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Perwyn has appointed Maxime Menu as an Investment Manager in its Private Equity team. Menu joins from OMERS Private Equity, where he worked as a Senior Associate.
His experience includes working on majority, direct control buyouts with target equity investments of around USD300-600 million. A fluent French and English speaker, he also speaks Italian and German and has worked on many transactions across Europe, with a particular focus on the UK, France, and Benelux.
His team at OMERS, led by recent Perwyn recruit Martin Le Huray, managed an asset portfolio valued at around $14.8bn. Menu held asset management responsibility
PAI Partners (PAI), a pre-eminent private equity firm, today announces that it has reached an agreement to sell Atos Medical, a global specialist in supporting patients with a neck stoma, to Coloplast, a Danish multinational company that develops, manufactures, and markets medical devices and services related to ostomy, urology, continence, and wound care, for an enterprise value of cEUR2.2 billion.
Founded in Sweden in 1986, Atos Medical was born out of a desire to make life easier for people living with a laryngectomy by providing personalised care and innovative solutions for restoring speaking ability after surgical removal of a patient’s
Motive Partners (Motive), a specialist private equity firm focused on growth equity and buyout investments in software and information services companies that serve the financial services industry (financial technology), has appointed Mariano Belinky as an Industry Partner.
Belinky will focus on areas that bring strategic value to Motive Partners’ investment mandate.
Motive Partners believes the adoption of new digital channels, innovative processes and game-changing technologies will yield value-creating opportunities for forward-thinking alternative investment firms. The appointment of Mariano demonstrates Motive’s intent to continue building capabilities to support the Motive platform’s mission of outsized returns, focusing on operator and innovator
KKR is to acquire Japanese chemical storage tank operator Central Tank Terminal (CTT) from an affiliate of Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets (MIRA).
The investment will be used to reinforce CTT’s leading position in the chemical storage tank industry and to pursue future growth opportunities, including bolt-on acquisitions.
CTT is Japan’s largest independent chemical storage tank operator, offering over 300,000 cubic meters of storage capacity across seven terminals located near key ports and strategic hubs around Tokyo Bay, Osaka Bay, Nagoya and Kitakyushu. The Company provides tank storage and auxiliary services to more than 80 blue-chip customers, including major chemical
Greentech start-up Plan A, a leadng platform of science-based tools for carbon accounting, decarbonisation, and ESG management, has successfully closed a USD10 million Series A funding round led by European venture capital firm HV Capital and Netherlands-based Keen Venture Partners.
Existing investors Demeter IM and coparion are also doubling down on their seed investment. Plan A will use the capital to further develop its platform and expand internationally, with the opening of offices in London, Munich, Paris and other international hubs.
To help companies meet the ever-increasing societal and regulatory pressures, Plan A is further deepening its SaaS platform’s calculation
Equita Capital SGR – the alternative asset management company of the Equita Group – and Cordusio SIM – the wealth management boutique of the UniCredit Group – have held the first closing of Equita Smart Capital – ELTIF, a private equity and alternative PIR fund which will invest in Italian small and medium enterprises.
After just a few months of marketing, Equita Smart Capital – ELTIF has reached EUR50 million of commitments, well above the EUR30 million threshold necessary to first close the fund and including a commitment from a primary institutional investor.
The focus on Italian private equity
Growth Catalyst Partners (GCP), a middle market private equity firm that focuses on investments in rapidly growing information, marketing and tech-enabled services businesses, has made three additions to its team.
James Barbour and Rachel Choi join as Senior Associates and Marissa Nazario as CFO & Chief Compliance Officer.
“Our firm’s success relies on exceptionally talented investment professionals who work together flawlessly as a team. We have established ten platform companies comprised of 50 acquisitions. Our team has demonstrated they can successfully originate proprietary opportunities, attract world class executive talent, execute complex integrations and help successfully lead our companies through
Financial services company Beckett Investment Management Group (Beckett) has made a strategic bolt-on acquisition in the East of England, as it continues to expand amid continuing strong demand for its trusted services.
Six months after an investment from the GBP100 million Foresight East of England Fund, Beckett, which is headquartered in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, has grown its assets under management from GBP775 million to GBP850 million and expanded its team by more than 10 per cent to 85.
Managing Director, Ian White, says: “2021 is proving to be a milestone year for our business, which has continued to build
Livingbridge has partnered with Veramed, a leading specialist biometrics Contract Research Organisation (CRO) serving pharmaceutical and biotech clients across the UK, Europe and US.
The Company’s founders Matthew and Emma Jones will retain a significant shareholding and along with the existing management team continue to manage the business on a day-to-day basis. Livingbridge’s investment will support the Company’s strategy to expand geographically, broaden its offering and continually improve its employee and client experience.
Founded in 2012 by Matthew and Emma Jones and headquartered in London, Veramed provides statistical consulting, programming and study reporting, and market launch and commercialisation services
BGF has expanded its Central Scotland team following the appointments of investors, John Devine and Chris Nixon.
The pair will join a team of five experienced investors working across both BGF’s Edinburgh and Belfast offices, as the firm continues to look for opportunities to invest in growing businesses with the ambition and potential to scale.
BGF typically backs companies with revenues from GBP1 million right up to GBP100 million-plus, and across all sectors. This year alone in Scotland, the company has already invested over GBP40 million across 12 growth businesses, including a cornerstone investment which marked BGF’s second investment in
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