Deals
Private equity firm Twenty20 Capital has signed a deal to transfer ownership of its high volume recruitment asset, PMP Recruitment to Challenge-trg Group.
The deal reinforces Twenty20 Capital’s focus on creating value for shareholders whilst remaining well-positioned to support Cordant’s sub-brands: Cordant People, Premiere People and Staffgroup – building momentum through portfolio growth, increased customer wins and new vertical entry points.
Tristan Ramus, Twenty20 Capital’s Founder and Investment Principal, says: “We are delighted to announce the merger of two-sector giants; PMP Recruitment and Challenge-trg Group. After 18 months of considerable investment, the PMP Recruitment business has gone from strength
UK mid-market private equity investor Livingbridge, has made an investment in North SP Group (North) and a follow on acquisition of Data Techniques.
North is a highly technical integrated technology specialist delivering end-to-end networking and IoT application design, implementation, support, and managed services throughout the UK. North prides itself on driving innovation and leading the industry in adoption of emerging technologies. Led by CEO, Glen Williams, North has over 270 staff, of which around 160 provide technical services.
North specialises in the provision of connectivity within complex environments where multiple layers of connectivity are required (eg Wi-Fi, IoT, 5G etc).
Kartesia, a European specialist provider of capital solutions for small and mid-sized companies, is pleased to announce that it has provided a financing solution to P Van De Velde.
P Van De Velde is a Belgian, family-owned, packaging group active in the manufacturing and distribution of ecological cardboard packaging products and machinery for the food, retail and other FMCG industries. The Company has 12 plants across Europe, is operated by over 660 FTEs and holds more than 80 years of packaging experience.
This investment is a prime example of Kartesia increasingly emphasising ESG as an investment criterion, as the
Vienna-based logistics and warehousing start-up, Storebox, has just raised EUR52 million in a series B investment round.
The new investors are mostly international, and include Activum SG, Attila Balogh, Kineo Finance, n3K Holding, Senger-Weiss, Wicklow Capital and Wille Finance. Existing investors Romulus (Hansi Hansmann) and APIC Investments also participated in the round.
The Storebox founders Johannes Braith (CEO), Ferdinand Dietrich (CCO) and Christoph Sandraschitz (CTO) are embarking on a broad internationalisation into European markets. The strategy is two-fold: first, ground-level business premises and unused spaces in secondary locations will be converted into urban multifunctional warehouses that can be rented by
Vauban Infrastructure Partners (Vauban) has acquired SPER – Sociedade Portuguesa para a Construção e Exploração Rodoviária, and Planestrada – Operação e Manutenção Rodoviária, two companies that manage a 113 km shadow-toll road on IP-2 in the province of Baixo Alentejo (Portugal).
Through this acquisition Vauban strengthens its investment in the mobility sector in Portugal. Through this acquisition, Vauban is committed to maximise its impact in the region and create sustainable value to all the stakeholders over the long-term.
SPER – The Baixo Alentejo road concession company – manages a full operational 113 km shadow-toll road network in the South-East of
Three Hills Capital Partners (THCP) is pleased to announce that its Three Hills Capital Solutions III (THCS III) portfolio company ACT, has agreed to a minority investment from Bridgepoint, which values the business at more than USD1.0 billion and replaces the existing stakes of THCP and its co-investors.
The transaction represents the first full exit for THCS III, of 2018 vintage.
THCP and its co-investors originally invested in ACT, the provider of market-based solutions for reducing carbon footprints, in September 2018, having tracked the business since 2015. At the time, the founders of ACT felt the company was at the
Segulah Medical Acceleration AB (SMA) has invested in UK-based Signifier Medical Technologies’ USD35 million Series D convertible financing.
Ropes & Gray has advised WellSky Corporation – a portfolio company of TPG Capital and Leonard Green & Partners – on the sale of WellSky International to System C Healthcare, a provider of information technology implementation software and services to the health sector – and portfolio company of CVC Capital Partners.
The Riverside Company, a global private investor focused on the smaller end of the middle market, has invested in MDoutlook, a provider of precision intelligence solutions that help life sciences companies develop and commercialise therapeutics and diagnostics in oncology.
This is an add-on to Riverside’s Clinical Education Alliance, LLC (CEA) platform, a leading healthcare professional education and business intelligence platform.
MDoutlook leverages its active and validated network of more than 140,000 global cancer clinicians, including 14,000 identified thought leaders, to power its data and analytics platform and related products. The company’s flagship database product, Lumineer, is an AI/ML-assisted proprietary software
Qatar Holding, an affiliate of the Qatar Investment Authority (QIA), is to invest USD200 million in Airtel Mobile Commerce BV (AMC BV), a subsidiary of Airtel Africa.
AMC BV is the holding company for several of Airtel Africa’s mobile money operations; and ultimately is intended to own and operate the mobile money businesses across all of Airtel Africa’s fourteen operating countries.
The transaction values Airtel Africa’s mobile money business at USD2.65 billion on a cash and debt free basis. QIA will hold a minority stake in AMC BV upon completion of the Transaction (alongside other minority investors), with Airtel Africa
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