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Eurazeo Capital has completed its investment in Questel alongside IK Investment Partners, Raise Investissement and the management team. The transaction involved the purchase of 100 per cent of Questel’s capital.
Questel is a major intellectual property solutions provider that operates worldwide and employs 900 people in 30 countries, developing SaaS products and an automated brand services and patent filing platform. The company works with close to 6,000 clients, including a number of large multinationals, offering end-to-end collaborative patent and brand management solutions across the innovation and intellectual property cycle, from invention through to filing and renewal.
Questel’s enterprise value
Avista Capital Partners (Avista), a private equity firm focused exclusively on healthcare, is to acquire Solmetex, a provider of amalgam separators and other waste compliance products to the US and Canadian dental industries. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
For over 25 years, Solmetex has been an innovator in waste solutions, with a primary focus on ensuring dental practices remain compliant with the ever-changing regulatory landscape. The acquisition will enable Solmetex to continue its commitment to deliver best-in-class, environmentally responsible dental waste technologies and programs to its physician partners and the communities they serve, while fuelling investment in
Allianz Global Investors has held the second close of the European Private Credit II (EPC II), having raised EUR290 million of commitments in 2020.
AllianzGI’s second corporate private debt fund open to third party investors, EPC II attracted commitments from German, French, Austrian and Italian insurers and corporate pension funds alongside Allianz group entities.
EPC II provides investors the opportunity to access pan-European mid-market direct lending through a senior only debt strategy. It predominantly targets transactions in France and Germany, with diversification achieved through investments across Continental Europe. The strategy’s focus lies on privately negotiated and structured loans for
3d innovations (3di), a data management solutions company, has acquired Charlotte-based Investment Data Licensing Advisors (IDLA), a market and investment data licensing advisory firm serving the US market.
The acquisition follows demand from investment firms and market data vendors for more bespoke and creative solutions that leverage best practices when managing data selection, usage risk and costs, and sees the firm expanding its global reach. As part of the agreement, John White, IDLA principal, will lead the company as newly appointed 3di CEO.
IDLA provides investment managers and other market data consumers with a comprehensive, integrated data solutions program
Amundi Private Equity Funds (Amundi PEF), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Amundi, has launched a new Diversified Infrastructure Strategy.
This new strategy is intended for institutional investors who do not have the in-house resources and experience required to invest directly in Infrastructure, using a diversified and scalable approach, and in particular, for those investors who prefer to invest through seasoned specialists, given the asset class’ increasing complexity. Through direct investments or a robust selection of third-party infrastructure funds, the strategy offers strong diversification both in terms of sectors and geographies, with a focus on Energy, Transport and Telecommunications, primarily core/core+ assets
By Jeffrey Stevenson, managing partner at private investment firm VSS – There are several reasons to be optimistic about 2021. Vaccines are starting to be made available and are expected to save lives, raising hopes that the US economy is poised to re-open next year. The US presidential election has largely been decided which has taken some uncertainty out of the markets.
These positive developments have already helped stimulate the resurgence of private equity in the third quarter of 2020, when USD148 billion in transactions occurred that surpasses last year’s third quarter total by 10 percent, according to a new
TA Associates has completed an investment in leading pet food marketer and manufacturer, Mid America Pet Food, manufacturer of VICTOR Super Premium Pet Food.
Joining TA as an investor is Rx3 Growth Partners, a growth equity fund founded by Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers.
TA and Rx3 acquired their stakes in the company from Trinity Hunt Partners, a growth-oriented middle-market private equity firm that invested in Mid America Pet Food in 2014. Financial terms of the transaction have not disclosed.
Introduced in 2007, VICTOR offers super premium pet food in a variety of recipes to appeal to both
IQ-EQ has supported Belfast-based Cordovan Capital Management with its first institutional fund.
Cordovan Capital Management is one of Northern Ireland’s most active private equity investors, having made nine portfolio investments since 2016. Focusing on Northern Ireland but investing selectively elsewhere in the UK and Ireland, Cordovan’s investment approach is to provide buyout and/or growth capital to profit-generating small businesses that are poised to scale.
As an emerging manager that has previously invested via a syndicate model, Cordovan has realised two distributions to its investors from its existing portfolio and anticipates further returns in 2021. It is now set to
FalconX, an all-in-one platform for institutions trading cryptocurrency, has secured an investment from American Express Ventures.
Agronomics, a leading listed investor in alternative proteins with a focus on cellular agriculture and cultivated meat, has completed an investment of USD2 million, in the form of a Simple Agreement for Future Equity (SAFE), in SuperMeat the Essence of Meat (SuperMeat). The Subscription will be paid using cash from the Company’s own resources.The SAFE will convert at a price per share reflecting the lower of the valuation cap or at a 25 per cent discount to the share price of SuperMeat’s next equity round. We expect that upon conversion of the SAFE at the completion of SuperMeat’s next equity
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