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Pan-European private equity firm Silverfleet Capital has agreed to sell Pumpenfabrik Wangen (Wangen), a designer and manufacturer of progressive cavity and twin-screw pumps, to Atlas Copco Group.
Completion of the transaction is subject to customary anti-trust approvals and is expected to occur in Q1 or Q2 2022.
The terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Silverfleet acquired Pumpenfabrik Wangen in 2017, having identified the potential to further internationalise the company based on its highly attractive product portfolio and leading product innovation capabilities. Since then, Silverfleet has backed Wangen’s acquisition of the Germany-based business unit for Progressive Cavity Pumps
European mid-market private equity firm Gilde Buy Out Partners is rebranding as Rivean Capital (Rivean).
The firm’s team and strategy remain the same.
With offices in Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Switzerland, Rivean has taken a local-for-local approach to delivering creative growth solutions for aspiring business leaders for four decades. As one of the most established private equity firms in Europe, the team manages over EUR3 billion of assets and has completed more than 250 investments.
Nordic real estate investor NREP has appointed Heather Mulahasani as a Partner. Mulahasani will be based in NREP’s growing London office, and will play a pivotal role as NREP further explores challenges across the urban ecosystem.
Mulahasani has held various senior roles at Goldman Sachs over a twenty-year period, most recently as one of two Partners leading its European Infrastructure team responsible for investing a USD2.5 billion infrastructure equity fund. Prior to this, she acted as Managing Director and then Partner within Goldman Sachs’ real estate team, driving its growth into evolving geographies including the Nordics, Germany, UK, France, Spain.
Goldman Sachs Asset Management has formed a new Healthcare Advisory Council to offer external strategic, operational and subject matter expertise for its global private healthcare investing platform.
The Healthcare Advisory Council will operate as part of the Goldman Sachs Value Accelerator, a network of internal and external advisors and resources dedicated to the private investing strategies within Goldman Sachs Asset Management.
This centralised platform is a resource for portfolio companies to help build enduring businesses and create incremental value by leveraging the Goldman Sachs network, its differentiated resources, and its highly distinguished operating advisors.
The Healthcare Advisory Council will
China continues to be the most favoured destination for venture capital (VC) investors across the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region, with China startups raising USD6.5 billion in VC funding during January 2022, the highest across the region during the month, according to GlobalData.
Econergy Renewable Energy, an investor, developer and operator in renewable energy projects across Europe, has agreed separate joint ventures with Phoenix Insurance and RGreen Invest totalling over EUR200 million to support the construction of part of its pipeline of projects in Romania and Poland.
Phoenix Insurance, the largest insurance company in Israel, will provide Econergy with EUR150 million to support the construction of a number of the company’s solar projects in Romania and Poland that are expected to start construction during 2022. The loan will be divided into EUR110.25 million as a convertible loan and EUR39.75 million as a permanent
Barings, one of the world’s largest diversified real estate investment managers, agreed 14 loans worth more than EUR1.08 billion (USD1.22 billion) across its different debt strategies in Europe and APAC in 2021.
This follows a sustained period of growth for the Europe and APAC real estate debt platform over the last three years, which has nearly doubled its loan commitments to more than EUR3.4 billion AUM (USD3.9 billion) in this time, as well as expanded to 12 countries, welcomed nine new appointments to the team and diversified its range of strategies to include senior, construction and whole loans.
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Ironwood Capital portfolio company, Uniloy Inc, a blow moulding machine and mould technology company serving the global plastics processing industry, has acquired Century Die Company (Century).
Century designs and fabricates a range of blow moulds and provides a variety of ancillary mould services, machining tooling, repairs & refurbishment, inspection, and contract machining services.
Integrum, an investment firm focused on partnering with technology-enabled services companies, is to acquire MerchantE (ME), an end-to-end payment platform offering flexible and secure payment processing, from Cielo, one of the world’s largest payments companies.
Headquartered in Alpharetta, Georgia, MerchantE is a leading payments and commerce solutions provider serving the complex needs of mid-market B2B customers. The Company is a full-stack payments platform with front and back-end processing capabilities and direct connectivity to the major card brands. ME processes over USD17 billion in payments volume across 13,000 merchants, making it a ‘Top 25’ provider of payment processing in the US.
Foreunner Ventures, a consumer-focused early-stage investment firm has raised USD1bn in capital commitments for its sixth fund, according to a report by AltAsstes.
The total is double the USD5000 billion collected by the predecessor fund, which closed in 2020.
The new Fund VI will continue Forerunner’s strategy of making early-stage investments in consumer-focused businesses and the companies that support them.
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