Deals
Private equity firm The Riverside Company has made a minority investment in Area Wide Protective (AWP) in connection with Kohlberg & Company’s (Kohlberg) recent acquisition of the company. The investment was made out of Riverside’s Strategic Capital Fund (RSCF).Headquartered in North Canton, Ohio, AWP is North America’s leading provider of outsourced temporary traffic safety management (TTSM) solutions supporting infrastructure repair, maintenance and upgrade activities for a broad range of blue-chip utilities, utility contractors and roadway maintenance providers. AWP delivers critical TTSM solutions that are essential to its customers’ operations and ensure the safety of their crews as well as the
Industrial Opportunity Partners (IOP), an operations-focused private equity firm, has partnered with the current management team and owners of Little Giant Ladder Systems (Little Giant), to support a recapitalisation of the business. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Little Giant is a designer, marketer and manufacturer of ladder systems to retailers and distributors in the US and internationally. The Company is based in Springville, Utah and has approximately 250 employees.
Little Giant’s products are used by do-it-yourself and professional customers and are sold through brick- and-mortar, e-commerce, industrial distribution and international channels. The Company designs, engineers, manufactures and sells
One Equity Partners (OEP), a middle market private equity firm, has completed the sale of NuArx, a provider of Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliance and secure payment solutions, to Sysnet Global Solutions, a provider of cyber security and compliance solutions. Terms of the private transaction have not been disclosed.
Headquartered in Southfield, Michigan, NuArx provides integrated managed security and PCI compliance software to more than 100 leading retail businesses with over 40,000 merchant locations through its SecurePCI platform. The Company sells its software as subscription-based Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) with tiered features that allow customers to receive training and certify that their businesses
Buy and build Investment group Tristone Capital – through its care division Tristone Healthcare – has acquired North Wales-based care business, ProCare (Wales) Limited. ProCare employs 140 staff across two care homes and a community living service. This is the second deal in the last six months for Tristone Healthcare. The investor’s strategy is to acquire high-quality businesses with strong fundamentals, delivering outstanding care and support to vulnerable people who need it most.
ProCare was founded in 2001 by Helen Shepherd and is one of the UK’s leading high acuity care businesses, providing care for individuals, between the ages of
An investor group led by JC Flowers & Co and Värde Partners has completed the previously announced sale of Fairstone Financial Holdings (Fairstone) to Duo Bank of Canada, a Toronto-based financial services provider supported by Stephen Smith, Centerbridge Partners LP and Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan.Värde Partners and JC Flowers acted as equal partners in the transaction, which began in 2017 when the investor group acquired CitiFinancial Canada from Citi and rebranded the Company as Fairstone. Under the ownership of JC Flowers and Värde, Fairstone has grown into a leading Canadian non-bank provider of responsible credit solutions for near-prime borrowers. The
NTR has added a further 48 MW to its renewable energy platform through the acquisition of the Artigues et Ollières wind farm, located in the Provence-Alpes-Cote d’Azur region of France. The project was acquired by the NTR Renewable Energy Income Fund II, a wind, solar and energy storage fund that operates across a number of European markets. Total costs for the project amount to over EUR90 million.
The project, which comprises 22 Vestas turbines, has recently commenced operations.
Manus O‘Donnell, Chief Investment Officer, NTR, says: “Artigues et Ollières wind farm is a substantial onshore wind project in size for
Trinity Consultants (Trinity), a portfolio company of Levine Leichtman Capital Partners (LLCP), has acquired AWN Consulting International Limited (AWN Consulting), a Dublin-based provider of environmental, acoustics, and risk management consulting services to industrial and public sector clients throughout Ireland and Europe.
Trinity is a leading provider of regulatory-driven environmental, health & safety and engineering consulting services. Trinity specialises in highly technical, compliance-driven services with a core presence in air quality and an expanding presence in adjacencies such as commissioning, qualification and validation, process safety management, toxicology, acoustics and water quality. Trinity operates from over 70 offices worldwide, with a national
Par Equity, an Edinburgh-based investment manager specialising in early-stage technology businesses with high growth potential, increased its new investment activity to a record GBP12.4 million in 2020.
Despite the challenges of a year dominated by Covid-19, the award-winning company also continued its run of successful exits, which means it has now returned cash to investors every year since 2013.
2020 closed with Par having completed 35 investment transactions in twelve months, up from a previous high in 2019. Additions to the portfolio included the likes of SICCAR, an IT technology company that enables organisations to securely exchange information, for instance
An affiliate of Peak Rock Capital (Peak Rock), a middle-market private investment firm, has completed the acquisition of Shipley Franchise Company and Shipley Do-nut Flour & Supply Co (collectively, Shipley Do-Nuts).
Founded in 1936, Shipley Do-Nuts is a leading quick-service restaurant franchisor. Shipley has a diverse franchisee and consumer base, with over 300 locations spanning nine states. Headquartered in Houston, Texas, the Company has built a strong reputation for its doughnuts, kolaches, beverages, and guest service.
Lawrence Shipley III says: “My grandfather, father, and I have dedicated our lives to serving Shipley Do-Nuts, our franchisees and our guests. After an
Nisos, a managed intelligence company, has secured USD6 million in funding led by global cyber investor Paladin Capital Group.
Existing investors Columbia Capital and Skylab Capital also participated in the round. The investment enables Nisos to expand its marketing and operations, while extending its international footprint.
Nisos’ Adversary Insights, Intel as a Service and Zero Touch Diligence offerings fuse cyber intelligence with threat investigation techniques to identify and disrupt adversaries before they cause harm to an organisation. Its blue-chip clients include Fortune 100 corporations and internet platform companies.
Andrew Stanley, Chief Information Security Officer, Mars, says: “We trust
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