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All Star Auto Lights (All Star), a specialty distributor of alternative automotive parts and a portfolio company of Atlantic Street Capital, has acquired Autolights.
Autolights sells refurbished headlights, taillights, and fog lights primarily to the collision repair industry and automotive dealers. Autolights was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Ferndale, MI within the Detroit metro area.
186 Ventures has held the close of its USD37 million inaugural fund in an over-subscribed offering.
Limited partners of the fund include industry tech founders and executives, institutional investors, fund of funds, and endowments. Fundraising was completed in under four month.
186 Ventures was started to help founders who bring a novel approach to large scale markets or who have identified solutions for overlooked problem sets and help them navigate the complex dynamics of bringing a vision to fruition.
CAMRADATA’s new whitepaper on Private Markets asks two key questions: how far the substitution of traditional bank financing by private markets has left to run; and how far private equity remains distinct from public equity.
Swedish technology and design startup STILRIDE has raised GBP2.5 million to produce sustainable electric motorcycles and scooters using a groundbreaking process dubbed ‘industrial origami’.
The Riverside Company, a global private investor focused on the smaller end of the middle market, has sold its portfolio company REPA to PT Holdings, a US distributor of repair and maintenance parts for the foodservice industry, backed by Berkshire Partners.
Riverside invested in REPA, a leading distributor of spare parts for professional foodservice customers in Europe, in October 2016. During the course of its investment, Riverside built REPA into a European market leader, with an expanding global footprint. In addition to continuous and organic growth, the company successfully acquired and integrated six add-on acquisitions in Italy, Spain, UK, Austria
European private equity firm IK Partners, via the IK Small Cap III Fund, is to acquire FCG, from international private equity group Bridgepoint.
The deal, which is subject to customary regulatory approvals, is expected to close in the second quarter of 2022. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
FCG is a GRC services provider, offering advisory, outsourcing, GRC technology and fund administration services to the financial services industry.
Together with IK, FCG plans to continue its international growth strategy, further strengthen the service offering within key growth areas such as ESG. IK is acquiring its
The Eurazeo Group set a new record in 2021 raising funds of EUR5.2 billion from limited partners, up 80 per cent compared to 2020 and +125 per cent compared to the average over the last three years.
The consecutive records set in the past three fiscal years illustrate the successful development by Eurazeo of its asset management activity and reflect the appeal of its investment strategies to major international American, European and Asian investors. In this respect, the Group benefited fully from its global expansion strategy: in 2021, international clients represented around two-thirds of the fundraising, compared to less than
CBPE Capital (CBPE) has completed its investment in Direct Commercial Limited (DCL) and Carraig insurance Company Limited (Carraig) (together Direct Commercial Group, DCG) alongside Phil Cunningham (founder and CEO) and Management.
DCL is a commercial motor insurance specialist. As a full-service MGA (Managing General Underwriter/Agent), DCL provides underwriting services, offers policy administration and in-house claims handling.
The group also includes Carraig, an insurance carrier based in Gibraltar, which provides insurance capacity to DCL alongside Munich Re Group.
Phil Cunningham remains majority shareholder and fully committed to the business during the next phase of growth.
The investment in DCG continues
BluePeak has partnered with Ethos Mezzanine Partners, to jointly invest USD31.5 million in Grit in a transaction led by Ethos Mezzanine Partners.
The transaction marks the inaugural investment from the BluePeak Private Capital Fund SCSp (the Fund), an impact-linked private credit and mezzanine finance facility raised during the Covid-19 pandemic. BluePeak designs innovative financing solutions to scale mid-sized African businesses.
AURELIUS Group (AURELIUS), a pan-European, mid-market investor, has added four new hires to its growing London-based team.
Additionally, the Group has made three promotions, including Peter Wood to Managing Director.
New team members AURELIUS UK’s private equity team are: Euan Phillips, Investment Manager; Ewan Mackenzie Smith, Investment Associate; Charles Suckling, Associate; and Tom Haig, Associate.
As well as Wood’s promotion to Managing Director where he will play a key role in originating, executing and managing UK investments for both AURELIUS European Opportunities IV (in the mid-market segment) and AURELIUS Equity Opportunities (in the lower mid-market segment), Andrew Roth and
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