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Boston-based Audax Private Equity has acquired Mobileum, a provider of roaming and big data analytics solutions to telecoms companies.
Previously known as Roamware, Mobileum was founded in 2001 and has since sold its roaming and analytics solutions to over 600 mobile operator customers worldwide.
In 2014, Mobileum added a suite of analytic-driven solutions to its product portfolio to broaden its reach and value outside of roaming.
Mobileum’s entire leadership and management team will remain with the organisation.
“Audax is an ideal partner for Mobileum at this stage in our growth and the partnership places us securely at
A fund managed by BlackRock Real Assets has completed the acquisition of a 100 per cent interest in an operational wind project in the UK from innogy.
The 18-megawatt Batsworthy Cross wind farm is located in Devon and is now fully operational.
The project benefits from Senvion technology with a long-term Operations & Maintenance (O&M) agreement in place. REG Power Management has been appointed to undertake the operational management of the project.
Following the investment in Batsworthy Cross, funds managed by BlackRock Real Assets own over 40 renewables projects in the UK across onshore wind, offshore wind and
Asset management firm Barings has acted as co-lead arranger of a unitranche facility to support Bridgepoint Development Capital's acquisition of Inspiring Learning.
Barings' role in the buyout marks the third transaction for the former European private finance group of Babson Capital Management since Babson consolidated its operations with the former Baring Asset Management and rebranded the new firm under the Barings name in September 2016.
Inspiring Learning is a UK provider of residential learning activities and travel programmes for school-aged young people, operating 10 residential activity centres in the UK and France.
"We are very pleased to support
IK Investment Partners’ IK VIII Fund is to acquire ZytoService Group, a compounder of pharmaceuticals for patient-individualised infusions, from the founders and Capiton.
Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Founded in 2002, ZytoService is based in Hamburg, where it runs a compounding facility.
“We are delighted to be working with IK going forward. ZytoService operates in an industry in which IK has extensive expertise, and with their support we will be well placed to further expand our competence and provide the best service to our customers,” says Enno Scheel, co-founder of ZytoService.
“We firmly
Offshore global law firm Carey Olsen has retained its tier one position in Guernsey and Jersey for both its financial and corporate and investment funds advice in International Financial Law Review 1000 (IFLR1000).
IFLR1000 rankings are based on independent research over a 12-month period and serve as a definitive guide to the world’s leading financial law firms.
Clients said of Carey Olsen: “The best offshore law firm both in terms of service and for technical capability and drafting”, “very fast, strategically helpful advice” and "responsive, technical and excellent to deal with”.
A total of 20 Carey Olsen lawyers
All of NatWest’s business and commercial customers can now access an expanded panel of alternative lenders to which they can be formally referred if borrowing directly from the bank is not possible.
The panel, called Capital Connections, builds on NatWest’s existing partnerships to signpost small business customers to alternative sources of finance.
The panel now enters its final full launch phase, following a pilot which introduced the wider panel of all five lenders to commercial customers with a turnover of up to GBP25 million in South West England, Wales and Scotland earlier this year.
Capital Connections includes two
By James Williams (pictured) – The private equity secondary market has experienced significant growth in deal volumes and investor interest in recent years. According to Cogent Partners, secondaries volume was USD22.5 billion in 2010. This rose to USD27.5 billion in 2013, and reached USD42 billion in 2014. Last year, deal flow was estimated to have reached USD40-50 billion.
As SEI stated in its paper Private Equity Liquidity: A Work in Progress, (www.seic.com/enUK/im/15106.htm) the growth of the secondary market has probably had more impact on private equity liquidity than any other development to date. This then, is an area of the market that has experienced a significant deepening of liquidity.
JAC Products, a designer, manufacturer and global supplier of original equipment roof racks, cargo management systems, running boards and step rails to equipment vehicle manufacturers, has been acquired by Tulsa-based private equity fund Argonaut Private Equity.
The sale was effective 28 October 2016.
JAC Products, which has over 1,500 employees globally, was previously owned by Wynnchurch Capital. Terms of the sale were not disclosed.
The management team at JAC is remaining with the company to drive the implementation of their strategic growth plans. JAC is diversifying its product mix and expanding globally in to new markets. JAC continues
GSO Capital Partners, the credit division of Blackstone, has held the final closing of its third mezzanine fund, GSO Capital Opportunities Fund III, at its hard cap of USD6.5 billion.
GSO will seek to invest the fund across a broad range of sectors and geographies, with a particular focus on the US and Europe.
GSO sourced commitments from a global investor base, including public, corporate and foreign pension funds, financial institutions, endowments, foundations and family offices.
The fund's size positions it as one of few mezzanine providers capable of committing to large sized transactions, while its flexible structure
Middle market private equity firm One Equity Partners’ portfolio company Duran Group, a global glass manufacturer for laboratory and industrial applications, has acquired Kimble Chase Life Science & Research Products.
The acquisition of US-based Kimble Chase, which has a strong position in disposable products, is a further step in building Duran Group into a leader in the laboratory and scientific glassware industry.
Headquartered in Rockwood, Tennessee, Kimble Chase is a manufacturer and distributor of laboratory and scientific glassware for the pharmaceutical, environmental, petrochemical, life sciences, education and chromatography markets. Operating facilities across three continents, the company offers a broad
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