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Middle market private equity firm One Equity Partners (OEP) is to merge Anvil International (Anvil), a global designer, manufacturer and provider of products that connect and support piping systems, with Smith-Cooper International (Smith-Cooper), a global designer and provider of branded, high-quality pipes, valves, and fittings.
The realisation represents the second exit from OEP’s USD1.65 billion Fund VI. Financial terms of the private transaction have not been disclosed.
Anvil, headquartered in Exeter, N.H., manufactures branded fittings, seismic bracing, struts, pipe shields and valves for US and global businesses across the industrial, mechanical, fire protection, mining and energy industries. The Company’s complete
Foresight Group (Foresight) has made a GBP5 million investment into Steamforged Games (Steamforged), a developer and retailer of tabletop games.
Steamforged was founded in 2014 by Rich Loxam and Mat Hart, both games enthusiasts who dedicated their free time to create ‘Guild Ball’, a sports-based miniature game which went on to achieve critical acclaim. Since then, the team has developed a portfolio of games based on both original and licensed IP.
Their early success led to winning licences to develop games for several renowned video games titles and in doing so, the Company has succeeded in carving out a
Burlington Capital is launching a new venture in its aqueous ozone business by merging CleanCore Technologies and O-Z Tech Water.
This new company, CleanCore Solutions, will be a much more diverse and innovative provider of environmentally safe, chemical-free cleaning technology.
“Burlington Capital, as the majority owner of CleanCore Solutions, is committed to creating industry-leading, sustainable solutions that are important to our clients throughout the United States and Canada,” says Pamela Finn, President of Business Development for Burlington Capital.
Gary Holst, President of CleanCore Solutions, adds: “CleanCore Solutions combines the innovation of both companies that will provide value to our customers
ENDEL, a subsidiary of the ENGIE group, has opened exclusive negotiations for the acquisition of the Pierre Guérin Group.
Capzanine, a European asset management firm specialised in private equity investment, has been a minority shareholder in Pierre Guerrin since early 2017. Based in Niort, the company is a specialist supplier of stainless steel equipment and process lines (engineering, procurement and construction) for the food & beverage and life sciences industries (pharmaceuticals and biotechnology). In recent years, the Group has grown strongly in Asia (mainly China and Korea). Seventy years of experience have refined its high-quality know-how and spread its brand
Edison Partners, a growth equity investment firm, has made a USD8 million growth investment in Suuchi, a supply chain platform provider for fashion brands and retailers.
The company will use the funds to accelerate go-to-market execution and product innovation, as well as continue to expand its network of designers, materials suppliers and factories throughout the United States.
In the USD2 trillion global apparel manufacturing market, the need to shrink the time from concept to consumer is prompting more fashion brands and retailers to seek supply-chain modernisation. Suuchi delivers a next-generation approach to apparel supply chains that streamlines the connection of design
Oak, a new private client, corporate services and fund administration group, has acquired International Administration Group (IAG).
Founded in 2000 by Mark Woodall and Alison Simpson, IAG is a specialist fund administration business headquartered in Guernsey with a team of 43 people. IAG delivers bespoke fund administration and depositary services to private equity, open-ended, listed and alternative asset fund structures and will become the centre of fund expertise within the Oak business.
Oak, which is headquartered in Guernsey, launched in March this year. The business is the consolidation of Oak Trust Group, Consortia Partnership and Kreston IOM which between them
Synthesia, a UK-based startup developing video synthesis technology, has raised USD3.1 million to continue its mission to help brands and content creators scale their video production using AI.
This financing round was led by LDV Capital, early investor Mark Cuban, and joined by new investors MMC Ventures, Seedcamp, Martin Varsavsky’s VAS Ventures, TransferWise co-founder Taavet Hinrikus, Tiny VC, and advertising executive Nigel Morris.
Their cloud-based platform ENACT enables customers to automatically generate personalised and interactive video content for their audiences at an exponentially faster rate and a fraction of the costs.
“Consumers and employees today expect video-based communication
A new Seyfarth Shaw survey suggests that 2019 will continue to be a seller-friendly environment for middle-market M&A deal activity, with more deal participants using representation and warranty insurance policies.
“We are cautiously optimistic that 2019 will be another good year for middle-market M&A activity,” says Andrew Lucano (pictured), Partner at Seyfarth Shaw LLP, when discussing with Private Equity Wire the findings of the sixth edition of its Middle-Market M&A SurveyBook.
“We have closed a number of deals already in 2019 and right now, we are very busy on a number of pending deals and there are still
Fast growing Shearwater Aero Capital, a global corporate aviation finance specialist, is looking to raise up to USD100 million to support its growth, following its strongest performance ever in 2018.
Since Shearwater’s launch in late 2014, the Company has been providing finance solutions for all types of aircraft. Family offices have provided the vast majority of funding for Shearwater’s deals and have received an average Return on Investment (ROI) of between 13 per cent and 15 per cent, with no losses. Funding is relatively low risk with an average loan to value of 65 per cent. As added investment security, all financed aircraft
ClearCourse Partnership, a group of technology companies providing membership software/services and digital capabilities to the membership, events & bookings and sports & leisure sectors, has acquired NetXtra, a provider of intuitive integrated digital services to the membership, charity, not-for-profit and e-commerce sectors.
The deal represents Aquiline-backed ClearCourse’s sixth acquisition and expands the range of digital services that it can provide to membership organisations.
Headquartered in Bury St Edmunds, NetXtra was Co-Founded in 1995 by Simon Hardingham. The Bury St Edmunds based, 25 strong NetXtra team develop and support digital infrastructure services that connect Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems with
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