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Earth Capital has successfully exited the UK Energy Efficiency Investments Fund (UKEEI) through the sale of the Fund’s assets via a GBP100 million IPO.
Earth Capital’s Nobel Sustainability Fund was invested in UKEEI alongside the Green Investment Bank, Earth Capital investee SDCL EEco (SDCL), the European Investment Bank and other institutional LPs. Earth Capital’s impact investing focus includes Energy Efficiency as a key sector, and is strongly aligned with SDCL’s investment strategy.
Gordon Power and Jim Totty worked with the SDCL team on transaction and investment management and sat on the investment committee of the Fund, with Gordon as
SYZ Capital has taken a controlling stake in SINWA, a Singapore-based ships’ chandler supplying essential goods to ships and their crews.
Having been listed on the Singapore Stock Exchange as Sinwa Limited since 2003, this transaction will see SINWA become a private company again.
The news follows several turbulent years for the wider shipping industry that SINWA has weathered very well. In FY2017, revenue grew 13.4 per cent year-on-year to a record SGD 172.6 million (USD 128 million) and the company reached a net profit of SGD 9.5 million (USD 7 million). Further revenue growth of 2.5 per cent
Ropes & Gray has advised private equity firm TSG Consumer Partners on its eighth fund, TSG8, which held a final closing on 4 February with USD4 billion of limited partner capital commitments. As with its prior fund, TSG8 was substantially oversubscribed.
The fund will primarily focus on high-growth consumer companies through equity investments between USD200 million and USD800 million.
The Ropes & Gray team was led by asset management partner Debra Lussier and private equity transactions partner Paul Van Houten, and included tax partner James Brown, asset management associates Lindsay Rutishauser, Zakk Wedemeyer, Robert Rossi and Kenneth Kaufman, tax
O’Melveny has represented Augury, an AI-based machine health solution provider with offices in Haifa, Israel and New York, on its acquisition of Alluvium, a startup that provides real-time machine insights to support safe, stable, and efficient industrial operations.
With the acquisition, Augury becomes the first industrial analytics company to provide both mechanical and operational insights on a single platform. The deal also joins Alluvium’s team with Augury’s, boosting innovation.
The Silicon Valley-based O’Melveny team included partner Einat Meisel, and associates Bhavreet Singh Gill and AJ Talt.
Mid Europa Partners, a leading private equity investor in Central and Eastern Europe, has completed the acquisition of intive.
intive is an international provider of software development services with over 1,600 qualified specialists in 19 offices worldwide. Combining design and technology, intive has become the digitalisation partner of choice for many international corporations across multiple industry verticals including automotive, high-tech, industrial, media, as well as consumer and financial services.
Pan-African private equity firm Development Partners International (DPI) has invested USD35 million from the African Development Partners II fund (ADP II) into International Facilities Services (IFS), a facilities management specialist in Africa.
IFS provides a full suite of specialist facility management services to clients on remote sites across the African continent, including catering, maintenance, laundry and housekeeping. Employing over 2000 people, IFS operates across a diverse range of geographies, with key customers in numerous African countries including Mozambique, DRC, Namibia, Zambia, South Africa and Lesotho, and services a broad range of sectors including hospitality, natural resources, shipping and mining. Since
Dentons has advised Graphite Capital on the sale of UK skincare specialist, sk:n to European and US-focussed private equity firm TriSpan.
Founded in 1986 and based in Birmingham, sk:n is the UK’s largest provider of non-surgical dermatological treatments – such as Botox, hair transplants and laser hair removal – with 51 clinics across the country.
Nicholas Plant, partner in Dentons’ UK Private Equity team and co-leader of the Firm’s global Private Equity practice who led on the deal, says: “We are delighted to have advised Graphite, a longstanding client, on the successful sale of this business.”
Alongside Nicholas
Harris Williams, an investment bank specialising in M&A advisory services, advised on the sale of Nature Delivered (trading as graze), a portfolio company of Carlyle Europe Technology Partners, to Unilever.
graze is a technology-enabled healthy snacks brand that sells its products online directly to consumers, and in retail.
The transaction, led by Glenn Gurtcheff, William Bain, Ryan Freeman, Andreas Poth, Andy Warczak and Faye Maughan of Harris Williams’ Consumer Group, extends the firm’s track record in the healthy snack sector.
“Unilever is a strong cultural fit for graze – they share a common vision for the roles healthy
SysGroup is to acquire Certus IT Limited, for an initial cash consideration of GBP8.0 million. The company has also raised GBP10.0 million from the capital markets, which, in addition to its new GBP5.0 million banking facility from Santander, will enable greater fire power for complementary future acquisitions.
Adam Binks, CEO of SysGroup, says: “I am delighted to be welcoming both the Certus IT team and its customers to the SysGroup family. The addition of Certus IT to the group represents a step-change regarding the scale of the business, better positioning SysGroup to penetrate our target market and drive further growth.
Affiliates of Z Capital Partners (Z Capital), the private equity management arm of Z Capital Group, have acquired Techniks Tool Group (TTG), a provider of tool holding and work-holding products used in CNC machine applications for industrial end markets.
Formed in 2017 through the combination of industry-leading brands Techniks and Parlec, which have more than 90 years of combined experience, Techniks Tool Group is among the providers of choice for mission-critical and productivity-enhancing aftermarket CNC tooling, cutting tool and work-holding solutions. TTG leverages world-class domestic manufacturing capabilities, a global high-value supply chain, R&D technologies and decades of innovation to service an
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