Allocations
An affiliate of HIG Capital has completed the acquisition of an equity interest in Aviapartner, thereby becoming the majority shareholder alongside the Group's Chairman and management.
Aviapartner is a leading European provider of airport ground handling services with 60 years of experience. Aviapartner provides ground handling services for passengers and aircraft across 27 airports in 5 European countries (France, Germany, Belgium, Italy and the Netherlands). The Group, which generated sales of over EUR350 million in 2014, employs over 6,000 people and serves more than 50 million passengers per year.
With the support of HIG Capital, Aviapartner will accelerate its growth
Weinberg Capital Partners has acquired the French operations of Captiva Capital Management.
The Paris – based Real Estate Asset Management company firm led by Emeric Lacourte manages circa EUR300 m in real estate assets in France.
Serge Weinberg, President of Weinberg Capital Partners, says: “This acquisition is a great opportunity to expand our Real Estate platform to asset management on behalf of institutional clients through dedicated mandates. It fits our strategy to capitalise on our expertise in Private Equity and Real Estate where we have already achieved to raise EUR800m of capital.”
Laurent Halimi, Managing Director, head of Real Estate,
Connection Capital has successfully completed a commitment, on behalf of its clients, to the third fund from 17Capital, a London-based specialist investor of preferred equity in private equity funds.
Due to the high level of demand from its clients, Connection Capital exceeded its original allocation to 17Capital Fund 3.
Connection Capital aggregates capital from its clients into a single, managed syndicate and therefore investors are able to participate in Fund 3 alongside well-known institutional investors at a much lower entry level than their institutional counterparts. All Connection Capital investments are available in multiples of GBP25,000.
The Fund closed in December
Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and private equity (PE) activity in India in 2014 hit a three year high, according to Grant Thornton UK’s India Watch.
M&A contributing close to USD38 billion from 573 deals, and PE contributing USD12bn from 604 deals, activity up 23% in deal value and 34% in deal volume compared with 2013.
A clear mandate from India's new government provided further momentum which sustained through the year leading to 1,177 deals, the highest ever in a decade, worth over USD50 billion.
Domestic deals largely rode on the consolidation bandwagon with Sun Pharma acquiring Ranbaxy, Kotak
Monroe Capital has increased the credit facility to MSDP Group to support the acquisition of ACCEL Performance Group. MSDP is a portfolio company of Hot Rod Brands, an affiliate of Z Capital Partners.
Based in El Paso, Texas, MSDP operates in the street enthusiast, professional racer and powersports markets, where they maintain industry-leading market share positions across all of their product categories under the MSD, Racepak, Superchips and Edge brands. ACCEL is a prominent performance aftermarket parts manufacturer with brands including ACCEL, Mr Gasket, Mallory Ignition, Lakewood, QuickTime and Hays brands.
The acquisition of ACCEL brings together two industry leaders
Excelsior Capital Partners has assumed a majority ownership interest in Via Seating, a manufacturer of cutting-edge and ergonomically designed office chairs and lounge seating, through a balance sheet restructuring.
The transaction enables Via to continue growing through new and innovative product lines.
Based in Reno, Nevada, Via offers an extensive family of chairs to fit its customers’ unique needs for design, form and function, while maintaining an industry-leading quick-ship program that guarantees a 48-hour turnaround. The company’s products are highly customisable and include executive chairs, task chairs, conference room chairs, stackable chairs, and modular lounge seating that can be configured
Inverness Graham, a private investment firm based in suburban Philadelphia, has acquired dentity Finder, a specialist in enterprise data management software focused on discovering, classifying, monitoring, and protecting sensitive information.
The company helps organisations avoid costly data breaches by finding and protecting confidential data such as personal information, medical records, credit card accounts, and intellectual property stored across the enterprise, within e-mail, and the cloud. Inverness Graham was supported by data security industry veteran, Ramon Peypoch, who has joined the company's board.
"The combination of the explosion of data and the growing number of data breaches over the past
Private equity house Maven Capital Partners has led the GBP4.5 million Management Buy-In of CB Technology Limited (CB), an established contract electronics manufacturer with a focus on complex manufacturing and testing for deployment in harsh environments.
Maven has assembled a strong buy-in team for CB led by John Cameron, formerly at GE & UTC Technologies and who most recently served as Commercial Director at Finnish-based Marioff, where he headed-up a team of over 200 people with annual revenues in excess of EUR100 million. Graham Scott, previously CFO of Memex, a SAS Group company, has also joined the business as FD.
Nordic Capital Fund VII has expanded its footprint in the sports market with the add-on acquisition of leading e-commerce football company Unisport.
The Unisport brand will operate alongside SPORTMASTER which was acquired in 2012. The two companies have an excellent strategic fit and a platform for further expansion both in stores and online, in the Nordics and internationally.
Unisport’s e-commerce platform is dedicated to football obsessed consumers providing in-house produced football related content. Unisport’s concept has gained a market-leading position in Denmark with emerging strongholds through recent successful market entries into Sweden, Norway, Finland and the Netherlands. Nordic Capital
European private equity firm Cinven is to acquire Premium Credit Limited, the UK specialty finance provider, for an enterprise value of GBP462 million.
Premium Credit plays an important part in the UK economy enabling businesses and individuals to spread the cost of their insurance premiums and other essential purchases. It also provides financing for the payment of annual fees such as professional fees, membership subscriptions, commercial service charges and school fees. In 2013, the Company achieved gross advances of GBP3.7 billion, processing 25.8 million transactions. Premium Credit has approximately two million customers and works with 4,000 intermediaries.
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