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Leonard Green & Partners (LGP) has closed the firm’s seventh private equity investment fund, Green Equity Investors VII (GEI VII), with committed capital of USD9.6 billion.
GEI VII exceeded its target and closed at its hard cap of USD9.1 billion in third-party investor commitments along with a USD500 million commitment from the Partners of the firm.
Founded in 1989 and based in Los Angeles, LGP’s philosophy is to invest in market-leading companies with defensible competitive positions, attractive growth prospects, and proven management teams. LGP’s investments have taken the form of traditional buyouts, going-private transactions, recapitalizations, growth capital investments, corporate carve-outs,
IK Investment Partners’ (IK) IK Small Cap I Fund has acquired a significant minority stake in B2S Group (B2S), a French player in the outsourcing of customer services management.
IK Funds will invest alongside Maxime Didier, founder and majority shareholder of the Group. Financial terms of the transaction are not disclosed.
B2S Group offers an extensive portfolio of customer experience services, including consulting, telesales, customer services, debt collection and technical assistance, to a large client base. The Group is well positioned to achieve additional growth, already operating 13 contact centres in France, Morocco and Madagascar. In 2015, B2S Group generated
As part of its diversification push, Euronews Group is launching Euronews Ventures, a programme to back innovative technology start-ups.
The purpose of this programme is to accelerate the development of the most promising start-ups by providing them with a complete array of media and marketing services: global communication levers, media coaching, events, networking through the international network of Euronews and Africanews, media for revenue or even media for equity.
Kiwi Plug, a start-up in the connected-device space, is the first player to join the programme and will receive support from Euronews Ventures right from the start of its global fundraising
New York-based private equity firm Bregal Sagemount has made a significant growth investment in Steele Compliance Solutions the parent company of the Steele CIS and Securimate businesses.
The two companies are providers of third party management software and due diligence investigation services focused on the anti-bribery and anti-corruption (ABAC) compliance market, including The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977 (FCPA).
As a part of the transaction, the Company announced that founder Kenneth Kurtz will be promoted to the Chairman of the Advisory Board, and that Eric Lochner has been appointed CEO.
"We are very excited to be working with the
Yukon Partners (Yukon), a provider of mezzanine capital for middle market private equity transactions, has partnered with Northern Pacific Group (NPG) in its investment in United Language Group (ULG).
United Language Group, headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, provides translation, localisation and other language-related business services to customers across a diverse array of end markets, including life sciences, manufacturing, legal/financial, IT, and hospitality. ULG was formed in 2015 by industry veterans Jeff Brink, Hans Fenstermacher, Greg Brink and later joined by CFO Karrie Willis, along with private equity backing from NPG, as a platform to assemble a family of complementary companies, with
Perusa Partners Fund 2, has sold Swedish SEM Group to Procuritas Capital Investors V LP. Perusa Partners acquired SEM in 2012 and over the last three years has seen the company increase its revenues by 30 per cent to circa EUR35 million while doubling its profits to circa EUR8 million.
Terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
SEM was founded in 1915 and is nowadays one of the world’s leading producers of electronic ignition and control systems for combustion engines, including heavy- and medium-duty vehicle engines, natural gas engines and small engines for handheld equipment. SEM serves its blue
Centaur Ventures, the mining and natural resources investment arm of investment holding company Centaur Holdings Ltd, has signed a USD100 million revolving credit facility with a UAE based private family office.
The funds will be used to expand the mining and natural resources projects of Centaur Mining predominantly in South Africa. Centaur’s Mining arm, which is based in South Africa, have received reserve bank approval for ZAR1.5 billion for the funds to be deployed in South Africa.
The deal, which was agreed at a 4 per cent coupon, will see Centaur’s Asset Management arm serve as the advisor to
State Street Corporation’s GX Private Equity Index, a benchmark for comparative analysis of private equity performance, which includes a comprehensive data set dating back to 1980saw an overall return of 1.11 per cent in the last quarter of 2015.
“Private equity funds posted a modest recovery in the fourth quarter after a brief drop in the previous quarter,” says Will Kinlaw, senior managing director and global head of State Street Associates, part of State Street Global Exchange. “Overall we have seen relatively steady performance in private equity investments for the past few years. The biggest driver in the fourth quarter
Digital financial services investment and advisory firm Anthemis Group, and Exponential Ventures, the newly formed disruptive innovation and venture capital arm of MMI Holdings, have launched a global investment partnership that will invest in early stage financial wellness companies. MMI has provided the initial EUR30 million commitment while leaving room for other likeminded firms to join the initiative.
The investment partnership will operate on the principle that by supporting companies that improve the financial wellness of individuals and SMEs, investors can achieve ‘profit with purpose’ and help to create a prosperous and inclusive global growth economy. To that end, the
IGF Asset Based Lending (ABL) has facilitated the management buy-out (MBO) for Testing Solutions Group (TSG), with a GBP1.5million deal. The three-year facility, will be used for the acquisition and to provide ongoing working capital.
Established in 2002, TSG is a specialist software testing company that was formed to help ensure successful business outcomes for clients’ IT systems. The company provides assurance and testing solutions, certified and practical training and recruitment services, predominantly in financial services and law.
IGF ABL created a bespoke and short-timetable option for TSG, resulting in a GBP1.5million deal that included Accounts Receivable and a
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