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Preqin has launched Preqin Solutions, which is aiming to provide a cost-effective, scalable and secure data solution to meet the market need for transparent, accurate and efficient tracking of private capital portfolio performance.
Preqin says the platform is designed to provide ‘innovative, time-saving and easy-to-use tools that streamline the collection of portfolio company data, and improve the valuation and reporting processes undertaken by fund managers, thereby enabling more effective portfolio value creation and communication with investor clients. The cloud-based platform is quick and easy to implement, making Preqin Solutions accessible to managers of all sizes’.
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Monroe Capital has acted as sole lead arranger and administrative agent on the funding of a unitranche credit facility to support the acquisition of Midwest Wholesale Hardware Co (Midwest) by private equity sponsor, High Road Capital Partners.
Based in Kansas City, Missouri, Midwest Wholesale Hardware Co. is a leading wholesale distributor of commercial door hardware and security products, including locks, exit devices, electronic access control products, and door closers.
The company’s national footprint enables next-day delivery to its customers in commercial and institutional end markets.
Global investment bank GCA Altium has advised AXIO Aviation Holdings on the sale of OAG to Vitruvian Partners in a deal worth approximately USD215 million.
OAG is the global leader in aviation information and intelligence, providing customers with flight schedule and status information, in addition to related data analysis tools. The company’s flight information database holds future and historical flight details for over 900 airlines and more than 4,000 airports, offering unprecedented insight into scheduling and planning, flight status and day-of-travel updates, post-journey analysis and on-time performance. With the most extensive real-time database in the market, OAG’s delivers 35 million
CBPE Capital has exited its investment in Xafinity, a UK corporate pensions consultancy, via a main market listing on the London Stock Exchange.
Due to high investor demand, CBPE will sell all of its shares generating a return of 4.3x invested capital (with an IRR of 66 per cent). The IPO has valued Xafinity at an Enterprise value of GBP220.3 million. The market capitalisation on admission will be GBP190.3 million.
CBPE acquired Xafinity out of Advent International backed Equiniti Group in February 2013. Xafinity is a market leader in providing pension compliance and advisory services to trustees and sponsors of
Arma Partners has acted as exclusive financial advisor to Cloudreach on the sale of a majority share to Blackstone.
Cloudreach is a renowned cloud-native global cloud enabler which has empowered some of the largest and best known enterprises in the world to realise the benefits of hyperscale public cloud. The company is an important partner for AWS, Microsoft and Salesforce and offers intelligent and innovative cloud adoption by providing capabilities to enable, integrate and operate cloud platforms based on these infrastructures.
This is one of the largest transactions to have taken place in this important and rapidly growing segment
TMX Group has sold the wireless and extranet infrastructure services business known as TMX Atrium to Intercontinental Exchange (ICE).
The decision to enter into this transaction was made within the scope of TMX's ongoing strategic initiative to streamline its organisational structure and position the company to deliver profitable long-term growth. Upon closing, TMX Atrium will become part of ICE Data Services, a leading global provider of market data solutions.
"The sale of the TMX Atrium business is the result of a shift in our strategic focus from infrastructure services to providing intellectual property-based analytics solutions that drive client investment decisions,"
Nexxus Capital is to invest in Translatum Holding (TransNetwork), a holding company to develop a fintech payments platform, of which the first component is TransNetwork, a company in the B2B electronic domestic and cross-border processing and payments industry.
The company enables transfers between the United States, Mexico and other Latin American countries as well as domestic money transfers within Mexico.
This investment will be made through Nexxus Capital Private Equity Fund VI, and Nexxus Capital VI Trust (jointly Nexxus VI), once certain closing conditions are met, including the approval of Mexico’s Antitrust Authority (COFECE).
TransNetwork’s money transfer business enables licensed
Mid Europa Partners, a private equity firm focused on Central and South Eastern Europe, has completed the acquisition of Romanian supermarket chain Profi Rom Food.
Profi is a modern retail network with the widest geographical spread in Romania, having a strong presence in almost 250 cities, smaller towns and villages. Profi operates two store formats in urban areas, Standard and City, and recently developed Loco, a successful format for rural parts of the country. Profi is one of the top employers in Romania, with nearly 11,000 employees.
The transaction execution was led by Andrej Babache with the support of Ratko
Goldman Sachs has agreed to invest USD95 million in MDC Partners through the purchase of non-voting convertible preference shares (the Preference Shares).
In connection with the closing of the transaction, Bradley J Gross, a managing director in the Merchant Banking Division of Goldman Sachs, will join the MDC Partners Board of Directors, which will expand to seven members. Subject to the satisfaction of certain conditions, the transaction is expected to close in the first quarter of 2017.
Scott L Kauffman, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of MDC Partners, says: "We are extremely pleased to be partnering with Goldman Sachs.
Global investment bank GCA achieved record revenues of GBP148 million and EBIT of GBP27 million in 2016, successfully completing 133 deals over the course of the year.
This is GCA’s first set of results since its July 2016 merger with Altium.
Recent high profile deals included advising JayZ on the investment by Stream in Tidal, the sale of Urban Engines to Google and the acquisition of Pretty Little Thing by GBP1.5bn listed company boohoo.com.
GCA Altium, GCA’s European business, which is headquartered in Manchester and has seven offices across Europe, completed a total of 66 transactions, including two of the largest software buyouts
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