Managers
Inflexion has made a minority investment in The Goat Agency (Goat), a global social media and influencer marketing agency. The investment is being made by Inflexion Enterprise Fund V, Inflexion’s lower mid‐market fund.
Founded in 2015, Goat is a social media marketing agency focused on helping big brands to use influencer marketing effectively. It couples a data-led approach with deep industry insight to help large blue-chip corporates such as Dell, King and Tesco, reach niche audiences at scale through the use of influencers. Goat is headquartered in London, with 112 staff split between the UK, US and Asia. The business
Venture capital investment manager Deepbridge Capital has completed its latest Life Sciences SEIS GBP1 million funding round.
Companies receiving seed-stage funding include Carocell Bio, Circada, FlutterLab, GenoMe Diagnostics, Glucose Republic and NanOptima.
The Deepbridge Life Sciences SEIS enables private investors to access a portfolio of early-stage companies within the UK’s vibrant life sciences sector, whilst benefiting from the generous potential tax reliefs available via the Government’s Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme (SEIS).
Deepbridge also manages the Deepbridge Life Sciences EIS, the Deepbridge Technology Growth EIS and the Deepbridge Innovation SEIS.
Over the six-month period to 28 February
HIG Capital (HIG), a global alternative investment firm with over EUR35 billion of equity capital under management, is to sell Infinigate to Bridgepoint, an international alternative asset fund management group.
HIG acquired a majority stake in the Company in 2017. The transaction is subject to clearance by the relevant antitrust authorities.
Infinigate, founded in 1996, is a leading specialised value-added distributor (VAD) for cybersecurity and cloud solutions for the SME segment. The core of Infinigate’s business is software distribution – acting as a sales multiplicator between vendors and resellers, giving market access to disruptive vendors, and providing value-added services, such
Affiliates of Lindsay Goldberg, a private investment firm that focuses on partnering with families, founders, and management teams, is to acquire ARYZTA North America (ANA), one of the largest B2B providers of frozen baked goods in the US and Canada, from ARYZTA AG (ARYZTA).
ANA provides breads, sweet and savoury baked goods, and snacks to leading customers in the quick-service restaurant, foodservice, and retail markets across the US and Canada. With over 1,500 unique products, the company has one of the broadest portfolios in the industry, including both private label and branded offerings under the Otis Spunkmeyer, La Brea Bakery,
Clayton, Dubilier & Rice has completed a previously announced partnership transaction in which CD&R-managed funds invested alongside current owners and management to acquire S&S Activewear, a North American distributor of imprintable apparel and accessories.
The terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Founded in 1988, S&S has grown under the current management team and owners from a successful midwestern t-shirt and fleece distributor into an industry leader with approximately USD1.5 billion in sales. S&S is a leading distribution platform with sustainable competitive advantage following significant strategic investments in its geographic reach, people and technology. Today, S&S has the largest one
CAPZA, an established European private investment platform focused on small and mid-cap companies, has participated in the refinancing of Sterimed Group’s debt, a specialist in the medical sterilisation packaging industry, and is supporting the acquisition of the European hospital packaging division of the listed group Amcor.
Founded in 1911, Sterimed is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of medical sterilisation packaging. Sterimed develops, produces, converts and markets various types of ready-to-use packaging solutions for both hospitals and medical device manufacturers. Today, the group benefits from a global footprint with a broad industrial and commercial base.
Positioned in a market with
Charterhouse Capital Partners LLP (“Charterhouse”), one of the longest established private equity firms operating in Europe, has entered into exclusive negotiations for the sale of a majority stake in Cooper Consumer Health (“Cooper” or “the Company”), a European independent over-the-counter (“OTC”) drug manufacturer and distributor, to CVC Fund VII.
The transaction is subject to workers’ council information and consultation and to the approval of relevant regulatory authorities.
Cooper, which is headquartered in Paris, was acquired by Charterhouse in 2016 and since that time has been transformed from a local French champion into a pan-European pure-play OTC platform that manufactures
Aurelius Equity Opportunities SE & Co has acquired Hüppe GmbH from Masco Corporation. The transaction is expected to complete in April and is subject to approval by the relevant antitrust authorities. Financial details have not been disclosed.
Hüppe is one of Europe’s leading manufacturers of shower enclosures, shower trays, wall panels and bathroom accessories. The company currently employs around 470 people at two production sites in Germany and Turkey as well as six European sales entities. In 2020, Hüppe generated sales of cEUR70 million, in line with the previous year. This development despite the Covid-19 pandemic reflects on the one
Partners Group, the leading global private markets firm, has acquired one of the largest district heating platforms (the “District Heating Platform” or “the Company”) in the Baltics, from Finnish energy company Fortum Corporation (“Fortum”).
The Company, which operates across Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, has 74 generation assets, which generate heat capacity of 881 MW and power capacity of 130 MW across 387 km of district heating networks. The District Heating Platform’s fuel is largely derived from renewable or recycled sources, mainly biomass.
Growing demand for district heating is being driven by several transformative trends in the region, including
Aliter-backed Sponge has completed its acquisition of Idox Compliance from its parent Idox plc. With operations in Germany, Belgium and the UK, Idox Compliance provides corporate compliance eLearning solutions to customers across Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the rest of Europe.
Idox Compliance’s leading corporate compliance content, large corporate relationships and geographic footprint are complementary to Sponge’s existing business, which has been created by Aliter through its bringing together of three digital learning businesses, Bolt Learning, Sponge and Skill Pill. Together as one group, it has evolved under Aliter’s direction and continues to exceed its targets despite a challenging economic backdrop.
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