Deals
SecureLink has secured a strategic investment from Vista Equity Partners (Vista) to accelerate its growth in the enterprise remote support software market.
Vista is the leading technology investment firm focusing exclusively on software, data and technology-enabled companies. The investment in SecureLink comes from Vista’s Endeavor Fund, focused on small cap, mission-critical enterprise software and data businesses seeking to expand their innovation and impact in the markets they serve. Vista provides these companies and their management teams the capital, expertise and support to build an operational foundation for sustainable growth and long-term value.
“For 14 years, SecureLink has been the
Blackstone is to acquire Harvest Fund Advisors (Harvest), an independent investment management firm with over USD10 billion in assets under management.
Harvest primarily invests capital raised from institutional investors in separately managed accounts and pooled vehicles, investing in public master limited partnerships (MLPs) holding US midstream energy assets. Terms of the agreement have not been disclosed.
Tony James (pictured), President and Chief Operating Officer of Blackstone, says: “Harvest is a leader in bringing institutional investors to the MLP asset class. It has generated superior long-term results for its investors. Harvest’s expertise in this area will complement our extensive energy
SK Capital Partners, a private investment firm with a disciplined focus on the specialty materials, chemicals and pharmaceutical sectors, is reinvesting in Archroma to support the Company’s ongoing initiatives to drive innovation, growth and operational efficiencies and to pursue strategic investments in both organic growth and industry consolidation.
Initially acquired by SK Capital in 2013, Archroma is a global, diversified provider of specialty chemicals serving the branded and performance textiles, packaging and paper, and coatings, adhesives and sealants end markets. The Company is headquartered in Switzerland and operates a highly integrated, customer-focused platform that delivers products in over 100 countries.
The Pracuj Group (Grupa Pracuj), a provider of Human Resources (HR) solutions that help companies recruit, retain, and develop employees in Central Europe, has secured a minority investment from TCV.
TCV provides growth equity capital for both private and public technology companies in the US, Europe, and internationally. The Pracuj Group intends to use the funding to fuel international expansion and expand its product suite. As part of the investment, John Doran and David Yuan, General Partners at TCV, will join the company’s supervisory board.
With more than 17 years of experience in the online recruitment market in Poland,
Brand Industrial Services, known as BrandSafway, is to acquire Venko Groep BV, a portfolio company of Mentha Capital. Venko will become a part of the Brand Energy & Infrastructure Services (Brand) group.
“We are very pleased to announce the agreement with Venko,” says Bill Hayes, President and CEO of BrandSafway. “Our combined customers in Europe will benefit from a broader range of solutions and greater depth of expertise in access, insulation and coatings. Bringing Venko’s highly specialised knowledge in coatings to BrandSafway will provide the expertise we need to expand our services in the offshore market worldwide.”
Based in
Hastings Equity Partners (Hastings), a private equity firm focused on investing in lower, middle-market energy services and equipment companies, has made its ninth Fund III platform investment, in Reach Wireline (Reach).
Based in Fort Worth, Texas, Reach is a leading provider of Cased Hole Wireline services in the Permian, Mid-Continent and Marcellus regions. Founded in 2017 by an experienced executive management team led by Chief Executive Officer Chris Payson, Reach is a technologically differentiated service provider that offers leading edge greaseless cable. The company specialises in extended laterals, highly deviated wells and complex completion designs. Reach maximises efficiencies for
Perilune Group has restructured into two separate entities, Perilune Capital, LLC and Perilune Private Family Services (PFS). The former will focus exclusively on investments, including real estate, hedge fund seeding, commercial and business aviation and private equity on behalf of its institutional and private investors, while PFS, the successor to the Perilune Group family office, will provide estate, tax planning and concierge services for select ultra high net worth families.
Perilune Capital is headed by Carey Robinson Wolchok (pictured), Chairman and Founder of the Perilune Group, which he formed in 2008 as a private investment partnership with initial backing from
DuPage Medical Group has closed the formation of a strategic partnership with funds managed by the private equity group Ares Management.
The investment by Ares will enable continued support for growth initiatives across the entire organisation, including DMG’s practice management company, DMG Practice Management Solutions, and DMG’s subsidiary, Boncura Health Solutions. The USD1.45 billion transaction closed on 15 August, 2017.
Under the terms of the transaction, DMG’s physician group, DuPage Medical Group Ltd, will remain 100 per cent physician-owned-and-directed, and DMG physicians will retain a significant ownership stake in the practice management company. As part of its investment, Ares
Deutsche Asset Management (Deutsche AM) has provided a EUR45 million mezzanine facility to Ares Management on two designer outlet centres located in the French cities of Troyes and Roubaix.
Andrea Vanni, Head of European Real Estate Debt Investments for Deutsche AM, says: “We are excited to be a part of the financing structure and to have supported Ares on such quality assets.”
NorthEdge Capital has invested in Bridge Farm Nurseries (Bridge Farm), a producer of ornamental plants, flowers and herbs in the UK, backing a management buyout from its family shareholders. It is the first deal for the firm’s recently opened Midlands office.
Founded in 1988 and headquartered in Spalding in Lincolnshire, Bridge Farm works with major UK supermarkets under the brand name Neame Lea, the 2017 UK Grower of the Year, where outdoor plants, flowers and herbs are of increasing importance as a category. Bridge Farm’s core supermarket customer base, which includes Tesco and Aldi, is growing faster than the overall
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