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ARQIS has advised SkyFive on the acquisition of the core assets of the Air-to-Ground (A2G) business division from Nokia. Both parties have agreed not to disclose the purchase price.
Nokia’s A2G technology is designed to provide broadband telecom connectivity for continental air travel and has significant technology and cost advantages over today’s satellite telecom solutions. The acquired assets make SkyFive the world’s first A2G communications specialist. SkyFive assumes responsibility for the end-to-end solution, which comprises avionics, telecommunications and IT systems. Nokia remains responsible for the sale and implementation of the backbone network – an integral part of the solution –
TPG Sixth Street Partners (Sixth Street), a global finance and investment business with over USD32 billion in assets under management, has closed the first TSSP Capital Solutions (Capital Solutions) platform fund with USD2.2 billion in third-party capital commitments.
Capital Solutions, which makes non-control investments in growth-oriented companies. is actively investing out of the fund and has already deployed over USD500 million.
The Capital Solutions team partners with companies to provide bespoke, accretive financing solutions that often differ from traditional growth equity. Capital Solutions has flexibility to invest in a range of opportunities from USD25 million to over USD500 million.
Macfarlanes has advised London-headquartered secondaries specialist Headway Capital Partners on the raising of its fourth secondaries fund, HIP IV, which has closed after hitting its hard cap of EUR372 million, exceeding its target of EUR300 million.
The fund was oversubscribed, exceeding its target of EUR300m through strong support from a diverse mix of institutional investors globally including pension funds, asset managers, family offices, high-net-worth individuals and endowments. Seeking to invest globally, HIP IV will focus on western Europe and North America, with a maximum investment size of EUR50 million.
The Macfarlanes team was led by investment management partner Alex
Private equity fund Trilantic Capital Partners IV Europe (Trilantic Europe), via its subsidiary TCP Lux Eurinvest (Eurinvest) is to sell 8.6 million shares (equal to 28.67 per cent of the share capital) of Gamenet Group, a operator in the Italian sports betting and gaming sector, to a company formed on behalf of funds managed by Apollo Management IX (Apollo).
The agreed price is equal to EUR12.5 per share. Completion is subject to, inter alia, Antitrust and Agenzia delle Dogane e dei Monopoli clearances and is expected to occur by year end 2019. Upon completion, the buyer will be required to
Foresight Group LLP (Foresight) has made its thirteenth investment from the Foresight Williams Technology EIS Fund into Sheffield-based, Additive Manufacturing Technologies Limited (AMT), a developer of industrial additive manufacturing (3D printing).
The investment is part of a GBP4.2 million round led by DSM Venturing.
AMT was founded in 2017 by Joseph Crabtree, who serves as CEO of the company. It was set up with the aim of developing industrial technologies to enable the deployment of 3D printing for mass production and address the shortcomings of existing post-process technologies. AMT’s first product, PostPro£D, is based on the boundary layer automated
Anacapa Partners, a private equity firms focused on acquisitions in the lower middle market, has completed a growth investment in I4PRO Informática LTDA (I4PRO). The financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Founded in 2005, I4PRO is an end-to-end enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution for the insurance market in Brazil. It provides a suite of products designed for insurance workflow processes, including selling, underwriting and administering policies, collecting premiums and processing claims. I4PRO provides customised implementation of these products and facilities ongoing updates for maintenance and regulatory compliance. The company also offers modules for specialty business lines, such
By Paul Bryant – “We had a hunch that small and mid-cap managers had more ‘juice to squeeze’ from their deals and deliver higher returns than large-cap managers. But we didn’t have hard evidence to back that view up,” says Dr Andrea Carnelli Dompé, vice president at Pantheon, an investor with USD46 billion of assets under management in private equity, infrastructure and real assets.
“As we already had an extensive database of deal data, it just made sense to review that critically, and test to see if our hunch was right.”
Pantheon analysed 2,237 buyout deals from around the world,
AMP Capital has raised a record USD6.2 billion for its fourth infrastructure debt strategy, which includes the final close of the AMP Capital Infrastructure Debt Fund IV (IDF IV), co-investment rights and separately managed account commitments.
Central to the fundraise is the final close of the IDF IV, which reached its hard cap of USD4.0 billion, surpassing its USD3.5 billion target. An additionalUSD1.0 billion was secured in co-investment rights and a further USD1.2 billion from investors wanting access to AMP Capital’s infrastructure debt deal capabilities.
This is AMP Capital’s largest ever closed-end fund and is believed to be the largest
Middle market private equity firm One Rock Capital Partners is to acquire Innophos Holdings (Innophos), an nternational producer of essential ingredients, for USD32.00 per share in cash in a transaction valued at approximately USD932 million, including the assumption of debt.
The transaction has been unanimously approved by Innophos’ Board of Directors.
The offer price represents an 18% premium to the 30-trading day volume weighted average closing share price of Innophos’ common stock ended September 9, 2019, the last trading day prior to published market speculation regarding a potential transaction involving the Company.
“After careful consideration and a thorough
Middle market private equity firm Centre Partners has made an investment in Wisconsin Cheese Group Holding (WCG), and affiliates, a manufacturer of branded and private label Hispanic foods, including cheeses, desserts, meats and spices. Financial terms were not disclosed.
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. The Company has nationwide distribution with a strong presence within the mass, club, grocery and specialty / bodega channels and has built an outstanding reputation
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