Managers
Walter Global Asset Management (WGAM), the Walter Group’s private equity firm focused on asset management, has acquired a minority stake in Quadra Capital Partners (Quadra Capital) – an asset management firm specialising in alternative investments, with offices in London, Paris and Madrid.
“The Quadra Capital team has impressive experience and a proven ability to establish strong business relationships with prestigious clients in Europe, from large organisations to family offices,” says Sylvain Brosseau, president and CEO, Walter Global Asset Management. “Meanwhile, we will support Quadra Capital here in the North American market, particularly when it comes to developing these same types of
WCP has acquired H&P Hygiène et Prévention, the French subsidiary of the Danish group ISS.
With more than 50 years of experience, ISS Hygiene & Prevention is a major player in B2B hygiene services in France and operates in 4 segments: air hygiene, sanitation, pest control and fire protection, as part of preventive or curative actions.
The group has a very diversified client base, with more than 48,000 active accounts, including social and private housing players, companies and local authorities.
The group, which has 1500 employees, is present throughout France via 42 branches, structured around 10 regional hubs.
RSK, an integrated environmental, engineering and technical services consultancy, has acquired the consulting engineering practice Silcock Leedham Group.
The acquisition, announced today, is RSK’s eighth of the financial year and will see the group’s three businesses, Silcock Leedham Consulting Engineers, Zero Energy Design and Verisys, join RSK.
Founded in 2001, Silcock Leedham Group is a mechanical and electrical engineering specialist providing services in the areas of design, thermal modelling, air quality monitoring, technical project management and commissioning to a broad portfolio of clients. It is made up of three complementary and specialist businesses: Silcock Leedham Consulting Engineers, an award-winning
Tel-Aviv based venture capital firm Crescendo Venture Partners is launching its new VC fund planned which is aiming to raise USD80 million-USD100 million.
The new fund, which has completed its first closing and is planning to have its final closing in the first half of 2020, is managed by a group of seasoned venture capitalists with over 75 years of cumulative experience on both sides of the table, in partnership with the Switzerland based Crescendo Group, which manages client assets in excess of USD 3 billions of dollars from across its eight offices in Geneva, London, Guernsey, New York, Miami, Madrid,
Monroe Capital (Monroe) has acted as sole lead arranger and administrative agent on the funding of a senior credit facility and equity co-investment to support Centre Partners’ investment in Wisconsin Cheese Group Holding, (WCG), a manufacturer of branded and private label Hispanic foods, including cheeses, desserts, meats and spices.
Founded in 1985 and based in St Paul, Minnesota, WCG maintains an attractive portfolio of trusted, authentic Hispanic food brands, including La Morenita, El Viajero, Reynaldo’s, El Chilar, Lisy, and Orale!, alongside extensive private label capabilities.
WCG has nationwide distribution with a strong presence within the mass, club, grocery and specialty
Align Capital Partners’ (ACP) portfolio company Pleatco Filtration (Pleatco), the market leading manufacturer of aftermarket cartridge filters for the industrial air and pool/spa industries, has acquired TVS Filters (TVS).
TVS designs and manufactures pleated filter cartridges, gas turbine inlet filters, and other filtration products for complex industrial air filtration applications.
“TVS has experienced tremendous growth due to our commitment to delivering high quality products with industry best lead times and high levels of customer service,” says Part Willings, President of TVS. “Pleatco Filtration’s manufacturing capabilities and deep engineering and marketing expertise are the perfect complement to our business and will
Companies ranked in the bottom 50 per cent of ESG performance are significantly more likely to attract activists’ attention, according to the findings of Alvarez & Marsal’s (A&M) latest analysis and predictor of shareholder activism in Europe, the A&M Activist Alert (AAA).
The study also predicts that the wave of activism across Continental Europe will continue to increase in 2020 as activists adapt their tactics to different markets and sectors, with tech companies a key growing target sector for activist shareholders. The UK however remains the largest market for activists and is home to 54 of the 158 European companies
Czech investment company Jet Investment has concluded a contract to sell its 100 per cent stake in MSV Metal Studenka to Moravia Steel. Terms of the agreement have not been disclosed.
“The selling of MSV Metal Studenka to a strategic partner is a successful outcome of our restructuring efforts that we have been making for the last seven years. In the course of our management, the insolvent company has become a clear market leader in the forgings and subassembly for railways in Europe. Since our entry, we have doubled the profits and revenues of the entire group,” says Marek Malík,
Washington DC-based private equity firm,Arlington Capital Partners (Arlington Capital) has acquired Firth Rixson Forgings Limited from Arconic.
Going forward, the business will operate as part of Forged Solutions Group (FSG), which was formed in November 2019 by Arlington Capital as its aerospace forging platform. Located in Sheffield, United Kingdom, the Company is a provider of complex closed die forgings and forged discs and proprietary forward-and-backward extrusion produced shafts and cylinders primarily for OEM and Tier 1 aerospace & defence engine customers.
Peter Manos, a Managing Partner at Arlington Capital, says: “The Company is a perfect complement to our recent acquisition
The Midlands Engine Investment Fund (MEIF) Debt Finance, managed by Maven Capital Partners (Maven), has provided Black Country based Vacuum Furnace Engineering Ltd (VFE), with a GBP1.5 million funding package.
This will enable the business to increase output, fund several large projects and pursue its growth strategy.
VFE is a leading specialist in the service, repair and overhaul, as well as supply and design of vacuum furnaces and autoclave and serves a range of blue-chip customers from various sectors including aerospace, automotive, medical and general engineering. Vacuum furnaces are used to heat treat metals and ceramics at high temperatures
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