Deals
Promise Gluten Free, an innovative bakery which entered the gluten free market in 2012, has sold a majority stake to Mayfair Equity Partners (Mayfair).
Promise, based in Donegal, Ireland and founded in 2011, is a group of companies comprising Aran Ard Teoranta (trading as Gallagher’s Bakery) and Cuisine Royale Manufacturing Ltd. Promise has experienced rapid growth domestically in Ireland and internationally in markets including the UK, US and Australia under its retail brands: ‘Promise Gluten Free’ and ‘PureBred Gluten Free’. Promise mixes the best natural ingredients using a unique process to deliver baked goods with unparalleled nutritional value and award-winning
OMERS Private Equity has agreed to sell Civica to funds managed and/or advised by Partners Group, the global private markets investment manager, for a total consideration of GBP1,055 million, generating a 2.6x money multiple for OMERS.
Civica is a leading provider of business-critical software, digital solutions and technology-based outsourcing services to both public sector organisations and to commercial organisations in highly regulated sectors, in the UK and around the world. It has extensive capabilities and presence across local and central government, social housing, healthcare, education and public safety. The Company employs approximately 3,700 employees, around 75 per cent of
Ridge Road Capital Partners has completed the merger of legal software companies TrialWorks and Needles. Between them, the companies have a combined 55 years of operating history and over 2,500 law firm clients.
The combination of TrialWorks and Needles creates the leader in case management software for plaintiff-focused law firms, with a network of nearly 40,000 active users. The company will leverage the resources of both companies, as well as Ridge Road’s development partnerships, to accelerate product innovation and maintain best-in-class customer service and training. Ridge Road is committed to continuity for customers of both Needles and TrialWorks and to
Middle-market private equity firm Pamlico Capital (Pamlico) has closed the previously announced sale of its portfolio company Dexter & Chaney (Dexter + Chaney) to Viewpoint Construction Software (Viewpoint). Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Headquartered in Seattle, Washington and founded in 1981, Dexter + Chaney is a provider of financial and operational management software for construction contractors. The Company’s product, Spectrum Construction Software, is used by more than 1,100 contractors. Pamlico acquired Dexter + Chaney in partnership with management in December 2014. Since that time, Pamlico has helped recruit a new management team, adding senior executives including Brian
An investment partnership advised by Permira is to acquire a strategic equity stake in Klarna Bank AB which currently serves 60 million consumers and 70,000 merchants.
Permira is a global investment firm which advises funds and accounts with a total committed capital of circa EUR32 billion. Permira focuses on identifying companies for long-term investment, combining local knowledge and global expertise to help them grow sustainably and realise their full potential.
The investment partnership will acquire shares from existing shareholders General Atlantic, DST Global and Niklas Adalberth, upon receipt of approval from the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority (Finansinspektionen). As a
Luke McDougall, Leveraged Finance Partner at Paul Hastings comments on the news that leveraged finance issued so far this year in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) has already surpassed last year’s total, reaching a record USD143 billion in the first half of 2017, which is nearly 8 per cent higher than in the whole of 2016…
The auction pipeline for the second half of the year is looking good. The activity level we have seen on the buy side, including on CLO formation, indicates this strong demand will continue.
However, the incoming European leveraged lending guidelines
Machine intelligence company, Graphcore, has secured USD30 million in a Series B funding round led by Atomico.
The new funding comes as the company prepares to ship its first Intelligence Processing Unit (IPU) hardware to customers later this year, with scale-up production for enterprise datacentres and cloud environments in 2018.
The Series B round is dedicated to accelerating roadmap development and building a community of developers and partners around its PoplarÔ graph framework software, establishing Graphcore as the leader in the market for machine intelligence processors.
Nigel Toon, CEO at Graphcore, says: “Atomico has a genuinely deep understanding
Dah Chong Hong Holdings Limited (DCH) is to acquire 80 per cent of Zhejiang Ciji, 100 per cent of Yuyao Ciji, 100 per cent of Ciji Xinghang and 80 per cent of Cixi Chiao.
These are acquisitions of luxury brand dealerships in the Zhejiang province and include two existing Mercedes-Benz dealerships (in Cixi and Ninghai), three authorisations for new Mercedes-Benz dealerships (in Yuyao, Fenghau and Cixi) and one existing Audi dealership (in Cixi) for a total of RMB920,800,000, and approximately HKD1,060,945,760. The deal will be funded by internally-generated cash and bank loans.
DCH, a majority-owned subsidiary of CITIC Limited,
An affiliate of Sun Capital Partners has completed the sale of Creekstone Farms Premium Beef, a supplier of USDA-certified beef and pork products. Terms of the private transaction have not been disclosed.
The choice of food lovers across the world, Creekstone Farms supplies many of the nation’s top grocers and restaurants with a variety of high-quality meats, including Black Angus beef and antibiotic-free Duroc Pork. The Company also exports its products across Europe, Latin America, and Asia.
“We’re proud of our success building Creekstone Farms into a leading international provider of top-grade meats,” says Marc Leder, Co-CEO of Sun
Mid-market private equity firm Graphite Capital has acquired Random42, one of the largest global medical animation producers, from Vespa Capital.
Medical animation provides a graphic representation of disease mechanisms and the ways in which medical and pharmaceutical products interact with the human body.
Random42 provides high-quality medical animation and digital media services to the healthcare and pharmaceutical industry. It has expertise in 2D and 3D animation, Virtual and Augmented Reality production, interactive services and mobile application development.
As medical and pharmaceutical products become progressively more complicated, animations are needed more frequently to explain their function clearly and to
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