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IK Investment Partners and Five Arrows Principal Investments (FAPI) have acquired I@D Holding, a services platform dedicated to the first network of independent real estate agents in France.
The founders Malik Benrejdal, Jade Benrejdal and Jerome Chabin as well as NAXICAP Partners, shareholder since 2012, are reinvesting 37 per cent alongside IK and FAPI.
Founded in 2008 with the ambition to offer an alternative way of buying and selling residential property, I@D is a fast-growing digital platform offering a large range of value-added support services to independent real estate agents. The company has grown to become the largest network
The Riverside Company has completed fundraising for Riverside Micro-Cap Fund IV (RMCF IV).
The international investment firm’s latest buyout fund closed at its hard cap with USD650 million in capital commitments.
RMCF IV invests in fast-growing North American companies with up to USD7 million of EBITDA.
RMCF fund manager Loren Schlachet says his team uses a time-tested approach.
“We work hard to harness the potential in companies by improving their systems, processes and leadership, with the goal of significant growth during the investment period,” says Schlachet.
The RMCF team has invested in over 50 platforms since
One year on from the launch of its first venture debt fund for UK technology firms and innovative companies, Barclays is extending its High Growth fund to GBP200 million as part of its commitment to fund innovative scale-ups.
Barclays has seen huge take up from businesses and since launching in May last year has provided GBP100 million in earlier stage financing support to nearly 40 companies.
Barclays remains the only mainstream UK bank to offer high growth businesses and their founders debt funding solutions at this early stage.
The fund is designed to provide access to debt finance;
King & Wood Mallesons has advised Inflexion Private Equity on the management buyout of Bedell Trust, a corporate, fund and fiduciary administration company.
Inflexion is an independent mid-market private equity house, investing in established high growth businesses. The MBO, backed by Inflexion, will help to accelerate organic growth and target further selected acquisitions.
Bedell Trust has over 250 employees and operates from Jersey, Guernsey, London, Luxembourg, Dublin, Singapore, Mauritius and Cayman. It has grown rapidly both organically and through acquisition.
Florencia Kassai (pictured), partner at Inflexion, says: “This is an exciting time for both Bedell Trust and Inflexion.
Five Arrows Secondary Opportunities (FASO), the European small and mid-cap secondary business of Rothschild Merchant Banking, has completed the fundraising of Five Arrows Secondary Opportunities IV (FASO IV) at EUR451 million after only a few months of fundraising.
A significant majority of limited partner commitments originated from existing investors in Five Arrows Secondary Opportunities III (FASO III). In addition, the fund attracted strong interest from new investors comprising top tier institutions and family offices around the globe.
FASO’s investment team is comprised of 13 professionals and is run by Mireille Klitting, managing partner. FASO IV will continue to focus
Capshare, an equity management platform, has closed an investment from Standish Management, a provider of private equity fund administration services in the US.
The investment formalises a strategic partnership with Standish.
“Standish is one of the most respected names in the investment fund business and we are thrilled to partner with them. With their deep and diverse roster of over 600 funds managed, they are a perfect fit for us as we continue to build momentum and scale the investor side of our business,” says Capshare CEO Jeron Paul.
Founded in 2014, Capshare gives entrepreneurs and investors the
Dundee Venture Capital, an Omaha-based seed-stage investment firm, has raised USD20 million for its Fund III, which will back start-ups in the broader Midwest US.
The capital will be deployed into seed and early-stage investments targeting e-commerce, B2B SaaS and consumer-network focused start-ups. Dundee Venture Capital has made over 30 investments in start-ups to date, with a goal of actively transforming the business landscape of the Midwest through entrepreneurship.
With a target capital raise of USD30 million, Fund III will be 65 per cent larger than Dundee’s previous fund. The current fund focuses on consumer and B2B investments and
Inflexion Private Equity has acquired a majority shareholding in Group IMD from funds managed by Vitruvian Partners.
Headquartered in London, Group IMD is a global technology business automating the distribution workflow of video advertisements from advertising agencies and production companies to broadcasters and the online video industry. The company connects over 2,500 clients and 14,000 digital and linear media channels in more than 100 countries.
Group IMD’s IMD Cloud is the only global, fully-automated, entirely cloud-native platform for broadcast-grade, video advertising distribution workflow. As mission-critical technology, IMD Cloud is relied upon to distribute a significant proportion of video advertising
UBS Asset Management’s infrastructure and private equity business has held the final close of its inaugural infrastructure debt fund, Archmore Infrastructure Debt Platform (Archmore IDP), which has raised EUR570 million (USD640 million).
The capital has been raised from 17 institutional investors comprising a mix of insurance companies, pension funds and family offices spread across eight European countries and Japan.
This strong level of interest reflects the ongoing trend in the current low-yield and interest rate environment of investors seeking alternative investments, such as infrastructure debt, which offer low risk but higher yielding options relative to traditional fixed income
Graphite Capital, a mid-market private equity specialist, has acquired Beck & Pollitzer, which provides industrial machinery installation and relocation services, from Bridgepoint Development Capital for an undisclosed sum.
Beck & Pollitzer’s blue chip clients, which include Toyota, Jaguar Land Rover, Rolls Royce, Rexam, Kimberley Clark and many other international brands, operate principally in the automotive, aerospace, metals and packaging industries.
The company’s services range from moving single machines to the relocation of entire factories and installation of complex production lines.
Beck & Pollitzer employs more than 600 staff in 26 offices located in 14 countries and executes projects
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