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Washington-based Carlyle Group reported a USD518.8 million fourth-quarter profit on the back of strong asset sales at the end of last year, including its divestment of a 50 percent stake in streetwear fashion brand Supreme to VF Corporation as part of a USD2.1 billion deal in November.
VF Corporation already includes the brands Vans, The North Face, Timberland and Dickies, and the company said that it expects Supreme to contribute at least USD500 million of revenue and USD0.20 of adjusted EPS in the fiscal year 2022.
Carlyle’s December results swung upwards from a loss of USD8.3 million, or 8 cents
Bamboo Capital Partners (Bamboo), a specialist impact investor in emerging and frontier markets, has exited its investment in CONFIE, a Latin American microfinance investment holding company.
CONFIE supports the development of the microfinance industry through investment, financing, and technology to promote equitable and inclusive development in Latin America.
Through its investment in CONFIE in 2007 as part of its first Financial Inclusion Fund, Bamboo has positively impacted the development of two microfinance institutions: Banco FIE in Bolivia and Fie Gran Poder in Argentina.
During this period, Banco FIE, the main investment of CONFIE, extended its branch and ATM
A group of leading development finance institutions (DFIs) and impact investors – CDC Group, Norfund, Finnfund, FinDev Canada and BIO – have made an USD82 million joint commitment to Phatisa Food Fund 2 (PFF 2 or the Fund), managed by Phatisa.
PFF 2 will invest across the African food value chain, considering investments in mechanisation, inputs, poultry and meat production, food processing and manufacturing, logistics, aggregation and distribution across Sub-Saharan Africa. The investment will strengthen and increase food supply, local production and distribution across the region.
A consortium of investors, consisting of CDC, Norfund, Finnfund, FinDev Canada, and BIO
Victory Park Capital (VPC), a leading global alternative investment firm, has closed a multi-year credit facility with Cap Hill Brands, a technology-driven consumer goods platform that acquires and operates e-commerce brands with an initial focus on Amazon-first brands.
The credit facility marks the third deal that VPC has closed in the e-commerce sector since Q3 of last year, having most recently closed a credit facility with Perch, which also acquires and operates Amazon third-party sellers.
Cap Hill Brands was founded in July 2020 by Kevin Saliba and Jason LeeKeenan, two former Zulily executives who helped grow the business into
Seek Now, a technology-enabled inspection platform and services provider to the Property & Casualty (P&C) Insurance industry, has received a significant minority investment from Susquehanna Growth Equity (SGE), an entrepreneur-centric growth equity firm exclusively focused on internet, software, and information services companies.
Financial terms of the investment have not been disclosed.
This represents Seek Now’s first outside institutional capital investment and furthers the company’s mission to virtualise the claims adjustment model through reducing the nation’s top carriers’ claim cycle time and providing exemplary customer service through its data-driven, technology-enabled offering.
Seek Now, co-headquartered in Louisville, KY and Atlanta, GA
Avision Sales Group, an Osceola Capital portfolio company, has completed the acquisition of six additional companies: Angel-Cotton Associates, Apex Commercial Kitchen, Demlow Marketing, Mid-America Sales, Plexus Reps, and TRC Marketing.
These partnerships strengthen Avision’s presence in the Midwest and South, and expand coverage to the Central and Western regions of the US to establish a national footprint across 46 states.
Angel-Cotton Associates was founded in 1993 and services janitorial and hygiene manufacturers on the West Coast. Apex Commercial Kitchen was founded in 2005 and services foodservice equipment and supply manufacturers in the Midwest. Demlow Marketing was founded in 1958
Ogier has assisted Bristows, representing Waterland Private Equity Investments, in its GBP1.1 billion acquisition of the Priory Group from Acadia Healthcare Company.
The deal is the latest in Ogier’s work with significant private equity clients in relation to their acquisition structures.
Waterland, one of the best performing private equity firms globally, said it would combine the Priory Group with MEDIAN, Germany’s largest provider of rehabilitation and neurology treatments, to create “Europe’s leading rehabilitation and mental health services providers”. The combined group will be able to treat 260,000 patients across 570 clinics.
Ogier advised on the Jersey corporate and finance aspects
Two of the leading independent online comparison sites for personal finance in the Nordic region, Sambla and Advisa, are to merge.
Nordic Capital will be the majority owner of the combined company and will actively support it in the next phase of its expansion.
The combination of Sambla and Advisa creates one of the largest players in the Nordic region within loan intermediation, as both companies have strong platforms to continue to build on. Both companies help clients to compare loan terms and consolidate their loans, and thereby improve the terms and reduce costs. A combination creates new great opportunities
Fathom, a portfolio company of private equity firm CORE Industrial Partners (CORE), has acquired Summit Tooling, and Summit Plastics (collectively Summit), a precision tooling and injection moulding services provider, by CORE portfolio company Fathom.
Summit is the fourth add-on acquisition to the Fathom platform following CORE’s initial investment in 2018.
Founded in 1996, Summit provides high-quality plastic injection mould design, precision mould-making and close-tolerance injection moulding with a specialty in small-to-medium prototype injection moulds.
Utilizing a fleet of more than 30 machines, Summit primarily serves long-tenured customers in the medical and packaging end markets.
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BC Partners owned DentalPro, a private dentistry practice in Italy, is to acquire Vitaldent Italia from JB Capital.
The agreement will see DentalPro take control of Vitaldent’s 80 dental practices and integrate them into DentalPro’s network and brand. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
On completion, DentalPro will have cemented its position as the leading Italian dentistry group and will become the seventh largest private healthcare business in the country. The Group will be comprised of 260 dental centres spread across 14 regions in Italy and will employ approximately 2,000 staff including more than 1,500 dentists and
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