Managers
NorthEdge Capital has supported the management buyout of TKC, an established supplier to the fitted furniture industry.
Denton-based TKC is a specialist distributor of kitchen and bedroom doors and other components, sourcing the majority of its products from Italy. It currently employs 128 staff and supplies to independent kitchen retailers, kitchen manufacturers and local installers. Established in 1989, the company has experienced strong revenue growth, with turnover reaching £19m in the year to September 2015.
TKC offer a wide range of classic, traditional and contemporary doors and components for both kitchens and bedrooms. The company recently launched its newest
Element Materials Technology, a specialist in materials and product qualification testing in the aerospace, oil & gas and transportation markets, has been acquired by Bridgepoint from 3i Group for an undisclosed sum.
Element, which can trace its origins back almost 200 years, operates in the global outsourced materials testing market with 34 laboratories in the US and 19 across Europe. It serves a longstanding customer base of over 10,000 aerospace, oil & gas and transportation companies worldwide. The business generates annual revenues of circa USD290 million.
Element works with its customers to ensure that the materials systems and products
Efesto Energy, the energy fund managed by EOS Investment Management (IM EOS), has completed the acquisition of five photovoltaic power plants from Green Network Group for an overall investment value of circa EUR16 million.
The agreement, achieved after several months of negotiation, is another important achievement also given the stringent criteria imposed by EOS IM on the selection and acquisition processes, which include a thorough due diligence analysis. Efesto Energy has thus successfully completed its first wave of acquisitions of PV plants for a total value of c. EUR 60 million and total capacity of 25 MW. The current portfolio
Signavio, a provider of SaaS-based business process and decision management technology, has completed a EUR31 million minority investment from global growth equity investor Summit Partners.
Signavio plans to use the investment to expand its international footprint and continue its very strong growth trajectory.
Founded in 2009, with offices in Berlin, Singapore and Sunnyvale, Signavio is a provider of cloud-based software that helps businesses efficiently design, implement and manage complex processes, decisions and workflows. With its three products – Process Editor, Decision Manager and Effektif – Signavio offers an intuitive and collaborative process transformation platform, enabling company-wide compliance, process performance
The introduction a new fund vehicle by new regulations governing European Long-Term Investment Funds (ELTIFs) on 9 December will bring more opportunities for professional and retail investors to fulfil their long-term investment objectives.
That’s the view of the Cyprus Investment Funds Association (CIFA), which says that, for the first time, ELTIFs will allow for fund managers to lend directly to the real economy as part of a major milestone marking the increased sophistication of the Capital Markets Union (CMU). CIFA believes that owing to Cyprus’ already well-established Alternative Investment Funds (AIF) legal framework, ELTIFs can be marketed across the EU
Private equity funds managed by Blackstone have successfully completed the acquisition of MB Aerospace, a Tier I engine component manufacturer and repair business, from Arlington Capital Partners.
MB Aerospace has facilities across the US, UK, and Poland. The company’s manufacturing model provides complex machined and fabricated assemblies into production and aftermarket applications across an installed base of 65 aero-engine platforms.
MB Aerospace’s key customers include Pratt & Whitney, Rolls-Royce, General Electric, Boeing, United Technologies Aerospace Systems, Pratt & Whitney AeroPower, GKN, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, and the US Department of Defense.
Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), Renaissance Capital, Onexim Group, and CITIC Merchant, a merchant banking arm of CITIC Group, are forming a strategic partnership to promote the interests of Russian companies and Chinese investors in high-opportunity projects in Russia, the CIS, the Middle East and Africa.
The current partnership will facilitate access to debt and equity financing from China for Russian businesses in the framework of the One Belt-One Road initiative, aimed at strengthening the integration processes in the Eurasian economic space through the construction of an infrastructure belt along the route of the historic Silk Road from China to
Strategic advisory and consulting firm Berkeley Research Group has appointed Michael Athanason as a managing director. Athanason joins the BRG Capstone group in New York where he will lead the Private Funds Group Valuation Team.
Athanason brings over 25 years of valuation and corporate finance advisory experience and has been involved in the valuation of alternative investment portfolios for the past 10 years. He joins BRG from KPMG, where he was the US national leader of the Alternative Investments Valuation practice, and he was previously the global leader of Duff & Phelps’ Alternative Investment Valuation Services business.
Athanason specialises
Private equity investment firm McCarthy Capital has led a recapitalisation and growth equity investment in Seven10 Storage Software. Massachusetts-based Seven10 is a provider of enterprise software-defined-storage solutions and fully automated file migrations.
“Seven10 epitomises our ideal investment opportunity in a rapidly growing market,” says Bob Emmert, Managing Partner of McCarthy Capital. “Bobby Moulton and the Seven10 team have built a market-leading software platform and a strong industry reputation. In partnering with management, we are excited to continue to grow the company and lead the market in innovation.”
Based in Lawrence, Massachusetts, Seven10 provides enterprise software-defined-storage solutions to customers across
CVC Capital Partners’ (CVC) CVC Growth Fund is to provide an USD80 million growth equity investment to Kount, a provider of online and mobile fraud detection and prevention solutions.
The investment will enable Kount to accelerate product innovation, expand its global footprint, and enhance customer support services.
Based in Boise, ID, Kount provides cloud-based fraud detection solutions that enable merchants to reduce fraudulent transactions made online and via mobile while increasing revenue by accepting more valid orders. Kount eliminates or reduces manual reviews of potentially fraudulent transactions for its customers, reducing credit card chargebacks, improving customer satisfaction, and drastically reducing fraud, in many cases
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