Deals
GenNx360 Capital Partners, a private equity firm focused on investing in middle market industrial business-to-business companies, has acquired Salford Farm Machinery for an undisclosed amount.
Salford is a Canada based manufacturer of tillage, seeding and fertilising equipment for the global marketplace.
Salford currently serves the North American and European markets from its facilities in Ontario, Canada, Iowa in the US, and through a joint venture in Omsk, Russia. The company sells through more than 300 dealers and distributors in North America.
"At GenNx360, we strongly believe in the megatrends that drive agribusiness. Tillage equipment manufacturers stand to benefit
CIC Partners, a Dallas-based middle-market private equity firm, has sold OmniSYS to New York-based private equity firm Moelis Capital Partners (MCP), the private equity business of Moelis & Company.
OmniSYS will continue to be led by its current president and chief executive Tricia Fringer.
CIC Partners has been invested in OmniSYS for six years, with Fringer and her management team leading significant growth and value creation efforts over the most recent five years.
Since CIC's acquisition in October 2007, OmniSYS has grown by expanding the scope of its services and penetrating new markets and channels. Today, OmniSYS provides its
Private equity fund Seafort Advisors I is acquiring three companies operating in different sectors from Munich-based private equity fund Auctus.
The Seafort fund was set up specifically for this transaction.
The synchronised deal involves the Noventiz Group of Cologne, Nuremberg-based DialogFeld Communication Group and Bayreuth's Dieter Braun Group.
CMS Hasche Sigle advised on all legal aspects of the acquisition via a team led by lead partners Udo Simmat and Tobias Schneider. This is one of the first private equity transactions to be structured and implemented in accordance with Germany's new Capital Investment Code (KAGB), which came into force
Private equity houses may still be focusing their efforts on the best assets, but the combination of significant amounts of dry powder and a growing sense of optimism on macroeconomic indicators throughout Europe means activity in the small to mid-market has improved significantly, according to NBGI Private Equity.
Deal completions in the EUR15m-EUR150m range in Europe rose by 50 per cent in volume terms compared to Q2, while the overall value of these deals increased by 43 per cent to reach EUR4.3bn.
In terms of M&A more broadly, mid-market transactions also picked up in the 3rd quarter, with an increase
Sobera Capital has acquired the venture capital fund BayTech Venture Capital from Bayerische Landesbank, European Investment Bank, Bpifrance, Versicherungskammer Bayern, and BayernLB Capital Partners.
Among others, the fund holds participations in EnOcean (Munich), Pieris (Freising), Scaleo chip (Sophia Antipolis), and OneAccess (Paris).
Sobera Capital was backed in this secondary direct transaction by Unigestion.
Sobera Capital is a Berlin based independent secondary direct investor with a focus on venture capital and small-cap funds and assets in TIMES, healthcare and selected other industries.
A consortium led by KKR Asset Management (KAM), a sub-investment grade manager that is wholly owned by KKR, is to acquire Winoa Group from LBO France.
The acquisition facilitates a recapitalisation of the business through a significant reduction of the debt and access to new money for growth.
Winoa Group, formerly Wheelabrator Allevard, specialises in abrasion and cutting technologies for the metal and stone industries. Founded in 1961 in France, Winoa has 12 operational plants on four continents, employs over 1,000 staff and has 10,000 direct customers worldwide.
The investment by KKR has been made through investment funds
Atlante Seed, the Intesa Sanpaolo Group Fund and start-up incubator Digital Magics have signed an agreement for the joint development of investment activities in digital start-ups.
The goal of the partnership is to increase investment capacity for the start-ups selected and incubated by Digital Magics, guaranteeing adequate financial resources for their development.
Atlante Seed will join the Digital Magics Angel Network and will have the right to participate in the seed rounds, forming part of the share capital of high growth potential start-ups, co-investing in the companies proposed by the incubator.
This operation forms part of an indirect
Zwitserleven, the Spoorweg pensioenfonds and the Pensioenfonds Openbaar Vervoer have made a first deposit in the SNS FMO SME Finance Fund.
SNS Impact Investing, part of SNS Asset Management, and the Dutch development bank FMO jointly initiated this fund, which aims to support local SME’s in developing markets.
The fund has attracted EUR00m in investments at its first close. Commitments are expected to increase substantially in 2014.
The fund will provide loans to financial institutions aiming at supporting SMEs in developing markets worldwide. Through these investments, hundreds of SMEs will gain access to long term finance in the
An affiliate of Roark Capital Group has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire a majority stake in CKE Inc with senior management retaining a minority stake.
CKE is currently majority-owned and controlled by investment funds affiliated with Apollo Global Management.
Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2013, subject to regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions.
Headquartered in Carpinteria, California, CKE, through its subsidiaries, owns, operates and franchises some of the most popular brands in the quick-service restaurant industry, including the Carl’s Jr, Hardee’s, Green
Exclusive Networks Group has acquired Dubai-based Secureway, a security specialist value added distributor in the Middle East with clients in ten countries in the Gulf region and EUR50m turnover expected in 2013.
This operation follows the implementation last September by Omnes Capital and all shareholders of a capital increase of EUR12m for Exclusive Networks Group and acquisition financing of EUR60m raised entirely from ICG Senior Debt Partner.
Omnes Capital acquired a stake in the company in July 2010 during a primary LBO and owns 69 per cent alongside the chief executive officer, key managers, Edmond de Rothschild Investment Partners
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