Allocations
Muzinich & Co has held the third close of the Muzinich Pan-European II Private Debt Fund (the Fund), at EUR342 million.
The Fund focuses on providing growth capital to lower middle-market companies to fund acquisitions, expansions and transitions in family and founder-owned businesses. Muzinich & Co.’s locally-based teams work across Europe to deliver on-the-ground deal sourcing and origination. The Fund follows on from the successful EUR706.5 million closing of the firm’s first Pan-European Private Debt Fund in 2018.
Kirsten Bode, Co-Head of Private Debt, Pan-Europe, says: “Investors’ interest in private debt continues to grow as one of the asset classes
RGE Services, a fire and electrical compliance services provider primarily working with the public sector, has funded its primary buyout by securing an equity investment from YFM Equity Partners (YFM).
The deal is the second from the PE house’s GBP80 million Buyout Fund II which closed just 12 months ago and another example of YFM’s strong regional presence, with this investment based in the South East of England.
The buyout was led by Scott Craig, managing director, who has worked alongside founder Roger Greene for the last 15 years, joining as an electrician engineer and working his way up
Horizon Capital, a UK technology services Buy & Build specialist, has backed Modern Networks, a successful provider of IT Managed Services and Connectivity to the Real Estate and Construction industry in a GBP40 million deal.
Modern Networks provides IT Support, connectivity and communications in an easy to consume integrated solution to over 2,000 sites across the UK. From its support centre in Hitchin the business delivers a high quality 24/7 service to users and serves a number of the largest commercial property managers in the UK.
The business has an ambitious growth strategy and the investment from Horizon Capital will
Vista Investors, a private equity investor operating from London and Milan, and Reed Capital, a privately held industrial holding company investing in private equity operating from Paris, are merging to form EIM Capital.
EIM Capital (Equity In Motion) will bring together Reed Capital’s reputation for operational management of acquired companies and Vista Investors’ international buyout and buy-and-build expertise. The founders have collaborated over the years on a number of deals and have between them forty years’ experience in private equity transactions and exits.
Luigi Chiaraviglio is the Managing Director of Vista Investors, having previously worked at private equity firms in
IK Investment Partners (IK), a Pan-European private equity firm, has closed the IK Small Cap III Fund (IK Small Cap III) at its hard cap with commitments of EUR1.2 billion.
The IK Small Cap III Fund was significantly oversubscribed and allocated exclusively to existing IK platform investors in just three months, having been raised on a fully virtual basis.
The Fund is more than double the size of its EUR550 million predecessor, IK Small Cap II Fund, and was raised exclusively with the support of existing investors across the IK platform.
IK Small Cap III will continue to
After a collapse in cross-border dealmaking in the first half of 2020 in the wake of the pandemic, foreign investment into the UK has risen considerably in recent months, according to the latest UK M&A data from Mergermarket.
Inbound M&A reached GBP58.7 billion (196 deals), over 3x higher than during the first quarter of 2020 (GBP18.6 billion). This also represents the highest quarterly inbound deal count since 3Q17 (200 deals).
Private equity buyouts in the UK grew to highest quarterly deal count on Mergermarket record in the first quarter of 2020, with sponsors spending a total of GBP20.5 billion
Global investment firm KKR has invested in Adopt A Cow, a fast-growing, direct-to-consumer dairy company in China that integrates digital solutions into its core operations.
Adopt A Cow’s new funding round was co-led by KKR and DCP Capital.
Founded in 2016, Adopt A Cow primarily produces and sells its pure milk, yogurt, cheese sticks and milk power products and has quickly become a trusted high-end dairy brand in China, thanks to its vertically integrated business model covering alfalfa growing, dairy farming, milk processing, and technology-enabled marketing. Over the past five years, the company has become one of the fastest growing
Abry Partners (Abry), a leading Boston-based private equity firm, announced today the acquisition of High Street Insurance Partners (HSIP), a full-service insurance brokerage, from Huron Capital (Huron), a lower middle-market private equity platform.
HSIP management and agency partners will maintain large stakes in the company and Huron will maintain a minority interest in HSIP.
Founded in 2018, High Street Insurance Partners provides a broad array of business insurance & risk management; employee benefits & human capital management; financial & retirement services; and personal insurance solutions. HSIP is headquartered in Traverse City, MI.
Scott Wick, Founder and CEO
LUMICKS, a, next-generation life science tools company that develops highly innovative platforms for Dynamic Single-Molecule and Cell Avidity analysis, has completed a USD93 million Series D preferred share financing.
The funding round was led by new investors Farallon Capital Management and Lauxera Capital Partners, and included investments by Softbank Vision 2, funds and accounts advised by T Rowe Price Associates, Parian Global Management, Pura Vida Investments, and Irving Investors. The round was also backed by existing investor Gilde Healthcare and select members of the LUMICKS management team. A majority of the proceeds from the financing will be used to bolster
Dubin Clark, a private equity firm with offices in Boston, MA and Jacksonville Beach, Florida, has invested in a new portfolio company, iROCKER, Inc (iROCKER).
iROCKER is a watersports lifestyle company focused on designing and innovating outdoor recreation products, including inflatable stand-up paddleboards (SUPs) and other watersport accessories. Since launching its flagship iROCKER SUP brand in 2013, the company has introduced its Nautical and Blackfin brands to capture the full needs of SUP enthusiasts. In addition, the company has expanded into accessory offerings, including wave mats, floating docks, coolers, speakers, kayak conversion kits, backpacks, leashes, paddles, SUP anchors, and pumps. iROCKER
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