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Glatfelter, a supplier of specialty papers and engineered materials, has signed a definitive agreement to purchase Georgia-Pacific’s European nonwovens business (the “Business”) for USD185 million, subject to customary purchase price adjustments.
The proposed transaction includes Georgia-Pacific’s operations located in Steinfurt, Germany, along with sales offices located in France and Italy. The Steinfurt facility produces high-quality airlaid products for the table-top, wipes, hygiene, food pad, and other nonwoven materials markets, competing in the marketplace with nonwoven technologies and substrates, as well as other materials focused primarily on consumer based end-use applications. The Steinfurt facility is a state-of-the-art, 32,000-metric-ton-capacity manufacturing facility that employs
Elastic Path, a specialist in enterprise headless commerce solutions, has closed a USD43 million Series B growth investment, led by Sageview Capital and with participation from current investors, Yaletown Partners and BDC Venture Capital.
The company has now raised a total of over USD63 million.
“Sageview provides highly complementary strategic and industry knowledge to our investor base. We look forward to leveraging the firm’s domain expertise, resources and shared vision to support Elastic Path’s goals for product evolution and market expansion,” says Harry Chemko, CEO of Elastic Path.”
Increased company momentum, including recent European customer wins such
A Hull healthtech start-up which has developed an award-winning device to enhance mental wellbeing has secured a GBP200,000 investment from NPIF-Mercia Equity Finance, which is managed by Mercia Fund Managers and is part of the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund.
Moodbeam’s wearable device allows users to log their mood and monitor their emotional wellbeing – or that of their children, students, patients or employees. The device, which links to an online and mobile platform, gives insights into how moods change over time, showing patterns and trends that can support positive change. The funding will allow the business to put the device
Private capital has been vital in working alongside governments and other investors to help close the Africa’s infrastructure gap, according to the third edition of the African Private Equity and Venture Capital Association’s (AVCA) Sector Snapshot: Infrastructure.
The report states that 97 PE infrastructure deals worth USD12.1bn were reported between 2012 and 2017, with infrastructure being identified by African LPs as the most attractive sector for PE investment in Africa over the next three years.
The Snapshot confirms that infrastructure remains an attractive opportunity, as seen through the increase in the number of deals and fundraising activities in this
Funds advised by private equity firm Apax Partners have received a binding offer and have entered into exclusive discussions to sell Azelis to the EQT VIII fund and PSP Investments.
The transaction, which is subject to regulatory approvals, and other conditions including consultation with employee representatives, is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2018. Financial terms were not disclosed.
Established in 2001, Azelis is a leading global specialty chemicals and food ingredients distributor providing a diverse range of products and innovative services to more than 43,000 customers in over 40 countries worldwide. Azelis provides a high value-add
Assetz Capital’s first ever rate rise saw investors add around GBP10 million to their Access Accounts in the first month.
The peer-to-peer business lender moved target interest rates for the Quick Access Account and 30-Day Access Account from 3.75 per cent to 4.10 per cent and from 4.25 per cent to 5.10 per cent respectively. The rate increase was announced on 16th May 2018 but was effective from 1 May 2018.
The increase in investment was across both ISA-wrapped and non-ISA accounts and has helped the ISA approach GBP50 million of investment in its first six months since launch.
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Platinum Equity is to sell Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) to affiliates of Cerberus Capital Management, in a transaction valued at approximately EUR1.2 billion. The sale is expected to close during Q4 2018, subject to regulatory approval and certain closing conditions.
Since Platinum Equity acquired the company in 2015, WFS has grown significantly, both organically and through a transformative add-on acquisition, and is now the world’s largest air cargo handler and one of the world’s leading providers of ground handling and technical services, with annual revenues of more than EUR1.2 billion.
“Through a combination of growth and operational initiatives, WFS
Micrima, a Bristol-based breast imaging company, has raised GBP4.4 million in additional equity funding led by Technology Venture Partners, The Angel CoFund(ACF), and Venture Founders – plus a group of returning and new individual investors – bringing the total amount raised to GBP10.7 million.
Roy Johnson, Micrima’s Executive Chairman, says: “I am very happy to announce the completion of our latest funding round, which provides us with the capital we need to move our initial MARIA product into full commercial launch and follow this swiftly with the enhanced functionality that the system is capable of achieving. The market has been prepared over the past
Ironwood Capital has made a subordinated debt and minority equity investment in Consulting Solutions International (CSI), headquartered in Tallahassee, Florida.
The company is a leading provider of contract consultants for information technology (IT) and staff augmentation for commercial customers.
“CSI serves a growing base of blue chip customers,” says Ironwood Capital President and Chief Investment Officer Carolyn Galiette. “We’re impressed with the CSI management team’s successful history of acquiring and integrating similar IT staffing and consulting businesses.”
Ironwood Capital Managing Director Alex Levental, says: “The focus on acquisitions has created continual cross-selling opportunities, fuelling CSI’s bottom-line growth while
Middle-market investment bank Harris Williams & Co has acted as exclusive advisor to Visma Sverige Holding AB (Visma) on its divestment of market-leading mass hosting providers Loopia and Active 24 to Axcel Management A/S (Axcel).
The transaction was led by Thierry Monjauze and Sylvain Noblet of Harris Williams & Co’s Technology, Media & Telecom (TMT) Group and Krishna Patel of the firm’s London office.
Loopia and Active 24 offer web domains, shared web hosting and value-added services such as security, e-commerce and Microsoft Office 365. The products are sold online on a prepaid subscription basis to around 350,000 SME
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