Deals
Scottish Equity Partners (SEP) has made a significant investment in Dotmatics, a scientific informatics software provider delivering enterprise solutions tailored to the modern, highly collaborative and mobile scientific environments.
Dotmatics provides solutions for pharmaceutical, biotechnology, academia, food and beverage, oil and gas, and agrochemical industries. The funding will enable Dotmatics to continue its investment into product innovation and customer success, as well as to strengthen operations in each of its key geographies.
Dotmatics’ comprehensive solutions include tools for knowledge management, data storage, enterprise querying and reporting, data analysis and visualisation. Headquartered in the UK, Dotmatics is one of
International private equity firm Cinven is to acquire a majority stake in Planasa, a global operator in the agri-food sector, for a consideration of approximately EUR450 million.
Planasa specialises in plant research, nursery and fresh produce. Alexandre Darbonne, CEO and current owner of the company, will continue to hold a significant shareholding.
Headquartered in Valtierra, Spain, Planasa is one of the leading plant variety and nursery operators within the berry fruit category worldwide. The Group provides seeds, plants and R&D services to farmers, and fresh produce to retailers across the world. Planasa has benefitted from strong growth in its
Mid-market private equity investor Graphite Capita has backed the GBP72 million management buy-out of YSC Consulting, an independent global provider of leadership strategy consultancy services.
Headquartered in London, YSC Consulting operates from 17 offices in Europe, North America, South Africa and Asia-Pacific. It has built a large and diverse blue-chip customer base of more than 400 organisations of which almost 60 per cent are in the FTSE 100, FTSE 250 or Fortune 500. Its global clients include Qantas, HSBC, Diageo, GlaxoSmithKline, Tesco, BHP, Li & Fung and BP.
YSC Consulting works mainly with C-suite executives, developing trusted, long-term relationships.
HighLife SAS, an early-stage medtech company focused on the development of a unique trans-catheter mitral valve replacement (TMVR) system to treat patients suffering from mitral regurgitation, has closed a EUR12.3 million investment round led by Sofinnova Partners, who become the main investor in the company.
HighLife had previously secured financing from LivaNova PLC, which also participated in this financing round along with Georg Börtlein, the CEO and founder of HighLife.
Based in Paris, HighLife was started in 2010 by Georg Börtlein, who was previously a co-founder with Professor Jacques Séguin and Chief Operating Officer at CoreValve Inc, a pioneer
Technology Investment experts TECHNEDs has joined the board of IT & Telecoms marketing specialists Tricca to provide marketing expertise to their portfolio of technology firms. This investment brings marketing strategy and technology together fast tracking business growth.
Founded in 2014 by Paul Richens, Tricca has experienced three years of successive growth due to the focus on relationship building with clients, taking the time to really understand each businesses technical challenges and setting the right strategic and tactical goals to help achieve commercial marketing success.
Technology has changed the way businesses need to engage with their audiences and businesses need
Overall European private equity deal volume dropped 13 per cent in Q3 2017 compared with Q2 but remained marginally higher than Q1’s figure, according to preliminary figures released in the latest Private Equity Baromenter published by ‘unquote” and SL Capital Partners.
The combined value of European private equity backed deals slid 9.7 per cent but remains elevated compared to quarters in recent years, while average deal value in Q3 2017 was EUR95 million, up 4 per cent on the EUR91.4 million posted in Q2.
The aggregate value of European buyout deals edged down to EUR35.8 billion, 4.7 per cent
DH Private Equity Partners’ DH V Fund, and other shareholders have agreed to sell their entire stake in TMF Group, a provider of high value business services to organisations globally, to funds advised by CVC Capital Partners for EUR1.75 billion.
The transaction is expected to close in the first half of 2018 subject to regulatory approvals.
TMF Group was formed by the June 2011 merger of TMF and Equity Trust. DH Private Equity Partners acquired TMF in October 2008 and subsequently completed the transformational acquisition of Equity Trust in January 2011. The merger delivered significant cost synergies and generated cross
CVC Capital Partners’ (CVC) CVC Fund VII is to acquire TMF Group (TMF), a leading provider of specialist business services to clients operating and investing globally, from DH Private Equity Partners.
The transaction is subject to customary regulatory and anti-trust approvals.
TMF provides locally-delivered outsourced business and compliance services (including corporate secretarial, tax & accounting, legal & administration and HR & payroll) to approximately 15,000 multi-national corporates, investment funds and high-net worth individuals globally. With a network of offices across over 80 countries, and headquartered in Amsterdam, TMF Group has the in-country expertise and knowledge to help businesses of
IP Solutions, a specialist communications technology provider, has secured investment from leading mid-market private equity firm LDC to accelerate its growth strategy.
The firm, which works with well-known names such as National Geographic, Oak Furniture Land and Secret Escapes, will also have access to significant additional capital from LDC to fund a series of acquisitions in the UK to help it build scale, consolidating its position in the circa GBP500 million market for unified communications.
Headquartered in London, IP Solutions provides a wide range of cloud communications solutions for over 200 small and mid-sized businesses under a single unified service. Its solutions
Middle market private equity firm HGGC has completed the acquisition of ServiceTick by Davies Group Ltd, an insurance and claims service provider.
ServiceTick marks the fourth add-on acquisition for the Davies Group platform since HGGC acquired the business in January 2017.
Norwich, UK-based ServiceTick, which provides digital customer experience insight and intelligence to its clients through voice and digital surveys, follows the acquisition and integration of specialist regulatory services business, Cynergie UK Ltd in April, specialist casualty claims third party administrator Claims Management Services Limited (CMSL) in August, and specialist insurance and professional services provider Ambant in September.
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