Managers
A portfolio company of Leeds-based private equity investor Endless has undergone a major rebrand to enable the expansion of its current service offer and provide the platform for sustainable growth.
Findel, a national and international ecommerce educational resources supplier, owns specialist education brands Hope, GLS, Philip Harris and Davies Sports. The parent brand, Findel, and all its specialist brands have been rebranded.
Hope, GLS, Philip Harris and Davies Sports provide resources for primary school, secondary school and early years teaching; school business managers; science teaching resources; and PE and sport equipment respectively.
Findel’s origins as an educational resources
Vision Innovation Partners, a leading eye care platform backed by Centre Partners, has acquired Memorial Eye Institute, a leading ophthalmology practice and surgical centre with two locations in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
The acquisition is Vision Innovation Partners 22nd in total. Founded in 2017, Vision Innovation Partners;footprint now includes 63 practice locations and 11 surgery centers across Maryland, Washington DC, Virginia and Pennsylvania’
Centre Partners is a middle-market private equity firm focused on the healthcare and consumer sectors.
OrthoBethesda, a physician-led and majority physician-owned provider of orthopaedic services in the greater Washington, DC region and a portfolio company of Atlantic Street Capital (ASC), has partnered with Washington Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine (WOSM).
The combination creates a leading orthopaedic care services provider in the region with 27 world class orthopaedists.
VC-backed exits and healthcare funding/investment both set new records yet again in 2021, according to Silicon Valley Bank’s (SVB) annual Healthcare Investments and Exits report.
Medtronic, a specialist in healthcare technology, is to acquire Affera, Inc, a Boston area-based, privately held medical technology company.
Affera designs and manufactures cardiac mapping and navigation systems and catheter-based cardiac ablation technologies, including a differentiated, focal pulsed field ablation solution, for the treatment of patients with cardiac arrhythmias (irregular heartbeats) such as atrial fibrillation (AF). Medtronic, through its minority investment portfolio, has been a strategic investor in Affera and currently holds a 3 per cent ownership stake in the company.
The acquisition expands the Medtronic portfolio of advanced cardiac ablation products and accessories to meet physician needs within a
Repeats Group is to build a pan-European plastics recycling platform focused on producing high-quality recycled low-density polyethylene (LDPE) with a EUR100 million equity commitment from Ara Partners, a global private equity firm that specialises in industrial decarbonisation investments.
Repeats utilises a best-in-class mechanical process to transform post-commercial plastic waste into high-quality resin suitable for commercial and industrial applications. The company is scaling LDPE recycling capacity throughout Europe to address the shortage of supply compared to the growing demand required to meet industry sustainability and net zero targets, increasing consumer preferences for low-carbon products and stricter regulatory requirements around decarbonisation.
Operations
The Lending Pool managed by Maven 11 on the capital marketplace Maple Finance has reached a volume of USD175 million.
Launched in July 2021, the Lending Pool has issued 35 loans to premier institutional borrowers in the crypto industry, such as Alameda Research, a quantitative trading firm, GSR, a crypto market maker, and digital asset platform Amber Group.
Maple Finance is a decentralised corporate debt marketplace built to create a sustainable yield source for long-term focused lenders to earn a competitive return on their assets. The capital on Maple Finance’s platform sits in Lending Pools, each managed by a Pool
Waterland Private Equity (Waterland) has acquired RUF|Betten and BRUNO, a supplier of premium beds in the German market, from NORD Holding.
RUF and BRUNO’s current management will remain with the companies in their usual function.
The transaction is expected to be completed in the first quarter of 2022 and is subject to the usual antitrust approval by the German regulatory authorities. No further financial details have been released.
The annual turnover of the group amounts to EUR60 million. With the support of the new owner and buy-&-build investor Waterland, the group intends to continue its successful growth trajectory and further
An affiliate of Enterprise Products Partners has acquired Navitas Midstream Partners (Navotas) for USD3.25 billion in an all-cash deal.
Navitas is a portfolio company of funds managed by Warburg Pincus LLC, a leading global growth investor.
Founders R Bruce Northcutt, Bryan Neskora and Jim Wade previously built Copano Energy, LLC into a substantial enterprise at scale before its sale to Kinder Morgan.
Jefferies LLC served as financial advisor to Navitas in connection with the transaction, and Kirkland & Ellis served as legal advisor.
This transaction is expected to be completed in the first quarter of 2022, subject to customary regulatory
Bregal Partners (Bregal) has made a new platform investment in Juniper Landscaping (Juniper), a provider of landscaping services to commercial clients throughout the state of Florida.
Headquartered in Fort Myers, FL, Juniper has been family-owned and operated since its founding in 2001. Under CEO Brandon Duke’s leadership, the Company has expanded its presence across Florida through a client-centric approach focused on both organic and acquisition growth. Juniper currently operates a network of 15 local branches serving more than 1,500 properties. Juniper’s clients include home-owners’ associations, commercial clients and municipalities throughout southern and central Florida. Through its new partnership with Bregal,
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