Deals
Dallas based Surge Private Equity has completed its investment in Manhattan based Busy Bee Cleaning Corp, a commercial janitorial services provider, and sister companies Commercial Cleaning Services and Janitorial Cleaning Services.
The investment closed with debt financing provided by Harvest Capital Credit Corporation.
Busy Bee is a commercial janitorial services company boasting over: 1,000 customers, 200 employees, and a decade of high quality service to local and national businesses. Founders Greg and Fatima Wiszniewski will be staying on in their current capacities as CEO and COO. Both will retain equity in the business. Greg Wiszniewski will serve on the
YO! Sushi (YO!) has acquired Bento Sushi (Bento), North America’s second largest sushi brand, creating a global multi-channel and multi-brand sushi platform.
The acquisition values Bento at CAD100 million and has been facilitated by Mayfair Equity Partners, who partnered with the YO! management team as part of a management buyout in 2015.
Bento, founded in Toronto in 1996 by Ken Valvur, is the second largest sushi brand in North America, and the largest in Canada trading from over 600 locations, whilst supplying sushi to a further 1700 partner sites. Bento operates across a range of formats which complement YO!’s
Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners (Quinbrook), a global investment manager specialising in lower carbon and renewable energy infrastructure, has acquired an 84 Megawatt (MW) gas-fired power project portfolio located across 4 sites in England and Wales.
Quinbrook plans to invest over USD60 million to acquire and construct the projects, which will become revenue-generating over the next twelve months. This latest investment marks the founders’ return to the United Kingdom’s clean energy infrastructure market and is the maiden investment in Quinbrook’s UK low carbon power platform.
Quinbrook acquired 100 per cent of the fully permitted and construction-ready 84 MW Eider Reserve Power
Following its acquisition by PraxisIFM Group last month, Kompas International has agreed to acquire 100 per cent of the issued share capital of Private Equity Services (PES), subject to normal completion conditions and regulatory approvals.
The acquisition is in line with the Group’s plans to grow its corporate and private client services further, both in reach and people.
Commercial director of Kompas Guido Wagenaar says: “The acquisition of PES is a great step in strengthening our team in The Netherlands as a hub for PraxisIFM’s services on Europe’s mainland” said Mr Wagenaar. “PES has very knowledgeable, experienced people whom
Gide has advised Erytech Pharma, a company listed on Euronext Paris, on its initial public offering on the Nasdaq Global Select Market, through a reserved capital increase to American and European specialist investors for a total aggregate amount of USD144 million, after full exercise of the over-allotment option.
Erytech is a French clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing innovative therapies by encapsulating therapeutic drug substances inside red blood cells. The funds raised will in particular enable the company to conduct its Phase 3 studies for the treatment of second-line pancreatic cancer and the treatment of first-line acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
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Arcaplanet Group, a portfolio company of the Permira Funds, is to acquire Mondial Pet Distribution, a company owned by the Pautassi family and by Edmond de Rothschild Investment Partners, which controls Fortesan, a specialised retail chain operating in the same sector.
Arcaplanet Group, founded in 1995 by CEO Michele Foppiani, manages 210 stores with over 10,000 SKUs, ranging from pet food and accessories to healthcare products. The Group has also developed its portfolio of owned brands, such as Start, Expecial, Next, HiFish and, more recently, Virtus. Since 2014, Arcaplanet has also been operating through its own e-commerce site. In 2016,
Middle market investment bank Harris Williams & Co has advised Bridgepoint on its agreement with Burger King Europe GmbH (BKE), an affiliate of Restaurant Brands International Inc (RBI), to become the UK master franchisee of Burger King, with exclusive rights to the brand in the UK.
Harris Williams & Co also advised on Bridgepoint’s simultaneous acquisition of Caspian UK Group Limited (Caspian), one of the UK’s largest Burger King franchisees with 74 restaurants. The transactions were led by Edward Arkus, Will Bain and Faye Maughan of Harris Williams & Co’s Consumer Group.
“Burger King is one of the largest
Metal reprocessing, tubular supply and decommissioning company John Lawrie Group has been acquired by its management in partnership with Rubicon Partners and Grovepoint as it gears up for an expansion of its business in the UK and USA.
The Group, which was founded in 1930 by metal merchant John Lawrie in Aberdeen, and still has its headquarters in the city, is one of Scotland’s leading privately-owned businesses with bases in Montrose and Evanton near Invergordon, Scotland, and Houston, New Jersey and Philadelphia, USA.
Four members of the Group’s management team, and existing shareholders, – Vic Sinclair, CEO; Charlie Parker,
Encore Consumer Capital, a private equity firm that invests exclusively in leading consumer products companies, has completed the sale of Atlantic Aqua Farms (AAF) and its affiliated entities to Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan (Ontario Teachers’).
AAF is the largest grower and processor of the renowned Prince Edward Island blue mussel, and also offers a wide selection of branded oysters, clams, and live Maine and Canadian lobster. AAF will continue to be led by Terry Ennis, CEO, and his leadership team. Financial terms were not disclosed.
Kevin Murphy, managing director of Encore Consumer Capital, says: “We have thoroughly enjoyed our
Legal & General has provided close to GBP300 million of long-term acquisition debt in support of Danish pension funds, PKA and PFA consortium’s approx GBP2 billion purchase of 50 per cent of Walney Extension from Ørsted (the former Dong Energy).
Walney Extension, which is currently under construction, will be the world’s largest offshore wind farm with a capacity of 660 megawatt (MW), providing enough power for over 590,000 homes.
LGIM Real Assets was an anchor investor, structuring and providing both commercial debt and Export Credit Agency (ECA) wrapped debt on this transaction. The acquisition represents Legal & General’s first
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