Managers
The Riverside Company, a global private equity firm focused on the smaller end of the middle market, has invested in HealthTech BioActives (HTBA).
HTBA is a Spanish manufacturer of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs), excipients, flavourings and sweeteners for the pharmaceutical, nutraceutical and cosmetic industries, as well as ingredients for human and animal feed with a total sales of EUR51 million in 2018. T
he company’s products, derived from citrus and vitamin B12 derivatives, sell in more than 90 countries worldwide. HTBA is a carve-out of Ferrer, a well-known international pharmaceutical company headquartered in Barcelona, Spain.
The deal includes the 140
EdtechX Holdings (EdtechX), a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) seeking to acquire a target in the education services and education technology industry, is to merge with Meten Education (China) (Meten).
Meten and its digital platform Likeshuo are a market leader in English Learning Training (ELT) in China. The combined entity (New Holdco) will operate as Meten EdtechX and focus on providing English and future skills training for a growing market of Chinese students and young professionals. Meten EdtechX intends to pursue expansion plans including market consolidation in China and the roll out of Meten’s existing omni-channel distribution platform, combining digital delivery
Macfarlanes has advised Muzinich & Co, the corporate credit management specialist, on a leverage facility for its first European Long-Term Investment Fund (ELTIF), Muzinich Firstlight Middle Market ELTIF.
This fund invests mostly in syndicated loans and private debt instruments, and may also invest in bonds and junior investment opportunities. As an ELTIF, it is only able to leverage certain types of investment and is subject to both a 30 per cent borrowing restriction and a 30 per cent encumbrance restriction. This has led to the need to create a bespoke but flexible financing structure. It is one of the first
Middle market private equity firm One Equity Partners (OEP) has made a significant minority investment in Nexion, an automotive solutions business, focused on garage equipment, diagnostics, and advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) aftermarket solutions.
Financial terms of the private transaction have not been disclosed.
Founded in 1954 and headquartered in Correggio, Italy, Nexion manages a portfolio of historic brands, including Corghi, Sice, Hpa-Faip, Mondolfo Ferro, Teco, Tecnomotor, Orlandini, Bright, Stenhoj, Sherpa, Autopstenhoj. The Company specializes in tire changers, wheel balancers, aligners, lifts, diagnostics, and ADAS solutions. Nexion has approximately 2,000 employees and 14 manufacturing and design facilities in Italy, Denmark,
Great Point Media (Great Point), a London-based media and investment group and US institutional fund manager MC Credit Partners (MCCP), have partnered to finance film and television programming globally.
Funds managed by MCCP will invest up to USD100 million in the partnership and Great Point has already committed a minimum of USD80 million. It represents the first institutional investment for Great Point’s global project finance fund and will be used to finance larger-scale media projects.
Commenting on the investment, Robert Halmi, Chairman of Great Point Media, says: “Since 2013, Great Point Media has produced, financed and distributed more than USD600m
Waracle, one of the UK’s largest mobile apps and digital products developers, has received a GBP4.8 million investment from BGF, the UK and Ireland’s most active investor in growing businesses, to support its long-term growth plans.
Waracle designs, develops and manages mobile apps and other digital products, working with some of the UK’s largest businesses across sectors including fintech, digital health and energy. Waracle continues to develop industry-leading digital solutions across the full mobile app development spectrum, including mobile, IoT, and Extended Reality (AR and VR).
Founded in Dundee in 2007, the business has since scaled across Scotland with 140
Nuvei, a global payment technology provider, has completed a USD270 million (CAD358 million) common equity financing, valuing the company at USD2 billion (CAD2.65 billion).
The investment comes primarily from Nuvei’s existing shareholders: leading Canadian private equity firm Novacap, supported by some of its key limited partners, and Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ), one of the largest Canadian institutional investors. This financing allows Nuvei to further bolster both its organic and acquisition growth plans.
Headquartered in Montreal, Quebec and having offices across the globe, Nuvei delivers omnichannel, end-to-end payment acceptance solutions, streamlined payouts, foreign exchange services, local acquiring,
The CapStreet Group (CapStreet), a Houston, Texas based private equity firm that invests in privately held, lower middle-market companies, has held the final closing of CapStreet V, at its hard cap, with total commitments of USD500 million.
CapStreet V exceeded its original target of USD400 million with commitments from a diverse group of existing and new investors.
“We were pleased with the strong support that we received from our existing base of limited partners, and we were also fortunate to be able to expand this investor base by adding a select group of new limited partners to CapStreet V,” says
A partnership between Signature Capital and PGIM Real Estate has acquired the Arrow Portfolio in Berlin from Patrizia AG as a share deal.
The portfolio comprises four office properties in Berlin’s central districts of Mitte and Kreuzberg, with a total area of circa 32,000 square metres, as well as an additional fully permitted development of circa 8,500 square metres.
PGIM Real Estate is the real estate investment business of PGIM, the US$1tn global investment management businesses of US-headquartered Prudential Financial, Inc. (NYSE: PRU), and has been a market leader in open-end fund management since it launched its flagship open-end core
Proof of Impact (POI) has closed its first institutional investment round led by Franklin Templeton. Proof of Impact is building a global marketplace on the blockchain where one can donate or invest directly into measurable impact outcomes.
In connection with the investment, a representative of Franklin Templeton will serve on the Proof of Impact board, offering their expertise in the application of blockchain technology and impact investing as well as scaling the POI offering globally. Proof of Impact’s co-founder Fleur Heyns will be pitching the company during the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos in January 2020.
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