Managers
Inverness Graham, a private investment firm based in suburban Philadelphia, has acquired dentity Finder, a specialist in enterprise data management software focused on discovering, classifying, monitoring, and protecting sensitive information.
The company helps organisations avoid costly data breaches by finding and protecting confidential data such as personal information, medical records, credit card accounts, and intellectual property stored across the enterprise, within e-mail, and the cloud. Inverness Graham was supported by data security industry veteran, Ramon Peypoch, who has joined the company's board.
"The combination of the explosion of data and the growing number of data breaches over the past
Private equity house Maven Capital Partners has led the GBP4.5 million Management Buy-In of CB Technology Limited (CB), an established contract electronics manufacturer with a focus on complex manufacturing and testing for deployment in harsh environments.
Maven has assembled a strong buy-in team for CB led by John Cameron, formerly at GE & UTC Technologies and who most recently served as Commercial Director at Finnish-based Marioff, where he headed-up a team of over 200 people with annual revenues in excess of EUR100 million. Graham Scott, previously CFO of Memex, a SAS Group company, has also joined the business as FD.
Nordic Capital Fund VII has expanded its footprint in the sports market with the add-on acquisition of leading e-commerce football company Unisport.
The Unisport brand will operate alongside SPORTMASTER which was acquired in 2012. The two companies have an excellent strategic fit and a platform for further expansion both in stores and online, in the Nordics and internationally.
Unisport’s e-commerce platform is dedicated to football obsessed consumers providing in-house produced football related content. Unisport’s concept has gained a market-leading position in Denmark with emerging strongholds through recent successful market entries into Sweden, Norway, Finland and the Netherlands. Nordic Capital
European private equity firm Cinven is to acquire Premium Credit Limited, the UK specialty finance provider, for an enterprise value of GBP462 million.
Premium Credit plays an important part in the UK economy enabling businesses and individuals to spread the cost of their insurance premiums and other essential purchases. It also provides financing for the payment of annual fees such as professional fees, membership subscriptions, commercial service charges and school fees. In 2013, the Company achieved gross advances of GBP3.7 billion, processing 25.8 million transactions. Premium Credit has approximately two million customers and works with 4,000 intermediaries.
BlackFin Capital Partners is off to a strong start in raising its second Financial Services fund, securing EUR160 million, mostly from existing investors and on track to raise a total of EUR350 million.
On January 9th, BlackFin Capital Partners secured aggregate commitments in excess of EUR160 million for its BlackFin Financial Services Fund II, from European institutional investors and family-offices. This 1st Closing, comprised mostly of commitments from investors in BlackFin’s first fund, paves the way for a broader institutional fund-raise, with the target of reaching EUR350 million before year-end.
Laurent Bouyoux, Managing Partner of BlackFin Capital Partners, says: “We
Aquila Capital has acquired Norway’s second-largest operator of small-scale hydropower plants on behalf of institutional clients that include Dutch pension fund ABP and German insurance companies.
The terms of the investment have not been disclosed.
Aquila Capital has completed the acquisition of Norsk Grønnkraft AS, an operator of 33 small-scale facilities located in central and southern Norway, from owners Akershus Energi, Energiselskapet Buskerud, E-CO Energi and Østfold Energi.
Oldrik Verloop, Co-Head of Hydropower at Aquila Capital, says: “This is one of the largest acquisitions of a small-scale Norwegian operator and shows how Aquila Capital has established a hydropower platform of
Access Power MEA and ERE have launched Access Infra Africa, a vehicle that will be dedicated to investing in the early stage development of power projects in Africa.
Access Infra Africa will be the largest privately funded vehicle of its kind. The partners intend to implement an ambitious development plan leading to the realisation of a portfolio of power assets in Africa worth over 500 million US Dollars.
Under the agreement, EREN will acquire a strategic equity stake in Access and a seat at the board of Access.
David Corchia, CEO of EREN Développement, says: “Access Infra Africa
Over half of infrastructure funds that closed in 2014 exceeded their fundraising target, up from 37% of funds in 2013. Andrew Moylan, Preqin’s Head of Real Assets Products, takes a look at infrastructure fundraising over the last 12 months:
The infrastructure fundraising market in 2014 saw a slight drop in total capital raised, from USD44bn in 2013 to USD38bn in 2014. Yet a more significant drop was seen in the number of funds reaching a final close; 2013 saw 69 funds reach a final close, compared to just 42 funds in 2014. As such, the average infrastructure fund size has
Omnes Capital has supported Eratome in its buildup strategy with the acquisition of TPM (Travaux Publics et Maintenance), a company specialising in public exterior works
Eratome Group, a specialist in the repair and maintenance of social housing in the Ile-de-France region, continues its buildup strategy with the acquisition of TPM (Travaux Publics et Maintenance). Omnes Capital has supported Eratome since July 2013.
Initially specialised in the full-service renovation of social housing, Eratome acquired DSM in 2012 and then Profil in 2013. These transactions have given the group a foothold in locksmithing and major repairs and maintenance work, mainly in
Riata Capital Group, a Dallas-based private equity investment firm focused on sponsoring investments in privately held companies in the consumer, energy, healthcare and business & industrial services sectors, has opened its doors for business.
Riata is led by Jeff Fronterhouse, Co-Founder and Co-Chief Executive Officer of Brazos Private Equity Partners, LLC (Brazos), and Barron Fletcher, Founder and Managing Partner of Parallel Investment Partners (Parallel).
Fronterhouse says: "Barron and I have a long history going back over twenty-five years and have been socialising the concept of combining our experience, skill sets, and network of relationships for many years. We have both
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