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HIG Capital (HIG), a global private equity investment firm with over EUR31 billion of equity capital under management, has signed agreements to acquire Meyra Group SA (Meyra) and Alu Rehab AS (Alu Rehab).
HIG intends to combine the two companies to form a large-scale mobility equipment manufacturer in Europe. The transaction is subject to clearing by the relevant antitrust authorities with closing anticipated by end of 2019.
Founded in 1936, Meyra designs, manufactures and sells active and e-powered wheelchairs, rehabilitation equipment and orthopaedics. With manufacturing, assembly and distribution sites in Germany and Poland, Meyra has approximately 600 employees and
Independent asset manager Albion Capital is seeking to raise up to GBP34 million through top up offers for five of its venture capital trusts.
The fundraising targets the following amounts:
Kings Arms Yard VCT PLC – GBP10 million
Albion Development VCT PLC – GBP8 million
Albion Enterprise VCT PLC – GBP6 million
Albion Venture Capital Trust PLC – GBP6 million
Crown Place VCT PLC – GBP4 million
The offers provide exposure to balanced portfolios with a combined value of approximately GBP365 million, diversified across approximately 70 businesses. The top up offers reflect Albion’s confidence in an exciting pipeline of
Prestige Funds, a specialist private debt fund manager, has loaned over GBP 100 million in secured finance to biogas and anaerobic digestion projects in the UK over the last nine months.
The financing is managed through Privilege Finance, part of the same group of companies and a specialist in lending to businesses in the UK’s agricultural sector.
With the growth in this activity, Prestige has also relocated Privilege Finance to new offices north of Cambridge. This reflects the growing headcount with more than 30 additional personnel, and the scope of the group’s agri-lending activities.
Craig Reeves, Founder of
CAPZA – a private investment platform specialising on small and mid-caps – has acquired, alongside Bpifrance, a minority stake in the Coutot-Roehrig group, a specialist in inheritance genealogy.
The purpose of this operation is to support the group’s growth, both organic and external, and to establish its leadership in the sector worldwide.
Founded in 1894, Coutot-Roehrig’s core activity consists in identifying heirs in the context of successions, a profession of “long-term” investigator (from a few months to a few years, in France and across the world).
In its more than 120 years of existence, the Coutot-Roehrig group has
Real estate technology company Blueground has closed a USD50 million (GBP40 million) Series B round and expanded of its global footprint by launching in London.
The round was co-led by two prominent investment firms: Prime Ventures and WestCap Investment Partners. WestCap’s founding partner, Laurence Tosi, is an experienced investor and operator, who served as the long-time CFO of private equity firm Blackstone, and subsequently, as the CFO of Airbnb, the leading home-sharing marketplace.
Blueground envisions a world in which people feel at home wherever they choose to live, through their offering of beautifully designed, tech-powered flats for stays starting from
Broadstone, one of the UK’s leading employee benefits and pensions consulting businesses, has acquired Bristol-based BBS Consultants and Actuaries.
This is Broadstone’s fourth and largest acquisition in 2019 following the purchases of Liverpool-based CS Financial Solutions, Thomson Dickson Consulting in Glasgow and the London-based 3HR Benefits Consultancy.
Founded in 1997, BBS has established itself as a technology-led, highly respected specialist firm of workplace pensions consultants, actuaries, investment advisers and administrators. With some 250 clients, BBS is a significant player in the South West and is focussed on providing high quality pensions solutions to both trustees and employers.
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ARQIS has advised SkyFive on the acquisition of the core assets of the Air-to-Ground (A2G) business division from Nokia. Both parties have agreed not to disclose the purchase price.
Nokia’s A2G technology is designed to provide broadband telecom connectivity for continental air travel and has significant technology and cost advantages over today’s satellite telecom solutions. The acquired assets make SkyFive the world’s first A2G communications specialist. SkyFive assumes responsibility for the end-to-end solution, which comprises avionics, telecommunications and IT systems. Nokia remains responsible for the sale and implementation of the backbone network – an integral part of the solution –
TPG Sixth Street Partners (Sixth Street), a global finance and investment business with over USD32 billion in assets under management, has closed the first TSSP Capital Solutions (Capital Solutions) platform fund with USD2.2 billion in third-party capital commitments.
Capital Solutions, which makes non-control investments in growth-oriented companies. is actively investing out of the fund and has already deployed over USD500 million.
The Capital Solutions team partners with companies to provide bespoke, accretive financing solutions that often differ from traditional growth equity. Capital Solutions has flexibility to invest in a range of opportunities from USD25 million to over USD500 million.
Macfarlanes has advised London-headquartered secondaries specialist Headway Capital Partners on the raising of its fourth secondaries fund, HIP IV, which has closed after hitting its hard cap of EUR372 million, exceeding its target of EUR300 million.
The fund was oversubscribed, exceeding its target of EUR300m through strong support from a diverse mix of institutional investors globally including pension funds, asset managers, family offices, high-net-worth individuals and endowments. Seeking to invest globally, HIP IV will focus on western Europe and North America, with a maximum investment size of EUR50 million.
The Macfarlanes team was led by investment management partner Alex
Private equity fund Trilantic Capital Partners IV Europe (Trilantic Europe), via its subsidiary TCP Lux Eurinvest (Eurinvest) is to sell 8.6 million shares (equal to 28.67 per cent of the share capital) of Gamenet Group, a operator in the Italian sports betting and gaming sector, to a company formed on behalf of funds managed by Apollo Management IX (Apollo).
The agreed price is equal to EUR12.5 per share. Completion is subject to, inter alia, Antitrust and Agenzia delle Dogane e dei Monopoli clearances and is expected to occur by year end 2019. Upon completion, the buyer will be required to
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