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EQT Infrastructure portfolio company Kodiak Gas Services (Kodiak) is to acquire Pegasus Optimization Managers (Pegasus) from affiliates of Apollo Natural Resource Partners II, a fund managed by affiliates of Apollo Global Management.
Kodiak’s acquisition of Pegasus solidifies it as an industry leader in service and quality. The combination of Kodiak and Pegasus brings together the two fastest growing contract compression businesses, with the combined youngest fleet in the industry, a focus on exceptional customer service, and technical performance leading to best-in-class mechanical availability and reliability.
Kodiak, acquired by EQT Infrastructure in February 2019, is the largest privately owned and
Sentinel Capital Partners, a private equity firm that invests in promising companies in the lower mid-market, has recapitalised New Era Technology, a technology solutions provider serving customers in the United States, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, and Australia.
Terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
New Era provides a comprehensive suite of managed services and systems integration capabilities for a wide range of IT solutions, including collaboration, data networking, and security. Employing a customer-centric business model, New Era is a trusted technology advisor to more than 6,500 worldwide customers – often name-brand, blue-chip multinational businesses – that span
Prestige Funds has listed its second Luxembourg direct lending fund, the Prime Alternative Finance Fund (PRALTF), on Euronext Dublin.
The share classes include hedged EUR, USD, CHF, SEK as well as GBP based share classes and have accumulation or distribution options all operating with no performance fee and typically without leverage.
PRALTF invests in a diverse portfolio of secured loans to UK-based agricultural businesses and is also exploring opportunities in the Netherlands, Republic of Ireland and the USA. Domiciled in Luxembourg and launched in 2018, the fund now has approximately USD50 million in assets under management taking the overall
CVC Strategic Opportunities II is to acquire a 50 per cent stake in DFE Pharma (DFE), a global excipients manufacturer for the pharmaceutical industry.
DFE is currently a 50/50 joint venture between dairy companies FrieslandCampina and Fonterra. CVC Strategic Opportunities II will acquire Fonterra’s holding in the business.
Headquartered in Goch, Germany, DFE is a global leading excipient manufacturer. Excipients are the inactive substances that are blended with the active ingredients in medicine for purposes such as binding, bulking, disintegration or to aid in the processing of the active ingredient. With operations in Europe, India and New Zealand and
Splio has closed an additional EUR10 million funding round led by Ring Capital, a fund specialised in financing French tech scale-ups, with the participation of Swen Capital Partners and Splio’s historic investors, BPI France and Amundi PEF.
The company, which has offices in Europe and in China, presently offers a SaaS New Loyalty marketing platform, used by over 500 brands in eight different industries, including the brands The Kooples, FNAC, Le Slip Français, Big Fernand, GiFi, Maty, and Longchamp.
Splio raised EUR10 million to accelerate its product development and international growth. Building upon this fundraising and the investors’
UK-based technology company Everledger has completed its USD20 million Series A funding led by Tencent Holdings Ltd, a Chinese internet-based services provider.
Graphene Ventures, Bloomberg Beta, Rakuten, Fidelity and Vickers Venture Partners have also participated.
Leanne Kemp, founder and CEO of Everledger, says: “Today’s announcement amplifies our commitment to global markets, whilst fuelling our industry momentum as we continue to build Everledger. Having this strong investor cohort join us at this stage in our development is both validation of the innovation we’ve displayed to date, and a statement of future intent. They will support us in bringing more visibility
Enhanced Healthcare Partners (EHP), a New York-based private equity firm focused on investing in middle-market healthcare businesses, has closed Enhanced Healthcare Partners with USD300 million of committed capital with access to USD600 million in total equity to invest.
The Fund will invest in founder and entrepreneur-led lower middle-market healthcare businesses in North America, targeting platforms between USD50 and USD250 million in enterprise value in the physician services, pharma services, payor services and healthcare technology sectors. The EHP team will partner with management teams to grow healthcare platforms, leveraging their industry expertise, network and unique investment approach. The Fund represents the
Development Partners International (DPI), a pan-African focused private equity firm, has invested USD54 million in Channel VAS, a fintech provider of mobile financial and airtime credit services operating in Africa, Asia and the Middle East.
Channel VAS provides Mobile Financial Services, Big Data Analytics and Airtime Credit Services to mobile operators and financial institutions in more than 30 countries, enabling access to micro and nano loans including cash, handsets, airtime and data. Since the business began in 2012, it has helped clients serve hundreds of millions of customers in the region.
The company has a track record of delivery
CI Capital portfolio company Maroon Group has acquired Cambrian Solutions, a distributor of specialty ingredients and chemicals based in Oakville, Ontario, Canada.
This marks Maroon Group’s tenth add-on acquisition and significantly extends the company’s North American footprint, providing Maroon with leading distribution capabilities across key end markets in Canada.
Established in 1995, Cambrian Solutions offers a broad portfolio of specialty ingredients and chemicals to customers in the natural and organic; food; household, industrial, and institutional (HI&I); health ingredients; personal care; and industrial markets. This acquisition broadens Maroon Group’s North American network of customers, suppliers, and facilities and reinforces Maroon’s
Capricorn Capital Partners HK Limited, the Hong Kong arm of the family-owned global direct private investment business Capricorn Capital Group, has made its first acquisition in Asia, taking a majority stake in Asia-Pacific Accounting & Secretarial Services Limited (A-Pass) in Hong Kong.
A-Pass was founded in 2006 by Andrew Burgin, a UK national born in Hong Kong, and since then the firm has grown into a well-respected provider of corporate formation, secretarial, accounting, taxation reporting, trade and payroll services. Capricorn Capital acquired 67 per cent and the firm has already made a number of key strategic hires to bolster the
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