Managers
Wroclaw-based Work Service Group has established a new joint venture for the German market with the international Fiege Group of Greven.
The new company will comprise the three German Work Service firms and Fiege subsidiaries Fiege uni/serv GmbH and FIEGE worksess GmbH. The transaction is currently awaiting approval from the competition authorities.
An international team of CMS drawn from its offices in Düsseldorf, Cologne, Warsaw and Vienna advised Work Service on all legal aspects of the project over an extended period. Dr Dirk Jannott acted as lead partner in Germany.
Fiege Logistik Stiftung & Co. KG will hold
Global social listening and analysis platform Synthesio has secured USD20m in funding from European private equity firm Idinvest Partners.
The Series B investment will be used for research and product development, as well as expansion of Synthesio’s global team.
Synthesio has offices in New York, Paris, London, Austin and Singapore.
Using Synthesio’s platform, businesses can monitor and analyse conversations about their brand on social media platforms, blogs, forums, consumer review sites and mainstream media sites across 200 countries and 50 languages.
Loic Moisand, co-founder and CEO of Synthesio, says: “Idinvest Partners really understands our offerings, philosophies and
Digitalbox, the performance marketing specialist, has secured USD1m in venture capital funding from a series of high net worth investors to help fund the expansion of its native advertising business, ContentClick.


With over 500 publishers and bloggers signed up to the nascent publishing network since its launch in early January 2014, the funding will be used to finance the expansion of the ContentClick service internationally, notably in territories with large scale blogging networks and niche publishers. 

ContentClick offers publishers and bloggers the chance to earn extra revenue by adding a ‘free' widget to their site.
Using a sophisticated
Alternative asset manager The Carlyle Group, together with affiliates of Louis M Bacon, are to acquire a majority interest in the Traxys Group, a physical metals and minerals commodity merchant.
As part of the transaction, Traxys management will increase its investment stake in the company.
The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions including required regulatory approvals and is expected to close in the third quarter of 2014. Carlyle, Bacon and Traxys management are acquiring their stake from Pegasus Capital Advisors, Kelso & Company and Resource Capital Funds.
Traxys is a provider of marketing, distribution and supply chain
Graphite Capital, a UK mid-market private equity specialist, has backed the management buy-out (MBO) of ICR, which provides repair and maintenance services to the global energy industry.
ICR comprises four businesses that mainly operate in the UK and Middle East energy markets.
Walker Technical is a specialist in composite repairs to pipework and structures for oil and gas customers. NECE provides corrosion monitoring, oilfield microbiology, chemical monitoring and consultancy services to offshore operators. MOSS is a mechanical services provider. CIU provides specialist rental, sales, repair and maintenance services for chemical pumping units used in the international oil and gas
Crestbridge has been granted AIFM licensing by Luxembourg’s Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF) to become a provider of management company services to alternative investment funds.
Crestbridge is already authorised to provide services to UCITS funds under Chapter 15 of the law of 17 December 2010, but the process of gaining the additional authorisation "was a challenge requiring significant work," says Daniela Klasén-Martin, managing director and country head of Crestbridge (Luxembourg).
"Clients have been requesting this service for a number of months and we are delighted to be one of the first ‘Super ManCos’ able to provide services
Private equity manager Maven Capital Partners has led a GBP4.6m investment in IT support and services business ISN Solutions.
Established as a start-up in 1999, the business now generates sales close to GBP6m through the provision of consultancy, project management and outsourced IT services to a niche client base operating in the upstream exploration and production (E&P) oil and gas sector.
Headquartered in London and employing around 50 people, ISN offers a range of IT services to its clients, from the day to day administration of outsourced systems, including remote monitoring and a service desk function, to much higher
Water Street Healthcare Partners and JLL Partners have merged their portfolio companies CCBR-SYNARC and BioClinica.
The combination creates a global provider of specialty outsourced clinical services.
JLL Partners and Water Street invested in BioClinica and CCBR-SYNARC in 2013 and reached an agreement earlier this year to combine the two companies.
The firms recruited Jeffrey McMullen, an executive with 40 years of experience in the drug development industry, to serve as chairman.
Together, BioClinica and CCBR-SYNARC offer a suite of services that support the world’s largest pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies with reducing the cost and time of global
Houlihan Lokey, the international investment bank, has acquired ArchPoint Partners, an independent investment banking firm that provides M&A and private capital raising advisory services to clients in the technology sector.
The transaction, which closed on 7 March, enhances Houlihan Lokey’s global coverage and capabilities for clients across the technology sector.
Founded in 2009, ArchPoint focuses exclusively on the technology sector. The firm advises numerous companies on financings and business combinations with key sector private equity firms as well as large-cap infrastructure and application software vendors including IBM, Microsoft, SAP, Google, Yahoo! and Symantec.
ArchPoint co-founders and managing directors
A fund managed by Blackstone on behalf of its private equity investors is to acquire a majority stake in Accuvant, a provider of information security solutions and services.
Accuvant management and existing shareholder Sverica International will invest alongside Blackstone in the transaction.
Blackstone’s investment will enable Accuvant to accelerate its pace of expansion and enable the management team to deploy additional capital and resources for a broader roll-out of its product- and service-based solution offerings.
This investment leverages Blackstone’s technology experience and capabilities, and also significantly broadens its presence in the information-security sector. The increased prevalence and complexity
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