Deals
Ropes & Gray has represented Bain Capital Private Equity in its majority investment in InnovaCare Health, a regional leader in integrated and value-based healthcare services.
Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Throughout its 20-plus year history, InnovaCare Health has owned, operated and managed an integrated portfolio of leading medical groups, health plans, medical service organizations and clinical networks. Bain Capital Private Equity has partnered closely with management teams to provide the strategic resources that build great companies and help them thrive since its founding in 1984.
The Ropes & Gray team that represented Bain Capital Private Equity was
RiverGlade Capital (RiverGlade), a healthcare-focused private equity firm, has sold its controlling stake in US Oral Surgery Management (USOSM) to Oak Hill Capital (Oak Hill).
Formed by RiverGlade in 2017, in partnership with the Thurston Group, USOSM is a healthcare management services company to the oral surgery sector and represents the largest network of oral surgery practices in the country.
“Early on we recognised the positive industry tailwinds within oral surgery and saw a strategic opportunity to create the first platform of scale in the space,” says Garrick Rice, Managing Partner and Co-Founder of RiverGlade. “Starting with two anchor
Ravesncroft has announced plans to acquire the Channel Islands’ operation of MitonOptimal Group.
Judo, a mobile experiences platform company, has secured seed funding of USD3 million, in a round co-led by TenOneTen Ventures and Freestyle Capital.
The company raised capital after operating profitably to realise the market potential of its category-defining platform, which has been built to meet the needs of the most demanding mobile publishers. The company’s no code, server-driven UI technology, which is used by dozens of leading mobile applications, supports efficient delivery of rich contextual user experiences at scale without updates typically saving between 20 and 80 hours of development time.
To date, the company has built a market leading
Private industrial investment company HLD Group has acquired Thurston Group – a specialist in modular building solutions for the education, commercial and healthcare sectors.
This major acquisition, which will ensure the ongoing operation and growth of Thurston Group, was facilitated by Independent Growth Finance, through a GBP16 million asset-based lending (ABL) facility that formed part of the total acquisition cost.
The acquisition is the largest deal in HLD Group’s 10-year history and is an important addition to its portfolio of companies. It also marks an ambitious step in the group’s investment strategy.
Demis Ohandjanian, CEO, HLD
Future Planet Capital, a global university, impact and innovation investment group, has completed the acquisition of two venture capital firms: Milltrust Agricultural Investments and RT Capital.
Ericsson is to acquire Vonage Holdings Corp (NASDAQ: VG) for USD21 per share. This represents a total acquisition price of approximately USD6.2 billion (Enterprise Value).
Eatron, a fast-growing scale-up with its unique ‘intelligent automotive software’ platform for the edge and the cloud, has raised USD11 million in a Series-A round led by MMC Ventures with participation from Aster Capital and Vinfast.
Eatron has a long-standing collaboration in different projects with Vinfast to explore and accelerate deployment of the company’s software platform into Vinfast’s rapidly expanding range of electric cars. Eatron entered into a similar strategic partnership with the Hirschvogel Group from Germany in the summer of 2020 when Hirschvogel also invested USD1.5 million-plus.
Eatron, which is headquartered in the UK with a world-class
North west-based multi-family investment office, Arete, has announced it has led a GBP3 million investment into experience analytics platform, Uncrowd.
Created by retail and systems experts Richard Hammond and Rocky Howard, Uncrowd is a cutting-edge platform that allows global retailers and brands to measure customer experience through innovative methods of data collection. It was recognised as one of Silicon Valley’s best retail tech start-ups at this year’s Plug and Play Fall Summit and has earned a place on the Plug and Play accelerator programme.
Unlike traditional customer analytics, Uncrowd works by collecting objective data and observations to generate an
Global privateer equity investor Advent International (Advent) is to to acquire Caldic BV (Caldic), a global premium provider of value-added life sciences and specialty chemicals solutions, from Goldman Sachs Asset Management.
Caldic will then merge with Advent portfolio company Grupo Transmerquim SA (GTM), one of the leading chemical distributors in Latin America.
Caldic’s product portfolio includes innovative food ingredients, natural products and functional solutions for a variety of life sciences and industrial end-market segments. With a leading presence in Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific, Caldic employs around 1,200 people across 35 locations. The business generated sales of about EUR1 billion
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