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OMERS Private Equity is to acquire a minority stake in National Veterinary Associates (NVA).
The transaction is in partnership with NVA’s leadership team and funds affiliated with Ares Management (NYSE:ARES), which will continue as the majority equityholder of NVA. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The transaction is expected to close during the third quarter of 2017, subject to certain closing conditions.
NVA is the largest independent owner-operator of veterinary hospitals, pet boarding and daycare centres in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand with 502 locations and more than 1,800 affiliated veterinarians. NVA partners with
Palatine Private Equity has invested in TTC Group, a provider of road user and cycling education courses in the UK.
The transaction was introduced by EY Corporate Finance in Birmingham who advised the shareholders. The deal sees Palatine back current MD, Jim Kirkwood and his team, and is the second investment from Palatine’s Midlands office within 18 months of opening.
TTC, founded in 2000 by Graham and Jenny Wynn, provides national speed awareness courses as well as a full suite of other driver training, compliance and education courses across the UK. Having won its first police force contract in
Altitude Partners, the regional private equity firm, is raising of its second regional fund from high net worth investors and family offices, following a further successful exit from its maiden fund.
The boutique investor has sold Gradwell Communications (Gradwell) to a Buy-in Management Buy Out team backed by Chiltern Capital, generating a return of 2.7x. Altitude invested a GBP1.1 million in the business in 2012.
Bath based Gradwell was an early developer of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) telephony in the UK, before diversifying into cloud-based services and connectivity for SMEs following Altitude’s investment.
Altitude also exited The
SEI has acquired Archway Technology Partners, a provider of operating technologies and services to the family office industry and the institutions who service that market.
SEI says the move will allow it to better serve the family office segment, and address additional verticals, including institutions, investment advisors, private banks, hedge funds, and private equity funds.
“This announcement represents a modest shift in SEI’s long-held belief in purely organic growth. We believe there is value in growing through carefully considered strategic acquisitions that add to our expanding geographic footprint, market reach, platform functionality and expertise,” says Alfred P West, J, Chairman and
Castanea Partners has made an investment in Simms Fishing Products, headquartered in Bozeman, Montana.
Founded in 1980 and acquired in 1993 by KC Walsh, its current owner and President, Simms offers a comprehensive line of high-performance fishing apparel, footwear, and gear. Its premium fishing waders are produced domestically at Simms’ manufacturing facility in Bozeman. The company’s products, used by over 6,000 Simms-sponsored fishing professionals globally, are distributed through specialty retail stores both domestically and internationally, and directly to consumers through www.simmsfishing.com.
“Simms is singularly focused on delivering the most technically sound products to ensure that anglers of all types
Axereal Group, has raised EUR150 million to finance its growth projects including the development of the firm’s malting and food processing businesses.
To raise these funds, two financial investors, Temasek and Unigrains, and minority shareholder Tereos subscribed to a capital increase of the group’s malting subsidiary.
This growth primarily concerns the Group’s malting business unit. Axereal subsidiary Boortmalt’s strategy is to support its brewer and distiller customers as they grow, by increasing its production capacities, boosting volumes exported from Antwerp and becoming directly involved in producing barley and malts in fast-growing geographies such as Africa and Asia.
“The
HIG WhiteHorse, the credit affiliate of HIG Capital (HIG) has closed the HIG WhiteHorse Direct Lending Fund and HIG WhiteHorse Loan Fund.
The Fund closed with aggregate capital commitments of approximately USD1.1 billion, exceeding its target, and will now continue HIG’s nvestment strategy of investing in tailored senior secured financing solutions to non-sponsor and sponsor owned companies in the US.
Sami Mnaymneh and Tony Tamer, Co-CEOs of HIG, says: “We are delighted with the success of HIG WhiteHorse. The strong response from our investors to this offering reflects their confidence in the capability of our team and our differentiated
Nordea and AlpInvest have launched a new co-investment fund programme starting with a new EUR200 million fund – NPE Direct.
It is anticipated that the size of the programme may expand to up to EUR400 million. The fund will source co-investment deals from both the Nordea and AlpInvest private equity platforms. The fund sponsors are Nordea Life & Pensions, Nordea Asset Management’s private equity programme and other institutional investors.
“I’m very pleased to announce our new co-investment fund programme that we have established to further support and strengthen the private equity relationships we have developed over the last two
Unigestion has successfully completed the final close of Unigestion Direct Opportunities 2015 (UDO 2015). The fund closed at EUR255 million, comfortably in excess of its original EUR200 million target.
The final close of UDO 2015 was achieved by attracting strong investor support from both new and existing clients including insurers, pension funds, banks and family offices across the UK, mainland Europe and Asia.
Unigestion has already completed four transactions for the fund and continues to operate its successful investment strategy of focusing on small and mid-sized private companies globally. The firm targets investments in companies where growth is driven
Independent investment bank Zeus Capital has supported two major IPOs in consecutive days on the London Stock Exchange’s Alternative Investment Market (AIM).
Global Yachting Group (GYG) was admitted to the market this morning, with asset management firm Tatton Asset Management scheduled to join AIM tomorrow. Zeus Capital acted as nominated adviser (NOMAD) and sole broker on both transactions.
GYG is a global, market-leading painting, supply and maintenance company, operating exclusively with superyacht owners and suppliers for boats in excess of 40m in length.
The business, headquartered in Palma, Mallorca, employs 472 people within its operations throughout the United
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