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Mid-market private equity firm Bowmark Capital has backed the buy-out of The Instant Group, a specialist in independent flexible workspace solutions.
Founded in 1999, Instant provides alternative methods of office procurement and management, with specific focus on flexible workspace and medium-term lease solutions, employing 250 people in 11 cities around the world.
Its market leading digital platform for flexible office procurement and innovative ’managed office’ solutions allow clients to rethink workspace as an enabler of transformation and growth rather than just as an overhead.
Instant has delivered compound annual revenue growth of 30 per cent over the past
Mid-market private equity investor LDC has invested GBP28 million for a minority shareholding in one of the UK’s leading vehicle insurance specialists: Right Choice Insurance Brokers (RCIB).
RCIB is a motor insurance broker with great insurer relationships, helping to deliver competitive premiums to those customers who typically find it more difficult to buy insurance online. The business uses its unique proprietary software alongside human interaction making it a truly value-additive insurance broker.
RCIB was launched by CEO Mike Joseph in 2008 and has grown year on year since, reaching turnover of GBP26 million in its latest financial year and
HIG Capital (HIG), a global private equity investment firm with over USD25 billion of equity capital under management, is pleased to announce it has completed a strategic investment in Brazilian hospital Grupo Meridional, one of the leading hospital groups in Brazil.
Headquartered in Cariacica and with five hospitals in the State of EspÃrito Santo, Meridional is the fifth largest private hospital group in the country and the leading private hospital in the state of Espirito Santo. With a total of over 400 hospital beds and established international accreditation, Meridional provides a wide range of advanced healthcare treatments in the metropolitan
Ropes & Gray has advised Reed & Mackay, an international travel management company, on its acquisition of Hillgate Travel, a leading UK-based travel management company.
The financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
The deal takes Reed & Mackay’s global turnover past the GBP600 million mark. With both businesses in growth phase, the acquisition will see the collective business accelerate the evolution of their suite of industry-leading technology, across the key international markets of their client base.
The Ropes & Gray team was led by private equity partner Phil Sanderson. Other members of the team included finance
L Squared Capital Partners has made a growth investment in Kanopy, its eighth platform investment over the past four years.
Headquartered in San Francisco, Kanopy is a streaming video platform that offers millions of professors, students, and public library patrons free and convenient access to a unique collection of 30,000 highly curated films and documentaries. Kanopy has emerged as the leading destination for thoughtful educational entertainment with content ranging from award winning independent films and documentaries to cinematic classics to engaging lifelong learning course modules.
Kanopy’s CEO & Founder Olivia Humphrey, says: “We are thrilled to partner with the
Consumer-focused private equity firm L Catterton is to make a strategic investment in Goiko Grill, one of Spain’s most successful casual dining concepts.
Founded in Madrid in 2013, Goiko Grill is the fastest growing full-service restaurant chain in the Spanish gourmet burger casual dining space. The Company currently operates 44 locations in Spain, delivering daily on its customer promise of “the best burgers and the best service, efficiency and good vibes” to an increasing numbers of patrons. Goiko Grill benefits from an unmatched brand awareness and visibility in the Spanish restaurant market thanks to its high exposure on social media,
Sovereign Capital Partners has realised its investment in Linnaeus Group, one of the UK’s leading veterinary services providers, in a sale to Mars Petcare’s Veterinary Health Group, a part of Mars, Incorporated.
The exit, Sovereign’s largest ever sale, will generate Sovereign’s strongest ever gross return, although no financial terms are able to be disclosed. This is the seventh exit from Sovereign’s third fund – SCLP III.
Sovereign backed the original veterinary platform, Willows Veterinary Centre and Referral Service, one of the leading specialist veterinary centres for small animals in the UK, in September 2014. At the time of the
UK-based Aestimo Technologies Limited has launched the Aestimo Technologies Luxembourg Fund SA SICAV-RAIF.
MJ Hudson acted as legal counsel to Aestimo on the launch of the fund, which aims to harness quantitative techniques to extract profits from conditional inefficiencies in the European main equity markets through short-term directional positions.
Co-founder, co-CEO and COO of Aestimo Technologies Limited, Olivier Varon, says: “MJ Hudson was mandated after a thorough selection process, inspired by the methodological approaches for which we are known. We wanted a firm that has a true comprehension of start-up constraints and that was able to provide legal advice
Sentinel Capital Partners, a private equity firm that invests in promising companies at the lower end of the midmarket, has acquired GSM Outdoors, a provider branded accessories for the hunting, sport shooting, and outdoor enthusiast markets.
Terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
Headquartered in Grand Prairie, Texas, GSM has a broad portfolio of innovative hunting and sport shooting products sold under highly recognised brand names. GSM’s industry leading brands include Stealth Cam (technologically advanced game scouting cameras); Walker’s (hearing protection and enhancement devices); Cyclops (specialty outdoor lighting); Western Rivers (game calls); American Hunter (game feeders); HME (hunting
SIS Ventures is launching its first GBP5 million fund to back Scotland’s high impact enterprises.
Benefiting from both Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) relief and Social Investment Tax Relief (SITR), Impact First will offer investors a portfolio of between six and twelve high-growth potential, high-impact enterprises which aim to tackle a clearly identifiable social problem with a scalable and disruptive business solution.
The first close seeks to raise GBP2 million from UK-based private investors, with the capital targeted for deployment over 12-18 months. Investments will target EIS (equity) or SITR (debt) qualifying companies.
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