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Associated Capital Group (AC) is to launch Gabelli Private Equity Partners (GPEP), a new private equity investment management business focused on leveraged buyouts and restructuring of small and mid-sized companies.
GPEP will be funded with up to USD150 million of the Company’s capital.
“GPEP is a logical extension of Gabelli’s investment platform based on our 40 year history of valuing companies on a private market value basis. As further background, in the mid-80’s, we launched a private equity fund, Gabelli-Rosenthal, which had in excess of USD300 million of capital (in today’s dollars).”
Doug Jamieson, CEO of the Company
A Canadian producer of healthy, gluten free and organic pasta, Chickapea Pasta, has secured an investment from District Ventures Capital, the Venture Capital fund established by Canadian Dragon’s Den star Arlene Dickinson.
Chickapea Pasta has revolutionised the pasta industry by developing a healthy and tasty alternative to the dinner-time-classic. Made from just two ingredients, chickpeas and lentil flour, Chickapea pastas are gluten free, non-GMO Project Verified, certified organic and vegan, and offer an amazing 23 g of protein.
The company’s line of healthy pastas has gained traction with independent, regional and national grocers across Canada and the United States. Chickapea Pasta, together with District Ventures Capital,
IGF, the leading commercial finance provider for SMEs, has delivered a total of GBP16.27 million to SMEs within the UK’s manufacturing sector over the past year.
Since its management buy in/buy out in 2016, IGF has financed a total of 12 manufacturing businesses nationwide across a variety of trades including insulation, piping, FMCG, steelworks, household textiles, and windows. The funding delivered ranges from a GBP50,000 invoice finance facility to a GBP5 million asset based lending facility, with IGF funding assets including stock and property.
John Onslow, CEO, Independent Growth Finance, says: “The UK’s manufacturing sector has historically been strong,
Suir Valley Ventures, the entrepreneur-led venture capital fund, which was launched in partnership with Shard Capital Partners in February 2017, has invested EUR750,000 into Wia, an Internet of Things (IoT) cloud platform.
In addition to Suir’s investment, Enterprise Ireland will be investing further funds into Wia, which is looking to establish its cloud platform as the enabling technology that powers the rapidly growing IoT market.
Wia’s ground-breaking IoT cloud platform enables developers to turn any type of sensing device into a secure, smart and useful application in a matter of minutes, generating considerable time and cost savings for teams
Ufenau Capital Partners, a privately owned Swiss Investor Group, has, in close collaboration with a highly experienced buy-in management team, invested in Desperado, a Mexican fast casual dining and bar operator in Switzerland.
With 200 employees, Desperado offers high quality Mexican food and drinks in an entertaining atmosphere.
The company operates its restaurants at high frequency locations, such as city centres, shopping malls and cinemas and focuses on life-style oriented guests between the age of 18 and 40. In addition to fresh Mexican food and cold drinks, Desperado restaurants provide their guests with a unique entertainment and leisure experience.
Cloudreach, a company majority owned by Blackstone Tactical Opportunities, has acquired a majority stake in Philadelphia-based cloud computing analytics and migration automation leader Cloudamize. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
The deal brings together two highly complementary and accomplished businesses that were both born in the cloud and have become leaders in their respective spaces. The combined company has a major presence in North America and the UK as well as operations in six other countries. Its combined expertise in cloud consulting, managed services and cloud enabling software form a wide breadth of support and services to enable,
Viscolube, a portfolio company of Stirling Square Capital Partners’ Third Fund, has acquired Bitolea Holding from Clessidra Capital Partners II (Clessidra).
Viscolube is the Italian leader in the used motor oil recycling sector, and a growing player in the hazardous waste collection and treatment sector in Italy. It operates two chemical plants which process over 170 thousand tonnes of used lubricant oil annually and an industrial waste collection network managing more than 140 thousand tonnes for more than 12,000 customers.
Bitolea is the leading Italian player in the treatment and recycling of solvents and other chemical waste, managing over
Alfatherm has sold its self-adhesive tape substrate business to Tekni-Plex.
The self-adhesive tape substrate business will be integrated into Tekni-Films Gallazzi, Tekni-Plex’s operation located in Gallarate (VA), Italy.
Marino Uberti, CEO of Alfatherm, says: “The divestiture of the adhesive tape substrate business is part of a broader strategic review. We will focus our growth on Alfatherm’s core sectors such as surface decoration, capsules and sleeves and films for the graphic art segment.”
Barings has acted as mandated lead arranger of a senior secured, multi-currency credit facility to support Battery Ventures’ continued buildout of its process-measurement platform through its acquisition of Rotronic AG.
Rotronic, based in Switzerland, is a global leader in the development and manufacture of humidity- and temperature-measurement and monitoring solutions used in manufacturing and other industrial processes. The firm joins Battery’s Process Sensing Technologies platform, which also includes Michell Instruments Group and Analytical Industries Inc.
“Battery Ventures appreciates the continued support of Barings’ global private finance group on the addition of Rotronic to the Process Sensing Technologies platform,” says
Carbo Ceramics is to sell Carbo Ceramics Cyprus Limited, which owns a proppant manufacturing facility in Kopeysk, Russia, to Petro Welt Technologies AG (PeWeTe).
The BCS Global Markets team acted as an exclusive financial advisor to Carbo Ceramics Inc. on the transaction.
Yuri Prilipov, Head of Investment Banking, BCS Global Markets, says: “We are highly pleased with the results of the deal and are looking forward to the full approval of the transaction by the Russian Federal Antimonopoly Service. We believe that it was a highly competitive process, with maximised coverage of the market and potential buyer’s universe, which
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