Managers
LSP, a specialist life sciences and health care investment group, has raised more than EUR750 million for three different funds over the past ten months to invest in innovative drug development and medical technology companies across Europe.
This result constitutes a record fundraise in European life sciences, consolidating LSP’s leading position.
2018 has been a landmark year for fundraising in the European life sciences industry. Over EUR3 billion has been raised to date, with institutions being drawn to the non-cyclical nature of the strategy, recognising the enormous potential of the life sciences industry in Europe and increasingly focusing on the
Graycliff Partners has completed the sale of Impakt Holdings to Celestica, a leader in design, manufacturing and supply chain solutions for the world’s most innovative companies, for a total purchase price of approximately USD329 million.
With operations in California and South Korea, Impakt provides design, engineering and agile manufacturing solutions for the display, solar and other capital equipment industries, as well as specialised services that require large format, high-mix complex manufacturing and integration solutions.
Since acquiring Impakt in 2016, Graycliff has teamed with management to identify and execute numerous transformational initiatives to position the company for growth, including building
Da Vinci Capital, an emerging markets private equity firm, has invested in DataArt, a global technology consultancy that designs and develops unique software solutions, to support the company’s growth momentum in key industries.
DataArt will continue to focus on its three key markets: the US, the UK and continental Europe, where Da Vinci Capital has substantial assets and a proven track record, including steering software engineering powerhouse Epam to an initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange in 2012.
Headquartered in New York City, DataArt employs over 2,500 professionals in 20 locations throughout the US, Europe, and Latin America,
C5 Capital Limited (C5), a venture capital firm focused on investing in cyber security, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence, has led an USD18 million investment round in US and European identity-focussed cyber intelligence company 4iQ.
Around 80 per cent of cybercrime begins with stolen credentials and 4iQ has indexed billions of exposed identities by scanning documents in 26 different languages across search engines and social media. It also investigates deep web sites such as paste bins, hacker forums, irc channels and dark websites. With this information, 4iQ is able to alert individuals and organisations if, and when, their information is
Kinly, a portfolio company of private equity firm Avedon Capital Partners has acquired MK2 in a deal that fits in with Kinly’s strategy of strengthening its position in the audio-visual and visual collaboration market through organic growth and strategic acquisitions.
In recent years, MK2 has rapidly developed from Breda into a market leader in the Netherlands within the field of audio-visual solutions and can count many leading businesses as long-term customers.
Together, Kinly and MK2 are the experts in the Dutch market for IT-driven AV and visual collaboration solutions. Kinly increases its AV knowledge and experience. For MK2 and its
New York-based Blue Ox Healthcare Partners (Blue Ox) is a private equity investment firm providing capital to growth stage healthcare companies. The firm focuses on businesses in the middle market targeting the industry’s transformation to individuality and value-based care in healthcare services, HCIT, and medical and life sciences technologies, whose innovations, strategies and operations are poised for growth.
The firm was established in 2009 by Oded Levy when he left Oracle Partners LP, a hedge fund focused on healthcare investments. At that time, Levy was joined by Sheila H Schweitzer as Co-Founder Managing Partner at Blue Ox, after selling her company
Aurelius Equity Opportunities SE & Co has acquired Norwegian automotive aftermarket wholesaler Hellanor from Nordic Forum Holding, a 100 per cent subsidiary of HELLA.
Headquartered in Skytta near Oslo, Hellanor generates circa EUR70 million in revenues with approximately 250 employees.
The transaction is scheduled for completion in the fourth quarter of 2018.
Hellanor supplies its customers, typically automotive workshops, car dealerships and local wholesalers, with spare parts from its central warehouse in Skytta as well as from 19 branches across the country. In addition, Hellanor offers workshop franchise concepts to its clients under its own AutoMester brand as
Design-led SME housebuilder Backhouse has secured a GBP50 million investment from alternative asset manager Cheyne Capital to support major growth plans for the company in 2019 and beyond.
This new investment by Cheyne Real Estate Credit (CRECH) Fund V – Opportunistic takes the form of a joint venture, giving Backhouse access to the capital required for the next phase of its expansion as it pursues its ambition of delivering 500 houses a year by 2022.
It follows previously-formed joint ventures with the Housing Growth Partnership on two of Backhouse’s current sites in Castle Cary and Westbury. Rob Turner of
An affiliate of LibreMax Capital (LibreMax), an asset management firm specialising in structured credit, is to acquire Trimaran Advisors, a US-based investment manager with expertise in managing collateralised loan obligations (CLOs), from KCAP Financial (KCAP).
Trimaran currently manages six CLOs with approximately USD3 billion of assets under management. Following the close of the transaction, Trimaran’s Chief Investment Officer and head of its CLO platform, Dominick Mazzitelli, will continue to lead the business, supported by the existing management team.
“Trimaran is a well-respected CLO manager with a seasoned team of investment professionals, whose strategy complements our deep structured credit expertise,”
Willdan Group has completed its previously announced acquisition of Lime Energy Co, a national provider of energy solutions for utilities and their commercial customers.
Under the terms of the agreement, Willdan acquired all of the outstanding shares of capital stock of Lime Energy for USD120 million in cash, exclusive of customary holdbacks and adjustments.
Willdan expects the acquisition of Lime Energy to further expand and diversify Willdan’s customer base and to better position Willdan to take advantage of anticipated upcoming contract and budget expansions in California and the Northeastern United States.
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