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Pan-European mid-market private equity firm Stirling Square Capital has acquired Sustainable Agro Solutions (SAS) in a primary transaction.
Founded in 1989, SAS has established itself as a leading developer and producer of biostimulants, soil and water improvers, defence activators, and specialty plant nutrition solutions for the agricultural sector. Headquartered in Lleida (Spain), the company is present in 90 countries across Latin America, Europe, Africa and Asia.
Sustainability is at SAS’s core. This is evidenced from both the product offering, which is respectful of the environment, and allows farmers to maximise yields while minimising soil depletion, water consumption and pesticide
Micropep technologies (Micropep), an agricultural biotech company developing breakthrough peptide-based biological products for agriculture, has raised EUR8.5 million (USD10 million) in an oversubscribed Series A investment led by new investor Supernova Invest with participation from FMC Ventures, and existing investors Sofinnova Partners and IRDI Capital Investissement.
Based in Toulouse, France, Micropep was spun out from Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) and Toulouse University in 2016, a centre of excellence for AgriTech. The company has developed a proprietary technology to precisely enhance plant traits without altering DNA by spraying “miPEPs”, a unique family of natural peptides regulating plant microRNAs.
Eurazeo has entered into exclusive negotiations with the French infrastructure investor InfraVia for the sale of its 41 per cent stake in Grandir, an operator of nurseries and schools in France, Europe and North America. The closing of the deal is expected in the coming months.
Through the sale of its Grandir stake, Eurazeo is set to earn a 2.0x return on its initial investment, thanks to the company’s strong growth and international expansion between 2016 and 2021.
Over the last five years, Eurazeo’s mid-large buyout professionals have worked alongside Jean-Emmanuel Rodocanachi and his management team, bringing their expertise
Blockpit, a specialist in the development of legally compliant and audited tax reports for the treatment of crypto assets, has closed its USD10 million Series A funding round.
The capital increase comes from no less than five internationally renowned investors from the FinTech and blockchain sectors. Among others, those venture capital firms are or were also invested in Coinbase and the blockchain protocols Ripple, 1Inch, Near, and Polkadot. The capital increase is intended to further develop Cryptotax, a tax reporting software developed in-house and regularly audited by a Big Four auditing firm. Another goal of the investment is to make
BGF has exited its investment in business travel management company Click Travel. The business has been acquired by global travel management platform, TravelPerk.
Headquartered in Birmingham, Click Travel, is one of the UK’s fastest growing travel management companies. Its online booking platform reduces the cost and complexity of booking travel for their 2,000 business clients, including Five Guys, Red Bull and Talk Talk.
BGF backed Click Travel with a multi-million-pound investment in 2018 to support the business in delivering its vision for the future of travel management.
TravelPerk is a next-generation business travel platform, pioneering the future
Shamrock Capital (Shamrock) has held he final closing of Shamrock Capital Debt Opportunities Fund I (SCDOF I), a USD196 million fund focused on originating loan structures to owners of entertainment intellectual property rights.
Shamrock’s debt fund targets owners of entertainment IP across the film, television, music, games, sports media rights and other content sectors. SCDOF I is managed by the Partners of Shamrock and other investment professionals in Los Angeles, California. Shamrock has approximately USD3.8 billion of total assets under management.
“We truly appreciate the strong support we received from both existing and new limited partners, particularly in light
US Orthopaedic Partners (USOP), a comprehensive orthopedic care platform that provides the full continuum of musculoskeletal treatment to patients in the Southeastern US, is to enter into a strategic partnership with Andrews Sports Medicine & Orthopaedic Center in Birmingham, Alabama.
US Orthopaedic Partners is to partner with Andrews Sports Medicine & Orthopaedic Center a specialist in providing multidisciplinary sports medicine and orthopedic patient care, research, education and injury prevention.
This partnership produces a collaboration between some of the top orthopaedic practices in the United States. The practices are nationally recognised for high quality specialised care with fellowship training programs that have
StepStone Group Inc (STEP), a global private markets investment firm, is to acquire Greenspring Associates, a venture capital and growth equity platform, and certain of its related entities.
The transaction is expected to close by the end of the year, subject to customary closing conditions, including regulatory approvals and receipt of requisite fund investor consents.
The combined team of over 70 venture capital and growth equity focused investment professionals working across the United States, Europe and Asia, would manage approximately USD22 billion of venture capital and growth equity assets, if measured as of 31 March, 2021. The combination would
LDC, the private equity arm of Lloyds Banking Group, provided GBP180 million of investment to back eight new management teams and to support its portfolio companies in the first half of 2021.
The firm said its eight new investments demonstrated an ‘increasing appetite and ambition for growth’ amongst the management teams of UK mid-market businesses. Spanning a broad range of sectors and regions, investments included Bristol-based digital media group Hybrid, Southampton-based equestrian brand LeMieux and Rochdale-based Wireless CCTV, a market-leading supplier of surveillance solutions.
In the first half of 2021, LDC supported its portfolio companies in making a total
More than two-thirds (67 per cent) of private equity professionals expect to achieve higher returns this year than in 2020, with just 3 per cent expecting lower returns, according to Investec’s annual GP Trends survey.
The research, which analyses the views of 219 private equity professionals around the world, reveals an industry upbeat as we emerge from the pandemic, eager to deploy capital and sanguine about the threat of SPACs.
When the pandemic struck last year, GPs made significant downward adjustments to their return expectations.
This year, optimism has flooded back, with the overwhelming majority (97 per cent)
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