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O’Melveny has represented Augury, an AI-based machine health solution provider with offices in Haifa, Israel and New York, on its acquisition of Alluvium, a startup that provides real-time machine insights to support safe, stable, and efficient industrial operations.
With the acquisition, Augury becomes the first industrial analytics company to provide both mechanical and operational insights on a single platform. The deal also joins Alluvium’s team with Augury’s, boosting innovation.
The Silicon Valley-based O’Melveny team included partner Einat Meisel, and associates Bhavreet Singh Gill and AJ Talt.
Mid Europa Partners, a leading private equity investor in Central and Eastern Europe, has completed the acquisition of intive.
intive is an international provider of software development services with over 1,600 qualified specialists in 19 offices worldwide. Combining design and technology, intive has become the digitalisation partner of choice for many international corporations across multiple industry verticals including automotive, high-tech, industrial, media, as well as consumer and financial services.
Pan-African private equity firm Development Partners International (DPI) has invested USD35 million from the African Development Partners II fund (ADP II) into International Facilities Services (IFS), a facilities management specialist in Africa.
IFS provides a full suite of specialist facility management services to clients on remote sites across the African continent, including catering, maintenance, laundry and housekeeping. Employing over 2000 people, IFS operates across a diverse range of geographies, with key customers in numerous African countries including Mozambique, DRC, Namibia, Zambia, South Africa and Lesotho, and services a broad range of sectors including hospitality, natural resources, shipping and mining. Since
Dentons has advised Graphite Capital on the sale of UK skincare specialist, sk:n to European and US-focussed private equity firm TriSpan.
Founded in 1986 and based in Birmingham, sk:n is the UK’s largest provider of non-surgical dermatological treatments – such as Botox, hair transplants and laser hair removal – with 51 clinics across the country.
Nicholas Plant, partner in Dentons’ UK Private Equity team and co-leader of the Firm’s global Private Equity practice who led on the deal, says: “We are delighted to have advised Graphite, a longstanding client, on the successful sale of this business.”
Alongside Nicholas
Harris Williams, an investment bank specialising in M&A advisory services, advised on the sale of Nature Delivered (trading as graze), a portfolio company of Carlyle Europe Technology Partners, to Unilever.
graze is a technology-enabled healthy snacks brand that sells its products online directly to consumers, and in retail.
The transaction, led by Glenn Gurtcheff, William Bain, Ryan Freeman, Andreas Poth, Andy Warczak and Faye Maughan of Harris Williams’ Consumer Group, extends the firm’s track record in the healthy snack sector.
“Unilever is a strong cultural fit for graze – they share a common vision for the roles healthy
SysGroup is to acquire Certus IT Limited, for an initial cash consideration of GBP8.0 million. The company has also raised GBP10.0 million from the capital markets, which, in addition to its new GBP5.0 million banking facility from Santander, will enable greater fire power for complementary future acquisitions.
Adam Binks, CEO of SysGroup, says: “I am delighted to be welcoming both the Certus IT team and its customers to the SysGroup family. The addition of Certus IT to the group represents a step-change regarding the scale of the business, better positioning SysGroup to penetrate our target market and drive further growth.
Affiliates of Z Capital Partners (Z Capital), the private equity management arm of Z Capital Group, have acquired Techniks Tool Group (TTG), a provider of tool holding and work-holding products used in CNC machine applications for industrial end markets.
Formed in 2017 through the combination of industry-leading brands Techniks and Parlec, which have more than 90 years of combined experience, Techniks Tool Group is among the providers of choice for mission-critical and productivity-enhancing aftermarket CNC tooling, cutting tool and work-holding solutions. TTG leverages world-class domestic manufacturing capabilities, a global high-value supply chain, R&D technologies and decades of innovation to service an
2018 witnessed the highest level of investment in fintech start-ups on record, with a total disclosed transaction value of USD30.8 billion, according to the latest Fintech M&A Market Report from international technology mergers and acquisitions advisor, Hampleton Partners.
As fintech start-ups mature, the average funding round has doubled in size compared to 2017, with the average venture round in the Asia-Pacific region reaching almost double the global average.
The stellar fintech M&A transaction value of USD50 billion from 189 transactions achieved in the first half of 2018 was not replicated, however, as second half activity cooled, recording 160 transactions
ARQIS has advised AVS Verkehrssicherung (AVS), a portfolio company of Triton Fonds IV, on the acquisition of Schötz Verkehrs- und Arbeitsstellensicherung (Schötz), a provider of traffic and construction site security based in Fürth, Germany.
The parties have agreed not to disclose the purchase price for the deal which still subject to the approval of antitrust authorities.
Schötz has many years of experience in the field of construction sites, traffic and job security, both for smaller construction site projects, as well as for large construction sites. The company operates primarily in the area of Northern Bavaria and works closely with
Komprise has secured USD24 million in a Series C investment round led by Top Tier Ventures, with strategic investment from new investor Western Digital Capital, the strategic investment fund of Western Digital Corp, along with participation from existing investors, Canaan Partners and Walden International.
This new funding round, which brings the total financing since inception to USD42 million, will be used globally to boost sales, marketing, product development and customer support.
Komprise enables customers to swiftly adapt their data management to suit a range of business requirements. The Komprise Intelligent Data Management Platform allows organisations to manage the
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