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The Manchester and Tokyo teams of GCA have advised Japanese listed manufacturer Sumitomo Heavy Industries (SHI), a manufacturer and distributor of power transmission and control equipment, on the GBP100 million acquisition of Invertek Drives.
SHI’s current strategy aims to strengthen and expand its business by integrating new technologies in the areas of electric motors and frequency drives and achieving global growth in areas such as robotics and positioning, transportation and logistics and food and beverages. As part of this strategy, the EUR172 million acquisition of Lafert, an Italian motor manufacturer, in 2018 signalled SHI’s portfolio and global market reach business
Apex Service Partners (Apex), a platform of HVAC, plumbing and electrical services, has partnered with Southern Air Heating and Cooling (Southern Air), a residential HVAC services company.
Southern Air, headquartered in Ball, LA, with locations across Louisiana and Mississippi, will join Florida businesses Best Home Services and Frank Gay Services as a member of the Apex platform. Southern Air will continue to be operated independently by the founding Preuett family under its current brand names.
The partnership follows Apex’s plans to invest a minimum of USD100 million in equity capital HVAC, plumbing and electrical services companies across the US in
Private equity firm Warburg Pincus has sold inexio, a provider of fibre-optic broadband networks in Germany, to EQT Infrastructure.
Co-shareholders Deutsche Beteiligungs AG and other minority investors are selling their stakes alongside Warburg Pincus.
Inexio was founded by David Zimmer in 2007 and has invested heavily in fibre-optic infrastructure in rural and small-town communities in Germany, predominantly in the South and South West. Today, the Company provides high-speed internet access to more than 110,000 customers and 6,000 businesses. Inexio’s unique and scalable network, consisting of more than 10,000 km of fibre-optic infrastructure, provides a strong platform for continued growth.
Kemoen has held the third closing of the Kempen European Private Equity Fund, the private equity fund of Kempen Capital Management (Kempen) with EUR158 million in commitments.
The private equity fund is exclusively available to clients of Van Lanschot and Kempen.
The fund’s investors are predominantly entrepreneurs, experienced private equity investors, and captains of industry from the Netherlands, Belgium, and Switzerland.
Sven Smeets, co-head Private Markets, says: ‘This group of investors contributes to the broadening of our investment network. The investors in our private equity fund provide not only capital, but also knowledge, experience, and leads for new
Harris Williams, a global investment bank specialising in M&A advisory services, is advising Stirling Square Capital Partners (Stirling Square) on the pending sale of Siblu Villages (Siblu) to Naxicap Partners.
Siblu is a leading owner-occupied holiday park operator in France. The transaction is being led by Ed Arkus of the Harris Williams Consumer Group and Thierry Monjauze and Sylvain Noblet of the firm’s London office.
“It has been a pleasure to work alongside Siblu’s shareholders and management team as well as to have the opportunity to advise Stirling Square again on another great outcome,” says Ed Arkus, a managing
Hamilton Lane has held the final closing of Hamilton Lane Private Equity Fund X, a global and diversified private equity multi-strategy fund, at approximately USD278 million.
“We are glad to announce this close with the support of a diverse group of both new and existing LPs from around the world,” says Jackie Rantanen, Managing Director and Head of Product Management at Hamilton Lane. “Even with an overall shift in investor preference more towards customised separate accounts or single strategy-focused funds, the multi-strategy structure continues to fit the needs of certain investors, as evidenced by our long history of raising multi-strategy
Northleaf Capital Partners (Northleaf) has raised an additional USD1 billion in capital from Canadian, US, European and Asian investors across its global private markets program, reflecting continued strong investor interest in private equity, private credit and infrastructure investments.
These recent commitments include capital raised for Northleaf’s mid-market infrastructure and private credit programs, as well as significant new commitments to mid-market private equity and secondaries custom mandates managed on behalf of two of Canada’s largest institutional investors. Building on the firm’s strong growth momentum, this new capital brings Northleaf’s private equity, private credit and infrastructure commitments raised to more than USD13
The Management Board of teh Warsaw Stock Exchange Group (GPW) has launched a project aimed at the possible establishment of a Corporate Venture Capital fund (CVC fund) in conjunction with other financial market institutions.
In this connection, GPW has published on its website a Request for Information (RFI) addressed to teams experienced in venture capital fund management.
“We are starting yet another project, aiming to open a CVC fund, an effective tool for investing or collaboration with fintechs which develop technologies for capital market participants. Innovation is the very foundation of our strategic objectives. I am positive that this
Clessidra SGR, a management company in the Italian private equity market, has expanded its business scope by entering the bank credits segment, with a specific focus on the Unlikely to Pay receivables.
Clessidra seized the opportunity to expand into this market with the launch of a new fund dedicated to institutional investors, the Clessidra Restructuring Fund.
The Clessidra Restructuring Fund (CRF) includes two compartments dedicated respectively to the credits component and the new finance component. The credits compartment features receivables sold by 10 banking and financial groups towards 14 Italian companies, which are currently undergoing a financial and industrial
Council Capital, a healthcare-focused private equity firm based in Nashville, and Baird Capital, the direct private investment arm of Baird based in Chicago, have sold their stakes in emids to New Mountain Capital.
Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed. Both firms initially invested in emids in 2013.
emids is a global provider of technology services and solutions for healthcare payers and providers. The company’s services include consulting, custom application development, and data solutions that support EHR application deployment and management, analytics, data integration and governance, software development and testing, and business intelligence. emids is headquartered in Nashville.
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12 November, 2026 – 8:00 am
12 November, 2026 – 5:00 pm
