Deals
Warburg Pincus, a global growth investor, and LMCA, a brand extension specialist, have launched brand acquisition firm Full Sail IP Partners.
Full Sail IP Partners will acquire brands with untapped potential and build out their business through relevant, revenue generating licenses.
“Our partnership with LMCA demonstrates our commitment to identifying prime brand target acquisitions with strong fundamental growth potential,” says Justin Sadrian, Managing Director, Warburg Pincus. “As long-term growth investors, we look forward to building out the Full Sail IP Partners brand portfolio and accelerating the growth and expansion of brands globally through licensing,” added Michael Ding, Principal, Warburg Pincus.
Unreasonable Collective has closed Q1 2021 with investments in Classcraft, Goodr, At One Ventures and Turtle Tree, totalling more than USD3 million.
The Collective, a private co-investment club launched by the Unreasonable Group at the end of 2020 with racial and gender diversity at its core, explicitly directs capital into Unreasonable ventures operating at the intersection of high impact and disruptive innovation. With a mandate to ensure its investments are channelled into deals and founders that are diverse in nature, and with a commitment that at least 50 per cent of its members are women, people of colour, and/or identify
Law firm Womble Bond Dickinson (WBD) has advised longstanding client Piper, a specialist investor in fast-growing consumer brands, on its GBP5 million investment into Wild Nutrition, a natural health supplements brand.
Founded in 2013 by husband-and-wife team Henrietta and Charlie Norton, Wild Nutrition has disrupted the UK’s GBP20 billion health and wellness market. The brand offers supplements that are ethically and sustainably formulated by an in-house team who source the highest quality, fully traceable ingredients to provide solutions to common health needs – including pregnancy, fertility, immunity, energy, gut health, sleep, stress and anxiety and hormonal health.
Piper’s investment will
Foresight Group, a listed infrastructure and private equity investment manager, has made a GBP1.25 million growth capital investment under the Scottish Growth Scheme into FURTHER.SPACE Limited, a luxury glamping pod holiday company, providing outdoor premium short breaks in Scotland and Ireland.
The company is well placed to benefit from the growth in staycations with Covid-19 likely impacting international tourism for some time to come and more broadly to serve a growing segment of consumers concerned about the carbon footprint of air travel.
FURTHER.SPACE was founded in 2019 and operates luxury pod accommodation across Scotland and Ireland. It manufactures high-quality, design-led
Performance Designed Products, LLC (PDP), a developer of video game accessories and peripherals, has been acquired by Diversis Capital Partners, a Los Angeles-based private equity firm focused on software and technology-enabled organizations.
Founded in 1990, PDP designs, engineers, and markets a full suite of video game accessories including headsets, controllers, chargers, and protective cases for Xbox, Nintendo, and PlayStation. PDP sells hardware and software products under their own brands – PDP Gaming, Afterglow, Rock Candy and Victrix – which are sold worldwide, including at Wal-Mart, Target, Amazon, GameStop, and Best Buy. PDP is headquartered in San Diego.
With a variety
Growth capital investor, BGF has announced a successful exit from Nottingham-based life sciences incubation business, BioCity.
BGF backed BioCity in January 2019 with funding facilitating BioCity’s investment into a number of seed-stage life sciences businesses. BGF has also invested alongside BioCity in deals such as its investment into North West-headquartered proteomic-data science and diagnostics company, Kinomica, in November last year.
BioCity Group has been acquired by Trinity Investment Management (Trinity IM) and Harrison Street (Harrison Street Real Estate Capital) as part of a pre-existing joint venture. The deal will see the merger of BioCity Group with Trinity IM’s
Greenbriar Equity Group, LP (Greenbriar) has acquired PCX Aerosystems (PCX) concurrently with the completion of the previously announced acquisition by PCX of Senior Aerospace Connecticut (SAC).
PCX, together with SAC, is a specialist supplier of highly engineered, precision, flight critical assemblies for rotorcraft and fixed wing aerospace platforms. Founded in 1900, the company serves industry leading OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers including Boeing, Bell, General Electric and Sikorsky. PCX focuses on producing complex parts and large assemblies for flight critical applications where tight tolerances and quality are imperative.
Noah Blitzer, Director at Greenbriar, says: “PCX has a long and successful
After the investment in Botter, Clessidra Private Equity Sgr, on behalf of Clessidra Capital Partners 3 fund, finalised the acquisition of the majority stake in Mondodelvino, an important Italian wine group considered an excellence in the market, guided by the Martini family who founded the company, together with Roger Gabb and Christoph Mack in 1991.
As for the Botter family that reinvested in the group and continues to hold managerial roles, the Martini family will remain the shareholders of the company and will continue to take important managerial positions together with the top management team, ensuring managerial continuity.
Mondodelvino is
Arma Partners (Arma) saw record activity levels in its latest financial year, with the firm advising on 33 transactions and generated revenues in excess of USD100 million for the fiscal year ending 31 March 2021, even as Covid-19 required the team to collaborate remotely and introduced unfamiliar dynamics to deal making.
York Capital Management (York), a global private investment firm, and Kennedy Lewis Investment Management (Kennedy Lewis), an opportunistic credit manager, have formed a strategic partnership to form a new entity to be called Generate Advisors.
Under the partnership agreement, York’s approximately USD4 billion Collateral Loan Obligation (CLO) business and team, led by Rizwan Akhter, will transition to Generate Advisors and continue to manage York’s current CLO portfolio as well as any future CLOs issued by Generate Advisors. Kennedy Lewis will be investing in Generate Advisors and has committed at least USD200 million of capital to be invested in the equity
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