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Marketing analytics platform Adverity has closed a USD120 million Series D financing round led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2, with existing investor Sapphire Ventures also participating in the round.
Adverity’s mission is to transform marketing performance through intelligent data-driven insights. The Vienna-born business – with offices in London and New York – has seen a 120 per cent client uplift in the last 12 months amid an expanding portfolio of global brands and agencies that include IKEA, Red Bull, Unilever, MediaCom, and Vodafone. This follows the best quarter in company history, a compound annual growth rate of 105 per cent
Varagon Capital Partners (Varagon) is serving as Administrative Agent, Lead Arranger and Bookrunner on a senior secured credit facility to support Quad-C Management’s (Quad-C) investment in Village Gourmet.
Village Gourmet is a producer of premium authentic branded and private label fine meats, charcuterie and specialty snacking products.
Village Gourmet offers products through five specialty brands, including Three Little Pigs, Fabrique Délices, Longhini Sausage, Uncle Charley’s Sausage Co and Esposito’s Finest Quality Sausage.
Stirling Square Capital Partners (Stirling Square), a pan-European mid-market private equity firm, has invested in Itelyum Group (Itelyum) in partnership with Deutsche Beteiligungs (DBAG), a publicly listed mid-market private equity firm.
Stirling Square’s Fourth Fund and its co-investors will acquire a majority stake and DBAG Fund VII will acquire a minority stake in Itelyum from Stirling Square’s Third Fund. The management team of the Company will also make a significant investment in the Transaction.
Established in 1963, Itelyum is a leading European Circular Economy player, specialised in recycling complex streams of hazardous liquid waste, leveraging distinctive chemical competences. Itelyum operates
Spirit Healthcare, a medicines optimisation service provider for the NHS, has secured a multi-million-pound revolving credit facility from Growth Lending, to support innovative R&D projects and expansion into new markets.
Growth Lending chose to invest in Spirit Healthcare following the company’s consistent double-digit growth and strong turnover, even against the pressures applied by the Covid-19 pandemic. Recognised as a strong player within the healthcare market, Spirit’s success has been powered by a passionate management team with extensive expertise.
With over a decade spent improving healthcare services, Spirit Healthcare has saved the NHS millions of pounds and improved the lives
Kirkland & Ellis has advised The Carlyle Group on the voluntary public takeover offer for all outstanding shares of Schaltbau Holding.
Schaltbau Holding is a leading technology supplier for rolling stock, rail infrastructure, road vehicles and other industrial applications. The company is a key technology partner for safe and sustainable mobility and energy solutions and widely recognised for its global leadership in DC (direct current) technology.
Completion of the offer will be subject to regulatory approvals as well as further customary conditions.
The Kirkland team advising Carlyle was led by corporate partner Benjamin Leyendecker and debt finance partner
VTrips, a Florida based technology-enabled vacation rental manager throughout North America, has secured a significant minority equity investment from Hudson Hill Capital (HHC).
VTrips will leverage the investment to accelerate the company’s acquisition strategy and to further strengthen its technology offering. VTrips expects to deploy over USD250 million in the near-term to acquire attractive vacation rental management companies.
Founded in 2002 by CEO Steve Milo, VTrips offers full-service vacation rental management, including digital marketing, coupled with local market operations to service and maintain vacation properties, with the majority of its inventory in the Southeast today. VTrips’ mission is
The International Stock Exchange (TISE) has revised its Listing Rules to attract Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs).
United Group, a provider of telecommunications services and media in Southeast Europe, has reached an agreement with Crystal Almond Holdings Limited to acquire Greek telecoms operator Wind Hellas, one of the country’s three mobile operators.
Wind has a total of 4.2 million users and offers mobile, fixed, internet, and television services. It generates revenues in excess of EUR500 million annually.
The transaction will enable United Group to combine Wind with its existing Greek pay-TV provider Nova to create a strong converged operator that will be the number two player in both broadband internet and television services.
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Wedgewood Communications, a US-based full-service biopharma commercial communications and advertising agency, has joined imc group with the backing of pan-European investor Waterland Private Equity.
Wedgewood Communications represents a convergence of science, technology and creativity and employs 60 people in Holmdel, New Jersey. This strategic partnership builds upon a strong historical working relationship between the two companies and will encourage further successful agency collaborations across the imc group. Wedgewood joins imc group alongside existing imc group agencies: imc agency, Porterhouse Medical, Indigo Medical Compliance and Pulsar, giving the group a global headcount of 285 people.
Wedgewood Communications will significantly enhance the
Norwest Equity Partners (NEP), a middle market investment firm founded in 1961, has completed the sale of its portfolio company, Focal Point Data Risk, a data risk management services company, to CDW Corporation (CDW), a multi-brand provider of information technology solutions. The transaction closed on 30 July, 2021.
Serving mid-to-large enterprises and governments in the US and internationally, Focal Point offers solutions that help companies secure their business so they can grow and innovate without risk. Solutions offered include professional and managed services across identity & access management, cybersecurity & data privacy, cyber defense, cyber skills development, and other risk
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