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KB Associates (KBA) has secured a minority investment from ECI Partners to continue enhancing its service offering and grow its international presence.
KBA specialises in the provision of management company, governance and compliance services to investment funds and asset managers. Founded in 2003, Dublin-headquartered KBA also has offices in London, New York and Cayman Islands. KBA has 60 consultants, works with over 230 asset management firms including some of the world’s biggest managers, and supports investment funds with assets under management in excess of EUR225 billion.
KBA’s specialist professional services model has helped drive significant growth in recent years as asset
Schroders has launched a specialist private equity fund, which provides greater investment flexibility for a potentially larger pool of prospective clients.
The Schroder GAIA II Specialist Private Equity Fund addresses a number of factors that have traditionally made accessing the asset class challenging – it offers monthly subscriptions and quarterly redemptions, while investors can also gain exposure with a minimum investment of USD50,000.
Schroder Adveq, Schroders’ specialist private equity team, will manage the fund.
The fund will focus on small and medium-sized buyouts in Europe and USA, encompassing companies that typically have an enterprise value of less than
TEAM Services Group (TEAM), a portfolio company of Alpine Investors (Alpine), has partnered with AmeriBest Home Care (AmeriBest), a home care agency that provides home and community-based services in the greater Philadelphia region.
AmeriBest will continue to operate under its current brand name within TEAM Public Choices (TPC), a division of TEAM that serves clients through Medicaid and other state-sponsored disability programs. Omar Khanataev will remain as AmeriBest’s CEO.
Both AmeriBest and TPC are committed to providing high-quality patient and caregiver services to seniors and people with disabilities in the comfort of their own homes and focus on providing care that
The Midlands Engine Investment Fund (MEIF) Debt Finance, managed by Maven Capital Partners (Maven), has provided EarthSense Systems Limited (EarthSense), air quality monitoring and modelling data firm, with a GBP100,000 loan.
The funding will enable the business to invest further in research and development while also creating new jobs in the East Midlands.
EarthSense monitors levels of air pollution using innovative hardware helping to create key data sets of use to a range of clients including local authorities, health services, pharma businesses and government.
The firm’s technology draws on satellite data and air sensors to analyse historic levels
The Midlands Engine Investment Fund (MEIF) Debt Finance, managed by Maven Capital Partners (Maven), has provided EarthSense Systems Limited (EarthSense), air quality monitoring and modelling data firm, with a GBP100,000 loan.
The funding will enable the business to invest further in research and development while also creating new jobs in the East Midlands.
EarthSense monitors levels of air pollution using innovative hardware helping to create key data sets of use to a range of clients including local authorities, health services, pharma businesses and government.
The firm’s technology draws on satellite data and air sensors to analyse historic levels
Mmid-market private equity investor LDC has supported the secondary buyout of precision engineering specialist ELE Advanced Technologies (ELE) from Albion Capital and Maven Capital Partners.
Headquartered in Colne, Lancashire, ELE is a leading manufacturer of specialist components for aerospace, industrial gas turbines, and commercial diesel sectors, with its clients including Rolls-Royce, Safran, Siemens, GE Avio, GE Power and MAN Diesel & Turbo.
ELE’s precision engineering capabilities enable it to produce complex parts for turbine blades, vanes and compressor blades, and it also supplies turbo charger components to the automotive sector from its manufacturing plant in Trencin, Slovakia.
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Private equity firm Horizon Capital’s USD370 million EEGF II fund has sold the remaining 22.7 per cent stake held in Purcari Wineries (Purcari) after successfully listing the company on the Bucharest Stock Exchange last year.
EEGF II has realised a 3.3 times blended gross cash-on-cash return on the exit of its holdings in Purcari.
Purcari Wineries Plc (Purcari, Crama Ceptura, Bostavan and Bardar brands) is one of the largest wine and brandy groups in the CEE region. The Group manages over 1,392 hectares of vineyards and operates four production platforms in Romania and Moldova. Purcari is the leader in
Glennmont Partners has completed the sale of Gruig (25MW) and Todmorden Moor (12.5MW) wind farms to Foresight Group, a leading global infrastructure and private equity investment manager.
The announcement follows Glennmont’s sale of Gortahile wind farm to Greencoat Renewables PLC, which was completed earlier this month. The sale of the three wind farms means that Glennmont has now divested their portfolio of UK and Irish wind assets.
The Gruig wind farm, located in Ballymena, Northern Ireland, began generating in 2009 and comprises 10 Nordex N80/2500kW turbines. Todmorden Moor wind farm, located in West Yorkshire, was commissioned in 2014 and
Deepbridge Capital, a tax-efficient investment manager and Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) provider, has exited its holding in iPipeline Holdings, with iPipeline being acquired by Florida tech-holding firm, Roper Technologies, for USD1.63 billion.
iPipeline is a provider of cloud-based software solutions to customers in the financial services and life industry.
Deepbridge was the initial EIS investor in Resonant Software Inc. which subsequently merged with iPipeline Holdings Inc. in 2017.
Deepbridge’s investors in Resonant Software Inc., and subsequently iPipeline Holdings Inc., will receive a return on investment of up to 3x.
Ian Warwick, Managing Partner at Deepbridge Capital, says:
Private equity investor CVC Funds is to acquire a minority stake in mobile marketing company ironSource for over USD400 million.
“As one of the world’s most respected private equity firms, CVC has a track record of successfully partnering with companies to drive global growth,” says Tomer Bar Zeev, CEO and Co-Founder of ironSource. “As such they are the perfect partner for this next phase in our journey, as we continue to scale internationally, engage with A-class partners and invest heavily in building out our offering for game developers.”
Profitable from almost day one, ironSource has grown rapidly since its
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