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Private equity firm GTCR has acquired Callcredit Information Group in partnership with the company’s management team.
Callcredit is a provider of consumer credit data solutions and software and analytics services in the UK.
GTCR is partnering with CEO John McAndrew, managing director Graham Lund, and the rest of Callcredit’s existing management team to invest behind the technology-enabled business.
Founded in 2000 within Skipton Building Society, Callcredit is a credit reference and marketing services provider for over 3,000 customers, including the UK’s largest financial institutions and organisations in the alternative lending, insurance, telecom, utilities and public sectors, among others.
MPM Capital and Atlas Venture’s portfolio company CoStim Pharmaceuticals has been acquired by Novartis for an undisclosed amount.
CoStim, founded in 2012 by MPM managing director Luke Evnin together with MPM managing director-operations Robert Millman, is an emerging immuno-oncology company developing monoclonal antibody drugs that enable a patient's own immune system to better fight cancer.
"I am thrilled that we were able to bring together compelling science with a world class team to build the premier biotech company developing a focused and highly attractive pipeline of antibody agents directed to costimulatory targets for the treatment of cancer," says Millman.
A company backed by European private equity firm Permira has completed the acquisition of more than USD200m of the outstanding equity of LegalZoom, a provider of online legal document preparation services.
The Permira funds are now LegalZoom’s largest shareholder and will appoint a majority of the company’s board of directors.
LegalZoom’s management team and Institutional Venture Partners have maintained the vast majority of their ownership stakes in the company, while Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers has maintained its entire stake. Polaris Venture Partners maintained a portion of its ownership in the company.
Omnes Capital has sold its stake in the Melkonian Group, a provider of mining and underground works equipment, to the founding family as well as Bpifrance, Amundi PEF and Sofipaca.
Based in Aix-en-Provence (Bouches-du-Rhône), the Melkonian Group is a family-owned company that designs, manufactures and sells equipment and spare parts for extracting and transporting minerals in the hard rock underground mining segment. Its offer includes the sale and construction of new or reconditioned equipment and the supply of spare parts and accessories.
Omnes Capital had acquired an equity interest alongside the Melkonian family in the Melkonian Group as part
An affiliated investment fund of financial services private equity firm Lightyear Capital is to sell Antares Holdings, a specialist insurer and reinsurer operating in the Lloyd’s market, to Qatar Insurance Company SAQ.
Through Antares Syndicate 1274 the company underwrites a worldwide diversified range of property, casualty, marine and aviation insurance and reinsurance business through Lloyd’s, the world’s largest insurance marketplace.
Lightyear’s chairman and founder Donald B Marron says: “Lightyear was able to identify an opportunity to reposition Antares as a Lloyd’s syndicate in order to enable the company to access the optimal platform for its clients and for writing
High Road Capital Partners’ portfolio company Celco Controls has completed the add-on acquisition of Canadian Process & Control.
Based in British Columbia, Canadian Process & Control designs, manufactures, and installs customised process control systems for the resource, refining, chemical, wastewater treatment, and manufacturing industries.
“Canadian Process & Control is a market-leading provider of automation solutions to process-based industries,” says Jeff Goodrich, High Road partner. “This acquisition solidifies Celco Controls’ position as a leader in the automation marketplace in Western Canada by increasing its service offering and expanding its geographical reach.”
“Combining the organisations will provide customers in the
Grupa o2 and private equity fund Innova Capital have completed the acquisition of Wirtualna Polska.
The combined companies will operate on the market under the name Grupa Wirtualna Polska.
The management board of the new company is led by Jacek Świderski, while Łukasz Wejchert will support its development holding a seat on the supervisory board.
“We are becoming the partner of first choice for Internet users and advertisers. We offer a diversity of content-from news through sports, to entertainment and lifestyle, as well as mass services such as Poczta WP and Poczta o2, which have their loyal customer
Alternative asset manager The Carlyle Group has named Jackie Roberts as chief sustainability officer, a newly created position.
Roberts comes to Carlyle from the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), where she was a senior director of the Idea Bank for the US Climate and Energy Program.
Roberts begins her duties in mid-February and will be based in Washington, DC.
Roberts will lead Carlyle’s global environmental, social and governance efforts (ESG) and work closely with its portfolio companies to drive understanding and adoption of ESG principles.
Carlyle co-CEO and chief investment officer William E Conway, Jr, says: “With her
M&A activity for the global chemical industry will likely increase on 2014 due to downstream value-added opportunities, continued strength in specialty chemicals, and portfolio realignments in North America.
That is according to the Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited (DTTL) 2014 Global chemical industry mergers and acquisitions outlook, which also projects M&A growth in 2014 as companies focus on key ends markets including agrochemicals, bio-based/green chemicals, and health and nutrition.
"This year developing megatrends like expanding global middle class, population growth, and food security will influence global chemical M&A opportunities in end markets such as agrochemicals, as well as impact M&A
Elbrus Capital, a private equity business in Russia and the CIS, has held the final closing of Elbrus Capital Fund II with capital commitments of USD550m.
The fund was oversubscribed, exceeding its target of USD500m and reaching its hard cap.
Additionally, the fund secured USD150m financing from the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), which will bring the total available capital for fund investments to USD700m upon finalisation of legal documentation later this year.
The fund has attracted a number of new blue chip institutional investors from Europe, the US, Middle East and Asia. A number of the investors
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