Managers
Paul Hastings has represented North Technology Group, a global market leader in sails and spars, and its private equity investor Oakley Capital, on its acquisition of MBrands International BV, operating under the watersports brand, Mystic.
Mystic is a specialist in kiteboarding, wakeboarding and windsurfing apparel and equipment. The Paul Hastings team included corporate partners Anu Balasubramanian and Garrett Hayes, tax partner Arun Birla, and associates Aimée Fabri, Steven King, and Hannah Gray.
Van Doorne advised on the Dutch law aspects of the transaction.
This is Paul Hastings’ first transaction for Oakley Capital, following the arrival of Anu Balasubramanian at the firm in June 2018.
RSK Group, a UK-based integrated environmental, engineering and technical services business, has acquired design, property and construction consultancy Pellings.
This is the ninth acquisition that RSK, a privately owned company with 36 international offices, more than 2700 staff and an annual turnover of GBP200 million, has made in the financial year 2018/2019.
Pellings employs around 125 people with an annual turnover of GBP12.5 million and four offices in London and the South East of England. It provides surveying, architecture, planning and project management and facilities management services for housing, education and healthcare projects. It has recently worked on a
BGF has exited its minority investment in Petrotechnics, a provider of software solutions for hazardous industries, following its acquisition by US-based Sphera Solutions Inc.
BGF invested GBP6 million in the Aberdeen-based company in 2013 to support the development of Proscient – the first software enterprise platform for operational excellence in hazardous industries.
The funding was also used for geographical expansion, with the company’s software now being used by more than 80,000 people from some of the biggest businesses in the oil and gas, rail and petrochemical sectors, across 22 countries. Since BGF’s investment, the company has invested over GBP15m
Ironwood Capital has exited its investment in FIBER-LINE, a high-performance fibre manufacturer headquartered in Hatfield, Pennsylvania.
The company was purchased by PolyOne Corporation, a provider of specialised polymer materials, services and solutions.
Founded in 1987, FIBER-LINE is a leading developer, manufacturer and marketer of high-tech fibre products for a growing range of industries and applications. With five manufacturing locations in North America, Europe and Asia, FIBER-LINE provides material science and polymer formulation expertise to engineer specified performance characteristics for fibre.
“FIBER-LINE has doubled its size from our initial investment. Under the leadership of CEO Dale Outhous, the company
Mesirow Financial has acted as the exclusive financial advisor to Disc Graphics (DISC) on its sale to Oliver Printing & Packaging Company (Oliver), a portfolio company of Pfingsten Partners.
DISC is a manufacturer of folding carton packaging, micro-fluted corrugated boxes and pressure-sensitive labels, serving the pharmaceutical, food and beverage, consumer products, and healthcare markets. Headquartered in Hauppauge, NY, DISC will continue delivering innovative packaging solutions from its current facility as part of the Oliver platform.
Donald Sinkin, chairman and chief executive officer of DISC, says: “Mesirow Financial was instrumental in securing a very positive outcome for DISC’s customers, employees
Albion Capital is seeking to raise up to GBP36 million through top up offers for its six venture capital trusts. 


The fundraising targets GBP6 million for each of the six Albion VCTs: Albion Venture Capital Trust PLC, Albion Development VCT PLC, Albion Enterprise VCT PLC, Albion Technology & General VCT PLC, Crown Place VCT PLC and Kings Arms Yard VCT PLC. Investments spread across all six portfolios will receive a monthly dividend with a yield of approximately 5.5 per cent, or 7.8 per cent after tax relief, a potentially attractive income source in the current low interest rate environment. 


Investors
AIMA and CAIA are proposing a new system to help reduce the complexity of current methods of risk ratings at investment dealer firms.
The Associations have published guidelines on these methods in response to new regulations and consistent feedback from AIMA member firms that retail risk ratings unfairly rate alternative products automatically as high risk.
The final amendments to regulation NI 81-102 will make alternative investment funds available to retail investors. This has the potential to expand the market for alternative investment products that were previously only available to accredited investors. Consequently, some early predictions anticipate the Canadian alternative
The Riverside Company, a global private equity firm, has acquired EMS Safety Services (EMS). Based in San Clemente, California, EMS is a fast-growing provider of first aid and CPR training solutions and is an add-on to Riverside’s Health and Safety Institute (HSI) portfolio company, a leading provider of Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) software, training and compliance services.
Both EMS and HSI’s ASHI/MEDIC First Aid brands are well-known for a wide range of high-quality, competitively priced emergency care (EC) training content that is flexible and easy-to-use. The acquisition significantly increases HSI’s presence in the EC market, further reinforcing HSI as
Lovell Minnick Partners, a private equity firm specialising in financial and related business services companies, has acquired ATTOM Data Solutions (ATTOM), a provider of national real estate data and analytics.
Lovell Minnick acquired ATTOM from Renovo Capital and Rosewood Private Investments. Financial terms of the private transaction have not been disclosed.
Headquartered in Irvine, California, ATTOM manages a comprehensive data platform that draws upon a wide range of sources to provide property tax, deed, mortgage, foreclosure, environmental risk, natural hazard and neighbourhood data for more than 155 million US residential and commercial properties covering 99 per cent of the
Mid-market private equity investor LDC has completed the sale of procurement specialist Inprova Group Limited (Inprova) in two separate deals.
In December 2018, AIM-listed Inspired Energy plc acquired Inprova’s energy division, with the existing management team acquiring the non-energy procurement business upon completion.
Headquartered in Warrington, Inprova delivers procurement services for private and public sector organisations across the UK. The business offers outsourcing, technology and consultancy services, providing its clients with a complete procurement solutions package.
LDC first backed the business in March 2014 to help fuel its ambitious growth strategy. Over the past four years the team has worked closely with CEO Paul Kennedy and
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