Managers
Mayfair-based alternative finance house IW Capital has invested GBP2 million in Eos Leisure, which manufactures and sells its own branded eliquid products (Vapemate, Soda Steam, Directors Cut) into the UK vaping market and provides manufacturing and scientific testing services for other suppliers in vaping and other markets.
The EIS qualifying investment of GBP2 million will be used to support the company’s growth, with a focus on building sales and marketing resources, continuing scientific accreditation work and product development.
In a regulated industry, Eos Leisure has made substantial capital investments in plant & equipment to build fully compliant, high capacity
Catalina Holdings (Bermuda) Ltd (Catalina) announces that it has closed a USD700 million equity capital raise and concluded its shareholder restructuring following receipt of regulatory approvals.
Following completion of this transaction, affiliates of Apollo Global Management, together with its consolidated subsidiaries, have become majority shareholders of Catalina, with RenaissanceRe Holdings Limited becoming a minority shareholder alongside Catalina’s management. As part of the shareholder restructuring, the Apollo Funds have committed an additional USD700 million in new equity capital to fund Catalina’s continued growth. Together with existing committed and undrawn equity, this brings Catalina’s total committed and undrawn equity to USD850 million.
Private equity firm Advent International has invested in Manjushree Technopack Ltd, India’s largest rigid plastic packaging solution provider, in partnership with the founding Kedia family.
As part of the transaction, Advent purchased all the shares owned by Kedaara Capital and a portion of the Kedia family’s stake in Manjushree Technopack.
Manjushree’s Founder and Managing Director, Vimal Kedia, and the rest of the company’s senior management team will remain closely involved in the business. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Manjushree Technopack is the No1 manufacturer of rigid plastic packaging for the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) industry
New York-based private investment firm Greenbriar Equity Grouphas invested in vehicle intelligence company Spireon.
With over USD3.5 billion in capital and investments in the global transportation and logistics industries, Greenbriar becomes the primary investor in Spireon as a result of the transaction.
“Spireon is the leader in vehicle analytics and telematics solutions in the US, with a strong foothold in the automotive and commercial transportation sectors, which makes the company a natural fit with our portfolio of transportation and logistics companies,” says Michael Weiss, Managing Director at Greenbriar. “We look forward to working with the outstanding team at Spireon
Kainos Capital (Kainos), a food and consumer-focussed private equity firm, has agreed to sell its portfolio company SlimFast to Glanbia plc in a transaction valued at USD350 million. The transaction also includes SlimFast’s sister company, HNS.
Headquartered in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, SlimFast is a leading provider of nutritional products, including clinically proven weight management and health and wellness products. The brand today enjoys 98 per cent consumer awareness with a broad offering of meal replacement beverages and snacks. Kainos acquired SlimFast from Unilever in 2014.
Andrew Rosen, Managing Partner of Kainos, says: “Our acquisition of SlimFast came with
Edinburgh-based venture capital firm Par Equity has invested GBP1.3m in a rapidly growing stem-cell research company that is helping pharmaceutical giants to develop new treatments for diseases including Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s.
Censo Biotechnologies, which employs teams in Edinburgh and Cambridge, provides drug discovery services to some of the best known pharmaceutical and biotech companies in Europe, the US and Japan.
The company is a leader in technology to produce stem cells in a laboratory from a person’s skin or blood sample, which are then transformed into brain and other types of cell for drug research. It has a rapidly
Piper Jaffray Companies has held the final close of Piper Jaffray Merchant Banking Fund II, a USD130 million growth equity fund.
With the closing of Fund II, Piper Jaffray Merchant Banking manages USD275 million of committed and invested capital through Fund II and its two prior growth equity funds.
Fund II will invest in commercial-stage businesses with strong growth prospects within industry sectors covered by Piper Jaffray equity research and investment banking. Fund II plans to make senior equity and equity-linked investments of up to USD15 million per company. Focus sectors include healthcare, technology, business services, financial technology and
Celestica, a specialist in design, manufacturing and supply chain solutions, is to acquire Impakt Holdings, LLC.
Impakt is a highly-specialised, vertically integrated manufacturer providing manufacturing solutions for leading OEMs in the semiconductor and Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) display industries, as well as other markets requiring complex fabrication services. Founded in 1977, the company is headquartered in Santa Clara, with operations in California and South Korea.
Through this acquisition, Celestica expects to gain significant, new capabilities in large-format, complex, high-mix manufacturing solutions for multiple industries, and broaden its precision component manufacturing, full system assembly, integration and machining capabilities.
O’Melveny has represented Future Beat, a provider of VIP experiences for concerts and other events, in its sale to On Location Events, the official hospitality partner of the NFL.
Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Based in Los Angeles, Future Beat provides fans with a wide array of unique experiences at concerts and events around the globe. Future Beat works directly with artists to develop exceptional packages that include the best seats, VIP amenities, exclusive and original merchandise, meet & greets, sound checks, and more. Future Beat’s CEO, David Berger, will be staying on after the
Private equity firm The Riverside Company has sold BeneSys, a provider of third-party administration (TPA) services for employee healthcare and pension benefit programs for Taft-Hartley multi-employer plans.
The Troy, Michigan-based company services more than 180 clients across the country.
Riverside invested in the platform in 2014 and saw strong potential in the company’s deep operational knowledge of multi-employer funds, and it offered a proprietary, scalable software platform to deliver mission-critical services for its customers.
“It was a pleasure working with such a strong management team, and we very much benefitted from the company’s leadership position in its industry,”
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