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Inflexion Private Equity’s portfolio company Huws Gray, an independent builders’ merchants, has acquired Ridgeons, an independently owned timber and builders’ merchants trading from over 40 mixed branches in East Anglia.
This follows a minority investment by Inflexion Partnership Capital I in Huws Gray in April 2018.
The transformational acquisition will significantly increase Huws Gray’s store base and broaden its national presence, making it the UK’s largest independent builders’ merchants. Like Huws Gray, Ridgeons has a strong focus on the growing repair, improvement and maintenance segment, as well as a large and diversified customer base of over 16,000 clients. The
Quadrille Capital, an independent French private investment firm, based in Paris and San Francisco, has held a first closing above EUR200 million for its Technologies Fund IV, which is targeting EUR300 million.
Consistent with Quadrille’s original and successful strategy, this new fund invests between EUR8 million to EUR12 million across direct investments (2/3 of total), selected from portfolios of VC and private equity technology funds (1/3 of total).
Quadrille’s performance ranks in the top US and European VC quartiles (Preqin). These results leverage proprietary tools the team has used to deliver, for more than 12 years, many successful investments
TRI, a leading global provider of Risk-Based Monitoring (RBM) solutions for clinical trials, has completed a growth capital fundraise to accelerate development of its core technology platform, OPRA and expand its international presence.
Funding was raised through Octopus Investments, part of the Octopus Group headquartered in London.
Founded in 2014, TRI developed the first dedicated cloud-based software for RBM, enabling early risk detection, improved data quality, increased operational efficiency and compliance with regulatory requirements. The adoption of new regulatory guidance requiring risk to be considered from the start of a trial has driven demand for OPRA. TRI’s clients include
SK Capital Partners, a private investment firm focussed on the specialty materials, chemicals and pharmaceuticals sectors, has completed the acquisition of SI Group, a global developer and manufacturer of performance additives and intermediates.
The transaction includes the combination of SI Group with Addivant, an SK Capital portfolio company since 2013 and a leading global producer of specialty additives.
Headquartered in Schenectady, New York, the newly combined company will market itself under the SI Group brand and will be a global technology and industry leader in performance additives, process solutions, pharmaceuticals and chemical intermediates, with strong market positions in
Arcapita, a specialist in Shari’ah-compliant alternative investments, has invested in NuYu, a chain of women-only boutique gyms in Saudi Arabia.
Arcapita’s capital will help NuYu deploy over SAR250 million (USD67 million) to grow its network of boutique gyms from seven to over 30 across the Kingdom. The new centres are expected to create hundreds of jobs, as well as provide women access to fitness outlets in currently underserved locations.
The investment will enable the company – with five boutique gyms in Riyadh and one each in both Khobar and Dammam – to capitalise on the significant market opportunity arising
Private equity firm Auxo Investment Partners has partnered with the Rink family to acquire Prestige Stamping, a Michigan-based high-speed niche manufacturer of custom engineered stampings for the fastener industry.
The deal, terms of which have not been disclosed, marks Auxo’s fifth acquisition in 13 months and follows the September closing of the firm’s inaugural investment fund, Auxo Growth Holdings I LLC.
Prestige is a major player in the market for high-volume, tight-tolerance washers and similar small stampings, and manufactures over a billion washers and metal stampings annually for more than 200 customers across a diverse set of industries and
Private equity funds in Africa are increasingly investing in early-stage businesses in the search for earnings growth. This is partially driven by the rising trend in purchase prices of private companies in Africa as indicated by the latest Bright Africa 2018 report.
Bright Africa is an ongoing research effort into investing in Africa compiled by global investment firm RisCura.
According to the report, the average purchase price of private companies has risen from 4.8x EBITDA to 7.3x EBITDA between 2009 and 2017. As a large amount of investment capital has yet to be deployed by funds, purchase multiples could increase
CRG, a UK specialist in the healthcare and social care staffing market, has acquired Affinity Workforce (Affinity), a provider of education, health and social care staffing from Endless, for an undisclosed sum.
The acquisition sees CRG shareholders Ian Munro, Tristan Ramus and Jamie Webb leading the next step of Affinity’s transformation and growth plans commenced under Endless’ ownership.
Affinity will complement the impressive portfolio of businesses within CRG by incorporating the well-established brands of CER, Monarch Education, Medicare First and Team24, together employing over 400 staff and delivering GBP100 million of revenue.
As well as scaling up CRG’s
EagleTree Capital’s private equity fund EagleTree Partners IV has acquired a majority stake in Gaylord Chemical Company, a specialist in chemical production.
The Company’s Chief Executive Officer, Paul Dennis, and other existing shareholders will retain a significant stake in the Company. Co-investors, including the Alberta Teachers’ Retirement Fund Board and Farol Asset Management, are investing alongside EagleTree. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Gaylord Chemical is the world’s premier manufacturer of dimethyl sulfide (DMS) and dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO), environmentally safe, non-toxic solvents with a variety of commercial applications in agriculture, microelectronics, petrochemical, pharmaceutical and other end markets.
Group of Butchers, a Dutch supplier of high-quality meat and mince-based products in which Equistone Partners Europe acquired a majority stake in January 2017, has acquired Hartmann, a family-owned German producer of meatballs and mince-based products.
The deal represents Group of Butchers’ first move into the German market and strengthens the company’s position as one of the leading producers of artisan meats by extending its product range to include a number of traditionally prepared mince-based products. The financial terms of the deal are undisclosed and completion of the sale remains subject to the approval of the relevant competition authorities.
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