Deals
Inflexion Private Equity is to carve out GfK’s animal and crop health business, a provider of agricultural data and market information, from the Frankfurt-listed global market research organisation.
GfK’s animal and crop health business delivers innovative, data driven market information to the agriculture and animal health markets, providing detailed insights into their customers’ key growth requirements. The business, led by its Global Director Stephen Hearn, has grown rapidly since inception and delivered sales of USD40 million in 2014. Employing around 220 people in 18 countries, GfK’s animal and crop health business serves a wide range of long standing, blue chip,
Gravitas Technology Services is to provide alternative investment manager Mill Hill Capital with cloud hosting, archiving, network support and failover capabilities across its trading, investment, portfolio management, finance, and operations functions.
Mill Hill Capital relies on proprietary valuation, cash flow models and vast amounts of market data to perform its investment analysis and trading activities, there by requiring a chief provider of infrastructure support for on-site servers, cloud storage, backup recovery and archival.
“We have created a scalable institutional platform and first-class infrastructure at Mill Hill and partnering with Gravitas allows us to deliver a best in class hosting
108 Partners, a middle market business advisory firm led by James Bergeron, has completed the recapitalisation of Levementum, enabling the CRM and digital services specialist to fund the next stage of its growth.
Levementum provides management consulting, system integration and value-added resale of cloud-based CRM and digital solutions, serving more than 1,000 customers across a wide variety of industries that include consumer packaged goods, high-tech, financial services, energy, telecommunications and manufacturing.
108 Partners began advising the Levementum executive team in April 2013 with James Bergeron providing CEO Coaching services and serving as a member of the company's Advisory Board.
Edgemont Capital Partners has acted as exclusive financial advisor to WorkWell Medical Group on its investment and recapitaliaation by Salt Creek Capital. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
WorkWell Medical Group, founded in 2003 by Dr Sheilaja Mittal and Vikram Mittal, and headquartered in Salinas, California, offers patients and employers an in-house network of specialists, a multidisciplinary rehabilitation facility and a state-of-the-art mobile medical clinic, all providing a complete suite of healthcare services to improve healing time for employees, enabling them to return to work more quickly. The company owns and manages five medical clinics providing occupational medicine,
Consumer electronics developer Netatmo has successfully raised EUR30 million in a funding round led by Legrand, a specialist in electrical and digital building infrastructures.
Existing investors Iris Capital, Ambition Numérique and Pascal Cagni also participated while Fred Potter and Netatmo’s other founders remain majority shareholders.
“Thanks to the quality of our products and our ability to conquer new markets, our turnover is constantly growing in our home market and internationally,” says Potter. “These outstanding results prove the relevance to our approach and the excellent capability of our teams. We welcome Legrand as our new investor and are very proud
Oberthur Technologies (OT), a provider of embedded security software products, services and solutions, has decided to postpone its Initial Public Offering (IPO) over concerns about current market conditions.
Didier Lamouche, CEO of OT, says: "The decision taken with our majority shareholder Advent International is a natural one given the current state of the capital markets.
“Our business is delivering strong organic growth of both revenues and EBITDA and the momentum we see on all our activities confirms that we have made the right choices and positions us well for the future."
Smart Employee Benefits (SEB) has completed the first tranche of a private placement equity financing for gross proceeds of USD2,400,000 out of maximum aggregate proceeds of USD4,000,000.
The First Tranche financing consists of 6,000,000 units (the "Units") at a price of USD0.40 per Unit. Each Unit consists of (i) one common share of SEB and (ii) one common share purchase warrant of SEB (the "Warrants"). Each Warrant has a term of 24 months from the date of issuance and vests on December 31, 2016 at an exercise price of USD0.75 per share.
The financing is non-brokered and sourced from
Global law firm White & Case has continued the growth of its private equity, infrastructure and energy M&A practices across EMEA with the additions of Caroline Sherrell and Kenneth Barry as new partners in London.
“White & Case has considerable cross-practice and cross-border strength in the private equity, infrastructure and energy industries, and the arrivals of Caroline and Ken will strengthen our current position as a leading firm in these sectors in EMEA,” says White & Case partner John Reiss, Global Head of the Firm’s Global Mergers & Acquisitions Practice. “Growing our presence in London is a key element in
Apteki Gemini (Gemini) has partnered with an affiliate of private equity firm Warburg Pincus to fund the firm’s growth plan.
Gemini is committed to providing low price drugs, high quality patient pharmaceutical care, and the widest product availability in the market.
Founded in 1990, Gemini operates pharmacies in Northern Poland, as well as a nationwide online business (www.aptekigemini.pl). The Company offers the lowest prices of drugs in the Polish market and this allows large groups of patient’s access to drugs, which they would otherwise not purchase. Gemini currently operates predominantly in Northern Poland but is planning to expand
Inflexion has completed the carve-out of the Engineering Inspection & Consultancy division of RSA Plc. The new company will trade as British Engineering Services in the UK and Irish Engineering Services in the Republic of Ireland.
From its headquarters in Manchester, British Engineering Services delivers premium quality engineering testing, inspection and consultancy services throughout the UK and the Republic of Ireland to a large number of blue chip customers. The company has over 450 highly trained Engineer Surveyors and Consultant Engineers, strong customer support systems and a wealth of technical expertise.
Inflexion will work alongside British Engineering Services’ management
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