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A few weeks after the acquisition of the Daudin group, a specialist in the manufacture of mobile living facilities, the GSCM group (Groupe Solfab Constructions Modulaires) has completed the acquisition of Deltamod, a specialist in the reuse of modular buildings.
Since its creation in 2013, Deltamod has given a second life to modular buildings by reconditioning them and selling them as second hand. Operational know-how combined with complementary services such as dismantling, transport, reinstallation and recovery of old modular buildings, makes Deltamod a mature and experienced player within the reuse market. Faced with the many challenges of the construction industry
Tricor Group (Tricor), an Asian business expansion specialist, has received regulatory approval and completed its acquisition of NZGT Holding Company Limited (NZGT Holdings) together with its wholly owned subsidiaries The New Zealand Guardian Trust Company Limited (Guardian Trust) and Covenant Trustee Services Limited (Covenant) from Complectus Limited.
Tricor is the largest pure-play corporate services platform in Asia Pacific, serving over 50,000 client entities across its 21-market footprint. A positive move for Guardian Trust and Covenant, this acquisition will see the group and its New Zealand clients benefit from Tricor’s significant financial backing and global best practices.
Guardian Trust and Covenant
NPIF – Maven Equity Finance, managed by Maven Capital Partners (Maven) and part of the Northern Powerhouse Fund (NPIF), has invested a six-figure funding package in Margin Guardian Ltd (MG), a platform that provides fashion retailers with data insight and targeting services.
Funds will allow the business to invest in its platform, commercialise and develop an android version of its app, in addition to the iOS version, as well as fuel its marketing activities.
Headquartered in Liverpool, MG has built a platform that provides retailers with unique data insights – such as price, viewed products and saved products – direct
AEW, a global real estate investment manager, has launched a new value-add Spanish logistics partnership, RELOG, with EUR150 million of equity commitments from the Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS) and Migdal Insurance.
AEW intends to build RELOG into a large-scale Spanish logistics platform. The initial commitments provide cEUR400 million of investment capital which will target infill and last-mile assets that accommodate the growing demand from retailers and third-party logistics providers for well-located space close to urban populations following a fundamental shift in consumer habits.
AEW and Vega Partners, RELOG’s local operating partner, have completed the first acquisition on
Mandarin Capital Partners (MCP) III, a Private Equity fund specialising in investments in Italian export-oriented SMEs, has closed the combination of three companies active in the sector of bakery machinery for shops, patisseries, and pizzerias.
British Patient Capital has participated in Quell Therapeutics’ USD156 million Series B funding round. The deal is the first life sciences investment from Future Fund: Breakthrough, a GBP375 million programme where British Patient Capital co-invests with private sector investors in innovative R&D-intensive UK companies.
Quell Therapeutics (Quell), which is based at the Translation & Innovation Hub in London, is a specialist in the development of engineered T-regulatory (Treg) cell therapies for serious medical conditions driven by over activity of the immune system. Quell’s platform technology enables it to design, engineer and manufacture at scale therapeutic Treg products, which have greater
Sports and event management business Cube International has secured an investment of GBP3.75 million from the alternative funder BOOST&Co following a series of new account wins.
The funding, which will be used to underpin the delivery and management of its new projects, will also help to support its work with future new clients, not least by creating a significant number of jobs.
The Midlands-based company, which has extensive experience in sports retail merchandising, creates and manages pop-up merchandising structures for events and supports its partners’ planning and implementation of experiential campaigns.
The firm recently secured some major contracts,
Adenia Partners, a private equity firm investing in Africa, has partnered with Proparco, the private sector financing arm of Agence Française de Développement Group (AFD Group), to buy Overseas Catering Services (OCS), a corporate catering and related services provider in Africa and the Middle East.
Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
OCS was established in 2009 by François Bonnot and René Lancien, founder of Ansamble Group, a leading caterer in France. OCS offers corporate catering services under the brand “Ansamble” to more than 180 clients across five countries: Morocco, Côte d’Ivoire, Senegal, Mauritania, and UAE. It
UK entrepreneurs are leading the way out of the Covid-19 crisis with the number of new businesses created up 15 per cent in the last year, according to ECI Partners, a growth-focused mid-market private equity firm.
According to figures from the ONS, a total number of 405,555 new businesses were created in the UK in 2020/21, compared to 352,575 in 2019/20.
Despite the economic challenges of the pandemic, UK entrepreneurs have shown their resilience and the rise in business creation provides an optimistic outlook for new businesses in the UK.
Mark Keeley, Partner at ECI Partners, says: “These
Current Health, a leading care-at-home technology platform that brings together remote patient monitoring, telehealth, and patient engagement into a single solution for healthcare organisations, has become Europe’s second-largest digital health exit following its acquisition by US-based consumer electronics retailer Best Buy – after announcing a value of approximately USD400 million in yesterday’s earnings call.
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