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Mademoiselle Desserts, a French producer of frozen pastries backed by Equistone Partners Europe, has acquired Quality Pastries, a Dutch producer of chilled and frozen pastries for retailers, restaurants and home service companies.
Mademoiselle Desserts (formerly Européenne des Desserts) employs circa 1,000 people across its six production facilities in France and the UK and covers 75 per cent of the French industrial pastries market.
The group recorded revenues of more than EUR175 million in 2015, with its main customers including major French and UK retailers such as Carrefour, Leclerc, Marks & Spencer, Picard, Brioche Dorée, Pomona and Brake.
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An affiliate of private equity investment firm HIG Capital has acquired Dominion Colour Corporation (DCC), a provider of high performance colour pigment solutions and preparations for the coatings, plastics and specialty ink industries.
With over 400 customers in 70 countries worldwide, DCC colour solutions are used in a variety of end markets including automotive and architectural coatings, consumer and industrial plastics, and specialty inks.
Headquartered in Toronto, Canada, DCC has manufacturing facilities in Canada, the Netherlands, and the UK as well as technical sales offices throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia.
“We are very pleased to be partnering
The Ufenau V German Asset Light fund, advised by Ufenau Capital Partners, has held its final closing at the fund’s hard cap of EUR227 million.
In addition to commitments from returning investors, which included entrepreneurs that form part of Ufenau’s Industry Partner network, Ufenau V received new commitments from a number of global blue chip investors.
Ufenau V was significantly oversubscribed.
Ufenau V will pursue the same investment strategy as its predecessor funds, with a focus on applying a systematic buy-and-build strategy to majority investments in asset light service companies in Germany, Switzerland and Austria; entrepreneur-led companies with
Monroe Capital has acted as sole lead arranger and administrative agent on the funding of a senior credit facility to support the acquisition of ProPharma Group by private equity sponsor Linden Capital Partners.
Founded in 2001 and based in Overland Park, Kansas, ProPharma is a provider of outsourced medical information, pharmacovigilance, and regulatory compliance consulting services to customers in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device industries.
The company has grown to a global organisation operating five contact centres across the US, Europe and Australia.
ProPharma serves a customer base which includes many of the world’s largest and well-known
Livingstone has advised Info-Assure, a provider of cyber-security and information assurance services, on its sale to BSI.
Headquartered in Farnborough, UK, Info-Assure provides information assurance, security testing and incident response services to clients in the government, defence, policing, banking, retail and energy sectors. It is one of only eleven companies worldwide accredited by CESG, the information security arm of GCHQ.
Livingstone has worked closely with Martin Walsham and the team at Info-Assure for over two years as they rapidly grew the business into one of the UK’s foremost assurance, testing and response providers including introducing consultant finance director Richard
Seacoast Capital has held the closing of Seacoast Capital Partners IV with total commitments of USD239 million.
Limited partners include banks, private pension funds, private foundations, insurance companies, family offices and high net worth individuals.
Along with significant support from private limited partners, Seacoast received approval from the US Small Business Administration (SBA) for its fourth Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) license.
Over 85 per cent of investors from the firm’s 2012 vintage USD150 million fund, Seacoast Capital Partners III, returned to invest in Seacoast IV.
Consistent with the investment strategy of its predecessor funds, Seacoast IV
Abacus Group, a provider of hosted cloud IT solutions for alternative asset funds, has reported year-on-year growth of over 30 per cent up to the end of the third quarter of 2016.
The company’s employee count also exceeded 100 as it expanded its footprint in the Boston, Los Angeles and San Francisco markets.
“Year-over-year, Abacus has added 40 new clients, including firms in the United Kingdom and Sweden,” says CEO Chris Grandi (pictured), who founded Abacus in 2008. “We have also tripled our data centre capacity to meet the increasing demand for our services.”
Grandi adds that Abacus’s
A company backed by private equity firm Permira is to acquire Tricor, a provider of integrated business, corporate and investor services in Asia Pacific, from The Bank of East Asia (BEA) and NWS.
The total consideration amounts to HKD6,470 million (USD835 million), including at least HKD400 million (approximately USD50 million) in cash acquired as part of the transaction.
BEA and NWS Holdings hold 75.61 per cent and 24.39 per cent respectively, in Tricor, through East Asia Secretaries (BVI) Limited, which is Tricor's sole shareholder. Tricor’s management will become investors in Tricor alongside the Permira funds.
Founded in 2000,
MTS Health Investors, a healthcare-focused private equity fund, has closed its fourth fund, MTS Health Investors IV, with USD365 million in limited partner and general partner commitments.
The fund was oversubscribed and closed at its fundraising cap.
Senior managing director Curtis S Lane says: “We are grateful for the ongoing support of our existing investors and pleased to add a distinguished group of new investors to this fund. MTS recognises the confidence our partners have placed in us and will continue to work diligently to execute our strategy.”
Fund IV will continue MTS’s focus on investing in businesses
AREAM and Greentale Capital have established a joint venture that will leverage the combined experience of two teams in the renewable energy and investment management industries.
The joint venture will assist institutional investors to gain high-quality exposure to investment opportunities in the renewable energy industry.
Initially, the joint venture will provide specialised investment management and fundraising advisory services to a forthcoming investment vehicle, which will enable institutional investors to seize significant returns while simultaneously diversifying their portfolios by investing in the renewable energy industry.
AREAM has been investing in renewable energy for over 10 years, constructing, acquiring and
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