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Odyssey Investment Partners (Odyssey) is to acquire ProPharma Group from Linden Capital Partners. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed. Founded in 2001, ProPharma Group is a leading provider of regulatory and compliance services to pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device customers. The Company’s primary service offerings include regulatory affairs, life science consulting, pharmacovigilance and medical information services. ProPharma Group partners with its clients from early concept development through each clinical phase, product launch, and commercialisation to help ensure regulatory expectations are met, business goals are achieved, and patient health and safety is improved. ProPharma Group is headquartered in Overland
BGF is investing in Calnex Solutions plc, an established provider of test and measurement solutions for the global telecommunications sector, as part of its proposed admission to trading on AIM. The admission is expected to take place on 5 October 2020.
Headquartered in Linlithgow and founded in 2006, Calnex designs and makes equipment that tests the performance of telecom network infrastructure for customers including BT, Ericsson, Nokia and Facebook. To date, Calnex has secured and delivered orders from over 600 customer sites in 68 countries across the world. The telecoms industry is currently experiencing unprecedented levels of change because of
Private investment firm Auxo Investment Partners has partnered with existing management to acquire Paramount Tube and Euclid Medical, which operate under the Precision Products Group (PPG) brand. The deal, terms of which have not been disclosed, marks Auxo’s seventh acquisition in the firm’s inaugural investment fund, Auxo Growth Holdings I LLC, which closed in the fall of 2018.
Paramount Tube is the dominant player for mission-critical, small diameter spiral-wound and extruded tubular products known for providing highly customized, tight tolerance and uniquely shaped solutions. Applications include components for electric motors, transformers, fuses, automotive, single-dosage medications, pharmaceutical packaging, eco-friendly consumer packaging,
Inverness Graham Investments, a private investment firm targeting tech-enabled manufacturing, service and software companies, has added Teknipure to it announced today that its proprietary cleaning consumables platform, KICTeam.Based in Mesa, Arizona, Teknipure is a specialist in the design, manufacture and marketing of specialty cleaning products targeting regulated and contamination-controlled fabrication environments such as cleanroom processing facilities.
“We are very excited to have completed the acquisition of Teknipure,” says Trey Sykes, Managing Principal at Inverness Graham. “By investing in Teknipure, we significantly expanded our platform’s addressable markets into other high growth, high cost of failure vertical markets such as pharmaceutical, biopharma,
Victory Capital Holdings has acquired, through a wholly owned subsidiary, a 15 per cent interest in Alderwood Partners (Alderwood). Financial terms have not been disclosed.Alderwood’s operating entity, Alderwood Capital, is a London-based investment advisory firm focused on taking minority stakes in specialist boutique asset management businesses. Founded in 2020 by Jonathan Little, Alderwood is planning – subject to regulatory approval – to raise a single fund to deploy its strategy. Victory Capital will have board representation at the general partner level and intends to participate as an investor in the fund.
“This investment in a proven M&A capability provides
QuantiTech, a portfolio company of Sagewind Capital (Sagewind), has acquired Dynamic Concepts (DCI), a provider of high-end engineering and software services for human spaceflight. Financial terms of the transaction have not been announced.
Headquartered in Huntsville, Alabama, DCI primarily supports NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, Johnson Space Center and Glenn Research Center; the Department of Defense; and commercial space companies. DCI specializes in classical and structural dynamics, digital and hardware-in-the-loop simulation, custom software applications, and control systems design and analysis in support of human spaceflight. The management team and employees of DCI will continue with the business as a part
FFL Partners (FFL), a private equity firm focused on growth investments in middle market companies, has formed a new orthopaedic health services organisation, US Orthopedic Partners (USOP). The Thurston Group, a Chicago-based private equity firm with a focus on investing in healthcare companies, also invested in USOP. Financial terms of the private transaction have not been disclosed.
USOP is a full-service, integrated orthopedic care platform that provides the full continuum of musculoskeletal treatment to patients in the Southeastern US Supported by MSMOC’s diversified orthopaedic sub-specialties, ultramodern ambulatory surgery centre, fellowship training programs and comprehensive suite of ancillary services – advanced imaging,
AccelerComm – The Southampton University spinout supercharging 5G, satellite and other wireless communications with IP which increases spectrum efficiency and reduces latency – has raised GBP5.8 million in Series A funding in a round led by IQ Capital alongside existing investors Bloc Ventures and the IP Group. The funding will be used to expand the current team, drive US and global expansion, and develop the technology further as demand for the company’s cutting-edge digital signal processing IP grows among mobile operators, telecoms equipment vendors, satellite operators and connected device manufacturers.
Low latency and high spectrum efficiency are crucial in protecting cellular
US private equity groups spent an average USD353,000 on external legal counsel per acquisition when prosecuting deals in 2019, according to research released by Apperio, a London-based specialist legal spend management platform. In the UK, the figure was slightly lower at USD253,000.
Regional lender Mercia continues its support of UK SMEs with the announcement of an additional commitment to its debt funds. Over the next five years, Mercia will provide up to GBP40million to support the growth of regional SMEs across the UK.Mercia SME Loans will be providing a much-needed source of finance to ambitious, regional businesses that are seeking debt finance as they move beyond the cash flow constrains caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Mercia’s investment team can lend between GBP100,000 to GBP1million to fund working capital, acquisitions, capital investment and management team restructures/buyouts, an area of specialism for Mercia. The
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