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Oghma Partners has acted as the exclusive financial adviser to the shareholders of Direct-to-Consumer, UK-based, SimplyCook Limited (SimplyCook) on the sale of the business to Nestlé.
The deal is the latest in Oghma’s healthy portfolio of successful cross-border, European transactions which have included advising Solina Group on the acquisition of UK-based Bowman Ingredients, and Givaudan SA on the divestment of both its pectin business to Herbstreith & Fox, and its processed and grated cheese business.
The deal demonstrates Oghma Partners’ expertise in working both with smaller founder-owned businesses and large multinationals across Europe.
SimplyCook’s founder Oli Ashness launched the
Lightbank, a Chicago-based venture capital firm, has closed its second early-stage venture capital fund, Lightbank II, with USD180 million of capital commitments.
The closing brings Lightbank’s total assets under management (AUM) to USD360 million. Lightbank II’s investor base is comprised of institutional investors, family offices, and high net worth individuals.
Lightbank II will be led by Founder and Managing Partner Eric Lefkofsky, who has also founded or co-founded Tempus, Groupon, MediaOcean, Innerworkings, and Echo Global Logistics. In conjunction with the new fund, Matt Sacks will join Lightbank as a Venture Partner. Sacks, who founded Luminary Media after serving as a
Intriva Capital (Intriva), an independent alternative asset manager, has acquired a significant stake and supported a management buy-out in MoneyPlus Group (MoneyPlus), one of the UK’s largest providers of consumer debt advice.
Intriva will provide additional funding to further enhance the depth, breadth and value of services for MoneyPlus’ customers in a total investment program of GBP60 million.
MoneyPlus Group was founded in 2010 to help people who are struggling with their finances to find the right solutions to their problems. It has grown to become one of the UK’s largest providers of private debt advice and planning, working
Alpha Capital announced today that it has closed its USD230 million initial public offering on the Nasdaq Capital Market (Nasdaq), trading under the ticker symbol “ASPCU”.
The special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) will use the funds to seek a business combination with a Latin American-focused technology company. Alpha announced pricing last Thursday.
There are over 20,000 technology companies in that region according to Crunchbase. While they have generally been funded by a growing local network of early-stage investors, later-stage capital has been far less available in Latin America, which has limited growth opportunities. Alpha aims to solve that dilemma by
Middle market private equity firm One Equity Partners’ (OEP) portfolio company Computer Design & Integration (CDI) has completed the acquisition of Kintyre Solutions (Kintyre), a system integrator with practices focused on cloud native application development, observability and investigation platforms, cloud optimisation, and various security engineering technologies.
Financial terms of the private transaction have not been disclosed.
Founded in 2015, Kintyre provides product development, advanced configuration management, integration, data analytics, security engineering and other high value managed services. Headquartered in Philadelphia, the Company offers full end-to-end enterprise class cloud native development and optimisation to clients.
“Kintyre’s services offering is highly
NovaQuest Private Equity (NovaQuest) has made a strategic growth equity investment in Pro-ficiency, a provider of tech-enabled training and compliance solutions for clinical trial investigators and site staff.
Based in Durham, NC, Pro-ficiency provides innovative, virtual simulation training and HR compliance solutions for clinical trials, supported by original content creation and analytics services. Leading pharmaceutical companies engage Pro-ficiency to deploy customised, study-specific training solutions that improve learning retention and strengthen compliance among investigators and site staff. The company’s platform also provides sponsors and CROs with real-time analytics that help to predict and avoid study errors and protocol violations, ultimately reducing
Arma Partners has acted as financial advisor to Ardian on its acquisition of a majority stake in Jakala, in partnership with company founder Matteo de Brabant.
Jakala offers an integrated set of solutions that empower enterprises to better utilise technology and data to meet modern marketing and sales requirements across a variety of international markets, including the US, Brazil and Poland. Headquartered in Milan, Jakala was founded in 2000 as the first company in Italy to combine marketing and technology. Over time, the company has grown organically and inorganically, notably through its merger with Seri System in 2014 and subsequent
Tikehau Capital has completed fundraising for its T2 investment strategy focused on energy transition with over EUR1 billion in commitments.
Tikehau Capital launched this strategy in 2018 with EUR100 million from its own balance sheet. This unique alignment of interest with LPs has proven successful, attracting large strategic investors from several geographies (whose commitments represent 45 per cent of the funds raised overall).
Tikehau Capital’s T2 Energy Transition Fund is one of the leading and largest global growth private equity vehicles singularly committed to fighting climate change.
The T2 Energy Transition Fund, set up to help reach the goals
RTB House, a global advertising technology firm has acquired 100 per cent of the shares in WhitePress, a content marketing platform, from its founders, Dirlango, a technology-focused investment firm and Innova Capital, a CEE mid-market private equity firm.
WhitePress’s management, including founders Paweł Strykowski and Tomasz Kwaśny, will continue in their existing roles. The financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Bielsko-Biała, Poland, WhitePress is a leading content marketing platform that assists advertising agencies and corporate clients in creation and publication of content across the web, as well as in tracking of
Peterson Private Equity has held the closing of a USD225 million fund focused on investing USD10-25 million behind entrepreneurs and management teams in profitable and growth-oriented businesses.
“We are passionate about helping great people build great businesses,” says Clint Peterson, Managing Partner of Peterson Partners. “We are thrilled to raise this latest fund to continue supporting these great entrepreneurs.”
Peterson Private Equity, the flagship fund of the Peterson Partners platform, was one of the earliest funds established in Mountain West region. Peterson Private Equity has invested in several notable deals in the state of Utah over the past several
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