Deals
LLR Partners has acquired 3SI Security Systems, a specialist in asset protection systems and GPS tracking technologies.
LLR will support the company’s continued growth through expanded sales and marketing, further technology infrastructure development and strategic acquisitions.
Protecting more than 250,000 client locations worldwide, 3SI’s solutions combat crime through GPS tracking, dye and ink staining and gas neutralisation technology specialising in the Financial, Retail, Cash in Transit and Law Enforcement markets. 3SI maintains an advanced GPS Tracking Support Center in Malvern, PA, and has trained more than 6,800 municipal and regional law enforcement agencies to use its tracking platform to
Ufenau Capital Partners (Ufenau) has sold its majority shareholding in NRW Building Technology Holding (NRW) to funds advised by Bregal Unternehmerkapital (Bregal).
NRW, headquartered in Nordrhine-Westphalia and active at further six locations in Germany, Switzerland and Austria, is one of the leading independent technical building solutions providers with high quality planning, installation, design and engineering capabilities.
Since partnering with Ufenau, NRW has grown the business considerably; sales increased from EUR 55m to EUR 115m in 2016. For 2017, sales are forecasted to achieve EUR 155m. This corresponds to a growth of 180% since Ufenau’s entry in 2014. In the
Investment Metrics, a provider of performance measurement, investment analytics, risk attribution, market intelligence and reporting software to the investment management industry, has secured a significant equity investment from Resurgens Technology Partners and HarbourVest Partners.
The new partnership will enable Investment Metrics to make continued investments in its existing solutions and to support its growth and market expansion globally.
Investment Metrics provides a full suite of performance analytics and reporting solutions to institutional consultants, plan sponsors, asset managers and private wealth advisors. Built by institutional investment consultants, the company’s products and services are utilised by industry leaders across asset allocators
Financial Close has been reached on the GBP1 billion financing of new Bombardier trains for the new South Western franchise operators FirstGroup and MTR.
The transaction was led by sponsor Rock Rail and partners SL Capital (part of Standard Life Investments) and GLIL Infrastructure LLP, who all provided the equity investment.
It is the latest success for the Rock Rail Consortium coming off the back of success in two previous major rolling stock deals last year. This latest deal represents the largest single UK rolling stock deal for which all senior debt is provided by institutional investors. The debt
CVC Capital Partners Fund VI has agreed to acquire Etraveli, the global flight-centric online travel agency (OTA), from ProSiebenSat.1. The agreement is subject to approval by the relevant authorities.
Etraveli, which is based in Uppsala, Sweden, is a global e-commerce platform for flight tickets (eg Gotogate, Supersaver/Supersavertravel, Seat24, Flygresor), combining a leading position in the Nordics with a fast-growing international business. The Company today fulfils over EUR2 billion in transactions annually across almost 50 countries, by delivering attractively priced flight content through its proprietary technology platform.
Lorne Somerville, Partner and Head of TMT at CVC, says: “The online travel
Now Healthcare Group (NHG) has received a minority investment from health cash plan provider Medicash of GBP4 million.
Founded in 2015 by Lee Dentith, NHG provides digital healthcare services through its brands Dr Now, Now GP and Now Pharmacy. This exciting new partnership with Medicash will enable the business to further develop its artificial intelligence and machine learning offering through its mobile app products and its online pharmacy, enabling the faster development of auto diagnoses and medicine adherence solutions.
The company intends to further develop its hugely successful private medical insurance offering and also its soon-to-be launched new NHS
Falcon Group has secured USD100M in funding from KKR’s credit platform (KKR Credit).
With nine offices worldwide, Falcon continues to see widespread and growing demand from corporates looking for innovative funding solutions. The company now operates in over 30 countries and across 15 industries having deployed over USD8 billion in the last three years. The inaugural deal – in line with the company’s three-year strategic plan – will serve to both diversify the company’s funding sources and provide additional capacity to scale up its financing capacity rapidly in coming years.
“This investment from KKR Credit – one of the
Cairngorm Capital Partners’s (Cairngorm Capital) portfolio company Stevenswood Trade Centres Limited (Stevenswood) has acquired Sameday Holdings Limited (Sameday).
This transaction, which is highly geographically complementary, accelerates Stevenswood’s strategy to develop a national network of trade counters. The new combined group will continue to be headquarted in Livingston and will have 37 branches across the UK, generating revenues of over GBP45 million and employing over 180 people.
Established in 2006, Sameday operates a network of seven counters in the west of England, from Bristol to Reading, distributing windows, doors and conservatory roofs to the installer market and employing 20 people.
BGF (Business Growth Fund) has invested an initial GBP2 million in Milk Visual Effects, an Oscar winning independent visual effects (VFX) company which creates innovative and complex visual effects for high-end television and feature films.
Milk will use the funding to expand its studios; invest in new technical equipment and R&D and hire the best industry talent, significantly increasing its capacity to work with the world’s leading feature film, high-end television and digital content producers such as Warner Bros., the BBC and Netflix.
Milk was founded by five VFX supervisors and producers in 2013, including current CEO and visual
Celanese Corporation (NYSE:CE), a global technology and specialty materials company, and funds managed by Blackstone (NYSE:BX), one of the world’s leading investment firms, are to form a joint venture (JV) that will create a global acetate tow supplier.
Celanese and Blackstone will own 70 per cent and 30 per cent of the JV, respectively.
Under the terms of the agreement, Celanese will contribute its Cellulose Derivatives business unit, including its equity interest in existing JVs with China National Tobacco Corporation, and Blackstone will contribute its Rhodia Acetow business unit, which it recently acquired from Solvay. The new company is
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