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Ironwood Capital has made subordinated debt and preferred equity investments in Boston Carting Services (BCS), a provider of non-hazardous solid waste and recycling collection services in the Greater Boston market. The company was founded by Patsy Sperduto, president and CEO, a 25-year waste industry veteran with a successful track record of growing solid waste companies organically and through M&A.
“We’re really excited about partnering with Patsy to build an environmental services platform in the fast-growing Greater Boston market,” says Dickson Suit, managing director, Ironwood Capital. Ironwood has deep experience in the environmental services industry, completing more than a dozen platform investments
Private equity house, Key Capital Partners (KCP) has exited its investment in Sparta Global by way of a secondary buy-out funded by Inflexion Private Equity Partners. The transaction gives KCP a near 7x return on its original investment.Sparta Global is an innovative technology services and training provider operating from two locations in London and Birmingham. The business trains and deploys highly skilled technology and business professionals with a key focus on diversity and inclusion. The team is led by founders David Rai (CEO) and Tim Staton (CTO). KCP invested in the business in 2017.
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Summa Equity has acquired a majority stake in Sengenics, a functional proteomics company with a proprietary technology called KREX that enables researchers to vastly improve the understanding of the human proteome and immune system. Proteomics, the large-scale study of proteins, is one of the most important areas for gaining insights into human biology and disease, as protein expressions, structures and functions are critical in reflecting states of health.
Sengenics was first founded in 2008 and went on to commercialise the KREX technology that was originally developed from a joint collaboration between the University of Cambridge and the University of Oxford. The
Macquarie Infrastructure Debt Investment Solutions (MIDIS) has raised approximately EUR1.2 billion from institutional investors to invest in sub-investment grade infrastructure debt.MIDIS raised approximately EUR730 million for the strategy via Macquarie Infrastructure Debt (Sub- Investment Grade) Fund (the “Fund”) exceeding its initial fundraising target of EUR500 million. An additional EUR425 million was raised to invest alongside the fund through separately managed accounts and for co-investments.
Institutional investors have increased their allocations to sub-investment grade infrastructure debt in recent years, recognising the typically stable nature of infrastructure asset revenue streams and strong protections in place for lenders when compared with similarly
Investment firm Blueprint Forest (BPF) has allocated USD120 million to its new Southeast Asian counterpart, 9 Basil to fund enterprises across the region. Powered by a number of established families and institutions across SE Asia, 9 Basil represents a strategic private equity platform that is independently managed to allocate capital to leading businesses that would further enhance their position of strength with the value of 9 Basil as partners
The newly announced fund aims to provide investment for businesses across the financial services, consumer brands, supply chain, and real estate sectors in Southeast Asia. It will also cater for distressed assets
One of private equity firm CI Capital Partners’ portfolio companies, Maroon Group – a distributor of life science ingredients and specialty chemicals – is to be acquired by Barentz International, a global life science distributor, and portfolio company of Cinven. The companies expect to complete the transaction, which is subject to customary closing conditions, later this year. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Maroon was acquired by CI Capital in partnership with the company’s management team in 2014. Under CI Capital’s ownership, Maroon completed 11 add-on acquisitions, expanded from a regional distributor focused on coatings and adhesives end
Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (CD&D) has closed its acquisition of Epicor, a global provider of industry-specific enterprise software to industrial sectors. The transaction is valued at USD4.7 billion.Epicor is a leading enterprise software vendor delivering cloud-enabled services to more than 20,000 customers globally. Epicor’s flagship products are curated to support complex, vertical-specific workflows and provide mission-critical support to customers seeking to drive growth and profitability in their own businesses. Epicor is an acknowledged leader in the industrial end markets it serves, including manufacturing, distribution, retail, and services categories.
Upon the close, CD&R Partner Jeff Hawn assumed the role of Chairman
To mark Ada Lovelace Day, an international celebration of the achievements of women in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM), PEWire is publishing a mini-series of three Q&A interviews with women working in venture capital. First up is Kate Bingham, managing director of SV Health Investors, which invests in biotech, digital health companies, medical devices and healthcare services.
Covid-19 is making a real impact on the liquidity of many organisations across South Africa, which has affected everything from logistics to paying salaries. However, with this comes the opportunity for these businesses to engage in a conversation with Private Equity firms to consider capital investment.A number of organisations have had setbacks due to a supply chain being disrupted, with this heavily impacting services to clients. It has meant that there could be opportunities to secure a strong and profitable supply chain partnership through PE. Where consolidation opportunities exist in certain industries, private equity investors can add significant value in
Private equity firm Leonard Green & Partners (LGP) has completed a strategic investment in Eyemart Express, a national value optical retailer, joining majority stakeholders FFL Partners (FFL) and the Barnes Family.While financial terms of the private transaction have not been disclosed, the new investment will not add any incremental debt to the Eyemart Express balance sheet.
“We are very excited to welcome Leonard Green & Partners to Eyemart Express,” says Michael Bender, CEO of Eyemart Express. “The team at LGP shares our vision about the significant market opportunity ahead, and their experience and insights, in partnership with FFL, will
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