Deals
Growth capital investor, BGF has exited its investment in J&B Recycling, generating a 2.4x return.
The company is specialist in waste management and recycling in the UK, providing an end-to-end service for commercial and local authority customers across the North and England and Scotland.
Urbaser Ltd – the UK subsidiary of the third largest environmental services provider in Europe – has acquired the business as the Madrid-headquartered group aims to continue to grow its UK footprint.
Chief executive Vikki Jackson-Smith says: “Our growth is a result of our continued investment in our people, capacity and plant, which has
Mid-market private equity firm LDC has exited its investment in Sigmat, a UK specialist in light-gauge steel framing, to Etex, an international building products group.
Headquartered in Leeds, Sigmat is a leading provider of light-gauge steel framing and one of the UK’s first fully integrated offsite construction companies. Light-gauge steel framing is a cost-efficient, faster and more sustainable alternative to traditional building techniques. Sigmat offers design, engineering, manufacturing, assembly and installation services to a broad base of blue-chip customers across the residential, education and hospitality industries.
LDC invested in Sigmat in September 2016 to support its organic growth strategy.
Kapital Investment Group BV (KIG BV), part of the global financial services group Global Kapital Group, has acquired Işık Menkul Değerler AŞ, a multi-asset broker in Turkey.
The acquisition gives KIG BV a greatly increased product range, as Işık Menkul is a multi-asset broker offering trading in stocks, futures, FX, commodities as well as CFD products.
Işık Menkul increases the Group’s global presence by adding the MENA region after Europe, Australia, Asia and the US, marking a significant step in KIG’s plans to become a leading global multi-asset group.
Işık Menkul is a well-established company, with a 35-year track-record
Gresham House Ventures – a growth equity investor specialising in software and digitally driven businesses in the consumer, healthcare and service sectors – has made a GBP3.3 million investment in Patchworks, a software company helping e-commerce businesses automate and manage data flows across backend systems.
ParentSquare, provider of a unified school-to-home engagement platform for K-12, has received a significant investment from Serent Capital, a growth-focused firm that invests in technology and tech-enabled services companies.
ParentSquare will further accelerate its growth plans with the investment, including introducing new products and services and expanding into additional geographic markets.
ParentSquare was founded in 2011 by a wife and husband, Anupama Vaid and Sohit Wadhwa. ParentSquare is the only modern, fully unified communication platform that engages every family across every channel, encompassing emergency communications, district announcements, attendance, forms, surveys, sign-ups and daily classroom communications. Before ParentSquare, families and school
OvareVentures has announced a multifaceted investment in Fort Hamilton, producer of super-premium rye whiskies, bourbons, and soon, gin.
Fort Hamilton was founded in 2016 by entrepreneur and distiller Alex Clark, who was formerly instrumental in the launch and growth of Brooklyn’s Widow Jane distillery. Fort Hamilton whiskies are distilled from local rye grain, corn and malted barley in a traditional New York style. They are then barrelled at a low proof and always non-chill filtered to achieve optimal flavour and colour.
The company also operates a Distillery and Tasting Room in Industry City in Brooklyn, New York and plans to
Corporate Finance advisor BCMS has advised leading UK independent medical communications agency Spirit Medical Communications Group Ltd (Spirit), on its sale to OPEN Health.
Founded in 2006 by Asif Zaman, and based at premises in Didsbury, Manchester and Alderley Park, Cheshire, Spirit offers full-service medical communications throughout the product lifecycle, with deep expertise across a range of therapy areas. Services include publication planning, medical strategy, medical education, scientific meetings, training and digital solutions.
Spirit employs 80+ highly qualified employees including post-docs, PhDs and Certified Medical Publication Professionals (CMPP). The business has established exceptional working relationships with its diverse and growing
Atalaya Capital Management (Atalaya), an alternative asset manager focused on private credit and special opportunities investments, has successfully exited its investment in The SAILS Group (SAILS), provider of residential care homes and other high touch treatment for behaviourally challenged clients, and Patterns Behavioral Services (Patterns), a provider of comprehensive services for children and adults diagnosed with autism and other developmental disabilities.
Atalaya invested in SAILS in 2016, providing the Company with the strategic capital needed to help make transformational acquisitions in complimentary businesses in Washington and Kansas, as well as purchase and expand Patterns. Following these important business combinations, Atalaya
Funds advised by Apax have reached agreement to acquire EveryAction from Insight Partners (Insight) and Social Solutions from Vista Equity Partners (Vista). The two companies will be combined with CyberGrants, which was recently acquired by the Apax Funds, to create a provider of next-generation Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions to the social good ecosystem.
The combined company will have an enterprise value of USD2 billion, making it the largest M&A transaction in the history of the social good software sector. Vista will maintain a stake in the combined business.
The combination of EveryAction, Social Solutions and CyberGrants will allow the three
Portobello Capital has acquired a majority stake in Legálitas, the largest tech-enabled, Spanish language legal services provider.
Together with Portobello, the current management team, led by Luis del Pozo, will also invest in the company.
Legálitas, which generated more than EUR50 million euros in revenues in 2020, has delivered a strong track record of growth reaching an annual increase of 20 per cent in the customer base and over 25 per cent compounded annual revenue growth for the core legal assistance segment, consolidating its unique business model in the current market environment.
Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Madrid,
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