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YFM has completed a significant investment in West Midlands-based Innovative Safety Systems (ISS), a commercial vehicle safety specialist. The deal represents the final new investment from YFM’s Buyout Fund I, with the launch of its GBP80 million second fund last week.
ISS was founded in 2009 by CEO Gavin Thoday and the business has grown rapidly in recent years through its commitment to product innovation, exceptional customer service and expertise in the waste management sector where it is a market leader.
Based in Pershore, West Midlands, ISS currently employs 31 people and is dedicated to creating products that improve safety for
Capital Constellation (Constellation), a provider of investment capital to investor entrepreneurs, has closed a strategic partnership with Pollen Street Capital (Pollen Street), an independent asset manager focused on the financial and business services sectors in the UK and Europe.Constellation has acquired a minority ownership interest in Pollen Street and will provide significant investment capital to support the continued growth of Pollen Street’s private equity and credit businesses.
“We are thrilled to announce this exciting partnership between Constellation and Pollen Street,” says Lindsey McMurray, Managing Partner of Pollen Street. “We believe that we have built a differentiated franchise and team with
Clearlake Capital Group, an investment firm focusing on the technology, industrials, and consumer sectors, has completed fundraising for its sixth private equity fund, Clearlake Capital Partners VI (Fund VI), with more than USD7 billion in commitments. This brings Clearlake’s total assets under management to approximately USD18 billion and comes on the heels of a record two years, as 18 of the firm’s portfolio companies achieved notable liquidity events resulting in over USD3 billion of realisations.
With an initial target of USD5 billion, Fund VI was oversubscribed with total commitments of more than USD7 billion, including commitments from the General Partner and
Knight Enterprises (Knight), a provider of critical communications infrastructure services, has been acquired by an affiliate of Mill Point Capital, a middle-market private equity firm focused on control investments in North America.The Mill Point team employs an Executive Partner model and has extensive experience investing in transactions in the communications and business services sectors. Knight’s talented management team, including CEO Jason Welz, will continue to lead the Company and build upon its strong track record of growth and reliable customer service.
Knight is a leader in communications infrastructure services focused on engineering, construction, and maintenance in connection with the deployment,
Oman-based venture capital firm Phaze Ventures has invested in SpotLight, a French geoscience start-up that provides dynamic detection of subsurface movements. The deal marks Phaze’s seventh investment since the firm was established in 2018, building on its mission to transform traditional industries with disruptive technology.
SpotLight’s proprietary single source, single receiver seismic monitoring technology is currently being piloted by Petroleum Development Oman, a leading explorer and producer of crude oil and natural gas in the Sultanate of Oman.
With 4D seismic monitoring having proven prohibitively expensive in most use cases, Spotlight’s technology reduces the cost of effective real-time monitoring, and unlocks
Pearce Services (Pearce), a provider of telecommunications infrastructure maintenance, repair, and engineering, has partnered with New York-based New Mountain Capital, a leading growth-oriented investment firm with over USD20 billion in assets under management. Pearce has also announced the simultaneous acquisition of MaxGen Energy Services (MaxGen) and World Wind & Solar (WWS), an independent provider of repair and maintenance services for utility-scale renewable wind and solar assets as well as electric vehicle charging station infrastructure. Terms of the transactions have not been disclosed.
The combination creates the leading technology-enabled platform providing outsourced field and engineering services for distributed electromechanical infrastructure assets. The
JP Morgan dominated the M&A financial advisers league table based on both deal value and volume in Asia-Pacific for the coronavirus-hit first quarter of 2020.
In terms of value, the American investment bank advised USD20.1 billion worth deals in Q1 2020, according to new research by Global Data.
GlobalData, which tracks all M&A, PE/VC and asset transaction activity around the world to compile the league tables, listed the latest M&A top 10 financial advisers in Asia-Pacific by value and volume for Q1 2020. The region experienced subdued deal activity due to COVID-19.
“Despite the overall deal activity declining among other
Global alternative asset manager GCM Grosvenor has completed the final close of its Co-Investment Opportunities Fund II with nearly USD540 million in committed capital.
Public, corporate, and Taft-Hartley pension plans, financial institutions, and family offices based in North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia invested in Co-Investment Opportunities Fund II.
The fund targets buyout co-investments alongside private equity sponsors, with a focus on the middle-market. It will pursue opportunities sourced from nearly 300 middle-market buyout fund commitments.
“We believe properly constructed co-invest programs benefit investors’ private equity portfolios by providing complementary exposures, j-curve mitigation, and return enhancement from fee
A group of investors led by Bernhard Capital Partners Management, LP (Bernhard Capital), has acquired Ascension Wastewater Treatment (AWT), the largest private sewer utility operator in Louisiana.Immediately following the acquisition, Bernhard Capital announced it is committing to a two-month rebate for all AWT customers to assist them in navigating the challenges and economic hardships of the Covid-19 pandemic. This represents an average rebate of USD90 per customer over the two-month billing cycle. In total, it will credit approximately USD1.5 million to AWT customers. Additionally, Bernhard Capital is donating thousands of protective face masks to Our Lady of the Lake Ascension
Investcorp Technology Partners, a European technology investor, has agreed to acquire Avira Holding (Avira) for USD180 million.Avira is a German headquartered, multinational cybersecurity software solutions firm serving the OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) and Consumer end markets, with over 500 million endpoints protected globally. Over its 30+ year history, the Company has developed particular strengths in Anti-Malware, Threat Intelligence and IoT solutions. Its software provides next generation security for users’ online identity, finances, and private data, protecting against viruses, malware, ransomware and other threats.
This acquisition represents the first institutional investment in Avira since it was founded in 1986 by
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