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Affiliates of private equity firm JF Lehman & Company have sold API Technologies (API) to affiliates of AEA Investors LP. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
API is a leading designer and manufacturer of high-performance components and subsystems for demanding RF/microwave and electromagnetic spectrum management applications. The company provides a broad portfolio of mission-critical products to approximately 1,800 global customers supporting more than 200 programs.
Since acquiring API in 2016, JF Lehman successfully worked with management to transform the company’s operations, rationalise its product portfolio, augment research and development activities and enhance API’s sales and marketing strategy –
Ironwood Capital has exited from its investment in Lewis Clark Recycling & Disposal (Lewis Clark), which was sold to Waste Connections. Lewis Clark is a solid waste management company headquartered in Harrisburg, Illinois.
“We were pleased to work with Jeff Kendall and his Laurel Mountain Management team on this successful opportunity and look forward to working together in the future,” says Ironwood Capital Managing Director Dickson Suit.
Jeff Kendall, managing director of Laurel Mountain Management and CEO of Lewis Clark, says: “We worked closely with Dickson and the Ironwood Environmental Services team to execute on a buy-and-build strategy for Lewis Clark. Over the past two
21 Invest France has entered in exclusive negotiations to take a controlling stake in the family-run business Landanger. The closing of this primary LBO transaction, the fifth investment for 21 Invest France’s Fund V, should be completed in July 2019.
The Landanger Group, founded in 1947, manufactures and distributes surgical instruments for which it also offers maintenance services. This expert has managed to assert itself as a unique player in France with an international presence in nearly 60 countries.
The Group designs and distributes surgical instruments for open and minimally invasive surgeries through the Landanger and Delacroix-Chevalier brands, the
Clearview Capital Fund III, an affiliate of Clearview Capital, is to sell Advanced Medical Personnel Services (AMPS), a healthcare staffing company, to AMN Healthcare Services, and innovator in healthcare workforce solutions and staffing services.
The sale price is USD200 million, with up to an additional USD20 million to be paid based on AMPS’s 2019 financial performance. The transaction is expected to close in early June and is subject to customary closing conditions.
AMPS is an innovative healthcare staffing company specialising in the placement of therapists and nurses in contract positions across multiple settings including hospitals, schools, clinics, skilled nursing
ARQIS has advised Alloheim Senioren-Residenzen SE on the acquisition of the Meppen-based Pro Talis Group, which is active in inpatient care, outpatient care, day care and assisted living.
The takeover is subject to the approval of the relevant antitrust authorities. The parties have agreed not to disclose the purchase price.
The Pro Talis Group operates 14 senior citizens’ centres with more than 1,100 nursing beds, an ambulance service, two day-care centres and two assisted living facilities with a total of 54 apartments. Since the founding of the family business by Egbert Möller in 2003, the company has steadily expanded
Alantra, an independent global investment banking and asset management firm, has advised Inflexion and Vivona Brands (Vivona) on the sale of the business to US based private equity firm, Webster Equity Partners.
Vivona (formerly NPW) was founded in 1992 and aims to deliver on-trend beauty, wellbeing and lifestyle brands to global retailers and beauty-savvy consumers. Headquartered in the UK, Vivona’s products are sold internationally through partnerships with major retailers including Ulta Beauty, CVS, Walgreens and Target in the US and Sephora, Superdrug and Boots in EMEA. Its portfolio includes a number of hero brands such as Oh K!, a range
Sphera, a global provider of Integrated Risk Management software and information services with a focus on Environmental Health & Safety, Operational Risk and Product Stewardship, has acquired SiteHawk, a software and services provider for Safety Data Sheets (SDS) and chemical data management solutions.
Sphera acquired  SiteHawk, a Smyrna, Tennessee-based software company,  to advance usability and capabilities for chemical management and managed regulatory content. The  SiteHawk  product accelerates Sphera’s next phase of product integration for Product Stewardship into SpheraCloud, the Software as a Service (SaaS) platform that was launched in 2017. 
SiteHawk’s chemical management products are used in many of
How and what we eat in restaurants or on-the-go is changing thanks to new robotics startup Karakuri which has secured a GBP7million seed investment, led by Ocado.
With growing demand for personalised nutrition as part of a healthy lifestyle, Karakuri uses the latest innovations in robotics, machine learning, optics and sensors to allow restaurants and food retailers to offer personalised, freshly prepared, high quality meals, which maximise nutritional benefits and minimise food waste.
Research shows that almost two-thirds of consumers globally follow a diet that limits or prohibits consumption of some foods or ingredients. Whether you have a food intolerance
Closed Loop Medicine (CLM) – a Cambridge-based health tech startup that helps doctors and healthcare providers to deliver personalised treatment regimens – has raised GBP2.1 million in venture capital funding, raised from Longwall Venture Partners, IQ Capital and Martlet, the investment arm of the Marshall of Cambridge group.
Several leading Cambridge Angel investors took part in the financing, including the well-known serial entrepreneur, Sherry Coutu CBE.
Closed Loop Medicine is a new breed of therapeutics company that combines proven drug treatments with digital therapeutics. Digital therapeutics deliver evidence-based therapeutic interventions to patients that are driven by high quality software programs
Omnes has completed the buyout of Camerus Group which it has invested in since 2013. Omnes becomes a minority shareholder alongside Bpifrance and Siparex Mezzanine.
This refinancing deal allows Camerus Group to continue its ambitious organic development and external growth strategy. In this instance the Group has completed a build-up deal on Lign’Expo.
Camerus Group is one of the leading French furniture rental companies for trade fairs, conferences and professional events. With three locations in Paris, Lyon and Toulouse, the Group generated more than EUR16 million in revenues in 2018. It is the preferred partner for major trade fairs
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