Deals
EQ Health Acquisition has closed its upsized initial public offering of 21,999,960 units at a price of USD10.00 per unit, including 2,869,560 units issued pursuant to the exercise in full by the underwriters of their over-allotment option.
The units began trading on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol EQHA.U on 29 January, 2021. Each unit consists of one share of the Company’s Class A common stock and one-half of one redeemable warrant. Each whole warrant entitles the holder thereof to purchase one share of Class A common stock at a price of USD11.50 per share. Once
Citizens M&A Advisory has served as the financial adviser to Leadec in its acquisition of Diversified Automation, Inc.
Founded in 2002, Diversified Automation is a leading automation controls and software solution provider to the express parcel industry. It serves global express parcel and e-commerce companies, prime contractors and integrators with end customers that include Amazon, FedEx Ground and UPS. Headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky, and with annual sales of approximately $100 million, Diversified Automation has more than 140 engineers and project managers operating in seven locations across the United States.
Leadec, a portfolio company of Triton, is headquartered in Stuttgart,
Cabot Square Capital has substantially increased its equity investment in Blue Motor Finance (Blue). This further round of investment follows the announcement in December of a new GBP300 million financing facility with a leading international bank and provides Blue with sufficient funding to deliver beyond its 2021 plans.
Blue continues to deliver very attractive investment opportunities characterised by loan portfolios with relatively low average loan sizes, low term lengths, diversity in originations and customer base, good security and predictable low default rates. Blue’s long term consistency and prudency in credit risk policy has supported this investment and their ongoing performance.
Great Hill Partners, a growth-oriented private equity firm behind Wayfair, ZoomInfo, and Reward Gateway, has invested in BigChange, a mobile workforce management technology company for the service and transport sectors.
BGF has successfully exited its investment in Renal Services, an independent provider of dialysis services, after it was acquired by DaVita UK Limited, a DaVita International Group Company.
Headquartered in London, Renal Services operates 21 dialysis units across the UK and treats over 1,300 permanent and transient patients with kidney disease. Set up in 2007, Renal Services is the third largest dialysis provider in the UK.
Alongside its equity investment, BGF contributed additional support to the company through the introduction of James Buckley as Non-Executive Chairman. James has an extensive background in the healthcare sector, formerly as CEO of Tunstall
Bamboo Capital Partners (Bamboo), a specialist impact investor in emerging and frontier markets, has exited its investment in CONFIE, a Latin American microfinance investment holding company.
CONFIE supports the development of the microfinance industry through investment, financing, and technology to promote equitable and inclusive development in Latin America.
Through its investment in CONFIE in 2007 as part of its first Financial Inclusion Fund, Bamboo has positively impacted the development of two microfinance institutions: Banco FIE in Bolivia and Fie Gran Poder in Argentina.
During this period, Banco FIE, the main investment of CONFIE, extended its branch and ATM
Victory Park Capital (VPC), a leading global alternative investment firm, has closed a multi-year credit facility with Cap Hill Brands, a technology-driven consumer goods platform that acquires and operates e-commerce brands with an initial focus on Amazon-first brands.
The credit facility marks the third deal that VPC has closed in the e-commerce sector since Q3 of last year, having most recently closed a credit facility with Perch, which also acquires and operates Amazon third-party sellers.
Cap Hill Brands was founded in July 2020 by Kevin Saliba and Jason LeeKeenan, two former Zulily executives who helped grow the business into
Seek Now, a technology-enabled inspection platform and services provider to the Property & Casualty (P&C) Insurance industry, has received a significant minority investment from Susquehanna Growth Equity (SGE), an entrepreneur-centric growth equity firm exclusively focused on internet, software, and information services companies.
Financial terms of the investment have not been disclosed.
This represents Seek Now’s first outside institutional capital investment and furthers the company’s mission to virtualise the claims adjustment model through reducing the nation’s top carriers’ claim cycle time and providing exemplary customer service through its data-driven, technology-enabled offering.
Seek Now, co-headquartered in Louisville, KY and Atlanta, GA
Avision Sales Group, an Osceola Capital portfolio company, has completed the acquisition of six additional companies: Angel-Cotton Associates, Apex Commercial Kitchen, Demlow Marketing, Mid-America Sales, Plexus Reps, and TRC Marketing.
These partnerships strengthen Avision’s presence in the Midwest and South, and expand coverage to the Central and Western regions of the US to establish a national footprint across 46 states.
Angel-Cotton Associates was founded in 1993 and services janitorial and hygiene manufacturers on the West Coast. Apex Commercial Kitchen was founded in 2005 and services foodservice equipment and supply manufacturers in the Midwest. Demlow Marketing was founded in 1958
Ogier has assisted Bristows, representing Waterland Private Equity Investments, in its GBP1.1 billion acquisition of the Priory Group from Acadia Healthcare Company.
The deal is the latest in Ogier’s work with significant private equity clients in relation to their acquisition structures.
Waterland, one of the best performing private equity firms globally, said it would combine the Priory Group with MEDIAN, Germany’s largest provider of rehabilitation and neurology treatments, to create “Europe’s leading rehabilitation and mental health services providers”. The combined group will be able to treat 260,000 patients across 570 clinics.
Ogier advised on the Jersey corporate and finance aspects
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