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An affiliate of middle market private equity firm One Rock Capital Partners (One Rock) has acquired Innophos Holdings (Innophos) an international producer of essential ingredients.In conjunction with the completion of the transaction, Richard Hooper has been appointed Chief Executive Officer of Innophos, effective immediately. Hooper is an industry veteran with 40 years of specialty materials experience.
“The closing of this transaction represents an exciting new chapter for Innophos, its employees and customers that furthers its ability to improve quality of life through purpose-built ingredients,” says Hooper. “As a private company, Innophos is expected to have greater flexibility to drive
Kian Capital Partners (Kian), a middle-market focused private investment firm, has sold its portfolio company, Empire Group (Empire) to PNC Riverarch Capital (PNC Riverarch). Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.Headquartered in Raleigh, NC, Empire is a wholesale distributor of commercial foodservice equipment and genuine OEM parts into diverse markets, including foodservice equipment dealers, service organizations, buying groups and national chain accounts. Empire’s 5,500+ customers greatly value its technical expertise and national fulfillment capabilities through its seven locations.
“Kian’s leadership, while always being genuine and supportive to the entire team, helped drive alignment in our quest to realize
London-based IMAN Capital Partners has, together with a group of investors, agreed to acquire a majority stake in Crealsa Investments, a Spanish provider of web solutions for the financing of invoices and promissory notes to SMEs on a nationwide basis.
LDC, the UK’s leading mid-market private equity firm, says it would seek to increase its investment in UK companies during 2020 after deploying GBP365 million of capital in 2019 to back 18 ambitious management teams.The firm, part of Lloyds Banking Group, said the role of private equity in supporting the UK’s small and medium-sized businesses was ‘more important than ever’. LDC said the plan formed part of its rolling three-year commitment to invest GBP1.2 billion of capital.
In an annual summary of its performance, LDC – which typically invests between GBP5 million and GBP100 million in a single transaction
One of Lithuania’s largest asset management companies, INVL Asset Management, has held a final close of INVL Baltic Sea Growth Fund, the largest private equity investment fund for the Baltic region, at a total of EUR165 million.
Keensight Capital, a private equity managers dedicated to pan-European growth buyout investments, is to sell shares of smartTrade Technologies, a specialist in multi-asset electronic trading solutions, to Hg.Founded in 1999 and headquartered in France, smartTrade Technologies has developed an automated trading platform which enables fast access to a wide range of liquidity for Foreign Exchange (FX), Fixed Income, Equities, Cryptocurrencies, and Derivatives. These solutions connect to numerous liquidity providers, aggregation, smart order routing, order management, pricing, distribution, risk management capabilities, and an HTML5 user interface.
The group is located across four continents, with offices in France, Geneva, London, Milan,
Collision Management Systems (CMS), a connected vehicle data specialist, working with insurers, fleets and remote worker organisations to reduce employee risk, has secured a second round of funding from BGF.This investment comes as CMS passes the milestone of over 100,000 people connected to its award-winning platform. In addition, through the integrations CMS has in place with multiple global telematics vendors, the company can access over 50% of commercial vehicles with telematics installed; subject to consent of the customer.
Founded by CEO Charles Smith, CMS has taken a market lead in using the growing volume of connected vehicle data to manage
Corfin Industries has announced a strategic combination with Micross Components, a provider of mission-critical microelectronic components and services for high-reliability markets, as part of a transaction led by Corfin’s current majority shareholder Behrman Capital. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Headquartered in Orlando, Florida, Micross serves the aerospace, defence, space, medical, and industrial markets, among others. The company offers an industry-leading portfolio of high-reliability components and services that include advanced component testing, qualification services, packaging services, standard wafer bumping, advanced wafer level packaging services, and 3D integration. Micross has longstanding relationships with blue-chip customers in each of
Busy Bees, a multinational childcare provider, has acquired EduKids, an early childhood education and care centre operator with 15 locations in Western New York. The deal, which closed on 31 Friday January, follows the acquisition by Busy Bees of Educational Playcare’s 19 centres across Connecticut in August 2019. This expands Busy Bees’ North American presence to 34 centres across the states of New York and Connecticut and 89 centres in Canada.
Founded in 1989, EduKids has 450 staff providing care for 1,660 children from the age of six weeks to five years. Busy Bees acquired 100 per cent of EduKids; following
CBPE Capital (CBPE) has sold its investment in ABI Holiday Homes (ABI) to the Company’s management team, with a minority equity investment from Pricoa Private Capital. Terms of the transaction are not disclosed but CBPE has achieved a money multiple return of 3.0x on its investment in ABI and an IRR of 36.9 per cent.
ABI is a leading manufacturer of caravan holiday homes and one of the most highly regarded and established brands in the caravan holiday home industry. The Company manufactures its caravan holiday homes in Beverley, East Yorkshire where it employs over 500 people. ABI is the
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