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Vistra, a provider of international incorporations, trust, fiduciary, private office and fund administration services, has acquired optegra, a Germany-based specialist in auditing, tax consultancy, legal advisory, and management consultancy services.
With offices in Cologne, Hamburg and Munich, optegra has a staff of 120 professionals serving clients from a range of industries, including automotive, information technology, telecommunications, health care, private equity, real estate, renewable energy, and engineering.
It provides solutions surrounding financial and regulatory services, transaction support, payroll accounting, tax consultancy and administration, as well as start-up support.
The partners of optegra will all remain with the business post-completion
Private equity firm SFW Capital Partners has sold Essen BioScience, a specialist in the field of cell-based assays and instrumentation used for life sciences research, to Sartorius Group for USD320 million.
SFW acquired a controlling interest in Ann Arbor, Michigan-based Essen in May 2014.
SFW recruited Brett Williams to become Essen’s CEO and, throughout the investment, supported Williams and the Essen management team in executing a wide range of strategic, organisational, and operating initiatives to drive significant organic revenue growth and the adoption of Essen’s IncuCyte live cell analysis platform.
With SFW’s support, Essen made substantial investments in the
Italian corporate and financial law firm Gattai, Minoli, Agostinelli & Partners has advised the arrangers Banca Popolare di Milano and UBI Banca in the financing of Italian high-performance bicycles manufacturer Pinarello’s acquisition by the Franco-American private equity firm L Catterton.
Gattai, Minoli, Agostinelli & Partners assisted the two lenders with a team led by partner Lorenzo Vernetti, comprising senior associate Andrea Taurozzi and associates Silvia Romano and Federico Tropeano.
NCTM advised L Catterton and its dedicated vehicle with a team coordinated by partner Eugenio Siragusa.
Founded in November 2012, Gattai Minoli Agostinelli & Partners is a law firm
Private equity firm Keensight Capital and digital growth capital specialist TIME for Growth are to sell their stakes in Oodrive, a provider of sensitive data management SaaS solutions, to a pool of investors led by Tikehau Capital.
TIME for Growth acquired an interest in Oodrive in 2011 and Keensight Capital followed in 2013.
Created in 2000, Oodrive develops online file sharing, backup and digital trust solutions for professionals, in line with international security standards. Oodrive's technologies are used in more than 90 countries and in 14 languages. They support the needs of over one million users and close to
State Street is to work with Fidelity National Information Services (FIS) to distribute its GX Private Equity Index (PEI), a benchmark for comparative analysis of private equity performance, to nearly 300 global asset management clients, including private equity managers, investors and third-party administrators.
The PEI will be integrated into FIS’s Data Exchange portal (DX), a platform for sharing documents and data via advanced data visualisations, analytics and dynamic and interactive reporting.
“State Street’s GX Private Equity Index is a high-quality, industry-recognised source of private equity data,” says Sami Juma, chief operating officer, private equity business for Fidelity National. “We
LongueVue Capital (LVC), a New Orleans-based private equity firm, has held the final closing of LongueVue Capital Partners III (LVC III).
Building on LVC's predecessor funds, LVC III will focus on private equity investments in lower middle market companies across a variety of industries.
LongueVue Capital welcomed new institutional investors into the partnership, including The University of Texas Investment Management Company (UTIMCO).
In addition to the final closing, LVC received a Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) licensure of LVC III. The fund was oversubscribed and closed at its hard cap of USD252 million, including SBIC leverage.
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Panasonic Corporation is to establish a new company, Panasonic Ventures, in April 2017, which will be based in California and invest in start-up companies mainly in the US, with initial investments of around USD100 million.
Panasonic has invested in Silicon Valley start-ups with cutting-edge technologies for nearly 20 years since 1998.
As a member of the venture community, the company has been helping these firms grow by providing a wide array of in-house technologies and human resources.
Going forward, Panasonic Ventures, with new external venture capitalists, will spearhead Panasonic's investments in start-ups that have unique business models or
Omnes Capital, with the support of co-investors Capital Transmission (Banque Cantonale de Genève) and Bpifrance, has acquired a stake in Groupe RGF alongside buyer Pascal Daviet as part of a management buy-in (MBI).
Joël Béraldin, director and 100 per cent shareholder in the company, has sold all of his shares and has acquired minority stakes in the new transaction.
Based in Pratz, the group specialises in the design and production of plastic and/or metal technical small parts in niche markets. Groupe RGF covers the entire production chain, including design, creation of moulds, injection, undercutting, overmoulding and automated assembly. The
CVC Capital Partners Fund VI has completed the acquisition of Corialis (Core Innovative Aluminium Integrated Solutions), a European manufacturer of aluminium profiles and systems, supplying door, window and conservatory manufacturers in both the new construction and refurbishment markets, from Advent International.
The transaction values Corialis at an enterprise value of approximately EUR1 billion.
Steven Buyse, partner at CVC Capital Partners, says: “We are delighted to partner with Johan and his talented leadership team to further build out this highly successful business. Consistently delivering high-quality aluminium profile systems with industry-leading lead times and service levels has led to a fantastic
Proveca, a European paediatric speciality pharmaceutical company, has raised GBP4 million to fund the commercial launch of Sialanar and the development and commercialisation of its paediatric product portfolio.
Sialanar is a treatment for chronic pathological drooling in children, launched in the UK by Proveca, to be followed by the rest of Europe.
The investment was led by Catapult Ventures, managers of the GM&C Life Sciences Fund, alongside Kreos Capital, a European provider of growth debt financing.
The investment comes soon after the EU-wide PUMA (Paediatric Use Marketing Authorisation) regulatory approval of Sialanar (glycopyrronium, oral solution) for the symptomatic
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