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ArchOver, a P2P business lending platform connecting businesses requiring finance with individual and institutional investors, is expanding into the West Midlands and opening up new flows of capital for SMEs operating in the region.
As traditional banks divest from hubs outside London and further centralise their operations in the capital, ArchOver’s new Birmingham office will give the company a base to support clients across the Midlands offering a personalised service when it comes to alternative finance. Investors will also have access to the increased volume and quality of loans ArchOver is facilitating.
Leading the Birmingham office will be David
KKR is to acquire Quadion, which trades as Minnesota Rubber and Plastics (MRP), from Norwest Equity Partners (NEP), a Minneapolis-based middle-market equity investment firm.
This transaction marks KKR’s second acquisition of a middle-market business in the industrials sector and is being funded through KKR’s Americas XII Fund. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed.
MRP offers highly engineered elastomer and thermoplastic solutions for medical, water, industrial and other end markets globally. For over 70 years, the Company has built a strong reputation for its ability to design, develop and manufacture products for harsh environments, tight tolerances and technically
Dext Capital, a new independent equipment leasing company focussed on the healthcare industry, and backed by private equity investor Sightway Capital, plans to begin offering equipment financing in the beginning of 2019.
Dext Capital is led by industry veteran Kyin Lok, who will serve as President and Chief Executive Officer. Lok has over two decades of equipment leasing experience with US Bank and GE and most recently led a number of leasing verticals for TCF Bank. The Dext team collectively has over 150 years of experience in the equipment leasing industry.
Sightway Capital, a Two Sigma company, employs a flexible
The Growth Stage has launched what it says is the world’s first funding platform for private growth companies to raise investment capital from regulated institutional investors.
The company has signed up investors with over USD4 trillion of assets under management, from pension funds, retail funds and hedge funds through to sovereign wealth funds and family offices.
Headquartered in London, The Growth Stage has been designed exclusively to marry the increasing demand from institutional investors around the world, to invest in high growth, scale-up companies, and for those companies to seek alternative sources of capital.
Directly challenging the traditional
Alliance Marine, a European distributor in recreational and commercial boating equipment, has acquired 3SI Group in the United Kingdom, its third overseas acquisition following Bukh Bremen in Germany (October 2017) and FNI in Italy (June 2018).
3SI Group counts among the European leaders in safety equipment (design, manufacture and distribution of liferafts, lifejackets, drysuits). Through its portfolio of well-known proprietary brands (Ocean Safety, Typhoon, ISP and Revere) and its know-how, the Group enjoys a strong reputation from professional clients. It generates a turnover of EUR35m and has about 250 employees.
The acquisition is of strategic interest for Alliance Marine,
Bregal Milestone, a private capital firm, has completed an investment in Arkphire Group, a leading IT solutions and networking company. The investment by Bregal Milestone is out of their new EUR400m fund dedicated to investing in high-growth European companies, and is their first deal to be closed, three months after the fund was announced.
Typical commitments from Bregal Milestone range from EUR20m to EUR60m.
Arkphire provides a full range of technology solutions from the desktop to the data centre. The company integrates leading technologies from global IT companies to solve clients’ business challenges. Bregal Milestone will partner with Arkphire’s co-founder and
Capagro is investing SEK15.6 million in Malmö, Sweden-based BoMill AB, which has developed high-speed grain sorting equipment. The previous owners are also participating in the share issue, totalling SEK20 million.
BoMill’s unique High Precision Quality sorting of Single Kernel technology can be used to sort Durum wheat, Soft wheat, Malting barley, Spelt and Oats on Fusarium (DON), Protein, Vitreousness, Seed quality and Falling number with a speed of 25,000 kernels per second or three ton/hour. This makes the TriQ very profitable for businesses within seed cleaning, grain handling and milling activities.
The customer – a mill or grain trader,
ARQIS has advised AVS Verkehrssicherung (AVS), a Triton Fund IV company, on the acquisition of Verkehrssicherungen Plank located in Remseck am Neckar, a provider of services for traffic and building site safety. The purchase price has not been disclosed.
Verkehrssicherungen Plank GmbH was founded in 1998 and offers services in the areas of traffic and building sites safety in the Stuttgart region and across Germany. In 2012 the company was the first one in Germany to be certified by StrAus-Zert for the general protection of work places. The projects comprise traffic security services for the extension of City Traffic Lines,
Mid-market private equity firm Wynnchurch Capital’s (Wynnchurch) portfolio company Indiana Limestone Holdings has merged with Polycor Holding (Polycor), North America’s largest natural dimensional stone producer.
Headquartered in Bloomington, Indiana and founded in 1926 (predecessor firms had been quarrying limestone since the mid-1800s), Indiana Limestone Company is the premier supplier of Indiana limestone building products. This internationally renowned natural dimensional stone, often referred to as America’s Building Stone, is the highest quality quarried limestone in North America and is found on iconic structures including the Empire State Building, National Cathedral, and Rockefeller Center. With more than 4,500 acres of reserves and
Envision Healthcare Corporation has announced its acquisition by global investment firm KKR.
As a result of the completion of the merger, Envision has become a wholly owned subsidiary of funds affiliated with KKR, and Envision stockholders will receive an amount in cash equal to USD46.00 per share of Envision common stock.
As a result of the completion of the merger, shares of Envision’s common stock ceased trading on the NYSE prior to the opening of the NYSE today.
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