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Arma Partners has acted as exclusive financial adviser to AMT-SYBEX Group on its sale to Capita plc for an initial consideration of GBP82 million.
There is a contingent consideration of up to GBP23 million based on the business reaching specific profit targets over the next 12 months.
Completion of the acquisition is subject to approval from the competition authority in Ireland.
AMT is a proprietary software business providing software and related services in mobile technology and smart data management to the utilities and transport sectors.
AMT’s technology manages data from 35 million consumers, enables 35,000 mobile workers
Denver-based private equity firm KRG Capital Partners has completed the sale of Focus Group to WSP Global.
Focus is a provider of engineering services in Western Canada to the energy and infrastructure end markets.
WSP is a professional services firms, working with governments, businesses, architects and planners and providing integrated solutions across many disciplines.
The sale of Focus delivers a successful return for KRG’s Fund III limited partner investors, and builds on KRG’s track record of executing its buy-and-build investment approach. Over the life of the investment, KRG partnered with Focus management to complete nine add-on acquisitions, resulting
Mid-market private equity firm LDC has completed an investment to support the multi-million pound management buy-out of Connect Communications, a provider of telephone systems and unified communications channels to businesses across the UK, mainland Europe, Middle East and Africa.
Established in 1992, Connect Communications manages the day-to-day running of multi-site telecoms systems, via a state-of-the-art networks operations centre and a limited network of third party engineers.
Connect Communications’ software enables technical faults to be identified and rectified quickly and efficiently, before problems escalate.
High-profile global enterprises supported by the business on a pan-EMEA basis include Barclays, Coca-Cola, CSC
Middle market private equity firm Castle Harlan has acquired Gold Star Foods, a nutritional food distributor to K-12 schools in California, Arizona and Nevada.
The seller was the Chicago private equity firm Prospect Partners.
Gold Star, based in Ontario, California, serves 380 school districts comprised of more than 3,500 schools, enabling them to provide students nutritional meals through federal and state programmes for breakfasts and lunches that include programme-approved healthy ingredients.
Gold Star's proprietary software platform and expertise in USDA commodity tracking provides a valuable service to schools, which receive reimbursements from federal and state governments based on
Impax has closed the project financing of the Joukhaisselkä wind park in Northern Finland with Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken (SEB) and has completed the acquisition of the Kuolavaara-Keulakkopää wind park from Fortum and Metsähallitus.
The Kuolavaara-Keulakkopää wind park is located in the Kittilä and Sodankylä municipalities and is the second project acquired by Impax New Energy Investors II (Impax NEF II) from Fortum and Metsähallitus. The wind park has 17 wind turbines with an expected installed capacity of 51 megawatts (MW).
The Joukhaisselkä wind park has nine turbines, with a planned installed capacity of 27 MW. It is located in
Ipreo Holdings is to be acquired by private equity funds managed by Blackstone and the Goldman Sachs merchant banking division.
The sponsors are acquiring the business from affiliates of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR), who will retain a minority ownership stake in the business. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Ipreo is a provider of new issuance software solutions across the equity, fixed income, municipal, and syndicated loan markets, including bookbuilding systems, roadshow and conference management platforms, and electronic document delivery.
Ipreo's suite of investor relations services provides corporate clients with cross-asset class surveillance, shareholder analysis, investor
High Street Capital has sold its investment in BeneSys, a benefits payments processing services company, to The Riverside Company, a private equity firm.
BeneSys provides third party administration and related outsourced software services for Taft-Hartley union trust funds.
The company was advised by KPMG Corporate Finance in connection with the transaction.
"Originally, I structured my relationship to High Street Capital so I could walk away after three years,” says BeneSys CEO George Buhalis. “But, we were together nine years. Why? Because they brought BeneSys multiple resources to not only identify the 'light on the opposite shore' that we needed to head
Mid-market private equity firm LDC has completed a significant investment to support the GBP30m acquisition of Prism UK Medical Limited form Toronto-based TSX Venture Exchange-listed Prism Medical Ltd.
Prism is a provider of safe patient handling solutions that enable the mobility disadvantaged to live at home in a safe and dignified manner, improving their quality of life. In addition to homecare, Prism also has significant business in the long term care and acute care areas.
Prism manufactures and supplies products under a number of market leading brands in addition to offering a range of complementary services including assessment, installation,
Women’s health diagnostic company Concepta has completed a GBP2.3m round of equity financing managed by Diagnostic Capital.
The company was founded off the back of the technology and expertise of former senior Unipath scientists, who were responsible for creating leading brands of digital fertility tests, pregnancy tests and other women’s health diagnostics in the market today, including the Clearblue pregnancy tests.
Concepta will now develop and market a novel diagnostic device for the simple and accurate testing of fertility, pregnancy and early stage healthy pregnancy monitoring.
In addition, appointments to the board and management team have also been
Mobeus Investments has partially realised its investment in VSI Limited by selling one of the firm’s two operating businesses, MachineWorks Software, to Westec Holding Company.
The value of the deal has not been disclosed.
Mobeus backed the management buyout of VSI back in 2006.
Based in Sheffield, MachineWorks is a developer of simulation and verification toolkit technology used in computer-aided manufacturing. The firm’s software products simulates machining and helps manufacturers to avoid expensive production mistakes which could cause expensive raw materials to be scrapped or production runs to be disrupted.
Eirc Tung, partner at Mobeus and non-executive
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