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Baird Capital’s global private equity team has invested in Blue Matter Consulting (Blue Matter), a strategic consulting firm serving the life sciences industry. Financial details of the deal have not been disclosed.Founded in 2012, Blue Matter provides consultancy services to the global pharmaceutical sector, principally in the areas of product and portfolio strategy, organisational design, and product launch planning and readiness. Blue Matter is a global business with offices in San Francisco, New York, London, Zurich, and Berlin. The company has a wide range of therapeutic expertise, with a deep focus on oncology and rare diseases.
“We are so
Squla (Futurewhiz), a portfolio company of Levine Leichtman Capital Partners (LLCP), has acquired Scoyo, an online learning platform for primary and secondary school students in the German market.Squla is the leading consumer education company in the Netherlands and provides interactive educational tools for primary school pupils (Squla) and secondary school students (WRTS). Squla is linked to the national curriculum and is designed to supplement a student’s education in a fun and adaptive way. The company’s products are used in over 50,000 classrooms and by over 1.4 million users throughout the Netherlands, Belgium and Poland. With the acquisition of Scoyo, Squla
Muzinich & Co is pleased to announce the first close of the Muzinich Pan-European II Private Debt Fund, at EUR210 million.Like its predecessor vehicle, the Fund focuses on providing growth capital to lower middle-market companies to fund acquisitions, expansions and transitions in family and founder-owned businesses. The Fund follows on the successful EUR706.5 million. closing of the firm’s first Pan-European Private Debt Fund in 2018. The firm has been active in European private debt since 2014 when local regional teams started investing in country specific funds.
“We are one of the very few private lenders in the lower-middle market
Private equity-backed soft drinks manufacturer Clearly Drinks is to invest in a new canning facility at its Sunderland headquarters following support from NorthEdge.The multi-million-pound investment is set to provide state-of-the-art canning capabilities, designed by BW Integrated Systems, allowing Clearly Drinks to manufacture 160 million cans each year. This will enhance Clearly Drinks’ product offering and packaging flexibility, allowing it to widen its customer base which currently includes Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Booker and One Stop.
The investment follows NorthEdge’s backing in 2018 and is designed to support Clearly Drinks in its ambitious growth plans. The facility will build on the business’
PasarPolis, an insurance technology firm in Southeast Asia (SEA), has closed a heavily oversubscribed Series B funding round. The investors invested and committed a total of USD54 million, which will be used to support the company’s growth plan. The Company’s significant growth while maintaining positive unit economics across all issued policies, attracted leading global financial services investors LeapFrog Investments and SBI Investment, the country’s pioneer investor AlphaJWC and Indonesia-only VC firm Intudo Ventures, as well as an internet company with smartphones and smart hardware connected by an IoT platform to its core, Xiaomi to the Company. Existing Series A investors also
Pemberton, an asset manager backed by one of Europe’s largest insurers, Legal & General Group, is supporting Advent International’s acquisition of a majority stake in Hermes UK, a consumer delivery company, with the provision of debt financing, together with Goldman Sachs Merchant Banking Division and PSP Investments.Hermes UK is one of the leading consumer delivery companies in the United Kingdom and delivers over 400 million parcels a year on behalf of many of Europe’s leading retailers, including Next, Asos and Pretty Little Thing. The company has experienced sustainable double-digit growth over the past seven years, consistently reinvesting profit into its
Varagon Capital Partners (Varagon) is serving as Administrative Agent, Joint Lead Arranger and Joint Bookrunner on a senior secured credit facility to support the acquisition of Sila Heating & Air Conditioning, Inc by Astar Heating and Air, a Dubin Clark portfolio company.Astar Heating and Air, LLC was founded in 1976 and is headquartered in Middletown, NY. Sila Heating & Air Conditioning, Inc. was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in King of Prussia, Pensylvannia
The combined entity provides a wide range of HVAC services in the Northeast including replacement, service, and maintenance, as well as plumbing and water treatment services.
Kinderhook Industries (Kinderhook), a private equity firm specialising in middle-market control investments in the healthcare services, environmental/business services and automotive/light manufacturing sectors, has successfully completed a recapitalisation of Kinderhook Capital Fund III, a $300 million committed capital, 2009 vintage fund. AlpInvest Partners and affiliated investors (AlpInvest), a leading player in the private equity secondary market, led the transaction and is now the largest investor in the Fund.
All limited partners of the Fund were provided the option of retaining their position in the Fund or receiving full or partial liquidity. The aggregate value of the portfolio was approximately USD360 million, with
IQ-EQ has acquired Conseil Expertise & Synthese (CE&S), an independent accounting business based in Paris. This latest acquisition, the firm’s second in 2020, adds further scale and a strong client book to its French operations enabling is to offer an extensive suite of funds, corporate and private wealth services.Led by principal, Jean-Noël Servans, and three other senior partners since 2010, CE&S offers accounting, tax, payroll and corporate secretarial services to a range of fund managers, entrepreneurs, corporates, and high net worth clients. The deal will result in the creation of a 75 person strong business in France.
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Covid-19 has had an effect on the Chinese economy, but not on longer term trends in the Chinese private equity market, according to Ivo Naumann, Shanghai-based partner and leader of McKinsey’s private equity & principal investors practice in Greater China.
China is the third largest private capital market in the world, of which USD66 billion was invested in private equity in 2019. The country is the third largest market for private equity today, after the US and UK.
“If you look at the private equity industry in China, in many ways it’s a growth story. Looking at long term trends
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