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Clayton, Dubilier & Rice Fund X has sold its investment in Belron, a specialist in vehicle glass repair and replacement.
Bain Capital Credit has acquired Project Frontier, which involves the sale of 95 per cent of the Mezzanine and Junior notes from a securitisation backed by a cEUR6 billion gross book value portfolio of non-performing exposures from National Bank of Greece.
Bain Capital Credit, Fortress Investment Group (Fortress) and doValue (doValue) have formed a consortium whereby funds and accounts managed by Bain Capital Credit and Fortress respectively acquired the Notes and doValue was appointed as the servicer of the securitisation.
Project Frontier is a landmark transaction, being the first large scale securitisation on a servicer-release basis, utilising the Hellenic
Ontra, a global specialist in contract automation and intelligence, has released the results of a multinational third-party survey spotlighting the current state of contract negotiation. The survey explored the management of routine contracts—like non-disclosure agreements, joinders and engagement letters—and the extent to which businesses are (or aren’t) outsourcing or using technology to automate workflows and find process efficiencies.
The inaugural annual survey, which polled 1,000 legal and private equity investment professionals of varying seniority around the world, found that 71 per cent of respondents have seen their routine contract work grow in the last six months. To combat the strain
Stone-Goff Partners has exited its investment in Danforth Advisors (Danforth) following a private equity investment in the company by Avesi Partners, LLC.
Drawn to the company’s deep experience base and focus on the growing life sciences end market, Stone-Goff Partners invested in Danforth in 2018, alongside its founding partners.
Based outside of Boston, Danforth is the financial and operational backbone to hundreds of life science companies. Its services span wide-ranging needs, whether short or long term, including strategic advisory, accounting and operational finance support, financial planning and analysis, IPO preparation, post-public SEC compliance, clinical business operations management and strategic and
Funds advised by SK Capital Partners (SK Capital), a private investment firm focused on the specialty materials, chemicals and pharmaceuticals sectors, has acquire a majority shareholding in SEQENS, a pharmaceutical solutions and specialty ingredients companies.
SK Capital is investing alongside several other investors including Bpifrance, the French national investment bank, Nov Santé, Mérieux Equity Partners, Ardian, Eximium and the Company’s management team.
Concurrent with the acquisition, SEQENS entered a combination with Wavelength Pharmaceuticals, an existing SK Capital portfolio company which is also a global manufacturer and developer of active pharmaceutical ingredients. Additionally, prior to the closing, SEQENS divested certain non-core
Chronograph, a provider of portfolio monitoring technology to institutional private equity and venture capital investors, has formed a strategic partnership with LemonEdge, a next-generation fund, and portfolio accounting solution.
The partnership between the two firms will enable clients to streamline front-to-back-office investment operations through the integration of their technology and APIs.
Chronograph’s cloud-based software suite automates portfolio company data collection, valuations, analytics, and reporting for investors. Clients will now be able to integrate this critical investment performance data with the single, end-to-end fund administration and accounting processes they benefit from in LemonEdge’s platform.
Sophisticated portfolio monitoring and accounting tools are
Family office Schweizer Kapital and Kinstone Capital Partners have jointly founded a new venture capital company Kingstone Schweizer Ventures (KSV).
The investment goal is to fund ‘cutting-edge’ strategies within the impact investment universe that are particularly distinguished by their pioneering spirit and disruptive approaches.
Kingstone Schweizer Ventures plans to take a holistic investment approach that is designed to have the highest potential for impact.
RSM UK has advised on over 240 deals this year, with a combined value of GBP4.1 billion across the UK – showcasing a record year for the corporate finance practice and a 37 per cent increase in value over the prior year.
Of these deals, 136 transactions involved private equity (PE), growth of 79 per cent on the prior year as mid-market PE firms had their busiest year on record. The 136 transactions had a combined deal value of over GBP3 billion and were completed with 65 different PE firms, 59 per cent more than the prior year.
RSM UK’s
Infarm, a rapidly growing urban farming company with a global presence, has raised USD200 million in a Series D funding round.
The investment included participation from existing and new investors, including the Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) – which will support the company’s expansion to countries in the Middle East – Partners in Equity, Hanaco, Atomico, Lightrock, and Bonnier.
The additional capital will serve to expand the deployment of the company’s vertical farms in the US, Canada, Japan and Europe, and to enter new markets in Asia-Pacific and the Middle East with both in-store farming units and Infarm Growing Centers. In
Eagle Property Capital Investments (EPC), a vertically integrated real estate investment manager focused on the value-add multifamily space, has teamed up with Promecap, a private equity firm based in Mexico City, to launch a new multifamily investment vehicle.
EPC Promecap Multifamily Partners V (Fund V) aims to raise up to USD400 million in equity commitments, with an initial closing planned for March of 2022. The capital raised in Fund V will allow for approximately USD1.2 billion in the acquisition of value-add multifamily assets.
Founded by Fernando Chico Pardo in 1997, Promecap is an institutional private equity firm based in Mexico City.
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