Deals
North West based multi-family investment office, Arete, has announced that it has led an GBP11.25 million private equity investment round into consumer technology product development specialists Tactus Group, with a GBP10 million (USD13.75 million) investment.
Warrington-based Tactus is a technology expert providing multi-branded IT hardware to global retailers and the public sector. The investment from Arete enabled Tactus to complete a recent landmark acquisition of PC gaming specialist, CCL computers, which sees the group become a GBP125 million turnover business.
This latest deal will see Liverpool headquartered Arete further accelerate its growth ambitions, in a year that has already seen
Calixar, a biotechnology company with ten years expertise in the isolation of fully native membrane proteins, is to makes a EUR1 million (USD1.2 million) investment in a new pipeline of complex therapeutic targets and native antigens of high relevance for pharmaceutical companies.
This strategic investment, supported by Bpifrance investment bank, will enable the company to be the exclusive provider and licensor for pharmaceutical companies, with the best native and functional membrane therapeutic targets (GPCRs, ion channels, transporters, receptors and viral targets). It will also help them to discover the best drugs (small molecules and conformational antibodies) and develop the best
Global safety solutions leader Survitec has completed a GBP270 million refinancing with funds managed or advised by the Credit Group of Ares Management Corporation (Ares), a leading global alternative investment manager.
Ray Leclercq, Survitec’s Chief Financial Officer, says: “Successfully concluding this financing demonstrates the confidence we believe that Ares and M&G have in our business. This marks a key milestone for Survitec’s customers, employees, shareholders and other partners. We completed this financing with an industry leader such as Ares based on the strength of our underlying business, meeting our current performance targets with year-over-year improvement in profitability as well as
Toshiba, currently courted by numerous PE groups, confirmed it has ‘received an initial proposal’ from CVC this week and will ‘ask for further clarification and give it careful consideration’, in what looks like a process which could become Japan’s largest ever buyout deal.
Toshiba issued a statement on 9 April saying that the initial proposal is conditional on clearance of anti-trust regulation, as well as the Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Act of Japan, and necessary financing.
The corporation also said that the proposal involved seeking finance assistance from co-investors and financial institutions in pursuing the proposed transaction. “We expect
TMF Group, a provider of global administrative services – including fund accounting and administration – has today completed the acquisition of Venture Back Office (VBO), a US based third-party provider of solutions to private equity, real assets, credit, and emerging manager funds.
As a result, TMF Group will now administer more than EUR150 billion worth of assets on behalf of its global fund manager client base.
The acquisition is a key milestone in TMF Group’s strategy to continue to grow its global fund services business and bolster its capabilities in the North American market, particularly in the US. The
Texture Capital, an institutional marketplace for private capital, is partnering with COSIMO X, a venture capital fund that invests in opportunities in emerging next-generation technologies.
Texture Capital’s ATS will support capital raising and secondary market trading of the COSIMO X digital tokens and enable COSIMO X to reach a broader network of investors and offer secondary market liquidity opportunities not typically available to institutional investors.
Through Texture Capital’s online marketplace, investors will be given streamlined access to the COSIMO X venture capital fund. COSIMO X’s innovative tokenised structure offers investors opportunities for increased liquidity and the ability move funds in
PSG, a growth equity firm that focuses on partnering with middle-market software and technology-enabled service companies, has acquired a majority stake in Nalanda Global (Nalanda), a leading Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) company providing supplier risk management software solutions.
Nalanda leverages intelligent cloud software to connect companies and suppliers using a digital platform that enables the smooth exchange and verification of health and safety, due diligence, suppliers validation, invoices and other business information as well as providing solutions to ensure compliance with worker access, working time and e-invoicing legislation. Nalanda’s solutions reduce time, cost and risk, as well as facilitating a transparent relationship
The number of M&A deals for professional services firms rose from 76 in 2019 to 89 in 2020 – including 19 acquisitions backed private equity funds – with the appetite of PE houses for deals in the sector growing, says Mayer Brown, the global law firm.
Mayer Brown says the recent sales of the restructuring arms of Big Four accountancy firms KPMG and Deloitte have highlighted the increased interest in professional services firms from PE funds. KPMG sold its restructuring practice to HIG Europe, while Deloitte sold its restructuring practice to professional services platform group Teneo, owned by CVC Capital
KPS Capital Partners (KPS) is to acquire the Europe, Middle East and Africa food, aerosol and promotional packaging business (EMEA Food and Consumer Packaging Business) from Crown Holdings for EUR2.25 billion (USD2.7 billion). Crown will retain 20 per cent ownership of the Company.
The transaction is expected to close in the third quarter of 2021 and is subject to customary closing conditions and approvals.
The EMEA Food and Consumer Packaging Business is the largest manufacturer of steel and aluminum food packaging in Europe and is a leading manufacturer of aerosol and promotional packaging. The Company is critical to the
AIA Group Limited (AIA) has established AIA VCC, a Variable Capital Company in Singapore as part of its group wide investment programme to facilitate capital deployment globally.
The Investment Manager of AIA VCC is AIA Investment Management Private Limited (AIAIM) that was established in 2016 as the Group level asset management company and with reported assets under management of SGD178 billion as at the end of 2020.
AIA is now exploring how the recently introduced VCC framework can support AIA’s investment programme with particular focus on balance sheet exposure to specialist and alternative investment strategies.
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