Deals
Private markets firm Partners Group, on behalf of its clients, is to sell Pacific Bells, a franchisee of the Taco Bell brand in the US, to Orangewood Partners, a long-term focused private investment firm. The terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Founded in 1989 with the opening of a single Taco Bell outlet in Oregon, Pacific Bells now has over 250 restaurants and more than 6,000 employees in the US. Pacific Bells is the fifth largest Taco Bell franchisee in the country with a diversified national footprint across nine states. The Company has proved resilient through Covid-19, largely
Marc Shore and Dennis Kaltman have formed Max Solutions, Inc (MS), a differentiated packaging platform serving customers’ needs for quality, service, next generation innovation and sustainability.
Shore and Kaltman have a long history of success in the packaging industry, most recently at Multi Packaging Solutions and Westrock. Prior to that, Shore was the CEO of Shorewood Packaging. The funding for MS will be provided by Jefferson Capital Partners, Ltd (JCP) a private equity firm located in Richmond, Virginia. JCP recently closed Jefferson Capital Partners V LP, a fund solely dedicated to investing in MS.
Shore, Chief Executive Officer of
Content Llama, Ireland’s leading content configuration technology (CCT) platform, has secured EUR2.5 million (USD2.9 million) in fundraising to further expand its presence globally and broaden its reach to potential customers.
By Andrew Millar (pictured), Corporate Partner, Shoosmiths – Private equity interest in the UK’s property sector continues to see exponential growth. McCarthy & Stone, St Modwen Properties and Sigma Capita were just a few of the UK companies acquired by private equity investors in 2021. This pool of capital continues to flood the nation’s housebuilding sector and some of the biggest players in it.
With reports indicating that Bridgepoint is putting Miller Homes up for sale for over GBP1 billion, compared to the GBP650 million it paid in 2017, it is perhaps unsurprising that private equity is increasingly recognising that UK
Pollen Street Capital has agreed a sale of Aryza Holdings Limited (Aryza) to Atlas Bidco 1 Limited – a company owned by Macquarie Capital Principal Finance, Pollen Street, and Aryza senior management.
Aryza is a global provider of case management and process automation software solutions for regulated industries serving the insolvency, credit, and debt recovery sectors.
Pollen Street first invested in Aryza (originally known as Vision Blue) in 2017. Since then, Aryza has grown rapidly in size, breadth of offering and geographical footprint, now operating from six countries across three continents. More recently, Aryza has developed a platform for M&A
Arrowpoint Advisory’s Healthcare team has advised Veramed, a specialist biostatistics and programming Contract Research Organisation (CRO) serving pharmaceutical and biotech clients across the UK, Europe and US on its partnership with Livingbridge.
Founded in 2012 by Matthew and Emma Jones and headquartered in London, Veramed provides statistical consulting, programming and study reporting, and market launch and commercialisation services to clients globally. The business has since scaled both nationally and internationally through establishing offices in multiple locations across the UK and international offices in mainland Europe, the Ukraine and the US. Alongside this, investments in new services and continuing to build
Schroders Capital is strengthening its real estate investment capabilities by acquiring Cairn Real Estate, a real estate fund and asset management business based in the Netherlands with EUR1.3 billion of assets under management.
The acquisition will expand Schroders Capital’s client offering in a key European growth market, enhancing our access to Dutch real estate expertise with on-the-ground investment talent to meet the growing investment demand from our institutional investors.
Cairn, which is being sold by MPC Capital, a German investment management group focused on renewables, specialises in a range of sectors including logistics, offices and healthcare and is well respected
CI Financial Corp (CI) has made a strategic investment in GLAS Funds (GLASfunds), a turnkey alternative investment platform and alternative asset management firm based in Cleveland.
Founded in 2009, GLASfunds is a tech-enabled platform providing investors with secure and streamlined digital access to institutional-quality alternative investment opportunities and asset management oversight. It has approximately USD1.1 billion in combined assets under management and assets under contract.
CI’s investment will strengthen GLASfunds’ offering to the broader market, while providing CI Private Wealth clients with enhanced access to alternative asset classes through a best-in-class platform.
“Alternative assets are an increasingly important part of
Honeycomb Network, an Imperial College London spinout developing smart charging and storage infrastructure for e-scooters and e-bikes to accelerate micromobility adoption in the UK, has secured GBP127,000 in pre-seed funding from SFC Capital, the UK’s most active seed stage investor.
The funding will support the development of prototypes of the company’s storage and charging pods and rollout of a pilot scheme.
Despite more than 65 per cent of trips made in London being shorter than one mile, and despite car driver and passenger trips having reduced by 33 per cent and 44 per cent respectively, users of e-scooters and
bd-capital, a pan-European, operationally-led private equity firm, has made its latest investment into TAPTAP Digital, an advertising technology and marketing intelligence software platform in Southern Europe, Latin America and Africa. This is bd-capital’s first investment in Spain.
TAPTAP was founded in 2010 by Alvaro del Castillo. The business has developed its own software platform called Sonata that helps deliver relevant advertising content to consumers while protecting their privacy. It aggregates and cross references multiple sources of location data, which helps advertisers to increase brand awareness, build purchase interest and boost consideration.
A key changing pattern of consumer behaviour is the
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