Deals
Aras has secured a substantial growth investment from GI Partners, a private investment firm. This investment will further accelerate Aras’ low-code platform innovation, global expansion, and customer success.
Aras continues to disrupt the industrial software market with its low-code platform and suite of digital solutions spanning the product lifecycle from global product development and systems engineering to manufacturing, maintenance, and digital twins. Large enterprises such as Microsoft, Honda, and Airbus use Aras to rapidly digitalise mission critical processes and replace legacy systems faster.
“We believe the pace of digital transformation in manufacturing is just beginning to increase, and that
England’s North West is a prime destination for private equity and venture capital investment, and therefore a ‘key player’ in the UK’s growth-led recovery, a new report has found.
The report, produced by the British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (BVCA), takes a closer look at investment in the North West of England and is the first in a series of publications that look at the benefits of private equity and venture capital backing on a region-by-region basis.
The benefits, both social and economic, are illustrated by the latest industry data – including how many businesses and sectors
Addleshaw Goddard has advised Terra Firma on the GBP110 million acquisition of Kier Living from leading UK construction and infrastructure company Kier Group.
The AG team was led by Corporate Partner Graham Cross alongside Real Estate Partners William Boss and Cathy Fearnhead.
The sale, due to be finalised over the coming weeks (subject to shareholder approval), will create a standalone UK house building business, to be re-branded Tilia Homes.
Kier Group announced its intention to sell its Living division, which employs around 450 people, in a strategic review in 2019. The business will continue to be run by
RGE Services, a fire and electrical compliance services provider primarily working with the public sector, has funded its primary buyout by securing an equity investment from YFM Equity Partners (YFM).
The deal is the second from the PE house’s GBP80 million Buyout Fund II which closed just 12 months ago and another example of YFM’s strong regional presence, with this investment based in the South East of England.
The buyout was led by Scott Craig, managing director, who has worked alongside founder Roger Greene for the last 15 years, joining as an electrician engineer and working his way up
Horizon Capital, a UK technology services Buy & Build specialist, has backed Modern Networks, a successful provider of IT Managed Services and Connectivity to the Real Estate and Construction industry in a GBP40 million deal.
Modern Networks provides IT Support, connectivity and communications in an easy to consume integrated solution to over 2,000 sites across the UK. From its support centre in Hitchin the business delivers a high quality 24/7 service to users and serves a number of the largest commercial property managers in the UK.
The business has an ambitious growth strategy and the investment from Horizon Capital will
Vista Investors, a private equity investor operating from London and Milan, and Reed Capital, a privately held industrial holding company investing in private equity operating from Paris, are merging to form EIM Capital.
EIM Capital (Equity In Motion) will bring together Reed Capital’s reputation for operational management of acquired companies and Vista Investors’ international buyout and buy-and-build expertise. The founders have collaborated over the years on a number of deals and have between them forty years’ experience in private equity transactions and exits.
Luigi Chiaraviglio is the Managing Director of Vista Investors, having previously worked at private equity firms in
After a collapse in cross-border dealmaking in the first half of 2020 in the wake of the pandemic, foreign investment into the UK has risen considerably in recent months, according to the latest UK M&A data from Mergermarket.
Inbound M&A reached GBP58.7 billion (196 deals), over 3x higher than during the first quarter of 2020 (GBP18.6 billion). This also represents the highest quarterly inbound deal count since 3Q17 (200 deals).
Private equity buyouts in the UK grew to highest quarterly deal count on Mergermarket record in the first quarter of 2020, with sponsors spending a total of GBP20.5 billion
Global investment firm KKR has invested in Adopt A Cow, a fast-growing, direct-to-consumer dairy company in China that integrates digital solutions into its core operations.
Adopt A Cow’s new funding round was co-led by KKR and DCP Capital.
Founded in 2016, Adopt A Cow primarily produces and sells its pure milk, yogurt, cheese sticks and milk power products and has quickly become a trusted high-end dairy brand in China, thanks to its vertically integrated business model covering alfalfa growing, dairy farming, milk processing, and technology-enabled marketing. Over the past five years, the company has become one of the fastest growing
Abry Partners (Abry), a leading Boston-based private equity firm, announced today the acquisition of High Street Insurance Partners (HSIP), a full-service insurance brokerage, from Huron Capital (Huron), a lower middle-market private equity platform.
HSIP management and agency partners will maintain large stakes in the company and Huron will maintain a minority interest in HSIP.
Founded in 2018, High Street Insurance Partners provides a broad array of business insurance & risk management; employee benefits & human capital management; financial & retirement services; and personal insurance solutions. HSIP is headquartered in Traverse City, MI.
Scott Wick, Founder and CEO
LUMICKS, a, next-generation life science tools company that develops highly innovative platforms for Dynamic Single-Molecule and Cell Avidity analysis, has completed a USD93 million Series D preferred share financing.
The funding round was led by new investors Farallon Capital Management and Lauxera Capital Partners, and included investments by Softbank Vision 2, funds and accounts advised by T Rowe Price Associates, Parian Global Management, Pura Vida Investments, and Irving Investors. The round was also backed by existing investor Gilde Healthcare and select members of the LUMICKS management team. A majority of the proceeds from the financing will be used to bolster
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