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Circularity Capital has continued to build its portfolio of European growth stage businesses enabling the circular economy with a growth capital investment in Cocogreen, a specialist in the design and manufacture of low-carbon, high-yield coir growth substrate for berries, salads, citrus fruit and avocados.
The company’s products are manufactured using a by-product of the global coconut industry, which is refined using proprietary product and process technologies.
Circularity Capital’s investment will see the growth equity specialist play a driving role in supporting the management team, as Cocogreen further accelerates its international expansion and the replacement of incumbent carbon-intensive products. David Mowat,
Tailwind Capital (Tailwind), a growth-oriented private equity firm investing in targeted sectors within industrials and business services has completed a partnership investment in Axis Portable Air (Axis).
Axis provides portable climate control solutions – including spot coolers, heaters, dehumidifiers, and air quality equipment – to support customers facing emergency and temporary challenges.
In connection with Tailwind’s investment, Axis launched the Team Ownership Program (TOP), an equity participation programme in which every Axis employee will receive shares in the Company, providing them with the opportunity to participate in and benefit from Axis’ continued growth, and strengthening Axis’ culture of ownership.
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Shore Capital Partners (Shore), a strategic private equity firm focused on microcap investing in the healthcare, food and beverage, business services and real estate industries with offices in Chicago and Nashville, has made five strategic hires in the Shore Resource Team (SRT).
This move supports the firm’s focused effort to strengthen its deep bench of operational experts that provide services to its portfolio companies.
The SRT amounts to almost half the total Shore team. A unique offering within the microcap market, the SRT is designed to provide billion-dollar business resources traditionally accessible only to middle-market and large-cap companies.
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SFW Capital Partners (SFW) today announced that it has completed a majority recapitalisation of RDI Technologies (RDI), a provider of vision-based analytical solutions used for predictive maintenance and test & measurement applications across a diverse set of industries, including aerospace and defence, power generation, industrial manufacturing, metals and mining, and information technology.
Company founder and CEO Dr Jeff Hay, President Bob Wilson, and COO Jenna Johns, are all reinvesting alongside SFW to retain a significant equity stake in RDI.
Founded in 2015, RDI is best known for its patented technology, which includes proprietary video and image processing algorithms, that enables
Global law firm Hogan Lovells is growing its Mergers & Acquisitions practice in New York with the addition of partners Peter Cohen-Millstein and Megan Ridley-Kaye.
Cohen-Millstein will serve as the New York member of the firm’s Global M&A Leadership Team, and Ridley-Kaye will join the firm’s Energy and Natural Resources Group, where she will promote the continuing development and expansion of the firm’s US Energy M&A practice.
Cohen-Millstein’s practice is focused on cross-border M&A, while Ridley-Kaye is a corporate lawyer who has advised clients in the diversified industrials, asset management, health care and infrastructure industries.
Eurazeo has appointed Paul Hermelin as Senior Advisor to the Group.
Currently Chairman of the Board of Directors of Capgemini, where he previously served as CEO and then as Chairman and CEO for a total of 18 years, Hermelin is one of the most esteemed figures in consulting and digital services worldwide.
Under his guidance and stewardship, Capgemini has become one of the world’s leading players in the transformation and digitalisation of companies and their business processes, with more than 300,000 employees in 50 countries.
Alternative credit investment firm Crescent Capital Group has held the final close of its third direct lending fund, Crescent Direct Lending Fund III (CDL Fund III), raising USD6 billion in investable capital including targeted leverage and separately managed accounts investing alongside the fund.
AURELIUS has acquired Ceramic Tile Distributors (CTD) in a carve-out transaction from parent company, Saint-Gobain (ISIN: FR0000125007).
The transaction will be completed by AURELIUS’ co-investment structure with AURELIUS European Opportunities Fund IV controlling a 70 per cent stake and AURELIUS Equity Opportunities SE & Co KGaA (ISIN: DE000A0JK2A8) controlling 30 per cent.
The transaction is expected to close during Q1 2022.
The Ageras Group announced today that it closed a EUR30 million investment round raised from a group of European and American investors.
Among seven new investors, Centripetal Capital and Saeid Esmaeilzadeh are participating and joining existing investors Investcorp Technology Partners, Lugard Road Capital and Roosgruppen, which all are participating in the round.
The capital will help Ageras accelerate the expansion of its small business-focused financial services software and accounting marketplace.
Sólides, a Brazil-based HRTech for small and medium-sized companies, has secured USD100 million in a Series B round led by Warburg Pincus.
This is one of the largest capital raises by a technology company focused on human resources management in Latin America to-date.
This is the second round of investments by Sólides. The first round – of BRL14 million – was carried out by DGF Investimentos in 2019 and paved the way for the company to compete for leadership in the national market.
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