Managers
Audax Private Equity has partnered with management to acquire Impact Facility Services, d/b/a Academy Fire Life Safety, from Caltius Equity Partners, a private equity firm based in Los Angeles.
Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Academy, headquartered in Maspeth, NY and Long Beach, CA, is a provider of fire and life safety services to national, regional, and local customers across retail, hospitality, healthcare, industrial, and other end markets. Academy offers inspection, service, customised work orders, and installation for fire alarms, sprinklers, fire extinguishers, and other fire suppression systems.
Geoffrey Rehnert, co-CEO of Audax, says: “Academy is
Law firm Browne Jacobson has advised on the sale of Hangar Seven to The Hut Group, a European online retailer of premium, non-perishable FMCG products for the health and beauty sectors, for an undisclosed consideration.
Corporate finance lawyers Richard Medd and Vicky Gaskell advised the shareholders on the disposal of the business which will see Midland’s based investment fund Catapult Venture Managers exit the business.
Leicestershire based Catapult is an independent venture capital fund manager which specialises in providing early, middle, and late stage growth capital to SME businesses in the healthcare, pharmaceuticals, luxury consumer brands, manufacturing and software
Synpromics, a synthetic promoter and gene control company, has completed a financing round of GBP5.2 million led by existing investors Calculus Capital, the Scottish Investment Bank, the investment arm of Scottish Enterprise and private shareholders.
Synpromics has grown rapidly over the past two years as it expanded its portfolio of international customers. These include leading gene therapy companies and multinational technology corporations, most recently GE Healthcare.
The majority of the new investment will be used to further develop and exemplify Synpromics proprietary PromPT synthetic promoter design platform. PromPT enables the design of unique synthetic promoters which give precise control
Private equity fund manager Calculus Capital has invested GBP3.5 million in Scottish biotechnology company Synpromics via its Enterprise Investment Scheme funds and venture capital trust.
Calculus has invested in a GBP5.2 million fundraising round alongside the Scottish government’s economic development agency, Scottish Enterprise and a group of private investors.
Edinburgh-based Synpromics is a developer of synthetic gene promoters. These are a vital component in the research and development of gene-based medical treatments and therapies.
Calculus has previously invested in Synpromics, which has helped the company to expand its team from seven to more than 20 people (over 90 per
The Angel CoFund, which launched at the end of 2011 with an initial government-backed funding of GBP50 million, is celebrating its fifth birthday.
Since its creation, the Angel CoFund’s mandate has been to back the best UK-based high potential and high growth early stage companies and to partner with business angels via co-investment.
More than GBP33 million has been invested directly across over 70 UK businesses so far, alongside a further GBP142 million from angels and angel networks.
Set up as a privately managed and commercially-focused institution investing public capital, the Angel CoFund has a highly export-focused portfolio
Affluent Partners has conditionally agreed to purchase 33 per cent of the entire issued share capital of Dellos Group, at the aggregate consideration of HKD79.2 million.
Dellos Group is an investment holding company incorporated in the Cayman Islands with limited liability.
Currently, it holds the entire equity interest of Dellos BVI, which is an investment holding company incorporated in the BVI with limited liability, which in turns holds the entire equity interest of Dellos Korea and Dellos Hong Kong.
Dellos Korea is a limited liability company incorporated in Korea. It is principally engaged in the manufacturing, sale and
Some 2.21 million investors in the UK are entering the new financial year with a greater risk appetite and seeking fresh investment angles, according to a survey of 1,000 UK investors by IW Capital.
Nearly half (44 per cent) of British investors feel Brexit will have a positive impact on their investment strategy, with 22 per cent not expecting any effects over the coming 12 months.
Some 3.19 million investors feel the biggest investment opportunity in 2017 lies in private equity investment into the UK’s thriving private sector, while two in five Londoners consider private equity investment as the leading investment opportunity in 2017, and 17 per cent of millennials are
Portfolio Advisors, a private markets-focused investment firm, has held the closing of PA Direct Credit Opportunities Fund II (PADCOF II) with total commitments of USD740 million, reaching the top end of its target fundraising range.
The fund received support from existing and new investors, which included pension funds, insurance companies, foundations, endowments, family offices and high net worth individuals both in the US and abroad.
To date, PADCOF II has invested over 30 per cent of its capital in 10 companies.
Consistent with Portfolio Advisors’ direct credit investment team’s prior experience, PADCOF II partners with top-tier private equity
NorthEdge Capital has sold energy technology provider Utiligroup to Energy Services Group (ESG), a provider of technology solutions to the retail energy and utility industries, for an undisclosed sum.
Founded in 1997, the Chorley-headquartered company is a provider of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions to the utilities and energy industries and has been the pioneer in delivering Energy2.0, the emergence of the independent energy market and the analogue to digital smart meter revolution.
Utiligroup will join ESG, an Accel-KKR portfolio company, to support the company’s global growth strategy, providing a footprint in the European market. ESG has recently expanded its presence
Post Holdings, a consumer packaged goods holding company, is to acquire Weetabix from Shanghai-based state owned enterprise Bright Food Group and an investment fund advised by Barings Private Equity Asia, in a deal worth GBP1.4 billion.
Baker McKenzie acted for Post Holdings. The Baker McKenzie team is led by London corporate partner Charles Whitefoord, supported by senior associate James Adams and associate Anna Scott together with partners Bill Batchelor (Brussels) and Regine Corrado (Chicago) and associate Daniel De Deo (Washington DC).
The Baker McKenzie team worked alongside Lewis Rice (Tom Zook and Alfred Ludwig) who advised Post on the US
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