Deals
Munich-based venture capital firm Target Partners has led a seven-figure financing round for adeven GmbH, a technology company headquartered in Berlin and London, that verifies and optimizes mobile advertising campaigns for publishers and advertisers in real time.
The financing will support the company’s international growth.
Adeven GmbH analyzes the overall context of mobile advertising campaigns, including the number of screen inserts. The company focuses on apps and mobile websites. "We process over 20 GB of data from Apple’s app store alone, and extract more than 100 billion individual data points, which we analyze, evaluate, and prepare", stated Paul H Müller,
Some 30 emerging markets private equity funds raised USD7.8 billion in the three months ended 31 March 2012, compared to 46 funds that raised USD9.9 billion in the first quarter of 2011, according to figures released by the Emerging Markets Private Equty Association (EMPEA).
On the investment side, 198 deals were completed for USD4.8 billion through 31 March 2012, compared to 217 deals completed for USD8.5 billion in the first quarter of last year.
International law firm Eversheds has advised private equity firm Baird Capital Partners Europe on its acquisition of the instrumentation solutions business of e2v technologies plc for GBP15 million. The acquired business will be re-named SGX Sensortech Ltd (SGX).
SGX designs and manufactures sensors that provide environmental, health & safety research and analysis to customers in Europe and Asia including automotive companies Volvo and VW. Its products include high specification x-ray detection sensors used in a range of industries such as the pharmaceutical sector and academic research, pollutant gases sensors for the automotive industry and combustible and toxic gas sensors used
Quikr, an internet and mobile-based classified ads specialist, has attracted an investment of USD32 million led by Warburg Pincus, a global private equity firm focused on growth investing.
Existing investors Matrix Partners India, Norwest Venture Partners and eBay Inc. also participated in this round of fund raising, which is the fifth and the largest round of capital raised.
Quikr is India’s largest horizontal classifieds platform with 17 million unique individuals and small businesses using it across 83 cities every month. These individuals and businesses access Quikr to sell, buy, rent or find products and services in a variety of categories
For the first quarter of 2012, the IntraLinks Deal Flow Indicator (DFI), which provides an early view of current deal flow activity and trends in the global market prior to public announcement, shows a 23 per cent increase in global merger and acquisition (M&A) deal activity compared to Q1 2011.
All regions also showed a year-over-year positive trend for Q1 2012 over Q1 2011, with the strongest growth in Asia Pacific (58 per cent) and similarly positive trends in Latin America (42 per cent) and Europe/Middle East/Africa (EMEA) (29 per cent). While North America also posted an increase, it was
Harris Williams & Co has advised on the sale of Silverchair Learning Systems, LLC (SLS), a healthcare IT (HCIT) provider delivering online learning and communication solutions to the senior care industry.
SLS, a subsidiary of Silverchair Holdings, Inc. (Silverchair), was sold to Vista Equity Partners (Vista). The transaction was led by Sam Hendler from the firm’s Technology, Media & Telecom (TMT) Group and Cheairs Porter from the firm’s Healthcare & Life Sciences (HCLS) Group.
“Attracting capital from an investor of Vista’s caliber is a testament to what the SLS team has achieved and the ongoing opportunity for differentiated SaaS businesses
Mid-market private equity house Dunedin has sold WFEL, a leader in mobile tactical military bridging, to KMW, a German land defence systems provider. The sale has realised a multiple of 2.4x for Dunedin.
Under Dunedin’s ownership WFEL has seen significant growth in sales, predominantly exports, increasing by nearly 70% to £36.2 million in the year ended December 2011. Employee numbers have increased by around 15% to 228 over this period.
WFEL manufactures high specification, high functionality, complex mobile bridging systems for use in military and disaster relief scenarios. WFEL’s expertise – built on a century of UK engineering excellence and
Middle-market private equity firm BV Investment Partners has made an investment in Health Information Designs (HID).
HID is a leading provider of primarily healthcare-related information technology and data analytics services, which help healthcare organisations improve patient health and reduce operating costs. The company also offers insurance identification and verification services focused on reducing the uninsured motorist rate. The investment in HID was made in partnership with the Gibson family, who founded the business in 1979. The company is headquartered in Auburn, Alabama.
HID’s healthcare offering includes drug utilisation review, prescription drug monitoring, prior authorisation and surveillance utilisation review solutions. The company’s
Private equity deal volume in the first quarter of 2012 exceeded expectations, according to GF Data.
"Most private equity professionals are predicting a flood of deal activity in 2012. The volume of reported deals in the first quarter suggests it’s already starting to happen," says Andrew T Greenberg (pictured), GF Data’s CEO and co-founder. "Over the prior eight years covered in our data universe, completed deal volume dropped an average of about 25 per cent from the fourth quarter of one year to the first quarter of the next. This year’s ten per cent dip decline compares especially favourably with
AMETEK has completed the previously announced acquisition of the parent company of Dunkermotoren GmbH from private equity firm Triton for EUR250 million (USD320 million).
The acquisition of Dunkermotoren, a specialist in advanced motion control solutions for a wide range of industrial automation applications, is expected to be immediately accretive, adding approximately USD0.02 per diluted share to 2012 earnings and approximately USD0.10 per diluted share to earnings in 2013.
"We are excited about the acquisition of such an outstanding company," says Frank S Hermance, AMETEK Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. "Dunkermotoren is a global leader in highly engineered advanced motion control solutions
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