Allocations
Ropes & Gray has served as legal counsel to Kohlberg & Company (Kohlberg) in its agreement to acquire a majority stake in EN Engineering from General Atlantic. The transaction was announced on 18 July.
Kohlberg is a leading private equity firm headquartered in Mount Kisco, New York. EN Engineering is a leading utility services firm and provides comprehensive design, engineering,, and automation services to utilities, pipeline companies, and industrial customers.
The Ropes & Gray team advising Kohlberg was led by private equity transactions partner Will Shields and private equity transactions associate Andrew Silver, and included finance partner Steve Rutkovsky,
New research has revealed that M&A activity in the marketing sector in the first half of 2019 was largely driven by private equity (PE) investment, with many of the traditional network acquirers absent from the list of most active buyers.
There were 91 private equity deals in Q2, bringing the total number of PE-backed deals so far this year to 180, accounting for around a quarter of the 745 deals seen in total in H1 2019 across marketing services, martech* and adtech**.
Just under half of the private equity deals in Q2 2019 were the result of ‘buy and
A company backed by the Permira Funds is to acquire a majority stake in Quotient from companies controlled by GHO Capital and other investors for an undisclosed sum.
The investment provides substantial new funding to fuel the next stage of Quotient’s growth. Chief Executive Mark Egerton and the management team will continue to lead Quotient and will remain investors in the Company alongside the Permira Funds.
Quotient Sciences has brought innovation to the pharmaceutical services sector through its unique Translational Pharmaceutics® platform, which is proven to accelerate development timelines, reduce development costs, and drive improvement in R&D productivity. The business
Panoramic Growth Equity (Panoramic) has backed the management buyout of specialty industrial insulation business Elmelin. This is the tenth investment for Panoramic Growth Fund 2.
Walthamstow based Elmelin has been operating for over 100 years providing specialist insulation solutions into a range of markets across the globe. With a focus on the refractory market, over 80 per cent of sales are exported through both distributor channels and direct to the customer. Elmelin’s strength lies in its ability to develop insulation solutions specific to customer needs, and to provide the resilience and quality required in high temperature applications across a range
Omnes has acquired a minority stake in the Belgian consulting firm Intys, alongside the existing management team.
Based in Brussels, Intys is one of the leading consulting firms in Belgium. As a multi-specialist player, Intys has a recognized expertise in the healthcare, energy, industrials and financial services sectors. Its 80 clients include leading companies and institutions active in Belgium and France.
Founded in 2007 by Michel Van Hemele and Philippe Metz, Intys has been historically developing through organic growth, and in recent years carried out several strategic acquisitions: Clear2Pay Services (2016), AGIR (2016), Vadis Technologies (2017), AES (2017) and
Fresh Direct Produce, a portfolio company of middle-market private equity company HKW, has acquired Emperor Specialty Foods (Emperor). Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Founded in 1986, Emperor is a distributor of mushrooms, pears, and other specialty fruits and vegetables. This add-on provides meaningful growth opportunities for Fresh Direct Produce, which distributes more than 1,000 domestic, imported, and organic fruit and vegetable items. Emperor is headquartered in Richmond, BC, Canada.
“With a talented management team and range of complementary products, we are confident Emperor will prove an important addition to Fresh Direct Produce, and play
CVC Capital Partners has held the final close of CVC Strategic Opportunities II (SO II) with total commitments of EUR4.6 billion, surpassing the fund’s target of EUR4 billion.
SO II’s global investor base, made up of sovereign wealth, public and private pension funds, financial institutions, foundations, endowments and family offices, diversifies the platform’s overall investor mix and reflects the growing appetite for this type of longer life vehicle.
The Strategic Opportunities platform invests in long-term capital appreciation opportunities across Western Europe and North America which fall outside CVC’s traditional private equity strategies. The platform seeks out stable opportunities with attractive
Inflexion Private Equity is to acquire Estera, a global provider of funds, corporate and trust services from Bridgepoint. Following completion of the investment, Estera will be merged with Inflexion’s existing portfolio company Ocorian, forming a global corporate service and fund administration leader of significant scale.
The combined business will operate from 18 key global jurisdictions, including Bermuda, Cayman, Guernsey, Ireland, Jersey, Luxembourg and Mauritius. The businesses will have over 1,250 professionals globally, serving over 8,000 clients across the corporate service, fund administration and private client sector. Together, Ocorian and Estera, will provide a complete range of services to clients with
One of the biggest issues facing the global PE industry currently is allocating capital to the right investments without falling into value traps and overpaying for companies, such are the record levels of dry powder in the market.
When it comes to fundraising, roadshows are still important but according to Thomas Erichsen (pictured), Regional Director EMEA, Private Equity & Real Estate, TMF Group, “technology is beginning to play quite a big part, with some managers raising a particular amount and finding new, quicker ways to allocate the capital via technology”.
“This has changed the allocation process to some degree
Global business travel platform TravelPerk has closed its series C round at USD104m by adding an additional USD60 million from existing investors.
The investment will be used to further accelerate the company’s product innovation with the goal of giving business travellers real freedom and flexibility while providing companies with control over their travel spend. As well as continuing its European expansion, the company expects to announce major product additions in the coming weeks and months that will bring a new level of disruption to the pricing structure of an industry that is still dominated by outdated solutions that make business
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