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RM Funds has provided a bilateral GBP13 million senior secured three-year term loan facility to Athena Healthcare Group (AHG).
The financing will support AHG in funding the construction of an institutional-grade purpose built 205 bedrooms care village in Lytham, England. The aged care scheme is expected to reach completion and start trading by early Q2 2022.
This is RM Funds’ second transaction with AHG, having previously completed on a GBP7.8 million construction facility in Q4 2020.
RM Funds is focused on providing investments with outcomes linked to achieving UN Sustainable Development Goals “SDG’s” and this investment offers outcomes
The Riverside Company, a global private investor focused on the smaller end of the middle market, has launched a trade services franchise platform called Threshold Brands, to be initially comprised of five businesses: MaidPro, FlyFoe, Men in Kilts, Pestmaster and USA Insulation, all acquired over the last eight months.
MaidPro is a national provider of residential and light commercial cleaning services through a network of more than 270 franchised locations. MaidPro brings meaningful scale with two additional brands, FlyFoe, a mosquito and tick control franchise, and Men in Kilts, a window cleaning, power washing and gutter cleaning franchise.
Pestmaster provides
The Recreational Group (RG), a US provider of residential and commercial recreational surfacing product, has acquired three specialist turf distribution and installation companies.
The companies are Turf Factory Direct, a national distributor of artificial turf, EasyGrass, a supplier and installer of artificial turf products in South Florida, and Synthetic Grass Pros, a distributor and installer of turf in the Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston markets.
“The fragmented recreational surfacing space needs a consolidator to bring consistent quality and service to the market. RG is that consolidator of choice,” says Ron Bennett, President and CEO of RG. “Easy Grass and Synthetic
Industrial Opportunity Partners (IOP), an operations-focused private equity firm, has completed the sale of portfolio company El Dorado Packaging (El Dorado) to ProAmpac Holdings (ProAmpac), a global flexible packaging company that serves consumer packaged goods customers across a diverse set of end markets.
The divestiture represents IOP’s sixth investment realisation from its USD275 million second fund, Industrial Opportunity Partners II. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
El Dorado was formed in September 2014 through the acquisitions and merger of the Multiwall Packaging Division of Greif, Inc and El Dorado Paper Bag Manufacturing Company. The Company is
Private investment firm GI Partners is to sell Consilio, a specialist in eDiscovery, document review, risk management, and legal consulting services, to investment funds managed by Stone Point Capital (Stone Point).
GI Partners simultaneously acquired Consilio and Advanced Discovery in 2018, combining the businesses to form a global leader in eDiscovery. Following a successful integration of the two companies, GI Partners and management acquired DiscoverReady later that year. The combinations brought together three highly regarded management teams with complementary capabilities into one global eDiscovery leader with a full suite of end-to-end solutions capable of supporting the largest and most
TV and video advertising specialist Extreme Reach (ER) is to acquire Adstream, a global provider of digital asset management, creative logistics and analytics solutions.
Through the acquisition, Extreme Reach will provide brand marketers and all their global partners with a seamless, all-in-one brand activation platform that removes complexity from the entire lifecycle of creative asset management, mitigating risk, restoring control and increasing agility, visibility and multi-team productivity.
From concept to campaign launch to reuse and storage of assets, marketers in all regions of the world will work cohesively in a centralised platform. The combined offering will provide global creative asset
Digital Alpha Advisors (Digital Alpha), a digital infrastructure investment firm, has held the closing of Digital Alpha Fund II over its initial hard cap with over USD1 billion in commitments.
The Fund was oversubscribed and continues the same successful strategy of investing in digital infrastructure assets, companies and revenue share arrangements as Digital Alpha Fund I, formed in 2017. Digital Alpha will also continue the successful strategic partnership it has had with Cisco since the firm’s founding, which includes preferred access to Cisco’s deal flow, engineering and sales resources, as well as access to Cisco’s broader ecosystem of channel partners
Compusoft Group, a leading global visual CPQ provider, has acquired First Degree Systems (FDS), a UK provider of software solutions for the window and door industry.
The acquisition is aligned with Compusoft’s aim to become the most recommended visual CPQ solution-provider in the world, by providing innovative software that makes complex processes simple. This further expansion into the window and door industry market will widen that offering, as well as expand their market coverage.
“The acquisition of FDS by Compusoft will usher us into a whole new era, complementing what has been built up over the last 30
Luminate Capital Partners, a private equity firm focused on enterprise software, has completed a strategic growth investment in Axonify, a specialist in frontline employee training software.
Luminate’s investment will enable Axonify to expand its leadership position in the frontline training and communications market by accelerating new product innovations and other key growth initiatives. Axonify will continue to be led by CEO and Co-Founder Carol Leaman.
Axonify’s market-leading training and communication SaaS platform is purpose-built to serve frontline employees. Axonify delivers personalized, bite-sized bursts of learning directly into the flow of work, for just a few minutes a day, promoting employee
Kirkland & Ellis has emerged as the top legal adviser for mergers and acquisitions (M&A) by both value and volume in technology, media & telecom (TMT) sector for Q1 2021, having advised on 86 deals worth USD55.6 billion.
A total of 3,009 M&A deals were announced in the sector during Q1 2021, according to GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company. According to GlobalData’s report, ‘Global and Technology, Media & Telecom M&A Report Legal Adviser League Tables Q1 2021’, deal value for the sector increased by 88 per cent from USD175 billion in Q1 2020 to USD329 billion in Q1
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