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Clayton, Dubilier & Rice has acquired a significant stake in MOD Super Fast Pizza Holdings (MOD), an operator and franchisor of fast casual restaurants offering customisable, made-on-demand artisan-style pizzas and hand-tossed salads.
The USD150 million investment will help accelerate the Company’s continued expansion in the rapidly growing fast casual restaurant market. Ken Giuriceo, CD&R Partner, and Paul Pressler, CD&R Partner and former CEO of Gap Inc and senior Disney executive, will both join the MOD board of directors.
With 433 locations system-wide, MOD is a purpose-led, people-focused fast casual pizza business. The MOD menu offers individual artisan-style pizzas and hand-tossed
Sofinnova Partners, a European venture capital firm specialised in Life Sciences, has launched MD Start III, which closed above its original target of EUR40 million.
With this new medtech acceleration fund, Sofinnova Partners continues to reinforce its coverage across the Life Sciences sector, with funds operated by dedicated teams investing from seed to late stage.
MD Start was created 10 years ago by Sofinnova Partners and serial medtech entrepreneurs close to Sofinnova. It also had the early support of corporate leader Medtronic. Its first two vintages were raised as independent companies and served to prove the model for seeding and
Idinvest Partners, an investor in SMEs across Europe, today announces the final closing of the Idinvest SME Industrial Assets Fund (ISIA) at EUR340 million, surpassing its initial target of EUR300 million by 13 per cent.
Launched at the end of 2017, ISIA is the first diversified fund intended to finance the modernisation of production tools for European SMEs, helping to increase their competitiveness and productivity in both local and international markets.
ISIA is backed by fifteen institutional investors, a third of which are sovereign wealth funds. Close to 35 per cent of the investment comes from outside France, with
Wireless Innovation, a specialist Machine-to-Machine (M2M) and Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity and communications provider, backed by Horizon Capital, has acquired Ground Control Systems Inc.
California-based Ground Control, founded in 2002, delivers a broad range of IoT and M2M connectivity and hardware. It has experienced substantial levels of growth serving both corporate and government agency clients.
Jeff Staples, CEO of Ground Control, says: “We are excited to have joined the Wireless Innovation Group. The strength and credibility of the broader group will significantly help us in meeting our client’s requirements for long-term connectivity in a range of global environments, further
Broadstone has acquired 3HR Benefits Consultancy, it’s third acquisition in as many months following the recently announced purchases of Liverpool-based CS Financial Solutions and Thomson Dickson Consulting located in Glasgow.
Founded in 2008, London-based 3HR Benefits Consultancy is a subsidiary of 3HR plc and provides specialist employee benefits and international private medical insurance (IPMI) support and services to more than 200 Japanese, Korean and Chinese blue chip companies in respect of their UK and European expatriate employees. The company is the leading UK benefits consulting firm specialising in the Far Eastern market and dominates the sector with a number of
AnaCap Financial Partners (AnaCap), a specialist European financial services private equity firm, has acquired a majority stake in SundhedsGruppen, which consists of Dansk Sundhedssikring AS, an independent Danish private health insurance provider, and PrimaCare A/S a provider of healthcare networks.
AnaCap is acquiring the majority stake in SundhedsGruppen from the Company’s Founders, who will retain a minority.
SundhedsGruppen, provides health insurance and claims management services to clients’ employees and has built a market-leading technological infrastructure that also white labels to other providers in adjunct insurance areas.
The Company has a unique partnership arrangement with medical clinics throughout Denmark that allows
Siemplify, an independent provider of security orchestration, automation and response (SOAR), has secured USD30 million in Series C funding led by Georgian Partners.
Siemplify will use these new funds to drive significant expansion of its global go-to-market strategy, as well as further enhance its market-leading security operations platform. Siemplify’s existing investors – 83North, G20 Ventures and Jump Capital – also participated in the round. The Series C investment brings Siemplify’s total funding to date to USD58 million, a testament to the company’s growing dominance in the SOAR space.
“Siemplify is rapidly solidifying its position as the leading independent SOAR
Lovell Minnick Partners, a private equity firm specialising in financial and related business services companies, is to sell JS Held, a global consulting firm focused on the construction industry and insurance claim management, to private equity firm Kelso & Co.
Financial terms of the private transaction have not been disclosed.
“It has been our pleasure to partner with Jon Held and his team over the past four years as the Company significantly expanded its practice areas, geographic coverage and consultant base,” says Robert Belke, a Managing Partner at Lovell Minnick Partners. “With a robust and growing platform, and a
KPS Capital Partners (KPS) has sold Genesis Attachments (Genesis) to NPK Construction Equipment.
KPS will continue to own Crenlo, Emcor and Siac do Brasil (Crenlo Global). Crenlo Global will continue to be led by Chief Executive Officer Steve Andrews and Chief Financial Officer Steve Klyn.
Raquel Palmer, a Managing Partner of KPS, says: “We congratulate and thank the Genesis management team for their impressive execution. We are very proud to have been their partner in Genesis’ incredible transformation. We remain committed to providing Crenlo Global with capital and resources to continue delivering products of unparalleled quality, with industry-leading
Five Point Energy, a private-equity firm focused exclusively on the midstream energy sector, has sold a minority equity stake in WaterBridge Resources (WaterBridge) to affiliates of GIC, Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund.
The minority equity position was acquired from funds affiliated with Five Point Energy and WaterBridge management. The transaction has closed and is not subject to any additional conditions. The purchase price implies a WaterBridge enterprise value of approximately USD2.8 billion.
Under the terms of the transaction, GIC and Five Point Energy have committed to a framework to provide incremental equity capital to facilitate WaterBridge’s current pipeline of accretive acquisition and organic
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