Deals
New State Capital Partners (New State) has acquired AVEX, a provider of sales and maintenance for the Daher TBM turboprop aircraft in North America.
New State is acquiring the Company from its founder, Terry Winson, who is retiring. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Founded in 1985, with operations in California and Colorado, AVEX is the exclusive distributor of new TBM aircraft in the southwestern United States. With more than 1,000 TBM aircraft currently in service, the Company also manages a robust maintenance and aftermarket services business, which provides a one-stop solution and a high level of
Maven Capital Partners (Maven), one of the UK’s most active investors in growing businesses, has made a profitable exit from its investment in Healthpoint. The sale to Netherlands domiciled Dayes BV has generated a 3.1x return for Maven clients.
Founded in 1996, Blackpool based Healthpoint supplies healthcare and beauty products into the retail sector and has grown to become one of the largest suppliers of tertiary branded healthcare products in the UK.
Maven completed the management buy-out of Healthpoint in 2017, funded through Maven’s co-investment network for professional clients ‘Maven Investor Partners’. The investment enabled the business to fund further
FSN Capital VI is to invest in OptiGroup and Hygas to create a major player in the business-to-business (B2B) distribution market. Existing shareholders and the management team will retain minority stakes in the combined group.
The investment in OptiGroup and Hygas, which will have combined revenues of around EUR1.3 billion and EBITDA in excess of EUR100 million, is in line with FSN Capital’s approach to transform companies and make them more international, sustainable and competitive.
Headquartered in Mölndal, Sweden, OptiGroup is a leading Northern European B2B distributor with a broad product offering in Facility, Safety & Foodservice, Packaging Solutions, and
FNZ, a global wealth management platform, has completed the sale of financial technology provider GBST to Anchorage Capital Partners, a global private equity fund with extensive financial services and systems experience.
Anchorage Capital Partners’ investment is focussed on GBST’s Wealth Management division and is committed to supporting GBST’s experienced management team in executing its growth strategy and delivering market leading solutions to clients. This includes support for continued investment and the rollout of the technology transformation of GBST’s market leading platform solution Composer to current and prospective clients.
Following the transaction, FNZ will reacquire GBST’s capital markets division including
FFL Partners (FFL), a private equity firm focused on growth investments in middle market companies, and Two Sigma Impact, the impact investing business of Two Sigma, have acquired opioid treatment programme provider Community Medical Services (CMS).
Financial terms of the private transaction have not been disclosed.
Headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona, CMS operates more than 45 clinics in nine states that provide high-efficacy opioid use disorder (OUD) treatment, while reducing the stigma associated with it.
Cogsy, a real-time operational intelligence and supply chain management platform for SME e-commerce merchants, has raised a USD6 million seed round led by Accel with participation from Bain Capital Ventures, WooCommerce (Automattic), Sugar Capital, and RiverPark Ventures.
Angel investors including Casey Armstrong (CMO, ShipBob), Jay Myers (co-founder, Bold Commerce), Brian Long (co-founder and CEO, Attentive), Tomer Tagrin and Omri Cohen (co-founders, Yotpo) also participated in the round.
The investment will be used to make key hires at all levels across functions and geographies, as Cogsy is a fully distributed team. The funding will allow Cogsy to build on the platform’s
Clessidra Private Equity SGR has finalised an agreement for the acquisition of a majority stake in Formula Impresoft, a technology hub in the Italian software and services market, from Xenon Private Equity VII SCA SICAV RAIF.
The top management of Impresoft Group, composed largely of the founders, will keep a significant stake in the company.
The investment in Impresoft Group marks the third transaction of Clessidra Capital Partners 4 fund, whose first closing took place last June. Italmobiliare will participate in the transaction as a co-investor.
Healthcare investor BPOC has made a strategic investment in Alliance Physical Therapy Partners (Alliance), a provider of physical therapy services across the US.
Alliance is a national physical therapy operator offering outpatient physical therapy across a network of 90-plus clinics in 14 states. In addition to traditional physical therapy, Alliance offers virtual physical therapy, a workplace therapy solution, in-hospital services, and a comprehensive electronic medical record platform.
Financial terms of the transactions, which will see BPOC partner with the existing management team, led by Richard Leaver, have not been disclosed.
Project Admission, a technology company specialising in ticketing technologies, has closed a seed funding round led by global venture investment firm, Anthemis Group with participation from Flyover Capital.
With this funding, Project Admission plans to expand operations to meet the growing needs of the rapidly evolving digitally-driven ticketing ecosystem. Anthemis has a passion for emerging technology and strategically invests in tech-driven companies who serve as thought-leaders and change-agents in the world of finance. With more than USD9 million in funding to date, this latest round helps to further Project Admission’s mission to create unique monetising features and opportunities around the
Pemberton, a European private debt manager, is to provide a refinancing package to support growth trajectory of PLIXXENT, a German headquartered polyurethane systems business.
The firm was carved out from listed business Covestro AG in 2019, and is now majority owned by alternative investment firm HIG Capital.
Following two acquisitions, PLIXXENT now has six production sites across Europe and its polyurethane systems are used in both, flexible and rigid foam applications across a variety of industries including energy, insulation, footwear, appliances, construction, furniture and transportation.
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