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The Romanian office of the regional law firm Wolf Theiss has assisted Search Corporation, a Romanian engineering company providing planning, design, consulting and management of road and air transport infrastructure services, in the sale of its part in Plaza Development SRL, the owner of Crystal Tower, the first Romanian office building equipped with a heliport, located in the heart of Bucharest.
The transaction was closed on 20 November 2018 in Bucharest and the buyer is the Czech investment company, PPF Real Estate. Wolf Theiss assisted Search Corporation and the other two minority shareholders of Plaza Development SRL in all stages
Monroe Capital (Monroe) has closed a USD455.75 million term debt securitisation known as Monroe Capital MML CLO VII, LTD. The term financing was Monroe’s third CLO completed in the last 13 months and is secured by a portfolio of middle market senior secured loans.
Monroe sold securities rated from AAA through BB. Monroe and its affiliates retained a majority of the Subordinated Notes in the transaction. BNP Paribas served as the Lead Manager, Structuring Agent and Bookrunner. This transaction was structured to meet and comply with both the European risk retention guidelines as well as US risk retention guidelines.
Altus Capital Partners (Altus), an investment firm focussed on the North American manufacturing sector, has acquired ChoiceSpine, a designer, manufacturer, and marketer of specialised spinal implants, instrumentation and biologics for the surgical treatment of complex spine disorders.
Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Based in Knoxville, TN and founded in 2006, ChoiceSpine, LP and Knox Spine, LLC collaborate with physicians to develop new products which incorporate current medical technology with customised patient solutions. ChoiceSpine products include minimally invasive, cervical, thoracolumbar, interbody, lateral, and biologics kits and implants that increase procedural efficiency and efficacy.
“We recognise the
Cowen is to acquire Quarton International AG and affiliated Quarton entities (Quarton), a global financial advisory company serving the middle market.
The definitive agreement has been approved by Cowen’s board of directors and Quarton International’s shareholders and governing bodies. The transaction is expected to close by 2 January 2019.
Quarton International is the result of the 2015 merger of Switzerland- and Germany-based Blue Corporate Finance (founded 2001) and Detroit-based Quarton Partners (founded 2010), and has a team of 70 professionals across ten offices in Europe and the US. With its international expertise, extensive financial sponsor relationships and unique domain
Private investment firm Littlejohn & Co has held the final closing of Littlejohn Fund VI, with USD2.84 billion of committed capital, exceeding the fund’s target of USD2.5 billion. The firm’s previous fund, Littlejohn Fund V, with USD2.0 billion of committed capital, was raised in 2014.
Michael Klein, Chief Executive Officer and co-Founder of Littlejohn, says: “We are grateful to both our existing and new investors for the trust they place in Littlejohn to invest their capital. We plan to continue to execute on Littlejohn’s strategy of partnering with management to transform businesses via investments in equity and special situations in
Salveo Capital, an alternative investment firm specialising in the legalised cannabis space, has completed an investment in Harborside.
The investment, which is part of a Series B funding for Harborside, will help facilitate the company’s expansion throughout California and further improve its supply chain.
Founded in 2006, Harborside is one of the oldest, largest and most respected names in the cannabis industry. Having played a significant role in making cannabis safe and accessible to a broad and diverse community of California consumers, Harborside has cultivated a network of retail stores with a reputation for offering a curated selection
Crossroads Holding, a portfolio company of private equity company Revelstoke Capital Partners (Revelstoke), has completed its acquisition of EHC Medical Offices (EHC).
The transaction marks Revelstoke’s 50th acquisition since its founding in 2013. The transactions represent 13 platform companies and 37 add-on acquisitions, totalling over USD4 billion of enterprise value.
Revelstoke’s investments have focussed primarily in high growth healthcare services sub sectors, such as physical therapy, ophthalmology, home care, healthcare information technology, healthcare education, rural urgent care, and behavioural health. Revelstoke’s portfolio companies now employ over 30,000 employees, many of whom are direct care givers and healthcare providers. Revelstoke
A business which allows recruiters to test the skills of IT professionals and hire the right people has secured a GBP500,000 investment from the North East Venture Fund, supported by the European Regional Development Fund and managed by Mercia Fund Managers.
The investment, which is the first by the North East Venture Fund in Sunderland, will allow Technically Compatible to more than double in size and create an additional 10 jobs. The company is based in the Sunderland Software Centre and has developed an online assessment platform that allows businesses to check the abilities of developers and IT staff, reduce
Congruex, an end-to-end provider of design, engineering, construction management and maintenance services to broadband service providers, has acquired White Construction Co. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Founded in 1995 in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, White Construction is a telecom-focused self-perform construction company, specialising primarily in underground construction work with particular expertise in fibre-to-the-home, fibre-to-the-premises, and fibre optic interconnect projects. White Construction also has aerial, splicing, and cutover capabilities.
Congruex’s acquisition of White follows its purchases of CCLD Technologies and CHC Consulting in late 2017, which positioned Congruex as one of the largest pure telecom engineering firms
Blue Sage Capital has sold its portfolio company PRIMUS Sterilizer to Chalmers Development Corporation, a subsidiary of Ontario-headquartered Chalmers Group of Companies. Livingstone acted as exclusive financial advisor to PRIMUS.
Omaha-based PRIMUS Sterilizer Company is the largest US-based manufacturer of mission-critical steam sterilisers, and provider of related aftermarket services into laboratory, biopharmaceutical, clinical, and vivarium end markets.
The company’s 19 standard autoclave sizes, along with its ability to create custom configurations, allows PRIMUS’s products to serve a wide range of research, development, testing, healthcare, and other similar applications. Accordingly, the Company has built strong relationships with an extensive list
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