Managers
Growth-focused private equity firm Trilantic North America has spun out its energy team to form a new, independent firm called Greenbelt Capital Partners (Greenbelt).
Greenbelt will formally launch on 1 January, 2022, and will be headquartered in Austin, Texas, while maintaining an additional presence in New York. The firm, named after the outdoor recreational parkland in Austin, will be led by Chris Manning, who currently serves as one of the Managing Partners of Trilantic North America. Chris will be joined by Glenn Jacobson, Andy Hopping, Chris Murphy, Sam Graham, and the rest of the Trilantic North America energy team. Trilantic
Sentinel Capital Partners, a private equity firm that invests in promising midmarket companies, has sold portfolio company Fazoli’s Group to strategic buyer FAT Brands for an enterprise value of USD130 million.
Fazoli’s, which specialises in moderately priced Italian food favourites, including freshly prepared pasta, Submarinos sandwiches, and unlimited signature breadsticks, has nearly 220 franchised and company-owned restaurants in 28 states.
Godspeed Capital Management (Godspeed Capital), a lower middle-market Defence & Government services, solutions, and technology focused private equity firm, has made a strategic investment in Varen Technologies, a provider of cybersecurity, software, and intelligence solutions for the Defence and Intelligence Communities.
Financial terms of the transaction, which will see Varen Technologies will remain headquartered in Columbia, Maryland, and continue to be led by President & CEO Marty Leshin and the existing management team, have not been disclosed.
Godspeed Capital plans to meaningfully invest in Varen Technologies by increasing investments in technology, talent acquisition, business development, corporate infrastructure, and strategic acquisitions
Kartesia, a European specialist provider of capital solutions for small and mid-sized companies, has provided a financing solution to support mid-market private equity firm Palatine Private Equity (Palatine) and its portfolio company, Leicester-based Construction Testing Solutions (CTS).
The capital for this transaction was funded from Kartesia Senior Opportunities I (KSO I), which has now completed twelve investments in the UK market since the launch of the strategy in 2020. The deal team at Kartesia comprised Nick Holman, Kamil Kapasi and Karan Patole. The investment also marks Kartesia’s second transaction with Palatine Private Equity.
Slovak fund management company Sandberg Capital has closed its second private equity fund, Sandberg Investment Fund II, at its hard cap of EUR130 million.
Capital under management has increased by EUR 21 million from the fund’s first close in January 2021.
The new commitments come from new as well as existing investors. The fund, among the largest private equity funds in Slovakia, brings together domestic and foreign institutional and private investors.
The investors in Sandberg Investment Fund II initially included the European Investment Fund, J&T Finance Group (including J&T Arch Investments SICAV, J&T Banka and 365.bank), Tatra banka, a member
PSG, a growth equity firm focused on partnering with middle-market software and technology-enabled services companies, in combination with ShieldCo, a PSG V portfolio company, has acquired Traction Guest, a provider of cloud-based visitor management and workforce security software.
This marks ShieldCo’s second investment. In September 2021, the company invested in Sign In App, a provider of workplace risk management software solutions. Jeff Gordon, a Senior Advisor at PSG, will lead the new operating company, ShieldCo. Keith Metcalfe will continue to lead and focus on growing the Traction Guest business as CEO and will also join the ShieldCo senior leadership team,
An affiliate of Littlejohn & Co is to sell Kaman Distribution Group (KDG), a distributor of highly engineered products and provider of related services, to Motion Industries, Inc. (Motion), a subsidiary of Genuine Parts Company (NYSE: GPC), for USD1.3 billion in cash.
Integral Venture Partners (Integral) is to acquire a 50 per cent stake in Walter BBQ, a Serbian fast-casual restaurant chain.
Integral manages institutional private equity and growth capital and is focused on investments in the countries of central and south-eastern Europe. Integral’s fund is backed by leading international institutional investors including the EIF, the EBRD and the IFC. Integral covers its pan-regional target market out of hubs in London, Budapest and Belgrade.
AmerCareRoyal, supplier of disposable foodservice supplies, gloves and take-out packaging and a portfolio company of HCI Equity Partners (HCI), has acquired Ross & Wallace Paper Products (Ross & Wallace).
Financial terms of the deal, which is AmerCareRoyal’s seventh add-on acquisition since HCI’s initial investment, have not been disclosed.
Greenberg Traurig served as legal counsel to ACR. Generational Equity acted as the financial advisor to Ross & Wallace and Seale & Ross, PLC served as legal counsel.
BV Investment Partners (BV), a middle-market private equity firm focused on the tech-enabled business services, software and IT services sectors, has made significant strategic investment in intent data software and solutions provider Intentsify to help accelerate growth and product innovation.
Intentsify, co-founded by Marc Laplante, Mike Kelly, Ed Laplante and Eric Belcher in 2018, has consistently achieved strong growth fueled by B2B businesses seeking data-driven insights to efficiently identify and engage targeted accounts showing buying intent. Since inception, the company has gained more than 150 customers, quadrupled annual revenue in both 2019 and 2020, and will close 2021 with 3x annual revenue growth.
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