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ATADATA Solutions has reached an agreement has been made with its capital stakeholders to recapitalise the Company.
The Company will rebrand itself as ATADATA, which represents “Any to Any” for Enterprise-class application migration between any Data Centre, or Cloud Platform, for true Workload Portability. Furthermore, additional capital will be invested into the business for sustainable, long-term growth.
"This is an exciting moment for ATADATA," said Charles Wright, founder and CEO of ATADATA. "We are pleased to have reached an agreement with our partners that will provide the Company with the funding to aid in the execution of our business strategy.
Bowside Capital has held the final closing of Bowside Capital Fund III, with USD37.25 million in capital commitments.
“The offering was well received by our existing limited partners and other new investors, allowing us to exceed our target of USD35 million in under 12 months,” says Christian Albert, managing partner. “Our consistent and focused investment strategy on the small buyout market and the performance of the predecessor funds contributed to the success of the fundraise.”
Bowside's investment program is designed to build a diversified portfolio of investments in the private small cap market. Bowside invests in US and Canadian private
Bain Capital is combining three of its fresh food portfolio businesses – M&J Seafood, Pauleys and Wild Harvest – to form a new company, Fresh Direct.
The new company will be jointly owned by Bain Capital & Nigel Harris. Current Fresh Direct owners, Nigel & Colin Harris will continue to take an active role in the future success of the New Company.
The new Company will create an "all-in-one" fresh food destination for chefs and caterers, for their produce, fish and seafood, meat and exclusive fine dining product requirements.
The New Company and management team will be led
ArchOver, a FinTech company offering secured and insured loans to investors, has formed a partnership with online private shares marketplace, Asset Match to provide a secondary marketplace for its loans.
This is the first time Asset Match has partnered with a crowdlender.
ArchOver’s CEO, Angus Dent, says: “We believe that the loans we offer are the safest on the Internet worldwide; certainly, they are as close to zero risk as we can make them but none of us know when we might need access to money we have saved. Our partnership with Asset Match gives our lenders the potential
Corporate finance house Convex Capital structured and led the multi million pound sale of the UK’s largest independent brands in sports nutrition, PhD Nutrition, to UK based B&B Investment Partners (B&B).
Neil Worsley, Andrew Clarke and Gareth Lewis who structured the deal that valued the business at 10x EBITDA and delivered 83% of the consideration on completion led the transaction; Senior VP, James Edge, and Managing Partner, Neil Worsley originated it.
The transaction underlines Convex Capital’s excellence in advising sports nutrition brands and further emphasises the team’s ability to find great partners for their clients. It continues Convex’s unprecedented run
Law firm Howard Kennedy has advised 31 venture capital trusts (VCTs) in the past seven months.
The firm’s VCT team has advised on 20 completed offers, with a further 11 offers ongoing, with a combined market value of GBP443m. The firm has advised 14 VCTs as both sponsor and legal adviser, and 17 as sponsor only.
Keith Lassman, partner and head of capital markets at Howard Kennedy, says: “For the past 17 years we have led the market advising VCTs. This year we have advised on 31 of the 37 VCTs to come to market. As the only English law
Mid-market advisory firm Clearwater International has advised recruitment agency GatenbySanderson on its management buyout (MBO), backed by private equity house Primary Capital.
GatenbySanderson provides permanent and interim executives across public services and the not for profit sector. The business has a particular expertise in headhunting chief executives, senior management teams and non-executive board members within markets that frequently undergo change.
Primary Capital has previous experience in the support services sector, acquiring security recruitment business Pegasus Security and achieving a 5xreturn on its investment in 2006. Primary Capital’s latest acquisition will help GatenbySanderson achieve the next stage in development by
Zolfo Cooper has advised the shareholders of iNTERTAIN Limited, best known for its chain of Walkabout bars, on its management buy-out led by chairman David Myers and CEO John Leslie.
The purchaser, Better Capital LLP, is a private equity investment vehicle founded by Jon Moulton, former managing partner of Alchemy.
Paul Hemming, a partner in Zolfo Cooper’s corporate finance team, says: “Against the backdrop of a difficult trading environment we used our extensive network of contacts in the market to identify potential buyers for the business. Better Capital has a great track record in these types of investment opportunities and
Shore Capital Partners has completed the recapitalisation of Oak View Animal Hospital, Patton Chapel Animal Clinic and Williams Animal Hospital to form Southern Veterinary Partners (SVP).
The company provides general practice veterinary services to companion animals including vaccinations, surgery, wellness exams, oncology, ophthalmology, allergy treatment and dermatology.
Headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, Southern Veterinary Partners plans to pursue a roll-up of animal hospitals in the Southeast. Shore has partnered with Dr Jay Price, a veterinarian and the owner of Oak View, Patton Chapel and Williams, to be CEO of the platform.
“We are thrilled about the partnership with Dr
Baird has advised MidCon Holdings, a portfolio company of private equity firm Arbor Investments, on its sale to Green Bay Packaging.
Terms of the transaction, which closed on 31 October, have not been disclosed.
Justin Albert, managing director, head of Baird’s packaging investment banking team and lead banker on the transaction, says: “This transaction is the most recent example of accelerating consolidation in the corrugated packaging space. An increasingly competitive environment among corrugated packaging suppliers is driving consolidation as companies seek to build market share, diversify product offerings and expand footprints to increase scale and maintain operational efficiency. That’s
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