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Ipes is providing administration services to Gilde Buyout Partners, a leading European Private Equity firm, to support the closing and ongoing administration of Gilde Buy-Out Fund V.
The fund closed at the hard cap of EUR1.1 billion in November 2015. Ipes performs all outsourced administration services to the fund including one General Partner and two feeder funds administered from offices in Luxembourg and Guernsey.
Koos Teule, Director Investor Relations and CFO of Gilde Buy Out Partners, says: “we are very pleased to be working with Ipes. They understand our funds, provide timely information and reports and we can highly
Cordium, a provider of compliance consulting, accounting, tax and software to the financial services industry, is evolving its EMEA compliance offering to a tiered services model.


With a focus on improving the choice, quality, efficiency and consistency of their service to clients, Cordium’s EMEA compliance offering will now be structured according to four tiers. These range from Cordium Classic, which is the firm’s current service level, with the addition of three new service levels – Level 1, Level 2 and Level 3. 

For all levels, Cordium provides comprehensive compliance infrastructure and methodology, hosted within their proprietary software programme (Cordium Pilot).
Investec Growth & Acquisition Finance has supported the successful acquisition of EnServe Group by Rubicon Partners and Grovepoint Capital.
EnServe is a leading provider of infrastructure support services to the utilities sector, operating principally in the UK. It was acquired during December 2010 by Cinven and today comprises three divisions: Electricity, Utility Services and Analytics. The Group works in partnership with a large number of commercial, public and utility organisations, operating from more than 30 locations across the UK and employing 1,650people.
EnServe had a group turnover of circa GBP200 million in the year ending 30 April 2015. Its
Private equity firm Vista Equity Partners has acquired Fiverun, an specialist in the mobile point of sale (mPOS) arena. Together with Vista’s December acquisition and merger of software leaders MarketLive and Shopatron, the addition of Fiverun will create a unified omnichannel commerce solutions company called Kibo.
Fiverun is best known for its experience reinventing in-store commerce through cloud-based solutions built on the most advanced technology in the world. The company provides innovative and scalable solutions to multinational retailers and brands, allowing for new features and capabilities that extend a retailer’s existing systems.
The merger of Fiverun, MarketLive, and Shopatron
Imperial Innovations Group has committed GBP24.75 million to the new UCL Technology Fund, the first investment fund that UCL (University College London) has established to commercialise its multidisciplinary research.
Over the next five years the fund is expected to invest up to GBP50 million to support ideas from academics in life sciences and physical sciences, and will be used for early-stage proof of concept funding, licensing opportunities and the formation of new spin-out companies.

As a limited partner (LP), Innovations has committed GBP24.75 million to the Fund, matched by a commitment in the same amount from the European Investment Fund.
Private equity firm TA Associates has completed a minority investment in WAG payment solutions, (Eurowag), a provider of payment solutions for freight and passenger carriers across Europe and Turkey. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Serving international trucking companies, small haulers and operators of delivery and personal vehicle fleets, Eurowag offers a portfolio of cards for vehicle fuelling, as well as toll payment solutions that provide a unified system of electronic toll payment across a number of European countries. The company serves over 4,000 customers with more than 120,000 active fuel cards, has over 9,500 fuel card acceptance points in
A fund advised by SHS Gesellschaft für Beteiligungsmanagement mbH, has acquired puracon's business operations from the insolvent predecessor company.
Based in Rosenheim, puracon is a packaging specialist focused on the sterile assembly and packaging of medical devices and implants in GMP certified cleanrooms. The range of services that it provides its globally active customers also includes consultancy with regard to all regulatory issues as well as conducting the required testing, certification and validation in compliance with the respective national directives. Puracon realigned its business in light of increasingly stringent regulatory requirements in 2013/2014.
"With its business model, Puracon is
Rubicon Partners and Grovepoint Capital have cquired EnServe Group Limited from European private equity firm Cinven for an undisclosed amount.
EnServe is a provider of infrastructure support services to the utilities sector, operating principally in the UK. EnServe was acquired during December 2010 by Cinven and today comprises three divisions: Electricity, Utility Services and Analytics. The Group works in partnership with a large number of commercial, public and utility organisations, operating from more than 30 locations across the UK and employing 1,650 people.
EnServe comprises the following three divisions:
The Electricity division incorporates Freedom Group, which provides engineering design,
Private equity firm JW Child Associates has agreed to sell Sunny Delight Beverages Co (SDBC), to Brynwood Partners VII L.P. for an undisclosed amount pending regulatory approval.
SDBC, a Cincinnati-based company, was formed by JW Childs in 2004 when it acquired the iconic SunnyD brand from The Procter & Gamble Company.
Brynwood Partners also owns the Harvest Hill Beverage Company which markets Juicy Juice products, the Hug juice brand and Daily's Cocktails brand.
"We are pleased that Brynwood VII has agreed to acquire Sunny Delight," says Billy Cyr, president and CEO, SDBC. "Our team looks forward to working
Environmental investment-focused private equity fund Ambienta has acquired Mikrotron, a German-based provider of high-speed machine vision cameras.
Mikrotron, together with Tattile, which Ambienta purchased in 2012, will constitute the core of LakeSight Technologies, the consolidation project backed by Ambienta aimed at building a European leader in the machine vision sector. Machine vision systems, typically used in quality inspection and automation solutions for industrial processes, are crucial in reducing unnecessary processing, thus improving energy and materials efficiency.
Machine vision is a EUR2 billion fast-growing market characterised by high fragmentation, where 90 per cent of suppliers have a turnover below EUR10
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