Deals
Baltcom, an entertainment and telecommunication services company in Latvia, has completed the acquisition of IZZI, the second largest cable television operator in the country.
Baltcom completed this acquisition with the full support of its shareholders AXA Private Equity, the European diversified private equity firm, and Resource Partners, a consumer-focused investor in Central and Eastern Europe.
Baltcom and IZZI will continue to operate as independent legal entities. The clients of both companies will continue to receive the services they had previously and will also have the opportunity to access the wider, combined offering of the companies, broadened with new
Independent corporate advisory firm Acuity Advisors has acted as exclusive corporate finance advisor to KnowledgeCenter to secure agreement from Charles Taylor to purchase both the business and its assets.
Established in 2001, KnowledgeCenter provides tailored business solutions to the insurance industry with its business process management and document management software applications. KnowledgeCenter works at all stages of a project’s lifecycle from initial project definition, through analysis and design, solution development, implementation and product or solution training.
Charles Taylor is an international provider of professional services to clients in the global insurance market. The group has been providing professional
BMC Software has concluded its acquisition by a private investor group led by Bain Capital and Golden Gate Capital together with Insight Venture Partners, GIC Special Investments and Elliott Management.
“This is an exciting day for BMC Software, including our employees, our partners and our new owners,” says Bob Beauchamp, the company’s chairman and chief executive officer. “Most importantly, this transaction is very good news for our customers. As a private company, we will be able to innovate more quickly than ever before and deliver the most valuable IT management solutions in the industry.”
“BMC is the leading global
The CapStreet Group has completed a majority recapitalisation of Industrial Plant Services, the parent company of EPSCO International and Plant Maintenance Services, in partnership with the senior management team.
Founded in 1994, Industrial Plant Services is a Houston-based provider of corrosion resistant and non-metallic products primarily serving the petrochemical and general industrial end markets.
Private equity firm CapStreet, also based in Houston, focuses on growing, lower-middle market companies in Texas and other Sunbelt states.
EPSCO International, founded in 1962, is a specialty distributor of corrosion resistant and non-metallic products along the Gulf Coast. EPSCO has facilities in
HIG Capital’s Brazilian affiliate has acquired a majority stake in Eletromidia, one of the largest players in the out-of-home advertising industry.
The two founders will retain a significant ownership and will continue in their positions of leading the company.
Founded in 1993, Eletromidia reaches over six million people daily with advertising solutions. The company manages urban furniture, digital outdoor displays and indoor networks across 18 cities.
“HIG’s investment will enable Eletromidia to participate in larger projects and fuel our organic expansion plans. Through this partnership, we are confident that we will improve the reach and depth of
CrowdStrike, a provider of security technologies and services focused on identifying advanced threats and targeted attacks, has raised USD30m in series B financing.
The round was led by Accel Partners and included founding investor Warburg Pincus.
Sameer Gandhi, partner at Accel Partners, will join the board of directors.
CrowdStrike will use the financing to further drive innovation in big data analytics and security intelligence and support an aggressive go-to-market strategy in the next-generation threat protection space.
"The completion of our funding is perfectly timed to meet growing demand for targeted attack detection, prevention, and monitoring," says
Alternative asset manager The Carlyle Group is to acquire the Red Oak power generation facility in Sayreville, New Jersey, and has separately closed on the purchase of five power plants in California.
The acquisitions, which were executed in conjunction with Carlyle’s power affiliate Cogentrix, bring the total enterprise value of power asset transactions since Carlyle funds acquired Cogentrix in late 2012 to more than USD1.2bn.
Robert Mancini, Carlyle managing director and chairman of the board of Cogentrix, says: “Since Carlyle funds acquired Cogentrix, our power team has committed approximately USD600m of equity capital. The North American power generation
The Angel CoFund, a fund that invests in high-growth SMEs alongside UK angel groups, has realised its first investment through the sale of Nonlinear Dynamics, a Newcastle-based developer of software for analysing proteins, to Waters Inc.
Waters is one of largest companies in the analytical instruments industry, listed on the New York Stock Exchange and with a market cap of USD8.85bn.
Nonlinear Dynamics was the Angel CoFund’s seventh investment, completing on 19 July 2012 and participating alongside a group of experienced angels investors from Yorkshire and the North East, with additional debt provided by FW Capital and support for
TyresOnTheDrive.com, the online mobile tyre-fitting service, has secured a further GBP1.5m investment, led by MMC Ventures and supported by EV Group, to support its nationwide expansion.
This latest round of funding brings the total investment, including funding from the founders, to over GBP2.6m.
Tyres on the Drive, which currently covers the North West and the West Midlands, is pushing ahead with plans to expand its operations into Yorkshire and across the South and London as quickly as possible. As a result of its rapid growth, the investment will be used to double its current fleet of specially designed
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