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An affiliate of Littlejohn & Co is to sell Kaman Distribution Group (KDG), a distributor of highly engineered products and provider of related services, to Motion Industries, Inc. (Motion), a subsidiary of Genuine Parts Company (NYSE: GPC), for USD1.3 billion in cash.
Integral Venture Partners (Integral) is to acquire a 50 per cent stake in Walter BBQ, a Serbian fast-casual restaurant chain.
Integral manages institutional private equity and growth capital and is focused on investments in the countries of central and south-eastern Europe. Integral’s fund is backed by leading international institutional investors including the EIF, the EBRD and the IFC. Integral covers its pan-regional target market out of hubs in London, Budapest and Belgrade.
AmerCareRoyal, supplier of disposable foodservice supplies, gloves and take-out packaging and a portfolio company of HCI Equity Partners (HCI), has acquired Ross & Wallace Paper Products (Ross & Wallace).
Financial terms of the deal, which is AmerCareRoyal’s seventh add-on acquisition since HCI’s initial investment, have not been disclosed.
Greenberg Traurig served as legal counsel to ACR. Generational Equity acted as the financial advisor to Ross & Wallace and Seale & Ross, PLC served as legal counsel.
BV Investment Partners (BV), a middle-market private equity firm focused on the tech-enabled business services, software and IT services sectors, has made significant strategic investment in intent data software and solutions provider Intentsify to help accelerate growth and product innovation.
Intentsify, co-founded by Marc Laplante, Mike Kelly, Ed Laplante and Eric Belcher in 2018, has consistently achieved strong growth fueled by B2B businesses seeking data-driven insights to efficiently identify and engage targeted accounts showing buying intent. Since inception, the company has gained more than 150 customers, quadrupled annual revenue in both 2019 and 2020, and will close 2021 with 3x annual revenue growth.
Global alternative investment manager Ares Management Corporation (Ares) has raised USD2.2 billion of dedicated climate infrastructure capital, comprising its inaugural Ares Climate Infrastructure Partners Fund (ACIP) with approximately USD1.4 billion in total raised, and USD800 million in related transaction vehicles.
Through ACIP, the Ares Infrastructure and Power team provides value-add and flexible capital financing solutions in the climate infrastructure space. The team focuses on supporting the development of high-quality assets and companies across the renewable energy, resource and energy efficiency, energy storage, vehicle electrification and transmission climate sectors. The Fund invests across the capital structure in equity, preferred equity and
Food Tech and impact venture capital fund Five Seasons Ventures has invested EUR3 million in a pre-Series A funding round for pet health startup mammaly. The funding will expand mammaly across the German-speaking market.
British Patient Capital has made a USD20 million commitment into Balderton Capital VIII, which has closed at USD600 million.
The fund is Balderton’s largest ever early-stage fund and will look to invest in leading-edge technologies across the UK and Europe, building on the team’s expertise in backing companies from seed to growth stage. Portfolio companies from previous funds include fintech and insuretech unicorns Revolut and Zego, as well as AI technology companies Healx and Cleo, which have reached growth status since the initial investment.
This commitment follows British Patient Capital’s previous investments in Balderton Capital VI, Balderton Capital VII and,
Kingstone Debt Advisory(KDA) – a joint venture of Pegasus Capital Partners and Kingstone Capital Partners – and DZ Privatbank in Luxembourg have launched a real estate debt fund – FOCUS Mezzanine Germany I.
The fund is registered as an article 8 fund in accordance with the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) and is the first subfund to the “Kingstone Debt Opportunities SICAV-RAIF” umbrella fund.
The target size for the closed-end Alternative Investment Fund (AIF) is a gross asset value (GAV) of EUR150 to EUR200 million with subscriptions possible from EUR3 million.
The investment focus of FOCUS Mezzanine Germany I will
GARBE Institutional Capital has launched a pan-European residential real estate fund with a total target investment volume (GAV) of around EUR800 million.
The GARBE European Residential Fund (GARBE EUResi), which has already received equity commitments of EUR82.5 million, will invest in real estate developments and selectively also in properties undergoing energy rehabilitation.
The investment focus of the German open-ended alternative investment fund (AIF) is on A- and B-cities in the Netherlands, France, Great Britain as well as on the metropolises of Prague and Warsaw. The target equity volume of the core fund is between EUR400 and EUR500 million and the
JTC has acquired Essential Fund Services (EFS), New York-headquartered provider of a broad range of services in the alternative assets space, including accounting, reporting and administrative services to investment partnerships and their investment managers.
The acquisition will be settled via cash and JTC equity.
Gerard Federici will continue to lead the business and all current EFS employees will join JTC, becoming part of the Group’s Institutional Client Services (ICS) Division. The transaction is not subject to any regulatory approvals and completes with immediate effect.
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