Managers
Carnegie Affiliated Managers (Caram) is to acquire (via its subsidiary Caram Alternative Investments AB) approximately 35 per cent of the equity in Albatris AB (Albatris), with Albatris’ management retaining 65 per cent.
Albatris’ ambition is to be a leading investment company in the Non-Performing Loan (NPL) segment of European alternative credit investments.
Caram’s investment is consistent with its strategy to invest in focused independent firms with strong investment led cultures. The Caram group was founded in 2016 by its majority owner Altor Fund III and is the largest independent asset management group in the Nordics with over EUR23 billion
BIOHM Health, a microbiome company has secured funding from New York based private equity firm Vanterra Capital.
Vanterra’s strategic investment in BIOHM Health emphasises the firm’s growing activity in the health & wellness sectors.
“Vanterra’s investment in BIOHM Health underscores consumer demand for truly innovative products in the microbiome and digestive health space,” says BIOHM Health CEO Afif Ghannoum. “Vanterra has a keen understanding of the health & wellness market and BIOHM Health is on the forefront of applying cutting-edge microbiome research to consumer products. It’s a win-win partnership.”
Vanterra will join the BIOHM Health board along with the
Pine Brook has completed the sale of its majority ownership interest in Amedeo, an asset manager and principal investor focused on widebody aircraft leasing, to the Company and its management team. Financial terms of the private transaction were not disclosed.
“Amedeo has been a great investment for Pine Brook, and is an excellent example of our unique ‘business building’ model, in which we partner with experienced management teams to create new businesses and support execution of their growth plan,” says Oliver Goldstein, Managing Director on Pine Brook’s financial services team. “The old model would have been to create a traditional
LeapFrog Investments, the dedicated investor in financial services and healthcare for emerging consumers, has sold a major stake in BIMA to Allianz X – the digital investment unit of the global insurer and asset manager, Allianz Group – as part of a USD96.6m transaction.
Allianz will now partner with BIMA, an emerging markets mobile insurer, to drive its next stage of growth.
BIMA harnesses mobile network infrastructure to deliver low-cost but quality insurance – to people in markets with low penetration of financial services but widespread mobile telephone usage. Seventy-five per cent of BIMA customers are experiencing insurance for the first time.
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Family-owned APS Group, the UK’s largest tomato grower, has secured funding from BGF to support its continued expansion.
Headquartered in Cheshire, APS plans to build a new glasshouse to extend capacity at existing sites and make further investments into industry leading, innovative technologies and automation to optimise operational efficiencies.
APS currently manages 56 hectares of glasshouses and operates several packhouses across sites in Alderley Edge, Middlewich, Kent, West Sussex, Teesside, East Yorkshire and the Isle of Wight. More than 700 people are employed across the group which produces 500 million tomatoes per year using the best traditional and modern
Pathstone Federal Street has launched a new environmental, social and governance (ESG) measurement tool as part of its portfolio execution platform: P-Cubed (Pathstone Portfolio Platform).
P-Cubed provides the ability to hold diverse investments in a single account, at a lower cost and improved efficiency.
“We developed P-Cubed to provide clients with meaningful tax and expense efficiencies, but now it is much more than that,” says Mathew Fleissig (pictured), President of Pathstone. “Today, P-Cubed delivers the power to strategically customise and align a client’s portfolio with their goals in ways we believe were not possible before. This is a new
Flexera has entered into a new investment partnership with private equity firm TA Associates.
TA is acquiring equity from existing investors, and will work in partnership with existing lead investor Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan (Ontario Teachers’) to continue to grow the company. The transaction is expected to close in February 2018.
“The USD350 billion supply chain governing how software is bought, sold, managed and secured is broken, and it’s costing organisations tens of billions of dollars per year. Flexera solves this ingrained problem, and the market is rewarding our innovation with double digit growth, and world-class customer satisfaction and renewal
GCA Altium’s UK business has ended 2017 on a high after completing 12 transactions in the final quarter of the year.
The global advisory-focused investment bank has advised on more than 50 European deals including high profile transactions such as the sale of Breitling to CVC and the GBP171 million IPO of sports retailer Footasylum.
In recent weeks, GCA Altium has advised Livingbridge on its deal with cloud services provider Giacom, as well as the partnership capital investment by Inflexion which valued Radius Payment Solutions at c.GBP800m and leading the takeover of Sofology by DFS, which is the UK’s
The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) and CDC International Capital (CDC IC) are expanding the scope of their cooperation within the framework of the Russia-France investment platform.
The parties have agreed to jointly search and invest into small and medium-sized businesses in both Russia and France (standard investment amount in each project below 20 million euros). These investments will strengthen trade and economic cooperation between the two countries. A corresponding agreement was signed today in the presence of the French Economy and Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire and the Russian Minister of Economic Development Maxim Oreshkin, during the 23rd session
Clearwater International UK has advised Seabrook Crisps Ltd (Seabrook), backed by private equity firm LDC, on its EUR25.7 million (GBP23.5 million) refinance, with funding provided by Apera Capital.
Established in 1945, Seabrook produces a range of crinkle cut, straight cut and premium lattice crisps, at its headquarters in Bradford, Yorkshire. The company supplies over 20 million bags of crisps each month and has a strong position as the major challenger brand in the category in grocery retail, value retail and foodservice.
Pan-European mid-market private debt investor Apera, is providing unitranche facilities which will support Seabrook in continuing its growth
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