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KPS Capital Partners (KPS) is to acquire the Europe, Middle East and Africa food, aerosol and promotional packaging business (EMEA Food and Consumer Packaging Business) from Crown Holdings for EUR2.25 billion (USD2.7 billion). Crown will retain 20 per cent ownership of the Company.
The transaction is expected to close in the third quarter of 2021 and is subject to customary closing conditions and approvals.
The EMEA Food and Consumer Packaging Business is the largest manufacturer of steel and aluminum food packaging in Europe and is a leading manufacturer of aerosol and promotional packaging. The Company is critical to the
AIA Group Limited (AIA) has established AIA VCC, a Variable Capital Company in Singapore as part of its group wide investment programme to facilitate capital deployment globally.
The Investment Manager of AIA VCC is AIA Investment Management Private Limited (AIAIM) that was established in 2016 as the Group level asset management company and with reported assets under management of SGD178 billion as at the end of 2020.
AIA is now exploring how the recently introduced VCC framework can support AIA’s investment programme with particular focus on balance sheet exposure to specialist and alternative investment strategies.
Thompson Street Capital Partners (TSCP), a private equity firm based in St Louis, MO, has announced that its portfolio company Len The Plumber (LTP), a specialist full-service residential plumbing company headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland, with branches serving the Mid-Atlantic region, has completed the acquisition of Neffsville Plumbing, Heating & Cooling Services (Neffsville), a full-service residential plumbing and HVAC company headquartered in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
“Neffsville and LTP share not only a similar geography but, most importantly, a commitment to customer service excellence and to being recognized within our industry as an employer of
Phoenix Group (Phoenix), the UK’s largest long-term savings and retirement business, announces the launch of its first dedicated Venture Capital fund, “Phoenix Venture Capital Partners”, with an initial allocation in excess of GBP100 million.
This move is designed to enable Phoenix to construct portfolios that include exposure to Venture Capital for Phoenix Life Unit-Linked and With-Profits policyholders, diversifying into an asset class that has until now been largely reserved for institutional investors. This is the first allocation to Venture Capital in the policyholder funds, and the first allocation to Patient Capital in the Unit Linked funds.
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Level E Research, the Edinburgh based leader in artificial intelligence (AI) investment solutions, has just closed a seed funding round raising GBP1.2 million from a group of private investors, including leading figures in the investment management industry.
The business, founded by Dr Sonia Schulenburg in 2018, combines machine learning, data science and behavioural economics enabling institutional investors to develop, test and implement smart investment strategies at the highest levels of automation and at significantly lower cost than traditional investment management business models.
Dr Sonia Schulenburg, CEO of Level E Research, says: “This very successful fundraising backed by well-known industry leaders
Fortis Solutions Group LLC, a portfolio company of Main Post Partners, is pleased to announce the acquisition of Total Label.
Founded in 2004 by Janet Farris and Chris Farris with locations in Whitefish, MT and Memphis TN, Total Label provides complex pressure sensitive, extended content and booklet labels utilising flexographic, letterpress, digital and hybrid printing technologies. Total primarily serves the agriculture, health and beauty, nutraceutical, home goods, and food and beverage end-markets. Janet and Chris Farris will remain in leadership roles with the company.
Fortis President and CEO John O Wynne, Jr comments: “Total Label is known throughout the industry
Thierry Goubault, Chairman and shareholder of Charles & Alice, has entered into exclusive negotiations with funds advised by Equistone Partners Europe (Equistone) to buy out their controlling stake in the company.
Crédit Mutuel Equity is providing a third successive round of financing to the company to support management’s buyout, having been a majority shareholder in Charles & Alice in 2007 and become a minority shareholder when Equistone invested in 2013. Through this transaction, management aims to become the largest shareholder in Charles & Alice, which specialises in fruit and plant-based desserts
Thierry Goubault and his team have increased the
The new digital financial services company Alpian SA (Alpian), incubated by the Swiss banking group REYL & Cie Ltd (REYL), has announced a successful Series B funding worth around USD18 million (CHF16.9 million). The fundraising follows the Series A round in 2020 in which CHF12.2 million was raised.
With its integrated offering of both banking and investing inside a single convenient product experience, Alpian is pursuing a market segment of mass affluent clients; individuals with anywhere from CHF100,000 to 1,000,000 to invest. According to research undertaken by Alpian, mass affluent clients are typically under-served by retail banks and lack access
Foresight Group (Foresight) portfolio company Cinelab London, a leading UK post-production company, has acquired On Set Tech, one of the UK’s most reputable digital imaging and dailies service providers.
This marks the 55th transaction made by Foresight’s private equity team in the last twelve months, making Foresight one of the most active UK SME investors in the market and a key provider of essential financial support throughout the Covid-19 pandemic.
The UK film and high entertainment television production industry is seeing a robust bounce-back from the Covid-19 lockdowns, with the last quarter in 2020 delivering the second highest quarterly
Hiro Capital, a London/Luxembourg VC fund investing across Games, Esports, Streaming and Digital Sports, has made a USD2.3 million investment in PlayerData.
Edinburgh, UK-based PlayerData’s mission is to transform the way grass-roots and professional sports teams train, using software, analytics, gamification and wearable technology.
In its first year live, PlayerData has already captured more than 10,000 team sessions and >50 million meters of athlete play in UK grass-roots Soccer and Rugby, and these KPIs are strongly accelerating.
The raise will be used to supercharge PlayerData’s growth across multiple sports and to expand internationally.
This announcement marks Hiro Capital’s
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