Deals
Liberty Hall Capital Partners (Liberty Hall), a private equity firm focused exclusively on investments in businesses serving the global aerospace and defence industry, has acquired Dunlop Aircraft Tyres Ltd, an independent global designer, manufacturer and retreader of aircraft tires, in a transaction valued at USD135 million.
Dunlop Aircraft Tyres represents Liberty Hall’s first portfolio company focused on providing aftermarket products and services to the global aerospace and defence industry.
Dunlop is the brand of tire originally produced by the Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre Company beginning at the end of the 19th century, taking its name from founder John Boyd Dunlop.
Orrick has advised Michelin on its acquisition of NexTraq, a US provider of commercial fleet telematics, from Fleetcor Technologies in an all-cash transaction.
NexTraq provides solutions for driver safety, fuel management and enhancing fleet productivity. Since its inception in 2000, NexTraq has become a leading provider of GPS fleet management solutions for fleets of small commercial vehicles (classes three to five) ranging from two to 50 vehicles.
“Telematics and fleet management services are a rapidly growing category worldwide and an important area of Michelin Group’s overall business plans,” says Ralph Dimenna, chief operating officer for Michelin Americas Truck Tires,
Edge Investments (Edge), a specialist investment house focused on the creative industries sector, has taken a stake in Antidote Productions.
Antidote is an independent, factual TV production company based in London, working with major UK and international broadcasters. The Company was founded by Laura Jones, BAFTA and RTS award-winning filmmaker, and factual TV expert, Leila Monks.
Antidote has fast built a reputation for creating critically acclaimed shows including: powerful documentary Professor Green: Suicide and Me (BBC 3), which was nominated for five awards (Broadcast Award, BAFTA Craft Award, Press Guild Award, Televisual BullDog Award, and Mind Media Awards) and
Private equity firm Warburg Pincus has completed its acquisition of a 35 per cent stake in tfintech company Avaloq, a specialist in integrated and comprehensive banking solutions.
Under the partnership announced on 22 March 2017, Avaloq will be able to capitalise on Warburg Pincus’ expertise and network in the financial services and fintech sectors to accelerate the company’s long-term growth and value creation strategy.
Investec has agreed to sell 18 aircraft from its managed leasing funds to funds managed by Oaktree Capital Management, L.P., working in conjunction with World Star Aviation.
The transaction includes 15 narrow body Boeing 737-800 and Airbus A320-200 aircraft, two wide body Boeing 777-300ER aircraft and an Airbus A330-300 aircraft. The aircraft are on lease to 12 global airlines, including flag carriers Air China, Air France, and LCCs, such as Wizz Air and IndiGo.
Investec’s aircraft leasing funds, which were first launched in 2008, are invested in new generation, fuel-efficient aircraft on lease to leading airlines across the globe. The funds
Eco-friendly coffee specialist Halo Coffee is looking to raise GBP1.6m to aggressively grow the business in the UK and globally through a fundraising campaign on private investor platform Growthdeck.
Since its launch in early 2016, Growthdeck has raised GBP7.3 million for a range of growth companies.
Halo has designed a world leading, fully compostable coffee capsule which biodegrades in just 90 days and can be thrown in the home compost bin. It’s solving a real-world problem as currently up to 39,000 aluminium and plastic capsules go to landfill every minute globally. That equates to 20 billion capsules containing aluminium
Harris Williams & Co has advised Zitcom HoldCo ApS (Zitcom Group), a portfolio company of HgCapital, to The Intelligent Group, a portfolio company of Waterland Private Equity Investments B.V. (Waterland).
Harris Williams & Co is serving as the exclusive financial advisor to Zitcom Group, a Danish hosting and cloud solutions provider. The pending transaction is being led by Thierry Monjauze, Jonathan Organ and Sylvain Noblet of Harris Williams & Co’s Technology, Media & Telecom (TMT) Group and Krishna Patel of the firm’s London office.
“The team at Zitcom Group has built an impressive business which has delivered rapid growth,
Artificial intelligence company Element AI has raised USD102 million in a Series A funding round led by Data Collective (DCVA) with participation from Fidelity Investments Canada, Hanwha Investment, Intel Capital, Microsoft Ventures, National Bank of Canada, Development Bank of Canada (BDC), NVIDIA, Real Ventures, and several of the world’s largest sovereign wealth funds.
Element AI will use the funding to accelerate its capabilities and invest in large‐scale AI projects internationally, solidifying its position as the largest global AI company in Canada and creating 250 jobs in the Canadian high tech sector by January 2018.
China’s Tencent Holdings Ltd is
Cytox, a specialist in genetic testing for Alzheimer’s Disease, has raised GBP2.6m to fund the commercial launch and international roll out of its novel service.
The funding round was led by the GM&C Life Sciences Fund, managed by Catapult Ventures, alongside existing and new investors, including Perivoli Innovations, The Rainbow Seed Fund, The University of Oxford and private investors.
Dementia and late-onset Alzheimer’s Disease has become the silent epidemic of the 21st century, with over 46 million people currently living with dementia. These numbers are expected to double by 2030 and treble by 2050. Unfortunately, there are currently no
G.Network, the next-generation communications service provider exclusively focused on Central London, has received investment totalling GBP4.675 million from Albion Capital.
Based in Mayfair, London, G.Network provides affordable ultra-fast broadband connectivity to businesses across Central London, bridging the gap between constrained copper-based broadband and expensive leased lines which have long lead times.
A fast, reliable broadband connection is an increasingly critical requirement for Central London’s circa 100,000 SMEs, who are driving a rapidly rising demand for data, recorded at 30 per cent growth annually. However, London’s broadband falls significantly behind equivalent cities, with average speeds ranked 26th out of 33
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