Seed (SEIS) Fund and the equity crowdfunding platform, Britbots CROWD, which both support promising robotics-related businesses performing autonomous tasks on land, air and sea.
Dominic Keen, founder and CEO of Britbots, says: “Much is written about tomorrow’s world of driverless cars, where we are to be seamlessly whisked around by an all-pervasive fleet of unmanned road vehicles. However, the complexity of the road network and the high consequences
China Renaissance has expanded its asset management business with an array of strategies and approaches to investing in companies across high-growth sectors of China’s economy.
The business will offer a range of options for investors who want exposure to “new economy” entrepreneurs, those with progressive business models built around innovations in technology, media, and entertainment (TME) as well as healthcare and life sciences.
China Renaissance has built its asset management business around its longstanding focus on TME companies. Its proprietary investments in China’s most prominent TME firms have formed the basis for developing an independent fund management business that is
Quilvest Private Equity, the private equity arm of the Quilvest group, has acquired a majority stake in GEDH from Platina Equity Solutions, together with CEO Amin Khiari. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
GEDH is a French network of higher education schools dedicated to communication, arts management and journalism which operates three well-known brands across six campuses located in France (Paris, Lyon, Bordeaux and Lille), New York and Shanghai. Founded in 1961 and headquartered in Paris, GEDH has over 3,000 students and an alumni base of over 20,000. In recent years, the business has undertaken an ambitious
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