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Noerr has advised the Schwarz Group on the takeover of the Tönsmeier group of companies. The Schwarz Group, Europe’s largest retail company, is implementing the purchase through its affiliate GreenCycle, located in Neckarsulm, Germany.
GreenCycle is taking over the fifth largest player on the German waste disposal market. Tönsmeier is based in Porta Westfalica, Germany, and is also active on the Polish and Dutch markets. It achieved sales of around €500 million with a workforce of more than 3,000 last year. GreenCycle organises the collection and recycling of all recyclable materials for the Schwarz Group generated in the stores and
MediaMath, a specialist in programmatic advertising, has secured USD225 million in new financing, in a funding round led by Searchlight Capital Partners (Searchlight).
The funding provides MediaMath with strategic growth capital to accelerate the expansion of its Demand Side Platform (DSP) and Data Management Platform (DMP). The funding, which will be delivered in two tranches to pursue both organic and inorganic growth initiatives, brings MediaMath’s total capital invested to over USD500 million.
“The marketing industry has reached a tipping point, with more than half of consumer time now spent on digitally connected devices, yet the challenges associated with connecting marketers
Private equity firm TA Associates is to invest in Compusoft, a provider of computer-aided design (CAD) software to the kitchen and bathroom retail industries. The investment is expected to close in the third quarter of 2018. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Compusoft’s main products, Winner Design and Innoplus, provide design and sales support to kitchen and bathroom retailers, respectively. The user-friendly CAD systems include proprietary databases of graphic elements, pricing information and language translations from more than 2,800 digital manufacturer catalogues. They also feature fully-integrated graphics displayed in real‐time 3D. Additional Compusoft products allow individuals to
Unicorn Capital Partners (Unicorn), a venture capital fund-of-funds manager focused on China and other key technology markets in Asia, has closed Unicorn Partners Fund II at its hard cap of USD250 million.
In line with its two predecessor funds, the Fund will partner with venture capital managers who invest in the areas of technology, media and entertainment (TME), and healthcare throughout China.
Unicorn received strong support from its existing investor base while also adding a number of new investors including leading endowments, foundations, sovereign wealth funds, family offices, and successful technology entrepreneurs.
“We are pleased to announce the
MTech Capital has held the initial closing of the firm’s InsureTech venture fund with USD75 million of capital commitments from three anchor investors including CNA Financial Corporation, NN Group, and a top-3 global insurance company.
MTech Capital is a venture capital firm with offices in Los Angeles and London, founded by Kevin McLoughlin and Brian McLoughlin. The firm is focused on technology-enabled investment opportunities with potential to transform the insurance industry.
MTech Capital’s founders believe the insurance industry is at the very beginning of a digital transformation and that it will be comprehensive. It will likely entail technology redefining
Chicago-based private equity firm Core Industrial Partners’ portfolio company Prototek Sheetmetal Fabrication has acquired Hayes manufacturing Services.
Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Hayes offers rapid prototyping and low-volume precision machining services for a blue-chip customer base primarily in the medical, aerospace, robotics and electronics end markets. Founded in 1991, Hayes has nearly three decades of experience working closely with customers to manufacture products meeting the most stringent dimensional and aesthetic requirements, including tolerances as tight as one ten-thousands of an inch. Hayes holds a variety of certifications and compliance designations, including
The London office of international law firm Winston & Strawn represented Mind Gym PLC on its GBP145 million listing on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange.
The transaction involved a GBP50 million vendor placing by founders and employees and on admission to trading, Mind Gym had a market capitalisation of over GBP145 million.
The placing was oversubscribed and on close of business after the first day of trading the company’s share price had increased by 25 per cent. Liberum Capital Limited acted as nominated adviser, sole bookrunner, and sole broker on the deal.
Mind Gym is
Gide has advised Chalco Hong Kong Limited (Chalco HK) on the negotiation and signing of a mining convention with the Republic of Guinea for the development of the Boffa Nord and Boffa Sud bauxite mining blocks.
The project has an initial investment valued at approximately USD706 million.
Chalco HK, part of the state-owned group Aluminum Corporation of China (Chinalco), will develop and exploit the mine, which will have an initial production capacity of 12 million tons per year, through its Guinean project companies.
The first phase also includes the construction and operation of related infrastructure, including onshore, fluvial and
Rock Hill Capital Group (Rock Hill) has completed a majority recapitalisation of LQC Pipe and Supply, (LQC), a Houston-based wholesale distribution business providing pipes, valves and fittings to midstream and downstream end-users.
LQC was founded in 2008 by Frank “Skip” Spinale. In 2012, his business partner, Tim Rodabough, joined the Company. LQC inventories and distributes carbon steel, stainless steel and special alloy products which are applicable to nearly all natural gas related infrastructure projects and downstream turnaround projects. LQC has become the preferred vendor for many large engineering and construction customers because of its unwavering service-oriented approach. Additional information on
These are propitious times for European infrastructure managers. The European Commission has estimated that around EUR200 billion is needed to upgrade Europe’s infrastructure during the current decade for transmission grids and gas pipelines.
“Clearly the opportunity set in infrastructure is vast and continuing,” comments Martin Lennon, Co Founder and Head of Infracapital, one of Europe’s leading infrastructure investors. Part of M&G Prudential, Lennon co-founded Infracapital with Ed Clarke in 2001, since when it has subsequently raised and managed more than GBP5 billion across five funds.
“Existing infrastructure in Europe needs to be kept relevant in today’s world. There are
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