Managers
Blue Point Capital Partners (Blue Point) has made its sixth Blue Point IV platform acquisition, Mattco Forge (Mattco), a designer and manufacturer of quality engineered forged metal products primarily for the aerospace & defence (A&D) industry.
Parthenon Capital, a leading growth-oriented private equity firm with offices in Boston, San Francisco and Austin, has held the first and final close of Parthenon Investors VI with more than USD2.0 billion in commitments.
Parthenon Fund VI exceeded its initial fund target of USD1.5 billion.
“We appreciate the rapid and significant support we received from existing limited partners and welcome an outstanding group of new investors to the Parthenon family,” says Brian Golson, managing partner and co-chief executive officer.
Dave Ament, managing partner and co-chief executive officer, adds: “We continue to be excited by the opportunity to build franchise companies
Peregrine Ventures, an Israeli med-tech venture capital fund, just closed its fourth fund, Peregrine 4, raising USD115 million. Their partners include some of the leading institutional and private equity investors from Israel, the United States, Europe and Australia.
Peregrine 4 will continue to invest in early stage and late stage rounds of medical technology startups. Peregrine now has over USD200 million under management, and an equal amount available for co-investment, follow-on, and late stage investments in its portfolio companies from Peregrine 1, 2, and 3.
Since 2001, Peregrine Ventures has been at the forefront of medical, biotech, and life science
Volvo Group Venture Capital AB has invested in Autotech Ventures – an American venture capital fund focuses on start-ups in the ground transportation sector.
Autotech Ventures is a venture capital firm located in Silicon Valley managing over $200 million that focuses on the USD3 trillion ground transportation sector.
Connected, autonomous, electrified vehicles and related mobility services have created shifts in the ground transportation industry. The Autotech Ventures team combine deep knowledge and insights from the ground transport sector with vast experience from venture capital investing.
“Through the co-operation with Autotech Ventures we look forward to interact with more world-class start-ups
NorthEdge Capital has completed the sale of Direct Healthcare Group (DHG) in a secondary buyout by European healthcare specialist investor ArchiMed.
The deal sees NorthEdge secure a thrtee-times return on its initial investment, with an IRR of 39 per cent. NorthEdge led a management buyout of Direct Healthcare Services in April 2016, renamed it Direct Healthcare Group and broadened the firm’s product range through a series of bolt-on acquisitions.
DHG is a fully integrated developer and manufacturer of a range of innovative pressure care products designed to prevent medical issues such as pressure sores, which can lead to serious, sometimes
New York-based private equity firm Greenbriar Equity Group (Greenbriar) has sold Lazer Spot, a provider of mission critical, outsourced yard management services in the United States and Canada, to Harvest Partners (Harvest).
Lazer Spot is the category leader in a comprehensive range of outsourced yard management services including trailer spotting and shuttling. Founded in 1996 and headquartered in Alpharetta, Georgia, Lazer Spot is the only national provider of spotting services. The Company offers a compelling value proposition at over 400 sites in the United States and Canada, for over 100 blue chip customers across the consumer packaged goods, food &
Monocle Acquisition Corporation (Nasdaq: MNCL), a public investment vehicle, and AerSale Corp. (AerSale), an integrated, global provider of aviation aftermarket products and services, are to merge in a transaction with an implied enterprise value of approximately USD430 million, equating to approximately 6.3x AerSale’s forecasted 2020 Adjusted EBITDA.
The combined company, which will be named AerSale Corporation, will be publicly traded on the Nasdaq Stock Market.
AerSale, currently owned by Leonard Green & Partners, Florida Growth Fund LLC and the Company’s two founders, is a leading global supplier of aftermarket aircraft, spare engines, flight equipment, maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO)
ClearCourse Partnership (ClearCourse) has acquired Giftpro, a software platform that allows hotels, restaurants, spas and other venues to sell and manage gift vouchers and event tickets.
Giftpro was established in 2014 to help hospitality businesses unlock the power of their brands and increase direct sales by selling their experiences as gifts online. The Company’s creative solution allows businesses to sell fully personalised gift vouchers online through its customisable platform, integrating all requisite inputs for the e-commerce transaction to take place. Giftpro provides an end-to-end service, creating the online store and providing merchandising, promotional tools, payment processing and fulfilment capabilities. Its
Hampleton Partners, an international M&A and corporate finance advisory firm for technology companies, has advised FAST LTA AG, a provider of zero-loss archiving and backup solutions for mission-critical data, on its acquisition by Afinum Management.
FAST LTA has built a strong position in the German market, particularly in the healthcare, public sector and industrial verticals, helping clients to comply with increasingly stringent regulatory data storage requirements in a secure and cost-effective manner. The team at FAST LTA is excited to partner with Afinum to further develop their product offering, continue their growth trajectory and enlarge their footprint both in Germany
Glennmont Partners, one of the world’s largest fund managers dealing in clean energy, has successfully completed the acquisition of a 36MW wind farm project.
The wind farm, located in the Calabria region of Southern Italy, is powered by ten Vestas V136 turbines and will benefit from a 20-year Feed-in-Tariff awarded by the GSE. Vestas will also provide operation and maintenance services for the plant.
For Glennmont this latest transaction represents a further step in the capital deployment of their EUR850 million Clean Energy Fund III which reached final close earlier this year. It also strengthens the presence of the company’s
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