Deals
Kartesia, a European specialist provider of capital solutions for small and mid-sized companies, has provided a financing solution to support mid-market private equity firm Palatine Private Equity (Palatine) and its portfolio company, Leicester-based Construction Testing Solutions (CTS).
The capital for this transaction was funded from Kartesia Senior Opportunities I (KSO I), which has now completed twelve investments in the UK market since the launch of the strategy in 2020. The deal team at Kartesia comprised Nick Holman, Kamil Kapasi and Karan Patole. The investment also marks Kartesia’s second transaction with Palatine Private Equity.
PSG, a growth equity firm focused on partnering with middle-market software and technology-enabled services companies, in combination with ShieldCo, a PSG V portfolio company, has acquired Traction Guest, a provider of cloud-based visitor management and workforce security software.
This marks ShieldCo’s second investment. In September 2021, the company invested in Sign In App, a provider of workplace risk management software solutions. Jeff Gordon, a Senior Advisor at PSG, will lead the new operating company, ShieldCo. Keith Metcalfe will continue to lead and focus on growing the Traction Guest business as CEO and will also join the ShieldCo senior leadership team,
An affiliate of Littlejohn & Co is to sell Kaman Distribution Group (KDG), a distributor of highly engineered products and provider of related services, to Motion Industries, Inc. (Motion), a subsidiary of Genuine Parts Company (NYSE: GPC), for USD1.3 billion in cash.
Integral Venture Partners (Integral) is to acquire a 50 per cent stake in Walter BBQ, a Serbian fast-casual restaurant chain.
Integral manages institutional private equity and growth capital and is focused on investments in the countries of central and south-eastern Europe. Integral’s fund is backed by leading international institutional investors including the EIF, the EBRD and the IFC. Integral covers its pan-regional target market out of hubs in London, Budapest and Belgrade.
AmerCareRoyal, supplier of disposable foodservice supplies, gloves and take-out packaging and a portfolio company of HCI Equity Partners (HCI), has acquired Ross & Wallace Paper Products (Ross & Wallace).
Financial terms of the deal, which is AmerCareRoyal’s seventh add-on acquisition since HCI’s initial investment, have not been disclosed.
Greenberg Traurig served as legal counsel to ACR. Generational Equity acted as the financial advisor to Ross & Wallace and Seale & Ross, PLC served as legal counsel.
BV Investment Partners (BV), a middle-market private equity firm focused on the tech-enabled business services, software and IT services sectors, has made significant strategic investment in intent data software and solutions provider Intentsify to help accelerate growth and product innovation.
Intentsify, co-founded by Marc Laplante, Mike Kelly, Ed Laplante and Eric Belcher in 2018, has consistently achieved strong growth fueled by B2B businesses seeking data-driven insights to efficiently identify and engage targeted accounts showing buying intent. Since inception, the company has gained more than 150 customers, quadrupled annual revenue in both 2019 and 2020, and will close 2021 with 3x annual revenue growth.
Food Tech and impact venture capital fund Five Seasons Ventures has invested EUR3 million in a pre-Series A funding round for pet health startup mammaly. The funding will expand mammaly across the German-speaking market.
JTC has acquired Essential Fund Services (EFS), New York-headquartered provider of a broad range of services in the alternative assets space, including accounting, reporting and administrative services to investment partnerships and their investment managers.
The acquisition will be settled via cash and JTC equity.
Gerard Federici will continue to lead the business and all current EFS employees will join JTC, becoming part of the Group’s Institutional Client Services (ICS) Division. The transaction is not subject to any regulatory approvals and completes with immediate effect.
Warwick Acoustics – a Midlands-based company which aims to disrupt the delivery of entertainment within the next generation of electric vehicles – has raised GBP2.8 million from existing shareholders including Mercia Asset Management, and a small number of high net worth investors.
The company’s ElectroAcoustics Panel (EAP) system delivers not only a step change in acoustic performance over existing audio systems, but also major reductions in weight and power consumption – key requirements for all battery-powered vehicles. Meanwhile the low-profile nature of panels, plus the ability to build them in a variety of shapes, provides designers with a unique tool to style
Verlinvest has invested in Pedego, which sells e-bikes through a network of 200 locally-owned Pedego dealers throughout the US and Canada.
With the largest retail footprint of branded stores, Pedego is a leader in the rapidly growing electric bikes (e-bikes) category in North America. The retailer joins an list of recognised and impactful companies in Verlinvest’s portfolio, alongside Oatly, Vita Coco, Who Gives a Crap, and Tony’s Chocolonely.
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