Managers
Blue Wolf Capital Partners (Blue Wolf), a New York-based private equity firm, has sold The Mulch and Soil Company, a leading manufacturer and distributor of mulch and soil products across the Southeast region of the United States. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Blue Wolf formed The Mulch and Soil Company in 2018 by carving out the mulch division from Suwannee Lumber Company, a former Blue Wolf portfolio company, and merging it with Forestry Resources, Inc and later K&B Landscapes, two founder-owned businesses in Florida. Under Blue Wolf’s leadership, the Company became one of the Southeast region’s leading
Astorg is to acquire Solina, a leading European manufacturer of ingredient and seasoning blends for the food industry, from Ardian.
Solina’s management will reinvest a significant part of their proceeds alongside Astorg.
Founded in 1988 and headquartered in France, Solina serves more than eighteen thousand clients with 2,250 employees across twenty seven sites across Europe and Canada. The company is exposed to resilient food consumption markets and to secular growth trends fuelled by the shift in food consumption towards more premium and natural ingredients. Solina has leading positions in the countries it operates in, resulting from superior customer service and
Reward Gateway, a global HR technology and employee engagement company, is to be acquired by Abry Partners and Castik Capital.
The acquisition of Reward Gateway validates the company’s strategic vision, expansive growth strategy, and the value its products and services deliver to clients. Previously controlled by Great Hill Partners, the company has seen more than 180 per cent growth in revenue since 2015 and currently supports more than 1,900 customers with over five million employees globally.
Reward Gateway offers a leading SaaS employee engagement platform that centralises employee reward and recognition, discounts, communications, surveys, wellbeing and flexible benefits. Its strategic
Global private equity firm CVC Capital Partners (CVC) has acquired a majority interest in Health action company Icario, through the CVC Growth Partners II fund.
Financial terms of the investment, which will be used to fuel Icario’s next phase of growth, have not been disclosed.
Having rebranded earlier this year following the merger of market leaders Revel and NovuHealth, CVC will now help Icario accelerate its business roadmap as it continues to build innovative solutions for its customers, which include many of the most trusted health plans in the United States.
“Icario’s proprietary technology, data science, and behavioural
Acronis, the global specialist in cyber protection, has received more than USD250 million in a funding round from CVC Capital Partners VII and other investors.
Acronis will use the funds to further accelerate growth by expanding its unique portfolio of natively integrated cyber protection products. A significant portion of the investment will also be used to further enhance Acronis’ go-to-market initiatives by expanding its broad partner network – most notably managed service providers (MSPs) – to help them better serve the cyber protection needs of their clients. The investment values the company at more than USD2.5 billion.
“Acronis’ talented
Arrowpoint Advisory has advised Ascenti Health (Ascenti), a technology-led disruptor in the UK physiotherapy and mental wellbeing markets, on its sale to bd-capital partners (bd-capital).
Ascenti started in 1996 as a small rehabilitation business helping victims of motor accidents recover from injury, and through organic growth and a series of acquisitions over the last 20 years has grown into the UK’s leading independent network of physical wellbeing services serving individuals, corporates, insurance companies, private medical insurers, and the UK government. Ascenti’s market-leading digital proposition is the only ‘end-to-end’ technology in the market. These systems, developed in-house by Ascenti, provide effective
CVC Capital Partners (CVC), a global private equity and investment advisory firm, and Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ), a global investment group, have reached an agreement with BlueFocus Intelligent Communication Group for CVC Capital Partners Asia V and CDPQ to acquire a majority stake in its international group of agencies, managed under its subsidiary, BlueFocus International.
This comprises its three main agency groups: We Are Social, fuseproject, Vision7 International which includes Cossette, Cossette Media, Eleven and Citizen Relations, among others.
This agreement will create a digital-first, technology-enabled global advertising and marketing services group of companies. This
One Equity Partners (OEP), a middle market private equity firm, has agreed to acquire the North American operations of AMECO, a full-service provider of construction equipment, scaffolding, small tools management and total site solutions, from Fluor Corporation for USD73 million.
Headquartered in Greenville, SC, AMECO provides construction projects with full lifecycle management of their asset optimisation and craft workforce support needs from consultative pre-bid estimates, to site services and ongoing site maintenance support. AMECO serves capital construction project owners, contractors and ongoing plant operators in the chemical, power, energy, life sciences and advanced manufacturing sectors across the US and Canada.
For the first time in history, global venture investments surpassed USD100 billion in Q1 2021. According to the research data analysed and published by Sijoitusrahastot, worldwide VC funding in Q1 2021 rose by 94 per cent YoY to USD125 billion. During the period, two unicorns on average were created daily, raising the quarterly total to 112.
In this week’s podcast, Priya Karkar, investor relations representative at secondaries-focused firm Kline Hill Partners, talks about fundraising in the ‘new business normal’ and how LP sentiment regarding committing to private funds has evolved since the onset of the global pandemic more than a year ago.
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