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Oak Hill Capital (Oak Hill) and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments) have entered into a definitive recapitalisation agreement with Berlin Packaging LLC.
The Berlin Packaging management team, including Global CEO and President, Bill Hayes, will make a significant investment in the company alongside Oak Hill and CPP Investments. The transaction is expected to be completed by the end of 2021.
Berlin Packaging is a global supplier of packaging products and services across multiple substrates and end-markets, providing customers of all sizes with solutions to meet their business needs. With annual sales approaching US$2.5 billion, Berlin Packaging is the
HRL Morrison & Co (Morrison & Co) has held the first close of a new open-ended global infrastructure fund, the Morrison & Co Infrastructure Partnership (MCO IP), securing more than USD3 billion in fund commitments and co-investment capital from anchor investors.
Onventis, a Source-to-Pay procurement suite provider, has acquired Swedish spend analytics specialist Spendency, strategically expanding its product offering.
Financial details of the acquisition, which is backed by software investor Main Capital Partners (Main), have not been disclosed.
The Spendency and Onventis leadership teams share a common vision of growth with the aim of becoming a leading European software group, while also transforming the field of purchasing and finance through a single digital spend management ecosystem.
Onventis became part of the Main portfolio in 2019. A cross-border buy-and-build strategy led to the addition of Dutch accounts payable automation company WorkFlowWise in
L Squared Capital Partners is to sell GWS Tool Group, a provider of highly engineered consumable cutting tools, to Sandvik.
GWS will be reported in Walter, a division within the business area Sandvik Manufacturing and Machining Solutions.
The acquisition of GWS will support Walter’s growth strategy in North America and strengthen its solid carbide tools offering. This acquisition represents a strategic opportunity to increase Walter’s and GWS’ respective positions in the manufacturing of advanced components and light-weight materials.
“We are grateful for our partnership with the executive leadership team at GWS, notably Rick McIntyre as CEO,” says Randall Hunt, Partner
Houlihan Lokey (NYSE:HLI), a global investment bank, has made several senior appointments boosting its global Business Services Group’s presence in Europe.
James Ireland joins Houlihan Lokey as a Managing Director and brings more than two decades of experience advising clients on both public and private M&A transactions as well as debt and equity capital raises in Europe. He joins from RBC Capital Markets, where he was Head of European Business Services. Prior to RBC, he worked within Citigroup’s Global Industrials Group, focusing on the services and construction sectors. He began his career with Coopers & Lybrand (now PwC) and
Generational Equity, a mergers and acquisitions advisor for privately held businesses, has advised Capitol Awning on its sale to private investors.
Capitol Awning, located in Richmond, Virginia, designs, manufactures, and installs custom awning solutions for both Residential and Commercial customers. Their work can be seen on local hospitals, commercial areas, retail centres, and in neighbourhoods all over the central Virginia.
Generational Equity Executive Managing Director, M&A-Technology Practice Leader, David Fergusson, and his team led by Senior M&A Advisor, Gene Gall, with the support of Managing Director, M&A, Corey Painter, successfully closed the deal. Senior Managing Terry Stidham established the initial
Antares is acting as administrative agent on senior secured credit facilities to support CVC Capital Partners Fund VIII’s (CVC) investment in CFGI.
All existing shareholders are reinvesting in the transaction in partnership with CVC, including funds managed by global investment firm Carlyle, co-founders and co-CEOs Nick Nardone and Shane Caiazzo, and the partners of CFGI.
Founded in 2000 and headquartered in Boston, MA, CFGI serves the Office of the CFO as an independent advisor to assist with complex accounting and process improvement needs. Operating without the restrictions created by auditor independence regulations, CFGI serves more than 2,500 clients nationally with
Borderless Capital, a Miami-based venture capital firm dedicated to the Algorand ecosystem, has closed PLANETS.Fund, a USD10 million fund focused on building a green data economy.
The fund will invest in the ecosystem surrounding PlanetWatch, the world’s first decentralised indoor and outdoor air quality monitoring network built on the Algorand blockchain.
“PlanetWatchers” or Air quality sensor hosts participating in the PlanetWatch network are compensated with PLANETS tokens for streaming air quality data. The PLANETS.Fund is planning to invest the raised capital to deploy a global network of thousands of PlanetWatch air quality sensors across the globe. The Fund will also
Blue Wolf Capital Partners (Blue Wolf), a New York-based private equity firm, has sold StateServ Medical (StateServ) to WindRose Health Investors (WindRose). Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Based in Mesa, Arizona, StateServ is the leading durable medical equipment benefit management company supporting hospices and other post-acute care providers in the United States. Since Blue Wolf’s investment in the company in August 2017, StateServ has undergone a significant transformation, growing through its merger with Hospicelink in early 2018 and organically through operational efficiencies and expansion of the company’s customer base.
Jeremy Kogler, Partner at Blue Wolf, says: “When
Blackstone has held the final close of Blackstone Strategic Capital Holdings II (BSCH II), the second Blackstone fund in GP Stakes, with USD5.6 billion of investor capital.
Blackstone GP Stakes specialises in value-added, long-term, minority investments in the management companies of leading private equity firms. This year the team has made investments in Great Hill Partners, GTCR and Sentinel Capital Partners.
Mustafa M Siddiqui, Head of Blackstone GP Stakes, says: “We are thrilled with the positive response we received from a diverse group of limited partners. This is a strong recognition of Blackstone’s unique value proposition in the GP Stakes
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