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Da Vinci Capital portfolio company Softline Holding plc (LSE: SFTL) has priced its initial public offering and listing on the London Stock Exchange of 53.3 million global depositary receipts (GDRs) representing newly issued Softline ordinary shares.
Admission of the GDRs to trading on the London Stock Exchange is expected to occur on 1 November, 2021.
Softline is a global provider of information technology solutions in the digital transformation and cybersecurity industries.
Softline’s final offering price was USD7.50 per GDR, resulting in IPO proceeds of approximately USD400 million, which the company expects to use to fund acquisitions and for general corporate
Paul Hastings LLP, a global law firm, has advised montana capital partners on an innovative secondary transaction through its investment in the Ping An Global Equity Selection Fund II (the Selection Fund II), and Ping An GP Opportunities Fund (the GP Opportunities Fund).
montana capital partners co-led and structured the transaction and was one of the anchor investors alongside funds managed by Goldman Sachs Asset Management and Ardian.
The two funds, which together received total capital commitments of USD750 million, are a continuation of Ping An Overseas Holdings’ dedicated investment program focusing on overseas private equity investing. The Selection
Palatine, the mid-market private equity investor, has made a successful partial exit from CET Group with the sale of its tech-enabled insurance claims management division to HomeServe plc for GBP53 million.
Based in Castle Donington, CET is a leading provider of outsourced home emergency, drainage and subsidence services to one in eight UK households.
Since Palatine’s initial investment in November 2018, revenues have grown by almost GBP12 million to GBP32 million and EBITDA has more than doubled. Its workforce has increased significantly too, rising from 190 to more than 300 in the last 12 months.
The Palatine team
British macro analytics firm Quant Insight (Qi), the new quantitative financial market analytics and trading insights provider, has made a major expansion across Europe and the Middle Eastern (ME) territories, opening a new headquarters based in Limassol, Cyprus, in the Cedars Oasis Tower.
All Street Research (All Street) has launched Sevva, an AI powered platform for Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG) ratings.
The platform, which was developed in collaboration with the University of Cambridge, will deliver unprecedented hyperscale to sustainability assessments.
Sevva’s real time ratings are based on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs), and cover all 70,000 publicly listed companies globally, any private company, and any fund. This makes Sevva the world’s most comprehensive sustainability analysis of global capital markets.
Sevva’s Cognitive Robots instantly read millions of ESG data points from all publicly available information for every company to
Tinexta, a specialist in Digital Trust, Cybersecurity, Credit Information & Management and Innovation & Marketing services, has signed a binding agreement with Bregal Milestone, a European technology growth capital firm, with over EUR1.1 billion of asset under management, that will invest in a minority stake in InfoCert.
Bregal Milestone is part of Bregal Investments, a leading global investment firm that has invested over EUR15 billion since 2002 and currently has assets under management of over EUR12 billion.
The strategic and capital strengthening resulting from the transaction will enable InfoCert to accelerate the internationalisation process already started with the acquisition
Independent television production company Plimsoll Productions has reported a 65 per cent growth in sales in its latest financial year, while carefully navigating the challenges of the pandemic.
Plimsoll’s BAFTA, EMMY and Academy award winning team specialises in wildlife, documentary and factual entertainment shows, and is the biggest independent producer of natural history programmes in the world. Since it was established in 2013, it has produced more than 70 series for broadcasters including Netflix, Disney, Apple and Natural Geographic, and opened offices in Bristol, LA and Cardiff.
In August 2019, Plimsoll was backed by mid-market private equity firm LDC.
Certior Credit Opportunities Fund III (CCOF III) has recently held a first close at EUR83 million backed by a group of Finnish, Benelux and Spanish institutions.
The fund aims to achieve 10 per cent-plus net IRR to investors through a diversified pan-European portfolio of 100-plus senior secured loans. CCOF III will focus predominantly on the European SME direct lending segment, benefiting from special terms through seeding experienced country-specific management teams (50 per cent), often in their first or second institutional funds, and through co-investments (50 per cent). CCOF III expects to make several primary commitments to support such managers and
Cairngorm Capital Partners portfolio company, Independent Builders Merchant Group (IBMG), has acquired Perrys Builders Merchants Limited (Perrys).
Established in 2000, Perrys is a one-branch builders’ merchant supplying broad range of building materials to trade and retail customers in and around Plymouth. It is a trusted local brand, with a reputation for outstanding customer service.
This acquisition continues IBMG’s strategy of developing its divisions through a combination of acquisition, new site development and organic growth. Strategically it fulfils a long standing objective for its south west division, extending RGB’s presence into Plymouth and providing a strong platform for further growth across
HUBX, a deal syndication platform for banks and brokerage firms, has secured two new investors, Mandalore Partners and ACF Investors’ Delta Fund. They join existing investors including Barclays and Basinghall Partners.
HUBX clients and partners include Tier 1 banks, Finastra and Barclays.
The platform allows financial institutions to digitalise their syndicated lending and private placement transactions by collaborating safely with other organisations without sharing private data. This gives every HUBX client access to other client networks for deal syndication and joint bookrunning on a private basis.
HUBX simplifies collaboration between banks by allowing institutions of all sizes to quickly deploy
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