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GCA Altium has acted as exclusive financial advisor to The Riverside Company and the founder management on the sale of Bike24, a German online retailer of cycling and tri-sports equipment, accessories and apparel.
Pending regulatory approval, the transaction is anticipated to close in the coming months. Riverside is not disclosing terms.
The planned buyer is WiggleCRC, the leading online retailer of cycling, running, swimming and triathlon (Tri-sports) products and accessories, and portfolio company of Bridgepoint.
At the time of Riverside’s investment in 2015, Bike24 was a German leader in online bike retailing due to its superior product portfolio, which
Ogier has acted as Guernsey legal advisor to Equitix on the establishment of several different co-investment structures which, alongside Equitix Fund IV and other consortium members, acquired stakes in the HS1 high speed rail line and, separately, the M25 orbital motorway network.
The HS1 concession runs to 2040 and has an enterprise value of over GBP3 billion. HS1 includes the iconic London St Pancras train station and consists of a 109km high speed rail line connecting London to a high-speed commuter service throughout Kent and to European cities via the Channel Tunnel.
The M25 stake acquired is approximately 220km
Kirkland & Ellis is advising an investment company managed by Vestigo Capital Advisors on the acquisition of Accentro Real Estate AG from ADLER Real Estate AG. The purchase price is approximately EUR180 million.
The investment company advised by Vestigo Capital will acquire approx. 80 per cent of stakes in Accentro and 92 per cent of the convertibles 2014/2019 issued by Accentro. This represents a total of 82 per cent shares on a fully diluted basis.
The takeover agreement between Vestigo Capital and ADLER provides for a first payment by the buyer at closing, and successive tranches over the next 12
Quad-C Management (Quad-C), a middle market private equity firm has formed a financial partnership with AIT Worldwide Logistics (AIT Worldwide), a specialist in air and sea freight, ground distribution, warehouse management and custom supply chain solutions. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Founded in 1979, Chicago, Illinois-based AIT Worldwide employs nearly 1,000 dedicated logistics professionals. With global headquarters in Amsterdam and Hong Kong, AIT has more than 50 offices worldwide.
Quad-C is partnering with AIT’s executive management team, who are maintaining significant ownership in the Company. The partnership allows for AIT to reinvest capital to grow the
Circularity Capital, a specialist private equity firm targeting high-growth European SMEs in the circular economy, has made its maiden investment in Winnow Solutions (Winnow).
Headquartered in London, with offices in Dubai, Shanghai and Singapore, Winnow has developed a solution for designing out food waste in commercial catering facilities. The business has operations in 29 countries working with thousands of chefs and cooks to reduce food waste. Sites using the solution typically see food waste cut in half within 12 months from point of installation, resulting in an increase in gross margin of 2 - 6%.
The technology is being
As part of a dedicated build-and-build strategy, funds managed by Alpina Partners (Alpina) have invested in Syncos.
Founded in 2014 as a spin-off from innotec Systemtechnik, Syncos offers its “Mittelstand” customers in the manufacturing sector holistic MES solutions (Manufacturing Execution Systems). The software covers production and machine data acquisition (“PDA” / ”MDA”), advanced planning and scheduling (”APS”), track-and-trace as well as computer-aided quality assurance (”CAQ”). The current version of the software combines production and quality management in a highly integrated, modular system.
Alpina invested in Syncos via a holding company, which already holds shares in ERP companies oxaion and
Maven Capital Partners (Maven) is making a GBP3million investment in Altra Consultants Limited (Altra) to fund the growth of its Lloyds of London registered insurance brokering subsidiary, Parker Norfolk & Partners Ltd (PNP).
Following its acquisition of PNP, Altra obtained all requisite FCA approvals to enable it to use PNP’s Lloyds brass plate thereby delivering significant advantage to Altra’s service offering, enabling the firm to generate revenues via a mixture of direct sales to corporate entities and wholesale insurance from other insurance brokers.
Altra will initially offer Structured Trade Credit insurance broking services, which is the shareholders’ main area
Intel Capital, Intel Corporation’s global investment organisation, has announced new investments totalling more than USD60 million in 15 technology startups, bringing its year-to-date investing to more than USD566 million.
“The world is undergoing a data explosion,” says Wendell Brooks, Intel senior vice president and president of Intel Capital. “By 2020, every autonomous vehicle on the road will create 4 TB of data per day. A million self-driving cars will create the same amount of data every day as three billion people.
“As Intel transitions to a data company, Intel Capital is actively investing in startups across the technology spectrum
London-based impact investment firm Red Ribbon Asset Management has launched the Red Ribbon Private Equity Fund and the Red Ribbon Real Estate Fund.
The funds will focus on socially responsible investments in emerging and growth markets, and India in particular.
The new Funds, both of which are listed, will restrict investment to ventures whose commercial objectives conform strictly to Mainstream Impact Investment criteria. Red Ribbon Asset Management’s Chief Executive Officer, Suchit Punnose, says: “As a firm, we are choosing to invest in well-governed, profitable businesses operating in mainstream markets that have a positive impact on society and the environment. This
Sheridan Capital Partners has completed a majority recapitalisation of existing portfolio company Smile Doctors. Through the recapitalisation, Linden Capital is joining as lead investor while Sheridan and management are both rolling over equity.
“Working with the entire Smile Doctors team to build the national leader in orthodontics has been a true pleasure,” says Jonathan Lewis, Managing Partner at Sheridan Capital Partners. “Together we have expanded the business from its 12 clinics in Texas and Georgia to over 90 clinics across 11 states. This recapitalisation validates the exceptional growth of the business during our ownership, and our continued investment in the
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