Deals
Thames Valley accountants and business advisors James Cowper has advised global engineering consultancy Roughton Group on a restructuring and refinancing.
James Cowper has advised Roughton Group shareholders since 2011 to deliver an exit for two retiring shareholder directors. The advice has included a refinancing of the group with its bank and a restructuring of the equity.
Roughton Group is a multidisciplinary engineering consultancy based in Southampton delivering projects in Africa, Asia, Europe, UK, Latin America, the Caribbean, Mekong and the South Pacific with a particular specialism in advising on transport and infrastructure projects
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Swedfund, the Swedish state’s venture capital company, and The Africa Health Fund through The Abraaj Group, an investor operating in global growth markets, have invested in The Nairobi Women’s Hospital.
The hospital is a private healthcare provider for women and their families in East Africa.
The investment in The Nairobi Women’s Hospital totals USD6.5m. It is the largest single foreign direct equity investment in private healthcare in Kenya this year. In 2010, the then newly formed Africa Health Fund invested in The Nairobi Women’s Hospital.
The objective of The Africa Health Fund is to increase access to, affordability
Fireman Capital Partners (FCP), a consumer-focused growth equity firm, has acquired a majority stake in Skip Hop, a lifestyle brand serving the infant and toddler industry.
Skip Hop founders Michael and Ellen Diamant will retain a meaningful ownership stake, and will continue to lead the company. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Based in New York City, Skip Hop offers a wide range of products, including diaper bags, on-the-go accessories, soft and wooden toys, bedding, bath time, feeding, and the ZOO line of toddler products. The company’s products are sold at over 4,000 retail doors in the US
LA-based private equity firm Aurora Capital Group has acquired National Technical Systems (NTS), a provider of testing, inspection and certification solutions.
Aurora acquired NTS through an affiliated entity, which acquired all of the outstanding securities of NTS for USD23.00 per share in cash, which represents a premium of approximately 39 per cent to NTS's closing stock price on 15 August 2013.
NTS's shares of common stock have ceased trading on the Nasdaq Global Stock Market.
Michael J Marino, partner of Aurora Capital Group, says: "We have long been impressed with the capabilities that NTS and its founders have
3P Capital, a Chattanooga-based private equity firm specialising in acquisition of high growth potential companies, has acquired Arch Advantage.
“With the evolving landscape of medical billing and insurance coverage, we see this as strategic investment,” says John Ballantyne, partner at 3P Capital. “Arch Advantage bridges a financial gap, allowing consumers to help patients get the care they need at an affordable payment plan, while serving as a catalyst for medical providers to grow their business.”
For medical providers, the Arch Smart Engine evaluates a patients “payment worthiness” over credit ranking, allowing medical providers to expand their practice to patients
Private coaching company CoachUp has raised USD6.7m in its series A round, co-led by venture capital firms Point Judith Capital and General Catalyst Partners.
"We are pleased to continue to support CoachUp — we love the marketplace they are building. There's a significant opportunity for CoachUp to connect consumers with fitness professionals," says David Fialkow, managing director of General Catalyst Partners, both a seed and series A investor.
CoachUp helps connect athletes with private coaches, on the web and with iOS and Android applications. Since its seed round a year ago, the company has seen a 642 per cent
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
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