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Law firm Paul Hastings has advised Filtration Group, an affiliate of Chicago-based Madison Industries, on the GBP220 million acquisition of the Porous Technologies business of UK-based industrial group Essentra.
Essentra Porous Technologies is a producer and distributor of the essential components that control liquids and vapours in products used in homes, offices, operating rooms, and beyond.
Filtration serves a diverse set of customers with offerings that span life science, process technologies, fluid and environmental air applications.
The Paul Hastings team was led by corporate partner Ronan O’Sullivan in London, alongside partners Arun Birla and Garrett Hayes in London,
Private equity firm Vector Capital has sold Gerber Technology, a provider of integrated software and automated systems for the production of flexible materials, to American Industrial Partners.
Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Headquartered in Tolland, Connecticut, Gerber Technology provides integrated software and system solutions to more than 78,000 customers across 130 countries in the aerospace, construction, furniture, fashion and apparel, transportation, technical textiles, packaging, wind energy, and sign and graphics industries.
Gerber Technology’s products and services are used by more than one-fifth of the Fortune 500.
In 2011, Vector Capital completed the take-private of
Sierra Income Corporation and its affiliate Medley Management provided a senior secured first lien term loan to facilitate ZS Fund’s acquisition of AmeriJet Holdings.
AmeriJet, headquartered in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, is a provider of air cargo and logistics services to and from the US and the Caribbean, Mexico and Latin America.
AmeriJet operates both scheduled and charter services, focusing on shipping time-sensitive, perishable, oversized, hazardous and complex product configurations utilising its network of 25 domestic offices and over 130 offices worldwide.
“We are excited to partner with ZS Fund to help finance their acquisition of AmeriJet,” says Jeff
Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors has held the final close of its newest energy-focused private equity fund, the Kayne Private Energy Income Fund (KPEIF), with total capital commitments of USD1.55 billion.
KPEIF’s strategy is to partner with a select group of high-quality management teams to acquire and develop large, long-life producing oil and gas assets in North America.
The fund is part of Kayne’s energy private equity practice, which has raised over USD7 billion since inception.
KPEIF is led by managing partner Danny Weingeist and managing directors David Iverson and Mark Teshoian.
“We are fortunate to have received
The Canadian investment landscape continued to show strength in the first six months of 2016 – especially on the venture capital (VC) side, according to the CVCA.
Building on a huge Q1, CAD683 million was invested in Q2 bringing the total to CAD1.5 billion invested over 255 deals. This is significantly higher than the first half of 2015, where CAD1.1 billion was invested over 272 deals.
The ICT sector led the way with CAD1,027 million invested in H1 (67 per cent of the total dollars invested), followed by CAD310 million in life sciences (20 per cent) and CAD114 million
Aurora Capital’s portfolio company Alltub Group, a manufacturer of collapsible aluminium tubes, has acquired Karl Höll.
Headquartered near Düsseldorf in Germany, Karl Höll is a manufacturer of collapsible aluminium and laminate tubes with annual production capacity of approximately 330 million tubes globally.
The production capacity of the combined group will be approximately two billion tubes a year with annual sales in excess of EUR150 million.
Karl Höll offers a large range of products to major pharmaceutical and cosmetic players across Europe with a specific focus on Germany. The company has two production facilities in Germany equipped with efficient
BlackFin Capital Partners is launching a venture fund focused on FinTech opportunities across Europe.
The venture fund, which will be supported by a new dedicated FinTech team led by Julien Creuzé and Maxime Mandin, will focus on the FinTech sector including all aspects of banking, payments, wealth and asset-management, brokerage, insurance, insurance distribution, financial software and technology, technology related to regulatory requirements, and financial media.
After a first wave of FinTech start-ups mainly focusing on distribution and customer relationship, new ventures are now providing full stack financial services rethinking the whole value chain, BlackFin says.
The fund
Law firm Howard Kennedy has kicked off the 2016/17 VCT season with the early launch of the Octopus Titan VCT from Octopus Investments. The new share offer from the UK’s largest venture capital trust is seeking to raise up to GBP120 million for its GBP309 million fund.
It follows last year’s unprecedented success, where Octopus raised GBP100 million in just seven months.
Octopus Titan VCT invests in a portfolio of early stage companies, a number of which have grown to be established house-hold names such as Zoopla Property Group, Graze.com and SwiftKey.
As well as being the first of the 2016/17 season, Octopus Titan
Roundtree Automotive Group has formed a long-term partnership with Lantern Capital Partners, a middle-market private investment firm headquartered in Dallas, Texas.
Roundtree Capital Partners will focus on the acquisition of high-quality automotive dealerships throughout the US.
Roundtree is the holding company for retail franchises of automotive-related companies extending from California to Louisiana. The formation of Roundtree Capital Partners represents a continuation of a focused approach to acquisitions and building relationships across the automotive industry.
Roundtree’s acquisition strategy is to partner with local entrepreneurial dealership managers who maintain minority equity ownership and have a desire to significantly improve performance.
Six months after creating a consolidation platform in the aeronautical subcontracting sector, Mecadaq Group and Activa Capital have acquired RBDH Marignier, a manufacturer of precision-made gearings with a turnover of EUR8 million.
Located in the Arve Valley, Marignier is an independent subsidiary of the industrial group RBDH.
Its revenues have grown in recent years, notably thanks to partnerships with leading clients such as Zodiac Aerospace, Somfy, Dura Automotive Sytems, Alkan and Hutchinson.
Mecadaq Group has a turnover of EUR20 million in aeronautical subcontracting, mainly from high-precision aerostructural manufacturing, such as aircraft doors for civil aircraft manufacturers Airbus and
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