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Volution Group, a supplier of ventilation products to the residential and commercial construction markets, has acquired the entire share capital of Breathing Buildings.
The deal provides an exit for the company’s previous backers including MMC Ventures.
Breathing Buildings is based in Cambridge, UK and was formed in 2006 by Dr Shaun Fitzgerald from a collaboration between Cambridge University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Since then, Breathing Buildings has developed its own hybrid ventilation technology niche for the UK commercial ventilation market and is now a UK market leading designer, manufacturer and supplier of energy efficient, intelligently controlled natural
UK peer-to-peer (P2P) finance platform Assetz Capital has lent a record GBP105 million to UK businesses in 2016 to date.
Experiencing increasing growth during the year, including a final quarter when it lent as much as in the whole of 2015, Assetz Capital is now providing secured loans of GBP25 million per month to businesses.
According to independent data tables, the business is now the third largest business P2P platform in the UK.
Aimed at helping British small and medium sized businesses and property developers with their funding requirements, to date GBP191 million has invested through the platform,
Affiliates of Xura, a provider of digital communications services, are to acquire Mitel Mobility, a division of Mitel Networks and Ranzure Networks.
Mitel Mobile, formerly Mavenir Systems, is a provider of Voice-over-Long-Term Evolution (VoLTE), Voice-over-WiFi (VoWiFi), video, Rich Communication Services (RCS), messaging, radio access and packet core solutions.
Ranzure, founded by former Mavenir Systems CEO Pardeep Kohli, is an early-stage venture focused on developing 5G Cloud Radio Access Network (RAN) technology.
The Xura board of directors has appointed Pardeep Kohli, formerly CEO of Mitel Mobile’s predecessor Mavenir Systems and co-founder and CEO of Ranzure Networks, to succeed Philippe
LPA, in association with Toullec Solicitors, has advised Bluecom Group, an e-commerce solutions provider in Asia-Pacific, on the sale of 100 per cent of its share capital to Dentsu Aegis Network, a provider of media, digital and creative communications services.
Established in 2012, Bluecom specialises in designing and implementing e-commerce consulting, platforms and solutions of multi-channel online stores for medium to large, international, B2B and B2C companies across Asia Pacific.
With regional offices in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Singapore and Ho Chi Minh City, Bluecom has clients in Greater China, Japan, South Korea, Southeast Asia and Australia/New Zealand.
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Kohlberg & Company, a private equity firm specialising in middle market investing, has held the final closing of its eighth private equity fund, Kohlberg Investors VIII, with USD2.2 billion in total commitments.
The fund was oversubscribed and closed at its hard cap due to strong support from existing limited partners, coupled with commitments from new institutional investors.
“We are deeply gratified by the tremendous support from our existing limited partner base and pleased to welcome several new, distinguished limited partners to Fund VIII,” says Sam Frieder, managing partner at Kohlberg. “Our success in raising the fund is continued validation
Perhaps it is apt that Protégé Partners, LLC is located above the world-renowned Museum of Modern Art in New York given that its modus operandi is to find the best and most creative talents in the hedge fund industry.
Some seed investors look for portfolio managers with proven skills in investing, not running businesses or dealing with clients.
"We want them to do all three. We want them to be great portfolio managers/analysts, great at running a business, great at dealing with clients: we want the whole package. We are looking for Renaissance men and women who are multi-talented," says Jeffrey
Caledonia Investments has agreed terms for the sale of Park Holidays UK, the UK's third largest holiday park operator, to Tiger Bidco, a special purpose vehicle incorporated by Intermediate Capital Group (ICG), for a headline enterprise value of GBP362 million.
Caledonia will receive GBP197 million in cash, net of fees, for the sale of its 81.5 per cent fully diluted equity stake. The net proceeds will be held on deposit for future investment.
The net proceeds represent a premium of 47 per cent to Caledonia's carrying value of Park Holidays at 30 September 2016 of GBP134 million and are
Investment funds affiliated with Lightyear Capital, a New York-based private equity firm focused on financial services investing, are to sell RidgeWorth Holdings, the holding company for multi-boutique asset manager RidgeWorth Capital Management, to Virtus Investment Partners for USD472 million.
The transaction is not subject to financing and is subject to customary closing conditions.
Investment funds affiliated with Lightyear purchased RidgeWorth from SunTrust Banks in May 2014. RidgeWorth is an investment management firm that offers investors access to a select group of investment managers and sub-advisers. As of 30 September 2016, it had approximately USD40.2 billion in assets under management.
Middle market investment bank Harris Williams & Co has advised The Leisure Pass Group in its sale to Exponent Private Equity.
Leisure Pass is a city attraction pass provider with operations in 19 major international cities across Europe and North America.
Harris Williams & Co served as the exclusive financial adviser to Leisure Pass, a portfolio company of Primary Capital. The transaction was led by Thierry Monjauze, Will Bain and Sylvain Noblet of Harris Williams’ London office, with the support of Michael Wilkins of the firm’s San Francisco office.
“Since its inception, Leisure Pass has revolutionised the sightseeing
Keensight Capital has agreed to sell its stake in Sogelink, a provider of vertical software dedicated to the construction and civil engineering market, to Naxicap.
Founded in 2000, Sogelink designs, develops and markets software, SaaS (Software as a Service) and mobile solutions intended to simplify and optimise complex processes tailored to the needs of the construction, infrastructure and property management ecosystem.
With its DICT.fr dematerialisation platform, Sogelink has a 70 per cent market share, in the field of solutions designed to simplify the regulatory requirements associated with construction projects near infrastructure networks.
Since investing in the company in
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