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By Purva Aggarwal – US-based global investing firm Capria Ventures made its second investment in Latin America during the pandemic in January, with Mexican VC fund Angel Ventures. The Mexico City-based firm invests in entrepreneurs across Latin America, with a particular focus on Mexico, Chile, Colombia and Peru.
By George Ralph (pictured), Managing Director, RFA – Technology has moved so quickly over recent years. Once new technology has been implemented there is no way back, but this is a positive thing as businesses, including private equity firms, have benefited hugely from the collaboration tools available today.
Being able to communicate and share documents – which is the basic idea behind tools such as Teams and SharePoint – has really been a game changer for the private equity industry.
Following this, firms using app based cloud technology and a full Software-as-a-Service operating model have been able to operate with complete
2020 saw unprecedented pandemic-induced turbulence on the political, social and economic arenas not seen for decades. While some of the major private equity groups on the global scene – the likes of KKR, Blackstone and Apollo – managed to draw on dry powder, scoop up distressed assets in the wake of the turmoil, and launch new credit funds amid the financial havoc, there are many firms who have struggled with keeping their portfolio companies afloat while coping with vast demands on management. We also witnessed debut managers experience increasing hurdles.
Total Capital Partners (Total Capital) has funded the management buyout of precision engineering business Precise Component Manufacture Limited (PCML). Total Capital provided a complete equity and debt funding package to back the business and facilitate the exit of the retiring shareholders.
Utilising its single source funding model Total Capital is providing GBP17 million of equity and debt and will take an 85 per cent equity stake in the business.
Headquartered in Cambridgeshire and with five manufacturing sites in East Anglia, PCML provides rapid-turnaround manufacturing of complex custom components and assemblies to clients in R&D intensive industries, with an increasing
Global private equity firm The Riverside Company, is to invest in Altius Group Holdings (Altius), a specialist provider of allied health services in Australia.
The company provides a range of services including occupational rehabilitation case management and return-to-work support, employee counselling and wellbeing through employee assistance programs, functional capacity assessments and physical therapeutic treatment to disabled individuals under the National Disability Insurance Scheme. Altius has 30 locations across Australia.
“We’re thrilled to partner with Derick Borean and the Altius team to enhance an already-strong health services platform in Australia,” says Riverside Partner Nick Speer. “Working together, we plan to expand
HCAP Partners, a California-based private equity firm and nationally recognised impact investor, has invested in 83bar, an Austin, Texas-based specialist in patient journey management for both clinical trials and commercial clients across pharma, medical device, and diagnostic industries.
The mezzanine debt infusion will be used to restructure existing debt, provide share redemption for a small group of existing investors, and provide supplemental growth capital. Terms of the investment were not disclosed.
Founded in 2015, 83bar provides a cost-effective patient activation platform to find and retain qualified individuals for clinical trials and commercial clients. The company locates patients on behalf of
Gauge Capital (Gauge), a middle market private equity firm, has closed its third fund with an oversubscribed first and final close of USD800 million in commitments.
The Gauge Capital team is the largest investor in the fund and represents over 25 per cent of the committed capital. Ropes & Gray LLP served as counsel.
Gauge Capital is a private equity firm that partners with owners, managers, and equity stakeholders of successful middle market companies to maximise their potential. The firm focuses on investing in growing services and technology-enabled companies in the business and consumer, healthcare, industrial, government and food sectors.
The Eurazeo group raised EUR2.8 billion from its investor partners across 2020, an increase of 18 per cent compared with 2019.
Amid a volatile context caused by the Covid-19 crisis, this strong performance provides further vindication of Eurazeo’s strategy of diversification. The Group remains a leading investor in private markets and one of the few in Europe to offer clients investment solutions in three high-return asset classes (Private Equity, private debt and real assets), covering the whole business development cycle (Venture, Growth, SME, mid-to-large cap), and with expertise in all promising business sectors. The trust placed in Eurazeo by major
Blue Point Capital Partners (Blue Point) has made its eighth Blue Point IV platform investment with the acquisition of Cleveland-based Transtar Holding Company (Transtar).
Transtar is a global leader in the value-added distribution of original equipment and aftermarket automotive products for the transmission and driveline repair market. The local partnership with Blue Point will accelerate the Company’s growth through continued refinement of its industry-leading e-commerce technology, enhancement of supply chain efficiencies and execution of strategic add-on acquisitions.
Transtar has distributed thousands of high-quality branded and propriety parts to transmission repair shops and other automotive channels around the globe since 1975.
Global law firm White & Case has advised Memsource, an AI-powered translation management system headquartered in the Czech Republic, and its majority shareholder The Carlyle Group, on the acquisition of a majority stake in Phrase, a German software localisation platform, from its existing shareholders.
“Our international team helped to successfully navigate this important strategic acquisition, which is the first since Carlyle’s investment in Memsource last year,” says White & Case partner Ken Barry, who led the Firm’s deal team. “The strong combination of Memsource and Phrase together with Carlyle’s investment in this accelerating sector highlights White & Case’s robust expertise
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