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Ingenious, the UK alternative investment and advisory group, has strengthened its clean energy division with five new appointments, including Helen Wade as a senior investment director.
In addition, the firm has appointed one investment director, one investment manager and two investment associates. The appointments bring Ingenious Clean Energy’s team of investment professionals to 12, with over 50 years’ renewables and energy efficiency experience between them.
Ingenious is one of the fastest growing companies in the UK, having raised and deployed over GBP8bn in alternative investment sectors since 1998.
Ingenious Clean Energy was established in 2010 to enable Ingenious clients
Ardian and Resource Partners have increased their joint investment in SIA Baltcom TV, Latvia’s largest cable television operator, by completing the buyout of a minority shareholder.
This transaction strengthens Ardian’s and Resource Partners’ strategic partnership, having initially invested in Baltcom in May 2011.
Baltcom TV SIA was founded in 1991. It is one of the leading telecommunication companies in Latvia, offering analogue and interactive digital TV, high-speed internet and fixed telephony services and, since August 2013, electric energy retail distribution for households.
Ardian and Resource Partners have considerable experience in investing in telecommunication and cable television companies, collectively
Mid-market private equity provider LDC has completed an investment to support the GBP17.8m management buyout of GMG Property Services, a UK provider of software services to estate agents.
The business will be rebranded the Property Software Group.
LDC will take a significant stake in the business, investing alongside the incumbent management team led by chief executive Mark Goddard.
Established in 2007, GMG Property Services is the UK’s largest supplier of software, technology and design solutions to the property industry. Its circa 6,700 strong branches comprises some of the UK’s leading residential sales agents, residential letting agents and managers
ARX Equity Partners has fully exited its investment in Polish plastics processor, Ergis Eurofilms, generating an overall internal rate of return of over 33 per cent and 4.5 cash-on-cash multiple.
The ARX exit was executed via a series of block trades to investors on the Warsaw Stock Exchange in December 2013, which followed the partial realisation of the Ergis investment in 2006.
ARX originally acquired a majority shareholding in the packaging company in 2003 in a leveraged management buyout transaction in partnership with Ergis managers Tadeusz Nowicki and Marek Gorski. Several value-creation initiatives have been implemented during the period
Private investment firm Forstmann Little is to sell its ownership stake in sports, fashion and media business IMG Worldwide to Silver Lake Partners and William Morris Endeavor Entertainment.
The transaction concludes a successful partnership between Forstmann Little and IMG, during which IMG grew into one of the world’s premier sports, entertainment and media companies with 3,500 employees in more than 30 countries around the world, and involved in an average of 11 sports and entertainment events every day.
“Today marks the successful culmination of the bold global strategy devised by Ted Forstmann for IMG over many years,” says Mark
Temptime Corporation, a provider of time-temperature indicators to the healthcare industry, has acquired Connecticut-based William Laboratories to expand into blood temperature monitoring solutions.
Temptime’s acquisition is a significant step toward expanding its capabilities since it partnered in September with Water Street Healthcare Partners, a strategic investor focused exclusively on healthcare.
Temptime’s devices are used by the world’s largest health organisations and pharmaceutical companies to alert them if vaccines and other medical products have been exposed to temperatures that could damage or alter their effectiveness.
Temptime’s acquisition of William Laboratories expands the company into devices that monitor the temperature
Digital advertising agency Olson, a KRG Fund IV portfolio company, has acquired PulsePoint Group, an Austin-based digital marketing strategy consulting firm.
The addition of PulsePoint’s strategic expertise and tools further strengthens Olson’s digital creative and executional capabilities.
Olson chief executive officer John Partilla says Olson chose PulsePoint because of the calibre of the agency’s talent, a client list that includes blue-chip brands such as Toyota, Novartis and Delta Air Lines, and its proprietary tools such as the cloud-based Social Media Accelerator application, which helps marketers develop strategic social media plans to achieve specific campaign objectives.
KRG made an
Ardian has sold its minority stake in the CEGOS Group to management and the CEGOS Association, a long-standing shareholder in the group.
The CEGOS Group is a specialist in vocational training services.
Since Ardian’s investment in 2009, the CEGOS Group has significantly increased its market share in France and, with the support of Ardian’s international presence in Singapore and Beijing, accelerated its development in Asia.
The CEGOS Group has been particularly active in expanding its “inter activity” training programmes which support groups of professionals from different companies.
In 2013, the CEGOS Group achieved a EUR166m turnover and
MMC Ventures closed 18 deals and attracted more than USD100m in total investment into its portfolio in 2013.
One of the top five most active VCs in the UK, MMC welcomed nine new companies into its portfolio this year.
Research compiled by Ascendant showed that, despite overall falls in UK technology venture capital deals in Q3 2013, MMC bucked the trend and was listed as one of the most active investors. A separate report from UKFunders listed MMC as the top retail investor for the first nine months of 2013, with over 10 per cent of deals in the
WyzAnt, an online marketplace for private tutoring, has secured a USD21.5m investment from Accel Partners, the global venture capital firm.
The funds will be used to drive product innovation and scale WyzAnt's technology platform as the company expands globally.
With over 500,000 tutors and one million students, WyzAnt is the largest tutoring marketplace in the US. Parents, students and others use WyzAnt to search for and hire qualified, pre-screened tutors in their city. Millions of hours of tutoring have been completed through the marketplace, and the website has over 850,000 tutor reviews and ratings. WyzAnt's tutor community covers more
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