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Humatica, a private equity specialist adviser for portfolio organisational effectiveness, has advised private equity firm Baird Capital on its acquisition of a majority interest in eCube Solutions Limited, an aircraft disassembly and end of life services provider based in St Athan, Wales and Castellón, Spain.eCube provides storage, disassembly and parts re-use and recycling services to global aircraft owners in Europe, the Middle East and Asia, including major airlines and aircraft leasing companies. Baird’s investment will support the continued growth of the UK business alongside supporting rapid growth in its new continental European facility, expanding parking availability and additional disassembly capacity.
NTR has successfully completed a EUR370 million portfolio refinance of a 220 MW onshore wind portfolio for its NTR Wind 1 LP fund. The fund was established by NTR to construct and operate onshore wind projects availing of the attractive REFIT (Ireland) and ROC (UK) long-term supports. With all projects in the fund now in operation from earlier this year, NTR availed of the opportunity to replace the existing individual project financing packages with a highly competitive and flexible portfolio refinance.   Five lenders – AIB, LBBW, NatWest / Ulster Bank, Santander, and Siemens Financial Services through Siemens Bank – are
ReliaQuest, a cybersecurity managed service and intelligence platform for global enterprises, has raised over USD300 million in growth financing in a round led by leading global investment firm KKR, with participation from Ten Eleven Ventures and ReliaQuest founder and CEO Brian Murphy.  The investment, which follows USD30 million in growth equity from FTV Capital – who partnered with the firm in 2016 – will support ReliaQuest in accelerating the company’s growth initiatives, including international expansion and platform development. Cybersecurity remains a top concern for enterprises as the complex threat landscape continues to evolve and the global shortage of cyber talent
Providence Strategic Growth (PSG), the growth equity affiliate of asset management firm Providence Equity Partners (Providence), has completed a majority investment in Sympa, a leading provider of cloud-based human capital management (HCM) software in the Nordics.  Alfvén & Didrikson, an active, long-term backer of Nordic businesses with international growth potential, invested in Sympa in 2016 and will retain a minority stake alongside the company’s founding team. PSG team members Edward Hughes, Aldo Mareuse, and Tobias Richter have joined Sympa’s board of directors. Financial terms were not disclosed.   Sympa was founded in 2005 and is now one of the fastest-growing
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Dutch family-backed impact investor DOB Equity has re-invested in Tanzania’s biggest dairy processor, Tanga Fresh.
AST Private Company Solutions (AST PCS) has formed a new strategic partnership with HC Global Funds Services, (HC Global) as a provider of fund administration services to seed fund, accelerator fund, venture, and private equity funds as well as special purpose vehicles. Users of AST PCS’s recently launched Astrella capitalisation (cap) table and ownership data management platform will benefit from the new integration. Astrella was developed by AST PCS, the Silicon Valley-based business unit of ownership data management leader AST, using transformative technology to build a new cloud-based SaaS platform. The solution brings together private blockchain technology, artificial intelligence (AI), and
Kain Capital has completed its investment in MDLand, a technology platform designed to unify and modernise the healthcare industry’s antiquated and disjointed systems. MDLand equips managed care service providers with the technology needed to work more efficiently and profitably, while improving patient outcomes and generating quality of care performance incentives. Built by physicians, for physicians, MDLand handles everything from scheduling, practice management, population health management, telemedicine, remote patient monitoring and billing in one comprehensive solution. The cloud-based platform brings together the traditional elements of an electronic health record with newer concepts of population health management making it possible to manage patients
Aliter Capital (Aliter), the specialist UK support services investor has completed its investment in London-headquartered Temple Grange Partners, a consultancy firm with a leading financial crime (FCC) and compliance practice. This investment, in close partnership with Aliter’s existing portfolio companies Sponge and Bolt Learning, will support the creation of differentiated FCC-focused eLearning content designed specifically for the Financial Services market. Eoin O’Shea, Founder and CEO of Temple Grange Partners, says: “We have been very impressed from the start with Aliter’s long-term investment strategy. In addition to helping to grow and expand our consultancy and advisory capabilities – including our leading compliance
Cloud Comms, Contact Centre and Cyber solutions firm, Babble, has acquired Corporate Management Telecom Ltd (CMT). The deal, which was funded by mid-market private equity investor LDC, is the third acquisition completed by the business this year as the management team continues to deliver its ambitious buy and build strategy.Established in 1998 and based in Braintree, CMT provides business telephony and cloud-based services including voice, system hardware, IT and mobile to 500 customers.  Since Babble partnered with LDC in 2017, the business has delivered a combination of impressive double-digit organic and acquisitive growth including the purchase of Arden Group, Direct
Foresight Group (Foresight), an independent infrastructure and private equity investment manager, has made the second investment by Foresight Energy Infrastructure Partners (FEIP), into two operational wind farms located in the Castile and León region of Spain.  

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