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Bowmark Capital, a mid-market private equity firm, is backing the buy-out of IT solutions provider Node4 Holdings from its previous institutional investor, LDC.
Founded in Derby in 2004 by its then 23 year old chief executive Andrew Gilbert, Node4 is a provider of integrated IT solutions, hybrid infrastructure and cloud-enabled managed services to small and medium-sized businesses.
With full ownership of its own infrastructure, including three state-of-the-art data centres in Derby, Leeds and Northampton, Node4 retains full control over service delivery.
The company achieved a GBP28 million turnover in the year to March 2016 and a revenue growth
IK Investment Partners’ IK Small Cap I Fund is to acquire APOSAN Dr Künzer, a pharmaceutical homecare company in Germany.
Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
APOSAN was founded in 1991 by Dr Clemens Künzer, with the purpose to service homecare patients through the compounding of individualised infusible and injectable medication.
Since then, the company has evolved to an integrated full-range pharmaceutical homecare supplier with its own manufacturing capacities and a dedicated key account management and homecare nurses team to generate and support its growing nationwide patient base.
The APOSAN group of companies is
InfraVia Capital Partners has held the final closing of InfraVia European Fund III (InfraVia III) with total commitments of EUR1 billion.
The fund surpassed its initial target of EUR750 million.
Fund commitments were obtained from a wide range of institutional investors from Europe, North America, Asia and the Middle-East.
FIRSTavenue served as the sole global placement agent for non-French investors.
InfraVia European Fund III will focus primarily on core plus, mid-market, infrastructure with value add capabilities across a broad spectrum of infrastructure opportunities including in the transportation, energy, utilities and telecom sectors. To date, InfraVia III has
Digital content management specialist Episerver, a portfolio company of Accel-KKR, has acquired Optivo, a provider of omnichannel campaign management and customer intelligence solutions.
Leveraging Optivo’s omnichannel campaign management capabilities, Episerver customers can now create and execute more contextually relevant customer interactions across channels, ensuring that the right message is sent to the right customer when and where it should.
With the addition of Optivo, digital marketing and commerce professionals using Episerver can now manage and optimise the way customers respond to their campaigns across channels, by simultaneously tracking and predicting their behaviour. In doing so, Episerver customers can achieve
Independent petrol forecourt and convenience retail operators Euro Garages and European Forecourt Retail Group (EFR) are combining their businesses.
A new holding company named Intervias has been established, with a small corporate office in London.
EFR and Euro Garages will continue to operate under their own names with their current CEOs and senior leadership teams.
The merged group will be a leading independent petrol forecourt retailer in Europe, with around 1,450 locations and 8,500 employees. Euro Garages and EFR together will be serving more than six million customers a week through the management and operation of retail brands
Trowers & Hamlins has advised Austrian investment company AVenture on the acquisition of Imagination Technologies' Pure DAB digital radio business.
The deal allows AVenture to exercise an option to acquire Imagination's property at Concept House in Kings Langley, the current headquarters of the Pure business.
Trowers & Hamlins corporate partner Nick Harrisingh, who led the deal team, says: "It's been exciting to work on this transaction. The acquisition will provide a great platform for the business to grow and flourish with the support of the new owners. We look forward to continuing our work with AVenture and Pure in
An affiliate of New Water Capital has acquired The Worth Collection, a direct-to-consumer women’s fashion apparel company, from private equity firm L Catterton.
Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Worth Collection was founded 25 years ago by Caroline Davis, Richard Kaplan and Jay Rosenberg. Rosenberg remains an active member of the management team and will continue to serve as chief merchant.
Headquartered in New York, Worth Collection designs, supplies and distributes luxury and contemporary women’s apparel through an omni-channel approach via its stylist network, by-appointment showrooms, online and retail outlets.
“Our partnership with New Water
Independent North Asian buyout company MBK Partners and TPG, a global alternative asset firm, are to acquire through a newly established and jointly owned special purpose vehicle Wharf T&T from The Wharf.
The transaction values Wharf T&T at HKD9.5 billion.
Wharf T&T is Hong Kong’s largest purely enterprise-focused telecom service provider, with an extensive fibre optic network covering approximately 90 per cent of the commercial market. The company offers a portfolio of local data connectivity and a full suite of ICT services complemented by leading system integration capabilities.
Teck Chien Kong, partner of MBK Partners, says: “We are
BNP Paribas Investment Partners has completed the EUR500 million final close of the BNP Paribas European SME Debt Fund, attracting a range of European institutional investors.
The fund finances small and medium sized enterprises in Europe through a solution combining bank lending and fund financing.
Strong demand has resulted in the fund reaching its target of EUR500 million at first close, offering institutional investors, including insurers and pension funds, access to an innovative way to diversify their credit exposure.
Included in the investors are AG2R La Mondiale, BNP Paribas Cardif, CNP Assurances, l’ERAFP, Federal Finance Gestion (on behalf
Transaction activity in the infrastructure remains healthy, with 289 deals worth an aggregate USD75 billion, a slight drop in the number of deals and combined deal value for a second successive quarter.
Preqin says this drop is due to the high levels of activity seen in the first half of the year; 318 deals were concluded in Q2 for a total of USD99 billion, while Q1 was a record quarter with 437 deals financed for an all-time high USD103 billion.
Nonetheless, deal activity remains on par, or higher, than most quarters seen in the past four years despite concerns
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