Managers
Crescent Capital Group has held the final close of the Crescent European Specialty Lending Fund with more than EUR500 million of investor commitments, bringing the total deployable capital available to the strategy to approximately EUR650 million.
Since October 2014, the fund has committed approximately one-third of its capital across several investments.
“I am pleased with the growth of our European strategy both in terms of the significant capital we now have available as a result of this fundraise as well as the success of the transactions we have already closed in this fund,” says Christine Vanden Beukel (pictured), Managing
Charter NEX Films, a producer of high-polyethylene films, is pleased to announce that it has completed the acquisition of Optimum Plastics, in an all-cash transaction for an undisclosed amount.
Charter NEX supplies flexible packaging converters with a broad array of products, from monolayer to high barrier films, for the retail food, consumer products, industrial, and medical markets. Charter NEX is well-regarded for its best-in-class quality standards and manufacturing performance. The company is owned by Pamplona Capital Management, LLP (“Pamplona”), a global private equity investment firm, and management.
“We are excited to be joining forces with Optimum Plastics,” says Kathy
Edesix, a UK-based provider of body worn camera (BWC) solutions, has secured further investment from Panoramic Growth Equity, who have been backing the company since 2014.
Edesix has raised a further GBP750,000 to fund expansion into new markets and to continue the development of its technology, product range and sales infrastructure both in the UK and overseas.
Headquartered in Edinburgh, UK and established in 2002, Edesix manufactures BWC’s for those in public facing roles, helping to improve safety, while producing compelling legal evidence when needed. Edesix currently provides VideoBadges and VideoManager footage management software to local authority enforcement teams,
The John Laing Environmental Asset Group (JLEN) has acquired Burton Wold Extension wind farm from John Laing Group (John Laing) for a cash consideration, including working capital, of GBP21.8 million.
Burton Wold Extension wind farm is located near Burton Latimer in Northamptonshire and comprises nine General Electric 1.6MW-100 turbines with a total generating capacity of 14.4MW and is accredited for 0.9 ROCs. The site has been operational since September 2014.
This acquisition, which was agreed in accordance with the First Offer Agreement between John Laing and JLEN, brings the total capacity of the renewable energy assets in the JLEN
GHO Capital, the European specialist healthcare investor, today announces the acquisition of Quotient Clinical (Quotient or the Company), a provider of outsourced, early-stage drug development services to the pharmaceutical industry.
Headquartered in the UK and employing over 280 professionals, Quotient Clinical enables pharmaceutical and biotechnology customers to improve research and development productivity and accelerate drug development timelines.
Quotient Clinical’s Translational Pharmaceutics® platform offers a differentiated service proposition in the form of an integrated approach to drug formulation development, “real-time” manufacturing and clinical testing within a single location. With significant time and cost savings, customers are able to bring drug
Assets under administration at private equity fund administrator Gen II Fund Services now exceed USD100 billion.
Since its founding in 2009, Gen II has grown significantly to become the industry's largest independent firm focused on private equity fund administration.
Norman Leben, Managing Principal of Gen II says: "Achieving this level of assets under administration as quickly as we have is an extraordinary milestone for Gen II. We have continued to attract premier clients, which we believe is the result of our unmatched level of expertise. Our work with complex fund structures, complemented by our ability to execute at the
Livingstone has advised the shareholders of Tessella, including Mobeus Equity Partners, on its sale to Altran, a provider of innovation and high-tech engineering services.
Tessella is an international analytics, software and consulting services organisation and its proven capability in data analytics will enhance Altran’s Intelligent Systems division and VueForge offer.
Headquartered in Abingdon near Oxford, Tessella is known for finding and delivering innovative answers to the complex business and technical challenges of some of the world’s most forward-thinking organisations in the aerospace and defence, consumer goods, energy, life sciences, and science research sectors.
Established in 1980, Tessella has
Endpoint security software firm, Avecto, has received a USD49 million (GBP32 million) minority investment from JMI Equity, a growth equity firm focused on investing in leading software and services companies.
As part of the transaction, Jit Sinha, General Partner, and Suken Vakil, Principal, at JMI Equity will join the Board of Directors.
Avecto is a market leader in the large and fast-growing $3 billion endpoint security sector. Headquartered in Manchester, UK, with offices in Boston, USA, Melbourne, Australia and Frankfurt, Germany, Avecto was founded by entrepreneurs Mark Austin and Paul Kenyon in 2008. Since that time, the company has
Marlin Equity Partners has completed its acquisition of LiveOps Cloud Platform. Venture capital firm Presidio Partners, an existing investor in LiveOps, participated in the acquisition alongside Marlin.
Current LiveOps CEO, Vasili Triant, will remain at the helm of the newly acquired SaaS-based company, which will continue to operate as an independent entity focused on the ongoing development and innovation of its cloud contact centre platform. The LiveOps Agent Services business, formally split from LiveOps, Inc. in 2014, will continue to be a separate organisation led by current General Manager of Agent Services, Greg Hanover. It has not been acquired as
Inflexion’s portfolio company Alcumus Holdings has completed the GBP47 million acquisition of Santia Holdings, a provider of integrated health & safety and environment risk management services.
This acquisition, completed within just eight weeks of Inflexion’s buyout of Alcumus, broadens Alcumus’ footprint in the accreditation and certification market.
Alcumus is a provider of technology-enabled compliance, certification and verification risk management solutions. It is a specialist in its field and now has a wider, more diversified customer base. The enlarged business will serve over 30,000 clients both in the UK and internationally, including 35% of the FTSE 100, and will provide
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