Deals
Arborea – which is industrialising photosynthesis to expand the world’s food supply – has completed a funding round led by BGF, alongside Rubio Impact Venturesand Volta Circle.
Arborea is a technology business that has developed a breakthrough cultivation platform for photosynthetic microorganisms for use as food ingredients and proteins. It was founded by CEO Julian Melchiorri in 2015 following his research at Imperial College London.
Global food security is an increasingly important problem driven by population growth and climate change, exacerbated by slowing crop yield improvements and dwindling availability of new agricultural land. Traditional agricultural practices will not be sufficient
Compliance & Risks, (C&R) a provider of market access and product compliance SaaS solutions, has secured a significant investment from Luminate Capital Partners, an enterprise software focused private equity firm.
Luminate will partner with CEO Joe Skulski and the C&R team to drive rapid expansion across its technology, services, client and global employee base.
Compliance & Risks’ market leading SaaS platform, C2P, enables uninterrupted market access for enterprises selling products globally by monitoring and managing key product requirements, regulations and standards in their chosen markets. The C2P platform provides the world’s most comprehensive database of legislative information, insights and
Tide, the UK’s leading business financial platform, has received just over USD100 million in Series C funding, bringing the company’s total raised to date to USD200 million. Tide is now valued at over USD650 million post-money, after only four years of operation.
The round was led by funds advised by Apax Digital, the growth equity team of Apax Partners. Anthemis, Augmentum, Jigsaw, Local Globe/Latitude, SBI, and SpeedInvest, existing investors, also participated in the round.
Tide has experienced rapid and sustained growth since launching in 2017, with 2020 seeing the business more than double its user base in the UK.
MRH Trowe an owner managed commercial lines insurance broker in Germany and a portfolio company of tech-focused mid-market private equity investor AnaCap Financial Partners, has successfully completed four bolt-on acquisitions in quick succession, following three earlier this year.
MRH Trowe offers extensive expertise in most insurance lines for both industrial and commercial customers as well as affluent private customers. AnaCap invested in MRHT as strategic growth partner in late 2020, identifying the company as a strong platform to achieve scale in the large and consolidating German market.
The latest acquisitions underpin the strategic roadmap aimed at expanding capabilities in specialist
Kartesia, a European specialist provider of capital solutions for small and mid-sized companies, and Eurazeo have provided a EUR103 million financing solution to pan-European mid-market private equity firm Stirling Square Capital Partners (Stirling Square) for its acquisition of Spanish agriculture business Sustainable Agro Solutions (SAS).
Founded in 1989, SAS is a leading developer and producer of biostimulants, soil and water improvers, defence activators, and specialty plant nutrition solutions. The Company operates in the highly attractive biosolutions segment, which is characterised by double-digit growth rates across all regions, underpinned by positive secular trends. SAS offers a high-quality and broad product portfolio, global footprint, robust
KPS Capital Partners (KPS) announced today that it has entered into a definitive purchase agreement with Tate & Lyle PLC (“Tate & Lyle”) (LSE: TATE.L) to acquire a controlling stake in its Primary Products business in North America and Latin America and its interests in the Almidones Mexicanos SA de CV and DuPont Tate & Lyle Bio-Products Company, LLC joint ventures, through a newly formed company (NewCo), for an enterprise value of USD1.7 billion.
KPS and Tate & Lyle, through affiliates, will each own approximately 50 per cent of NewCo with KPS having Board of Directors and operational control. Completion
Eurazeo’s Small-Mid Buyout team is to sell in majority stake in Intech, a global market leader in the manufacturing and development of orthopaedic surgical instruments, to Montagu Private Equity.
The proposed sale is subject to US competition authority approval.
Since its investment in 2017, Eurazeo has supported Intech by providing the human and financial resources needed for its development, thus helping to more than double the company’s business in just four years, to over EUR120 million in 2021. During this period, Intech has reinforced its leadership position in spinal surgery instrument and implants while becoming one of the pioneers
EQT Infrastructure has agreed to acquire Meine Radiologie Holding (Meine Radiologie) from Triton Partners and Blikk Holding (Blikk) from DBAG Fund VII, a private equity fund advised by Deutsche Beteiligungs AG (DBAG).
DBAG will remain a minority shareholder in the combined group given its experience supporting Blikk and high conviction in the long-term attractiveness of the sector. Terms and conditions of the transaction are not disclosed.
Meine Radiologie and Blikk were both founded in 2017 and have since then grown to become two highly reputable radiology players in Germany, together employing more than 1,300 people across 65 locations. Both companies
Global private equity investor Advent International (Advent) is to sell allnex Holding GmbH (allnex) to Netherlands-based PTTGC International (Netherlands) BV, a wholly owned subsidiary of Bangkok-based PTT Global Chemical Public Company Limited (PTTGC).
The transaction values allnex at an Enterprise Value of approximately EUR4bn which equates to about 12.2x LTM March 2021 EBITDA.
allnex is the leading global producer of industrial coating resins, offering a broad range of coating polymers and additives, including powder resins, industrial waterborne resins, energy curable resins, crosslinking resins and additives for use on all types of substrates, such as wood, metal and plastic. With about
The value of UK carve-out deals has increased 182 per cent to GBP30.8 billion in the past year as major corporates dispose of businesses that are no longer relevant to their long-term strategy, shows research by RPC, the international law firm.
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