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The Riverside Company has invested in Executive Home Care Franchising (Executive Care), a leading provider of non-medical, in-home services for senior citizens and physically handicapped or injured individuals in need of daily living support.
Mid-market private equity firm LDC has exited its investment in lifestyle products company Paladone to Canadian private equity firm IVEST Consumer Partners.
Paladone specialises in the design, development and wholesale supply of own-brand and licensed products for brands including PlayStation, Disney and Harry Potter. It launches hundreds of new products a year across categories such as homeware, drinkware, puzzles and games, and supplies international retail giants such as Kohl’s, Target and Walgreens.
LDC backed the Brighton-headquartered business in 2018 to support the existing management team’s ambitious international and organic growth strategy.
The three-year partnership has helped Paladone to
LBO France has taken a majority stake in French company Alliance Marine, alongside the management team led by Jean-Paul Roche, to increase the company’s position on its markets.
Alliance Marine is the expert in third-party and proprietary equipment and spare parts, for renovation and maintenance in the boating and marine industry sectors. With 650 employees and a portfolio of more than 500 brands, Alliance Marine is not only the undisputed industry leader in France but also in Europe, where it has a nearly 10 per cent market share with revenues in excess of EUR210 million.
Following several external growth transactions,
Revalize, a firm in sector-specific revenue operations software for manufacturers, their distributors, and their specifiers, has secured a significant minority investment into the business for Hg.
As part of the transaction, Revalize is planning to acquire three European software companies. The addition of PROCAD Group in Germany, SpecPage in Switzerland and TENADO, also in Germany, will extend the Revalize solution portfolio and its European operations.
Revalize is backed by TA Associates (TA), a global growth private equity firm, and ST6, a group of highly experienced software operating executives who specialize in accelerating transformational change. ST6 is led by Mark Friedman, a
Global investment bank GCA Altium has advised US-based corporate Ensign-Bickford Industries (EBI) on its acquisition of Cawood Scientific – a UK independent scientific group – from Waterland Private Equity.
Cawood Scientific provides laboratory analysis to the agriculture, food, and environmental sectors, as well as contract research to support the development of agrochemicals, biocides and other chemicals, with laboratories based across the UK, Europe and the United States.
Headquartered in Denver, Colorado, EBI is a 185-year-old privately held corporation with diversified businesses in aerospace and defence, molecular diagnostics, and pet food palatability sectors.
Following the acquisition, Cawood will become a member
Clue, a SaaS platform for managing investigations, has secured a growth investment of GBP5 million from Frog Capital, an investor in European scale-up software.
Demand for Clue has more than doubled over the last two years, driven by co-owners Clare Elford, CEO, and Thomas Drohan, CCO. From its roots in policing, the platform is now used across government, private and non-profit sectors to investigate cyber-crime, fraud, child protection, corruption, environmental crime, cheating in sports and much more.
Clare and Thomas are joined on the board of directors by Nick Harber, CFO; Mike Reid, Senior Partner at Frog Capital; and Adam
Global Investment firm Carlyle (NASDAQ: CG) is to acquire AutoForm AG (AutoForm), a specialist in engineering software for sheet metal forming simulation, primarily used in the automotive industry, from global private equity firm Astorg.
Details of the transaction, which is subject to regulatory approvals, are not being disclosed.
Founded in 1995 and headquartered in Pfäffikon, Switzerland, AutoForm provides software solutions for sheet metal forming simulation and Body in White (BiW) assembly simulation, mainly for the automotive industry. With its innovations for rapid and reliable validation of the BiW design, engineering, manufacturing, and assembly processes, AutoForm is setting the standards
BioAgilytix, a global contract research organisation (CRO), is to be further capitalised by Cinven, which will acquire a majority stake in the business, while current majority investor Cobepa, a Brussels-based private investment firm, will remain a significant minority investor in the Company.
Cobepa and GHO Capital, a specialist investor in global healthcare, acquired BioAgilytix in November of 2018. The company focuses on large molecule bioanalytical testing. The investment by Cinven will provide BioAgilytix with increased funding and resources to meet the growing demand for its high-quality bioanalytical services, driven by its strong scientific reputation and leading expertise in supporting the
Balderton Capital has raised its second fund of 2021 – a USD600 million fund focused on early-stage companies – to support its mission to be the leading provider of venture capital and founder support to European startups with global ambitions.
With close to 300 investments made since the firm was founded 21 years ago, Balderton has extensive experience backing exceptional founders from seed to growth stage, Europe-wide. Since the start of the year, Balderton has invested in 20 new startups in sectors ranging from reproductive health and instant commerce to data labelling and gaming.
The firm has also seen 13
XP Inc, a provider of low-fee financial products and services in Brazil, has acquired a minority stake in Vista Capital, one of the main independent equity and hedge funds managers in Brazil, with over BRZ4.5 billion in Assets Under Management (AUM).
This transaction reinforces XP’s strategy to develop the most complete ecosystem of managers and distributors in Brazil.
Additionally, the development of independent asset managers meets XP’s strategy by contributing to an increase in secondary market liquidity, helping to democratise investment products to more Brazilians.
Vista has a solid performance track record in hedge funds and equity funds, with its
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