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Private equity firm Sentinel Capital Partners has sold WellSpring Consumer Healthcare, a North American marketer of leading consumer health brands. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
WellSpring Consumer Healthcare manages a portfolio of high-performing consumer healthcare brands, including Emetrol, Bonine, Bactine, GlaxalBase, and FDS. These brands occupy the #1 or #2 positions in their respective segments and benefit from a long-standing heritage, high awareness among consumers, and an entrenched retail presence. WellSpring Consumer Healthcare possesses an in-house acquisition capability coupled with a highly efficient and scalable operating model which has proven its ability to identify and integrate new
BGF has agreed to exit its minority stake in aircraft seat manufacturer, Acro Aircraft Seating. The company will, subject to the satisfaction of certain conditions including regulatory approval, be acquired by Zhejiang Science and Technology Investment Company (ZTC) for GBP55 million.
The acquisition will accelerate Acro’s access to the Chinese market. ZTC is the parent company of Zhejiang Tiancheng Controls Co., a manufacturer of seats for construction vehicles, trucks and cars listed in Shanghai.
BGF invested GBP7.8 million into Acro in November 2015 and, as a minority partner, has backed the company’s management team since then.
Co-founder and
Legal & General announces that it has provided circa GBP120 million of debt in support of the Equitix, HICL and Infrared consortium’s purchase of High Speed 1 (HS1), the high-speed railway connecting London to the Channel Tunnel.
The deal was financed by LGIM Real Assets, on behalf of clients including Legal & General Retirement (LGR), and represents its second investment in UK rail related infrastructure this year after it helped to finance a fleet of new Bombardier trains for the First MTR South Western Trains franchise in June.
The 68 mile line runs from the capital to Kent connecting
Maven Capital Partners has completed a GBP1 million investment in hedgehog lab Limited, a mobile app designer and technology consultancy headquartered in Newcastle.
The funding will support hedgehog lab’s next phase of growth and allow the company to further invest in its sales and marketing function, boost its delivery capabilities and broaden its presence overseas, while also creating additional jobs. hedgehog lab currently has a sales presence in the UK, US, Denmark and India and delivery teams in the UK and India.
hedgehog lab operates in a large and fast growing market which is being driven by an increasing
Funds managed by Blackstone Real Estate Partners and Blackstone Tactical Opportunities have completed the previously announced acquisition of International Market Centers (IMC), an owner and operator of premier showroom space for the furnishings, home decor and gift industries, from Bain Capital Private Equity, and funds managed by Oaktree Capital Management.
Fireside Investments also partnered with Blackstone on the acquisition.
IMC is the world’s largest owner and operator of premier showroom space for the furnishings, home decor and gift industries, with 12.2 million square feet of world-class exhibition space in High Point, NC and Las Vegas, NV catering to over 2,000
Tikehau Capital has arranged a USD130 million dual currency unitranche facility to support Sun Capital Partners’ acquisition of C&K Holdings, a manufacturer of electromechanical switches.
C&K was founded in 1928 and has one of the industry’s broadest product portfolios, offering more than 55,000 standard products and 8.5 million switch combinations to companies that design, manufacture and distribute electronics products. In addition, C&K’s unmatched custom design capabilities are recognised globally by engineers who demand reliable switch performance.
C&K is headquartered in Newton, Massachusetts, with more than 1,500 employees working at its global design centre in Newton; Dole, France; and Huizhou, China. C&K
Siparex has raised EUR315 million in capital commitments for Siparex ETI 4, the firm’s fourth-generation fund, which will focus on helping mid-market firms expand.
The new fund is significantly larger than the previous-generation fund, Siparex Midmarket 3, and has greatly increased Siparex’s investment capability in the midmarket segment.
With the goal of financing independent midmarket growth companies with sales of EUR100 million to 500 million, Siparex ETI 4 is positioned to make unit investments of up to EUR30 million in a relatively small portfolio of some 15 investee companies.
By doubling their commitments to the new fund (on average), historic
Marwyn Value Investors has reported a 4.94 per cent increase in Net Asset Valaue (NAV) per ordinary share for the six months ended 30 June 2017, representing a 6.87 per cent total return including distributions to shareholders, compared with an increase in value of the FTSE AllÂShare of 5.50 per cent over the same period.
The NAV per realisation share over the period increased by 8.84 per cent. The increases in NAV per ordinary share and per realisation share over the period are primarily attributable to an increase in the share prices of Zegona Communications plc (Zegona) and BCA Marketplace
Later stage VC and growth capital firm IVP has closed IVP XVI, a USD1.5 billion fund. This is the largest fund in the firm’s 37-year history and brings cumulative committed capital to USD7 billion.
IVP XVI was significantly oversubscribed, with the firm’s existing Limited Partners contributing the vast majority of the capital.
As an investor in innovative companies such as AppDynamics, Domo, Dropbox, The Honest Company, Slack, Snap, Supercell, Twitter, and ZipRecruiter, IVP remains committed to its focused strategy of supporting innovation at the growth stage and partnering closely with exceptional management teams throughout the United States. Since its
Britbots, the mentoring organisation devoted to supporting British-based robotics start-ups, has launched Britbots CROWD, the world’s first dedicated equity crowd-funding platform for high potential companies in field of robotics and associated technologies.
Many of the companies listed will have already been backed by the British Robotics Seed Fund, which raised in excess of GBP500,000 in its first fund, and will announce the opening of its second fund later this autumn.
As automation and robotisation drive significant productivity improvements across the global economy, the Britbots CROWD platform gives private investors the opportunity to build up a personal share-portfolio comprising of
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