Allocations
Bowmark Capital, a mid-market private equity firm, has sold Nexus Vehicle Rental (Nexus), a UK-based corporate vehicle rental provider, to Phoenix Equity Partners for GBP142 million.
The investment generated a return for Bowmark-managed funds of over 3-times cost.
Established in 1999, Nexus connects vehicle rental companies with corporate customers via a proprietary online booking and rental management system. This automates and streamlines the procurement process – providing over 1,000 customers with access to more than 550,000 vehicles from 2,000 locations across over 200 suppliers.
Since Bowmark acquired the company in 2015, Nexus has grown its share of the
Brookstreet Equity Partners (Brookstreet) has completed an investment in Greece-based, export-driven nanotechnology firm NanoPhos.
NanoPhos is a nanotechnology coatings manufacturer, producing paints and materials to create coatings with unique properties (eg. thermal insulation for buildings, performance enhancement for photovoltaic panels, antibacterial protection for hospitals, anti-corrosion and anti-fouling for maritime uses). The company is currently selling in over 25 countries and is ripe for further expansion geographically. NanoPhos’ innovative products are established in growing markets worth USD10bn plus.
NanoPhos has received over 15 awards to date, including Innovation (Bill Gates, GAIA Dubai, Artibat France, UKTI Award in European Business), Exports
Mimecast, an email and data security company, has acquired security software developer Solebit for approximately USD88 million, net of cash acquired.
Solebit’s technology is engineered to provide a fast, accurate and computationally efficient approach for the identification and isolation of zero-day malware and unknown threats in data files as well as links to external resources. Further enhancing Mimecast’s cyber resilience platform architecture, Solebit provides powerful threat protection to help customers face today’s broad threat landscape with evasion-aware, signature-less technology.
According to research Mimecast conducted with Vanson Bourne, more than 80 per cent of organisations have seen both targeted and
Motive Partners is to acquire a significant stake of a circa 40 per cent shareholding in Global Shares, a provider of equity compensation management solutions to global corporations.
Under the terms of the agreement, Motive Partners will partner with Global Shares to accelerate the company’s long-term growth and value creation. This will include its international expansion and strategic hiring.
Headquartered in Cork, Ireland, Global Shares was founded in 2005, and is a market-leading provider of innovative software and services for employee equity share plan administration. Global Shares has developed a proprietary, cloud-based, global technology platform enabling seamless service
Exponent is to acquire Dennis Publishing (Dennis), a multi-platform international media group which owns several award-winning brands including its flagship title, ‘The Week’, from the estate of Felix Dennis.
Dennis is a leading consumer media and e-commerce organisation, based in London and New York. Its portfolio consists of over 30 brands across four main areas of focus: Current Affairs, Technology, Automotive and Special Interest. In addition to The Week, it is home to several well-known brands including MoneyWeek, The Week Junior, BuyACar.co.uk, Auto Express, CarBuyer, Computer Active, Alphr.com, Cyclist and Viz, among others. Across all its brands it reaches over
Ropes & Gray has served as lead counsel to Index Ventures on its recently announced USD1.65 billion fundraise across two funds to back entrepreneurs with global ambitions: Index Ventures IX and Index Ventures Growth IV.
Completed in just two months from launch, Index Ventures IX closed with USD650 million in committed capital and will support early stages businesses; Index Ventures Growth IV closed with USD1 billion in commitments which will be allocated to help companies scale.
Founded in Geneva in 1996, Index Ventures is a venture capital firm based in London, San Francisco and Geneva, enabling entrepreneurs to turn
Unigrains, the agri-food and agro-industry investor, has entered into exclusive negotiations with Wendel for the acquisition of Mecatherm, a specialist in industrial baking equipment.
With sales of around EUR100 million, 90 per cent of which is outside France, Mecatherm designs, develops, assembles and installs ovens, machines, and automated production lines for fresh or frozen, cooked or pre-cooked breads, cakes and pastries, all around the world.
This strategic acquisition would reinforce Unigrains’ position in the grain industry value chain, constituting a new, strategic axis, complementary to its private equity activities and aimed at enhancing its expertise and know-how.
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Takeaway.com, an online food delivery marketplace in Continental Europe, is to acquire 10bis in Tel Aviv from TA Associates and its founder Tamir Carmel for a cash consideration of approximately EUR135 million.
The Transaction strengthens Takeaway.com’s tech leadership in food delivery.
Founded in 2000, 10bis (the “Business”) operates a leading online food marketplace that provides employee meal benefits plans to corporations. Its unique technology allows businesses to replace their canteens with not only a delivery service, but also with local restaurants. 10bis serves thousands of corporations, representing hundreds of thousands of employees. While Takeaway.com is predominantly a B2C brand, 95 per cent of
Funds managed by Foresight Group have provided an additional GBP10 million extension to bolster an original GBP40 million secured loan note facility which was agreed in September 2017 for Reward Finance Group Limited (Reward).
Leeds-headquartered Reward is an independent lender which provides secured loans to UK-based SMEs seeking more flexible finance, more promptly than mainstream lenders can deliver. Reward’s bespoke funding solutions take multiple assets as security, enabling the Company to provide short to medium term loans or invoice discounting facilities to support companies in a variety of different situations.
Since the original loan facility from Foresight was agreed
Lovell Minnick Partners (LMP), a private equity firm specialising in financial and related business services companies, is to acquire National Auto Care Corporation (NAC), a provider of automotive protection products. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
NAC, established in 1984 and acquired by Trivest Partners in 2012, is headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida. NAC is one of the longest operating providers of products such as vehicle service contracts, guaranteed asset protection, limited warranty, tire, wheel and a full suite of ancillary protection products nationwide.
Through its independent agents, NAC supports over 2,300 partners that distribute its products.
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