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AURELIUS Equity Opportunities is to acquire the Renewable Power Systems (RPS Business) as well as the protection relays business, from Woodward, Inc. With over 400 employees, the combined businesses generated sales of approximately USD 80 million in financial year 2019. The closing of the transaction is subject to customary closing conditions including antitrust approval and is anticipated to occur in the next months.
The RPS Business produces converters and other key components used in wind turbines at its production sites in Kempen, Germany and Krakow, Poland. It is also active in the converter aftermarket, selling spare parts for the installed base,
The latest Enterprise Software M&A market report from Hampleton Partners, an international technology mergers and acquisitions adviser, reveals that transaction volumes decreased slightly to 620 deals inked in the second half of 2019, but revenue and EBITDA multiples remained astoundingly high at 4.0x and 17.3x respectively. Miro Parizek, founder, Hampleton Partners, says: “Despite the slight cooldown in deal volume, the overall picture indicates that we’re entering 2020 with continued strong demand for enterprise software assets. Private equity investors continue to harness readily available debt financing for acquisitions and have outbid strategic buyers in leveraged buyouts throughout 2019.
“The never-ending need for
Despite Brexit, the UK is still the top destination for US-EU inbound M&A activity, representing nearly 40 per cent of EU deals since 2009 – and activity could pick up with greater Brexit certainty.
floLIVE, a provider of secure, cloud-native global Connectivity Management Solutions for the Internet of Things (IoT), has secured USD21.5 million in a Series B financing round and appointed Nir Shalom as the company’s new CEO. Led by Shalom, floLIVE will invest the funds to increase its presence in Europe, Asia and North America as well as accelerate its market awareness programs.
Powered by its globally distributed connectivity cloud – floLIVE will address the growing demand among enterprises for secure, seamless connectivity across the globe, with unified management and control.
The funding round was led by 83North, and included notable Venture
JF Lehman & Company, a New York and Washington DC-based middle-market private equity firm focused exclusively on the aerospace, defence, maritime, government, and environmental sectors, has acquired UK-based firm GMO, as well as Integrated Global Services, within the space of less than a week.

The firm’s latest acquisition represents the first platform investment by JFLCO’s latest fund, JFL Equity Investors V.
Headquartered in Richmond, Virginia, IGS is a provider of highly engineered, proprietary surface protection solutions and technologies to a diversified global customer base. The company’s technologies and services solve metal wastage and reliability problems in mission-critical equipment found across energy, power
Behrman Capital, a private equity investment firm based in New York and San Francisco, has sold its portfolio company ILC Dover to New Mountain Capital. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.Founded in 1947, ILC Dover designs and manufactures a broad range of innovative, highly engineered products utilising high-performance flexible materials. The Company has a more than seventy-year heritage of innovation, and commitment to expanding its product portfolio of mission-critical applications to end use cases including single-use pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical production, personal safety, industrial packaging, infrastructure protection and a range of solutions for human space flight. The Company
Private equity firm CenterOak Partners’ portfolio company Cascade Windows (Cascade) has acquired Amerimax Windows & Doors (Amerimax) from OmniMax International. Amerimax is a manufacturer of vinyl windows and doors focused on the residential retrofit and replacement markets. Amerimax operates two manufacturing facilities in Loveland, CO and Woodland, CA, allowing it to effectively service its dealer customers throughout the Western US. The transaction broadens Cascade’s product offering in the retrofit and replacement window and door segment of its business while also providing incremental production capacity to serve existing Amerimax and Cascade customers in California and Colorado.
“Amerimax has developed a lasting
Stirling Square Capital Partners (Stirling Square) has held the final close of its Fourth Fund with EUR950 million in total commitments raised.The Fund exceeded Stirling Square’s target and represents a nearly 60 per cent increase in size over the firm’s Third Fund.
The Fund received robust support from the firm’s existing investor base and attracted significant commitments from notable new global investors. At final close approximately 60 per cent of commitments were from Europe, 35 per cent from North America, and 5 per cent from the Asia Pacific region.
The Fund will continue to execute the strategy developed
Globalization Partners, whose Global Expansion Platform enables companies to hire talent in more than 170 countries within days without the need to first set up costly international subsidiaries, has closed on a USD150 million minority equity investment led by funds managed by Wincove Private Holdings and TDR Capital, with participation from Sands Capital. The investor group will further accelerate Globalization Partners’ rapid growth to date, as companies increasingly look to expand into new international markets. The company intends to invest heavily in client services, technology development, sales, and global expansion.
Founded by CEO Nicole Sahin in 2012, Globalization Partners flattens barriers to global business by making
The Conen Group, based in Morbach, a provider of interiors and technical products for educational institutions and a portfolio company of Halder, has acquired over HKS Systemtechnik in Borchen (Germany), a specialist in the field of projection and presentation technology. HKS produces and sells projection screens, information terminals as well as barrier-free, multimedia-capable lecterns and height-adjustable screen mounts. Via its in-house development and production, the company can ensure a high level of delivery speed and flexibility for customer-specific adjustments.
The acquisition by Conen is a succession solution for the founder and main shareholder, Winfried Steins. His partner and co-managing director, Christian
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