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Align Capital Partners (ACP) has completed the majority recapitalisation of fire and life safety company International Systems of America (ISA) from Gen Cap America (Gen Cap).
This was ACP’s fifth platform company investment since the firm’s first fund closed in September 2016.
Headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky, ISA is a leading provider of fire and life safety services and parts for national, regional and local customers. The Company serves as the complete fire/security partner for its customers through decades-long relationships with major manufacturers, servicing and supplying both new and legacy systems, including a differentiated inventory of certified parts that keeps
Swarm64, provider of the scalable data accelerator (SDA) which enables relational databases to perform real-time big data analytics, has secured USD12.5 million in a Series B funding round led by by Intel Capital and Investinor. Alliance Venture and Target Partners also participated in the round.
“We are very glad to welcome Intel Capital as a new investor. The cooperation with Intel will help us serve a global market with the most advanced technology,” says Karsten Rönner, CEO of Swarm64. “Many industries face an explosion in their data processing needs, be it from growing numbers of connected ‘things’, expanding business models
Tractel, a specialist provider of working-at-heights and safety products and solutions, is to acquire Scanclimber Oy, the Finnish-headquartered provider of mast climbing work platforms (MCWP), for an undisclosed fee.
Scanclimber supplies rack and pinion vertical access products to more than 250 clients, in Europe, North America and Asia. It has 225 employees, operates a well-invested production facility in Poland, and sells its products through a network of distributors and sales agents globally. Industry forecasts expect MCWP products to be used increasingly as an alternative to traditional scaffolding as construction methods increasingly take into account workers’ health and safety. Scanclimber is
MidOcean Partners (MidOcean), a premier middle market private equity firm focused on consumer and business services, has acquired BH Cosmetics (BH), a digitally native colour cosmetics brand.
MidOcean’s investment will be used to drive BH’s continued growth and expansion.
BH’s founders will retain a significant ownership stake in the Company. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Launched in 2009, BH is a leading, direct-to-consumer colour cosmetics brand focused on the Millennial/Generation Z consumer. BH offers a full suite of high-quality colour cosmetics including products for the face, lips, eyes, brows as well as brushes and accessories. The Company
LightBay Capital (LightBay), a Los Angeles-based private equity firm focused on middle-market opportunities, has successfully completed fundraising for its inaugural institutional fund, LightBay Investment Partners, with total committed capital of USD615 million.
The oversubscribed Fund, which LightBay officially began marketing in April 2017, exceeded its target of USD450 million with commitments from a diverse investor group, which includes leading family offices, foundations, fund of funds, insurers, pension plans, and LightBay professionals.
LightBay is led by cofounders Nav Rahemtulla and Adam Stein, who were original members of Ares Management’s private equity group (Ares) where they invested together for over 15 years.
Capidea Management has held the first closing of its third private equity fund, Capidea Kapital III K/S with commitments of DKK750 million from a group of new and existing Danish and international investors. The Fund has a target of DKK1 billion.
Capidea was established in November 2006 with the objective of making buyout investments in competitive small and medium sized companies in Denmark. Today the firm is led by four partners, Erik Balleby Jensen, Jens Thøger Hansen, Nicolai Jungersen and Martin Jørgensen.
The Fund will continue the successful strategy of the previous two funds of targeting control and highly value-accreting
The total value of funds business in Guernsey grew by approximately GBP20 billion over the 12 months to the end of the third quarter of this year.
Figures from the Guernsey Financial Services Commission (GFSC) show that, at the end of September 2017, the net asset value of all funds under management and administration in Guernsey stood at GBP269 billion – an 8 per cent increase on September 2016. The figures also confirm two consecutive years of growth, with the net asset value of funds growing by nearly GBP25 billion between Q3 2015 and Q3 2016.
The annual increase was
Shore Capital Partners (Shore Capital) has sold The Stepping Stones Group (SSG) to Five Arrows Capital Partners (Five Arrows), with Shore Capital retaining a minority stake.
The Stepping Stones Group is a provider of therapy and education solutions to children with special needs and autism in educational settings. Led by CEO Anthony Rintala, SSG has approximately 900 clinicians providing services to over 300 school districts and 42,000 children across more than 20 states in the US.
Five Arrows Capital Partners is the North American corporate private equity business of Rothschild Merchant Banking (“RMB”), the investment arm of Rothschild &
The last couple of years have been a period of recovery for the EU. Since Q2 2016, GDP growth has been on an upward trajectory, having risen by 2.3 per cent year-on-year, according to Eurostat. That is even stronger than the US, which, by comparison, grew by 2.2 per cent.
A rising tide lifts all boats and in that respect, Italy has seen rising valuations and multiples, but it is fair to say that the country is still slightly lagging behind its EU neighbours including Germany and France.
Not that this is a bad thing. Indeed, for private equity
Equity investments made through the ENVESTORS investor network have surpassed GBP100 million in value.
To date, ENVESTORS has facilitated investments in 212 companies, with multiple funding rounds resulting in over 810 deals in those businesses. The average investment secured by these companies was around GBP475,000, with investors making an average investment of GBP40,000.
The company that secured the investment that broke ENVESTORS’ GBP100m threshold is CARELINELIVE, a cloud-based management platform for the domiciliary (home care) industry. CARELINELIVE successfully raised GBP330,000, the maximum funding required to support its platform. CARELINELIVE enables a care agency to run their entire business from
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