Deals
Global investment firm KKR is to acquire a minority stake in Southeast Asian private educator, Taylor’s Education Group’ (TEG) Taylor’s Schools.
Taylor’s Schools owns and operates six international schools – Garden International School, Nexus International School Singapore, Nexus International School Malaysia, Australian International School Malaysia, Taylor’s International School Kuala Lumpur, and Taylor’s International School Puchong.
Focused on the K-12 education system, Taylor’s Schools seeks to empower its learners to become productive leaders in the global community through innovative and creative teaching and learning methods, preparing them for future opportunities. Taylor’s Schools is a member of TEG, a leading private education
Generational Equity, a mergers and acquisitions adviser for privately held businesses, has advised Bogey Free LLC (dba Rackmount Solutions) to Baymark Partners. The acquisition closed on 15 November, 2021.
Located in Plano, Texas, Rackmount Solutions (Rackmount) provides off-the-shelf, custom, and niche server racks, server cabinets, wall mounts, portable cooling solutions, outdoor enclosures, batteries, integrated AC and DC power system solutions, rack accessories and power, along with installation and maintenance services over the phone and via the internet.
Rackmount serves any customer needing computer system and network peripherals. The resulting customer markets are therefore a function of the level of need
Gardner Capital, a private equity firm and alternative investment platform specialising in multifamily housing and renewable energy development and investment, is partnering with Kiva through Gardner Capital’s GCRE Upward Mobility Fund to accelerate minority-led small business access to finance in Texas.
The partnership will initially focus on supporting BIPOC small business owners in the Dallas and Houston markets, and provide a revolving fund to match loans raised on Kiva’s crowd-funding platform – both increasing the total funding available and accelerating the speed of funding loans for entrepreneurs.
“We are truly thankful for the opportunity to begin our partnership with Kiva
BlueTriton Brands, a specialist in natural spring water, has completed the acquisition of certain assets of Saratoga Spring Water Company (SSWC), a producer of premium domestic spring water based in Saratoga Springs, New York.
SSWC is sold throughout the United States and delivers spring water products in premium packaging to customers in the hospitality and retail channels.
“We are thrilled to welcome Saratoga Spring Water Company’s products into the BlueTriton family,” says Tony W Lee, Managing Partner of One Rock Capital Partners, LLC and a member of the Board of Directors of BlueTriton. “As a leader in the premium
Varagon Capital Partners is serving as Administrative Agent, Lead Arranger and Bookrunner on a senior secured credit facility to support Marlin Equity Partners’ acquisition of ImagineSoftware.
ImagineSoftware is a provider of medical billing automation and revenue cycle management to physician practices, outsourced medical billing companies, and health systems.
For over 20 years, Imagine has provided technology solutions that reduce the lifecycle of claims, streamline denial management, and improve profitability.
O’Melveny has advised CJ ENM, a Korean entertainment company, on its acquisition of an 80 per cent stake in the scripted business of US-based global premium content studio, Endeavor Content, from its parent company Endeavor Group Holdings for an enterprise valuation of USD850 million.
The transaction was announced on November 18 and is expected to close early in the first quarter of 2022.
Headquartered in Seoul, Korea, CJ ENM is best known for its recent multiple Academy Award-winning film Parasite. CJ ENM’s entertainment division engages in a wide array of businesses across the industry spectrum, including media content, music,
Following an oversubscribed first closing in February, HEMEX, a bench-to-market clinical Contract Research Organisation (CRO) and early-stage healthcare investment firm, has held the second closing of it Series C fundraising round at CHF7.1 million.
All existing “Investor Club” members followed-up in this round and are joined by new investors.
Since 2015, HEMEX has been offering life science consulting services from its headquarters in Liestal, Switzerland. In 2017, the company opened a subsidiary in Germany, and in 2018, the USA followed. As of 2019, the company has signed a partnership agreement with China’s Henan province and is planning to continue its
Aruwa Capital Management (Aruwa), an early-stage growth equity and gender lens fund investing in Nigeria and Ghana, has invested in AgroEknor International (AgroEknor), an hibiscus flower exporter and wellness brand.
AgroEknor, founded in 2013 is primarily engaged in the processing and exportation of dried hibiscus flowers, a superfood and wellness product. All flowers are sourced locally in Nigeria, processed in house, and exported all year round to international clients in the food and beverage industry, where it is typically used as flavouring in healthy teas and other drinks as well as the pharmaceutical industry, where it is used in immunity
YFM Equity Partners (YFM) has completed an investment from its Buyout Fund II into Cooper Software, a Scottish-based Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software specialist.
Founded in 2005 by current CEO Frank Cooper, Cooper Software is an independent provider of products, consulting services and 24/7 support for ERP, helping businesses manage day-to-day functions and bringing the flow of data between these processes into a unified platform. The business has provided more than 1,500 enterprise solutions for over 300 clients worldwide.
The company comprises two divisions: the first specialises in supplying and integrating the IFS ERP system. Having worked with the
SSE Renewables and Equinor, the joint venture partners co-developing the 3.6GW Dogger Bank Wind Farm in the North Sea, have signed 15-year offtake Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) for the third phase of the world’s largest offshore wind farm.
Dogger Bank Wind Farm will be constructed over 130km out to sea off the north-east coast of England, where wind speeds are higher and more consistent than near to the shore. Due to its size and scale, Dogger Bank Wind Farm is being built in three consecutive 1.2GW phases; Dogger Bank A, Dogger Bank B and Dogger Bank C. Each phase is
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