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Lower-middle-market private equity firm Huron Capital’s aftermarket car accessories and restoration parts platform Drake Automotive Group has acquired Boulder, Colorado-based Proforged, a designer and distributor of chassis parts.
The deal marks the fourth add-on acquisition for the Drake platform investment in less than two and a half years. Since 2016, Drake has also acquired Fender Gripper, Carroll Shelby Wheel Company and OG Innovations.
Proforged has a strong presence in the wear-and-tear replacement market with more than 2,000 steering and suspension products across all major vehicle platforms and brands sold online to auto parts retailers. Proforged was founded by Zack Kanter
Heartland Capital Partners has launched a USD25 million private equity commercial real estate fund, Heartland Income Properties, which will focus on creating a value portfolio of income producing Class A and higher-end Class B commercial real estate primarily throughout the Midwest of the United States.
Markets to be considered include Des Moines, Kansas City, Omaha, Sioux Falls, Dallas, and the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, as well as Atlanta, and Phoenix.
Executive Chairman Tim Kopatich, an Iowa native, says that the fund’s target markets represent a tremendous opportunity for investors. “Local real estate professionals have already presented
Edge Investments (Edge) has invested in a significant minority shareholding in Over the Top (OTT) video distribution platform Airbeem.
Airbeem’s multi-use Software as a Service (SaaS) platform enables content owners to publish and monetise their video content direct to consumers by creating immersive video experiences reaching audiences on all devices.
Its turnkey solution for the middle market provides an end-to-end solution between content owners and consumers, offering easy and affordable ways for publishers delivering their content to drive various monetisation models and create a compelling user experience around their content.
As research shows an ongoing decline in linear
International private equity firm, Cinven, is to acquire JLA, a leading critical asset supply and services business for laundry, catering and heating in the UK, for an undisclosed consideration.
Headquartered in Ripponden, West Yorkshire, JLA provides commercial laundry, catering and heating solutions to more than 25,000 small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) customers. JLA offers a unique ‘Total Care’ proposition, which combines equipment supply with guaranteed service response times for a contracted monthly fee, providing peace of mind and value for money to a range of customers including care homes, hotels, education providers and housing associations.
Founded in 1973, JLA
Carey Olsen’s investment funds team in Jersey has advised CoinShares Group on the successful first close of CoinShares Fund II.
The new investment vehicle follows the June 2017 launch of CoinShares Fund I, the first fund ever to be denominated in Ethereum. Like its predecessor, the closed-ended fund will invest in a range of opportunities in the blockchain space, among them – newly created digital assets, emerging from Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs).
The fund has been authorised under the Jersey Private Fund Regime, a regime which provides for a streamlined regulatory authorisation process as it is a selective offering
Ashfords has been ranked as one of the most active law firms globally in venture capital deals for the first quarter of 2018, according to PitchBook. The annual global league table provides a comprehensive ranking of private equity and venture capital (VC) activity worldwide.
The firm has been ranked joint second in Europe, alongside US law firms Cooley and Jones Day, and ranked 16th globally according to figures released by PitchBook. Ashfords is the only independent UK law firm to appear in the global league table and have climbed from 4th in Europe and 23rd globally from last year’s rankings.
Odysseus Investments, the private equity arm of Reech Corporations Group, recently announced a significant investment in Whitebox Services AG, an independent financial advisory firm using advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology to offer tailor-made investment services to retail clients.
The investment makes Odysseus the largest external investor in the company. Christophe Reech (pictured), Chairman of Reech Corporations Group, explains that he established Reech after a lengthy career as a serial entrepreneur as a financier, principally working in supporting and developing established businesses as well as identifying new business opportunities.
One of his ventures, subsequently sold to SunGard in 2004, was
BGH Capital, a leading private equity firm focused on buyout opportunities in Australia and New Zealand, has successfully closed its first fund, BGH Capital Fund at around AUD2.6 billion after reaching its agreed hard cap.
The fund launched in late 2017 with a target of AUD2.0 billion. This represents the largest ever first-time private equity fund focused on investment in Australia and New Zealand.
The fund will invest in a diversified portfolio of investments across Australia and New Zealand leveraging its deep, local sourcing capability. It will seek to invest in companies where there is significant opportunity to support
Dallas-based social enterprise Good Returns and alternative asset management firm Inverdale Capital Management have launched the Guarantee-Investment-Values Strategies (GIVS) which, in addition to targeting a financial return, takes into account an impact weighting and provides guarantee capacity for impact lending programs.
GIVS will immediately expand the guarantee capacity for Good Returns’ Cycle program. Through Good Returns, participating companies provide capital in the form of a one-year interest-free loan, or “cycle.” Good Returns then deploys the capital to vetted groups that address social challenges using financially and operationally sustainable models, also called “impact organisations.” The loan increases the effect of the impact organisation and is
Silverfleet Capital, a Pan-European private equity firm that specialises in buy-to-build, is to acquire a majority stake in Prefere Resins Holding.
Headquartered in Erkner, situated on the outskirts of Berlin, Germany, the Company is a European market leader in the development, production and sale of phenolic and amino resins which are used as a binding agent across the construction, insulation and industrial sectors. Completion is subject to regulatory approval and the terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Built through the acquisition of plants owned by Neste and Perstorp in 2000, Prefere operates seven production facilities across six European
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