Deals
Digital Development Management (DDM), a business and talent agency for video games and digital entertainment, has acquired Netherlands-based Green Hill’s business development division to expand its presence in the European market.
Green Hill Studios, a production management company, will remain separate.
Maarten de Koning, managing director of Green Hill, joins DDM as business development director, Europe. With a background in investment management and game development, de Koning has held production roles at various studios and founded Green Hill on the principles of providing business development, effective product management and consultation to video game developers.
Since its inception in 2010, Green
Investcorp has completed the sale of IPH Group, a distributor of industrial supplies in Europe, to PAI Partners, a Paris-based European private equity firm.
The deal generated in excess of EUR210m of realisation proceeds for Investcorp and its clients.
During the period of ownership by Investcorp, IPH Group tripled its sales from EUR293m to EUR860m and grew EBITDA from EUR12m to over EUR62m in 2012.
Maud Brown, principal in Investcorp’s corporate investment team, says: "IPH Group is an excellent example of how we can add value in our portfolio companies and transform a business from being a domestic champion to
Private equity (PE) investment activity in the Americas is positioned for a solid year, while markets in Europe and Asia Pacific tread water, according to the fourth annual edition of the bellwether report on the state of the industry released by Bain & Company.
The report also finds that North America enters 2013 with favourable winds at its back.
Private equity showed clear signs of strength in North America and Brazil, South America’s largest market, in 2012. Buyout deal value in North America was up 23 per cent in 2012, while deal activity in Europe and Asia Pacific fell.
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Private equity (PE) investment activity in the Americas is positioned for a solid year, while markets in Europe and Asia Pacific tread water, according to the fourth annual edition of the bellwether report on the state of the industry released by Bain & Company.
The report also finds that North America enters 2013 with favourable winds at its back.
Private equity showed clear signs of strength in North America and Brazil, South America’s largest market, in 2012. Buyout deal value in North America was up 23 per cent in 2012, while deal activity in Europe and Asia Pacific fell.
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Investment holding company Salvepar, which is 92 per cent owned by the Tikehau Group, has sold its entire stake in Lacroix for EUR2.1m.
Salvepar is listed on the Parsi stock exchange and conducts an active policy of minority and medium-term shareholding acquisitions in listed and non-listed companies.
Omnes Capital – formerly Crédit Agricole Private Equity – has invested EUR4m in the Italian company Futuris via its Capenergie 2 fund. Additional investment of up to EUR10m is planned.
The Milan-based company – founded and developed by Rodolfo Danielli, former chief operating officer of Italcementi and EMEA director of Air Liquide – develops, builds and manages biomass-fired cogeneration plants.
Futuris SA aims to develop the equivalent of 54 MW of installed capacity between now and 2016, for a total investment of EUR220m. This development plan is based on the construction of 10 power stations within the framework of three
One of KRG Capital Partners’ Fund IV platform companies, Fort Dearborn Company, has completed the acquisition of FetterGroup’s paint and coating labels business.
KRG made its initial investment in Fort Dearborn Company – a supplier of cut and stack, pressure sensitive, roll-fed and shrink sleeve labels – in August 2010.
The acquisition of FetterGroup’s paint and coatings label business represents the 179th investment for KRG since its inception.
Alliance+, the Nordic cleaning business backed by Danish/Swedish mid-market private equity investor Polaris Private Equity, has completed its seventh add-on deal, acquiring Facila, a complementary Swedish business.
Alliance+ was formed by Polaris in 2009 through the simultaneous acquisition of Kølving & Thaning and Alliance Clean & Care – two cleaning service companies operating in Denmark.
Since then the company has made a number of add-on acquisitions, initially in Denmark. In 2012 Alliance+ reached a strategically important milestone with the acquisition of Sweden’s largest privately owned cleaning services company, Miljöteamet, which transformed the business into a pan-Nordic entity, making it the
Innovacom has invested in the capital of Green Communications during a fundraising round of EUR600,000.
This marks the first investment of its seed fund technocom2, dedicated to digital start-up companies having a strong technical component.
The seed fund technocom2 is financed by CDC Partners as part of the Fond National d’Amorcage which it manages for the French state in the programme of investment for the future together with strategic partners such as Alcatel-Lucent who will support Green Communications along with Innovacom’s management team.
Green Communications grew out of research carried out by the Université Pierre et Marie Curie and the
AXA Private Equity has arranged a EUR220m unitranche facility for the acquisition of IPH by PAI Partners from Investcorp.
The deal represents the largest unitranche financing in Europe to date.
IPH is a distributor of industrial supplies in Europe. Founded in 1987 and historically based in Lyon, France, IPH provides its products and services through a multibrand, multi-specialist and multi-channel network. IPH is active in France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany and Romania, with approximately 3,000 employees and revenues of approx. EUR900m in 2011.
Olivier Berment (pictured), co-head of private debt and managing director at AXA Private Equity, says:
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