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AnaCap Financial Partners and the management of Simply Business have completed the management buyout of the small business insurance provider.
Under the terms of the agreement, funds advised by AnaCap and Simply Business’s management will acquire 100 per cent of Simply Business.
Established in 2005 by parent company Xbridge, Simply Business was amongst the earliest online brokers within the commercial insurance market. Using technology to simplify the process of buying small business insurance, the company has achieved rapid growth, from revenues of GBP4.2m in 2006 to GBP22.9m in 2012, and now insures more than 225,000 small businesses across
Germany’s largest online optician Mister Spex, a portfolio company of private equity firm DN Capital, has acquired two Swedish online eyewear operations, Lensstore and Loveyewear.
“With this step we demonstrate our leading position in Europe and accelerate our international expansion,” says Dirk Graber, founder and chief executive of Mister Spex. “We merge the business activities of the three fastest growing online eyewear companies in Europe. As early as 2013 we will jointly generate revenues of EUR48m.”
Lensstore sells contact lenses with a geographic focus on Sweden, Norway and Finland. Loveyewear offers premium brand prescription glasses and sunglasses in
Livingstone Partners’ debt advisory team has concluded a debt refinancing in support of Dunedin’s recently announced GBP43m buy-out of York-based Trustmarque Solutions.
Livingstone arranged a GBP19.5m debt package with HSBC Bank, with additional capacity for acquisitions.
Trustmarque is a provider of technology services and solutions to private and public sector organisations. The company helps organisations license, deploy and manage technology solutions from a wide range of developers including Microsoft. The business currently serves over 1,200 clients including RBS, Lloyds Banking Group, Sainsbury’s and Capita. Public sector clients include the NHS, Ministry of Defence, Ministry of Justice, HMRC, local
Main Street Capital has closed a new portfolio investment totalling USD7m of invested capital in Garreco.
Main Street’s investment in Garreco consists of USD5.8m in first lien, senior secured term debt and a USD1.2m direct equity investment.
Garreco is headquartered in Heber Springs, Arkansas and is a manufacturer and supplier of consumable products used to create dentures, crowns, and bridges in dental laboratories and clinics. Garreco, founded in 1988, is one of the country’s largest manufacturers of specialised gypsum products used to create the plaster models and casts necessary to customise dentures, crowns, and bridges for a patient’s
Private equity firm Insight Venture Partners is to make a significant investment in Anaqua, a provider of intellectual asset management (IAM) services and SaaS software.
The terms of the agreement, which include the buyout of Anaqua’s existing investors, have not been disclosed.
As part of the transaction, Jeff Horing and Alex Crisses, managing directors at Insight, will join Anaqua’s board of directors.
"This is a very exciting step for us," says Priya Iyer, chairman and chief executive of Anaqua. "Anaqua’s growth has brought us to the point where it is time for a new phase of strategic
Middle market private equity firm GI Partners has acquired One Wilshire, a downtown Los Angeles network facility and data centre. In addition, the firm acquired three fully leased corporate office properties in El Segundo, California.
The acquisition was made through TechCore, a USD1bn discretionary core real estate fund managed by GI Partners on behalf of the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS).
One Wilshire is a 30-story building comprised of 663,000 square feet of data centre, office, storage and retail space with a five-level subterranean parking garage. Designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, the property is a premier carrier-neutral telecommunications centre providing
Water Street Healthcare Partners, a private equity firm focused exclusively on the healthcare industry, has completed an investment in RTI Biologics.
Headquartered in Alachua, Florida, RTI specialises in orthopaedic and other biologic implants.
Water Street has invested a USD50m private placement of convertible preferred equity to support RTI with acquiring Pioneer Surgical Technology. The acquisition transforms RTI into one of the world’s leading providers of surgical implants.
As part of the transaction, RTI has appointed two representatives from Water Street to serve on its board of directors. Curt Selquist, an operating partner with more than 35 years of health
Ayasdi has raised USD30.6m in series B venture funding, led by IVP with participation from Citi Ventures, GE Ventures, and existing investors Khosla Ventures and Floodgate.
In conjunction with the financing, Steve Harrick from IVP will join Ayasdi’s board of directors.
Six months after the company’s initial launch, Ayasdi’s customers and collaborators include General Electric, Citigroup, Merck, Anadarko, US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the University of California San Francisco (UCSF), Mount Sinai Hospital, Texas A&M University, and Harvard Medical School.
Ayasdi has also formed strategic alliances with Cloudera and
Tiger Bay Advisors, a provider of consulting and business process outsourcing (BPO) services to asset managers, has completed its acquisition of Gramercy Park Advisors, a boutique strategic advisory firm focused on the asset management industry.
The combination marks a new type of firm within the industry – one with the means to increase a business’ value by both improving operational efficiency and providing long-term strategic advice.
The combined firm will help clients align day-to-day operational goals with the longer-term goals of accelerating growth, increasing enterprise value and ultimately monetizing favourably. This is based on the belief that a
Omnes Capital, formerly Crédit Agricole Private Equity, is investing EUR15m in the Eratome group, a social housing renovation specialist, as part of a primary LBO alongside founder, chairman and chief executive officer Jean-Michel Nucera, the company’s managers and FSI Régions – bpifrance.
Founded in 1991 by Nucera, the Eratome group is a leading player in the buildings repair and maintenance market and in social housing renovation and refurbishment. As a multi-specialist, the Eratome group has expertise in all trades (plumbing, painting and decorating, electricity and wiring, floor coverings, carpentry, etc.). It has a 10 per cent market share of the
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