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Despite the challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic, Edinburgh-based business angel investment syndicate, Archangels, led investments of GBP16.3 million in promising Scottish start-up and early stage companies in 2020, topping its 2019 total of GBP13.4 million by 22 per cent.Across 2020, the syndicate directly invested GBP8.1 million (2019: GBP7.4 million) in companies in the tech and life sciences sectors and was lead investor on a total of 11 funding rounds.
Archangels has also appointed Maureen Kinsler to its board of directors.
Until her recent retirement from the post, Kinsler was Chair of Marks & Clerk, the international intellectual property
GED Capital, a private equity group specialised in the Iberian low middle-market segment, has invested in Comess Group through its GED VI Spain fund and a capital increase, becoming the company’s majority shareholder along with the existing partners, Manuel Robledo, president and founder of the company, and Oquendo.Founded in 1988, Comess Group operates more than 200 franchise restaurants in Spain and a dozen other countries.
In 2016, Oquendo entered the share capital of Comess Group to back the acquisition of the DonG brand and provide financial firepower. Now, following the entry of GED Capital and subsequent capital increase, the group
Middle market private equity firm Gryphon Investors (Gryphon) has acquired Right Time Heating and Air Conditioning (Right Time) from Clairvest Group Inc, a Canadian private equity firm. Right Time’s management will remain with the Company and retain a significant equity stake. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Founded in 2014 and headquartered in St Catharines, Ontario, Right Time is the largest independently owned residential HVAC services provider in Canada with a focus on preventative maintenance programs and repairs and replacements of HVAC units. The Company comprises 10 brands and operates out of 11 locations in Ontario, Manitoba,
Mayfair Equity Partners (Mayfair), a leading tech and consumer growth investor, has backed the management buy-out of Seraphine, a maternity and nursing brand, which values the company at around GBP50 million. Mayfair, along with management, has acquired the company from Bridgepoint Growth and entrepreneur founder Cécile Reinaud.
Launched in 2002 as a boutique store in Kensington, London, Seraphine has grown to become an international business selling into 127 countries around the world.
Reinaud identified a gap in the market for a luxury but affordable maternity wear brand. The driving ambition was to create aspirational products that women would want to
One Equity Partners (OEP), a middle market private equity firm, has completed the acquisition of VASS ConsultorÃa de Sistemas (VASS), a European provider of digital transformation, cloud infrastructure and managed IT solutions. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.Headquartered in Madrid, Spain, VASS is focused on digitally transforming its customers’ value chain by implementing and servicing customer relationship management, enterprise resource applications, and providing technology infrastructure services. The Company has deep experience with big data, the implementation of robot process automation, intelligent business process management and similar technologies.
“After having spent the past 18 months analysing the
United Group, a provider of telecommunications services and media in Southeast Europe, is to acquire Bulgaria’s largest multi-platform media company Nova Broadcasting Group from Advance Media Group.The transaction is expected to close early in 2021 and is subject to customary regulatory approvals.
Nova comprises of 10 TV channels including national NOVA TV, the country’s largest online platform Net Info that reach on average 80 per cent of the Bulgarian population every month, as well as four radio stations.
United Group CEO Victoriya Boklag says: “We’re very pleased with this agreement. We are buying a successful company from two prominent entrepreneurs
Waterland Private Equity Investments is acquiring Priory Group, a provider of behavioural healthcare services in the UK. Waterland intends to combine Priory with MEDIAN, a German provider of rehabilitation, neurology and orthopaedic treatments and portfolio company of Waterland, to create a leading European rehabilitation and mental health services provider.
The transaction is expected to complete in January 2021.
MEDIAN operates 120 clinics and facilities with 18,500 beds and places across Germany. The Group provides a range of high-quality rehabilitation, post-acute and acute treatments ranging from neurology, orthopaedics and psychiatry to sociotherapy and addiction treatments. MEDIAN treated over 230,000 patients in
Global investment manager AMP Capital has established a 50/50 partnership with Sterlite Power Transmission Limited (Sterlite Power) for the development of energy transmission projects in India. This marks the first investment in India for AMP Capital’s global infrastructure equity strategy.
AMP Capital and Sterlite Power will each invest an initial amount of approximately USD150 million in the development of four transmission projects, and have put in place debt financing, which represents a total capital outlay of around USD1 billion. These projects have a circuit length of nearly 1800 kilometres of transmission lines across the Western, Southern and North Eastern regions
In this podcast, Private Equity Wire’s editor Karin Wasteson speaks to Makram Azar (pictured) and Scott Freidheim, CEO and chairman respectively, of Golden Falcon, a SPAC focused on tech, media, telecoms and fintech companies primarily headquartered in Europe, and chairman, on why SPACs are growing in popularity, and some interesting trends they are seeing in this space.
The outlook for demand in the private equity secondaries market throughout 2021 – and in particular, H1 2021 – is very strong, with buyers looking to deploy USD61 billion in 2021.
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