Deals
Sovereign Capital Partners, a UK private equity Buy & Build specialist, is delighted has backed the MBO of Aquitaine Group (Aquitaine), a specialist private client trust and corporate services provider.
In addition, both Federal Trust (Federal) and Summit Trust International SA (Summit) have joined the Group with Sovereign’s support. These successful businesses expand Aquitaine’s range of services and geographical footprint, through a strategy of Buy & Build, to establish a leading multi-jurisdictional private client trust business.
Established in 2008 and based in Guernsey, Aquitaine provides private client trust services including estate planning and wealth management structures, together with corporate
Mid-market private equity firm LDC has backed the buyout of Wifinity, a fast-growing wireless internet service provider, to support its UK expansion.
Wifinity specialises in providing reliable, high-speed broadband to customers on campuses and other multi-dwelling sites, such as student and key worker accommodation and holiday parks. Based in Kingston upon Thames, Wifinity has built a loyal customer base, serving over seven million users since it was founded in 2007 thanks to its router-free, no-contract, Gigabit-speed service. It is also a managed service provider to leading retailers, and other leisure and hospitality businesses. The business has annual revenues of more
Housfy – a Real Estate multi-service platform that helps customers selling, buying, renting a house, or getting a mortgage online without commissions or intermediaries – has closed ancapital raise of EUR10 million.
This latest investment round will reinforce Housfy’s expansion in Europe. The fundraising is led by distinguished strategic funds including Seaya Ventures, Torch Capital, DN Capital, and Cathay Capital through the C. Entrepreneurs fund, which have already invested in previous rounds, Aldea Ventures and CDTI. To date, Housfy has now raised a total of EUR23 million over five investment rounds.
Housfy – founded in 2017 and led by Albert
Latticework Capital Management, a Dallas-based private equity firm focused on partnering with entrepreneurially minded management teams to build leading healthcare companies, has made a strategic investment in Healthcare Building Solutions (HBS).
Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Langhorne, Pennsylvania, HBS offers project management, transition planning and facility activation services, medical equipment planning and turn-key development services. With a project portfolio that includes new construction, remodelling, and renovation projects, HBS works with clients to improve operational outcomes while reducing administrative burden and cost.
“Over its 15-year history, Jay Hornung and the entire team at HBS have built an exceptional business with
Who Gives A Crap raises AUD41.5 million, in a funding round led by Verlinvest, to accelerate its mission to help two billion people around the world access clean toilets and safe water.
The company donates 50 per cent of all profits to the cause, and has donated over USD10 million to impact partners around the globe that work with local communities to build sustainable sanitation solutions.
However there’s still billions of dollars required to meet its mission. It’s for this reason that Who Gives A Crap decided to take on its first ever capital, from a hand-picked group of
Pemberton, a leading European private debt manager transforming traditional credit markets, backed by one of Europe’s largest insurers, Legal & General Group PLC, is providing refinancing to support K2 Partnering Solutions’ acquisition of Marlin Green.
K2 is a leading global provider of specialist IT personnel and serves a blue-chip customer base, principally providing skilled contractors with a particular focus on Enterprise resource planning ‘ERP’ applications and other cloud niches. The refinancing will fund the strategic acquisition of Marlin Green, a leading international recruitment agency that provides specialist Pan-European contract IT recruitment solutions, and will also provide further runway for future
Irving Place Capital (IPC), a middle-market private equity firm, is to sell Mold-Rite Plastics (Mold-Rite), a provider of caps, closures and jars principally for the health & wellness market, to Clearlake Capital Group.
“It has been a pleasure to work with the extremely talented management team at Mold-Rite to consistently deliver successful results,” says Brian Bauerbach, CEO of Mold-Rite. “The IPC team, which includes seasoned industry executives and operating resources, has actively supported the exceptional growth that Mold-Rite has achieved during our partnership. Together, we integrated three independent businesses to create a supplier with a comprehensive line of caps &
Inveniam Capital Partners, is to close its USD25 million Series-A round this month with lead investments from global financial services provider, Apex Group, K20 Fund, Dev.Pro, and Global Blockchain Ventures.
Inveniam Capital Partners’ software platform, Inveniam.io™, is the operating system for real asset data in the rapidly developing decentralised market.
“The use of blockchain to transmit trust in data will drive automation in valuation and price discovery in the private markets. Inveniam.io allows data rich, low-frequency trading private market assets to have monthly marks by subject matter experts. Price discovery for illiquid assets with fully observable inputs will transform the
Full Sail IP Partners, an acquirer of leading brands, has acquired the Odwalla brand from the Coca-Cola Company.
Odwalla, a popular food and beverage brand, was founded in Santa Cruz, California in 1980 by three jazz musicians with a desire to nourish people everywhere, respect our planet, protect the soil, and create products good for the soul. Over the past 40 years, Odwalla has delivered delicious fruit juices, smoothies, and energy bars to consumers with fresh, plant-based ingredients. Its iconic brand represents, to countless consumers, nurturing food for the whole body.
“We’re thrilled that Odwalla, with its long history of
Colizey, an online French marketplace dedicated to sports goods, has secured EUR8 million in a Series A funding round, led by Cathay Innovation, which brings together historic investors Aglaé Ventures, Cassius Family and Tony Parker, as well as new investors including Teddy Riner.
Colizey previously raised EUR2.5 million in its seed round in May 2020.
In a European market where the supply of sporting goods remains highly fragmented, Colizey is reinventing the online shopping experience by connecting its partner stores (brands, stores and e-retailers) with consumers on a single platform. With 110 partners, the marketplace currently lists more than
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