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Sound Point Capital Management (Sound Point) has closed on a senior secured term loan financing to a subsidiary of Perry Ellis International (Perry Ellis), an owner of several well-established retail brands.
Funding provided by Sound Point will be used to pay down the Company’s existing debt.
The Company has been in business for 54 years and was formerly a public company before a take-private transaction in 2018. Perry Ellis owns a diversified suite of brands which generate ample cash flow through licensing to third-party manufacturers.
Alternative asset manager Gresham House has invested GBP164 million in Borderlink Broadband Limited through its British Sustainable Infrastructure Fund (BSIF) strategy to improve digital inclusion in underserved communities in the UK.
Inflexion Private Equity Partners (Inflexion) supported 97 new investment opportunities for its portfolio in 2021, helping to drive value and accelerate sustainable growth in the UK and internationally.
Myzone, a global manufacturer of wearable fitness tracking technology, has secured a USD17.2 million investment from BGF, the UK’s most active growth capital investor, alongside tech entrepreneur Vin Murria OBE, who also joins as Non-Executive Chair.
Created in 2011 by fitness industry expert Dave Wright, Myzone has experienced impressive growth since inception and currently serves over 9,000 facilities in 84 different countries, boasting over two million shipped devices.
BGF invested more than GBP100 million in tech businesses in 2021 and announced seven successful exits in the sector this year. Of the over GBP500 million invested in tech businesses
Maven Capital Partners (Maven) has led a GBP5.5 million funding round for Liftango, a cloud-based technology platform which enables transport operators to optimise route planning in real-time based on passenger demand.
The transaction includes a GBP1.75 million investment from the Maven VCTs with follow-on funding from Liftango’s existing investors, which include Transdev, Taronga Ventures and GUD. Scottish Enterprise are also new investors in this round.
Liftango’s technology centres around its three core products, on-demand bus (ODB), fixed-route shuttles and carpool. The ODB and fixed-route cloud-based platform allows public and corporate transport operators to manage their services on a single platform.
BPOC, a pure-play healthcare investors, has made a strategic growth investment in Networking Packaging Group (Network Partners), a provider of consulting services to medical device and pharmaceutical companies.
Founded in 2015, Network Partners serves many of the world’s largest medical device and pharmaceutical companies, providing specialised expertise to help bring life-saving products to market. The company employs a team of over 250 professionals across the United States, offering packaging engineering, labeing, regulatory affairs, quality assurance and project management consulting services.
Financial terms of the transaction, which is effective immediately, have not been disclosed.
Dude Solutions, a SaaS provider of cloud-based operations management solutions backed by Clearlake Capital Group, has acquired Energy Profiles Limited (EPL), a software provider enabling Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) optimisation for customer facilities.
Financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
Based in Toronto, Canada, EPL delivers data-driven energy and sustainability data management and ESG reporting and predictive analytics to owners and managers of more than 6,000 buildings. The acquisition will expand Dude Solutions’ Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) capabilities to address enterprise-level energy and sustainability management.
BGF has exited its investment in North West-headquartered NSS to Premier Technical Services Group (PTSG), delivering ‘excellent returns for all shareholders’.
NSS is a specialist services provider, covering all aspects of external building maintenance – including window and technical cleaning, testing and platform hire – to the retail, commercial property, events, healthcare and distribution markets.
BGF initially backed NSS – which was formed by a merger with another BGF portfolio company – in July 2016 with GBP3.3 million to support its national roll-out and acquisition strategy. Since then, the company has made four acquisitions to expand its geographical footprint and
Octo, an IT modernisation provider for the Federal Government backed by private equity firm Arlington Capital, has acquired privately held B3 Group, an IT transformation firm specialising in digital services and technology solutions that impact the lives of military veterans.
B3 leverages low-code/no-code software and platforms such as Salesforce, Microsoft Power Platform, Pega, and ServiceNow; large-scale data governance, integration and analytics; and cloud engineering and operations for federal healthcare customers.
B3’s leadership will remain with the company and expand Octo’s Health business to drive continued growth and customer success.
Arrowpoint Advisory has advised SP Collection ion its acquisition of the women’s designer brand, Roland Mouret.
SP Collection, a new holding company established by Han Chong, has successfully acquired the luxury brand Roland Mouret after it went into administration last month.
The brand will join self-portrait, the contemporary fashion house founded by Chong in 2013, in the newly established group that has been set up to discover, nurture, and develop best in class creativity and design.
Arrowpoint Advisory acted as adviser to SP Collection on the transaction, which consists of the intellectual property assets of 19 RM Limited. Staff and
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