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BSW Timber Ltd (BSW), a UK-based integrated forestry and sawmilling group, has been acquired by Binderholz.
The deal is subject to normal closing conditions and approval from the Austrian Competition Commission and UK Financial Conduct Authority.
Binderholz is a significant global sawmiller and producer of value added products, including cross laminated timber, Glulam beams, solid wood panels, pressed pallet blocks, wood pellets and briquettes. The business has demonstrated a solid consistent growth, now operating in Austria, Germany, Finland and the USA.
Under the leadership of CEO Tony Hackney, BSW will integrate with Binderholz. ”Our Management teams accross the business units
OakNorth Bank has provided a GBP19 million loan to Sullivan Street Partners, to fund the acquisition of Osborne Infrastructure.
Part of Geoffrey Osborne Group, a family-owned business founded in 1966, Osborne Infrastructure is a leading Tier 1 civil engineering and transport infrastructure business, with core geographies in London, the South-East & Midlands. Its services range from minor maintenance works to the delivery of flagship infrastructure projects. As a highly agile and innovative business with a focus on Rail and Highways it has built strong and longstanding relationships of over 35 years with key clients, including: Network Rail, National Highways, Connect
Intelligent property search portal property.xyz has secured a seed round of angel investment of GBOP268,000 from eleven, experienced investors in the fields of technology, finance and real estate.
Co-founders Robert Jones and Dr Simone Di Cola started development on property xyz in 2019, which entered a beta phase in August 2020. With the portal having been vigorously user-tested by agents, homebuilders, property investors and buy-to-let landlords the next year of the roadmap has now been announced. This includes plans to allow investors to place ‘bids’ and ‘buy now’ on properties selected by agents with both on and off-market property investments,
Northgate has closed its ninth venture fund of funds at its hard cop. NVP IX was launched in May 2020 to provide Northgate’s limited partners exposure to a highly concentrated portfolio of access-constrained venture capital firms.
“The NVP IX portfolio represents one of the most concentrated and core-focused portfolios we’ve ever put together in our 20 years of deploying capital,” says Brent Jones, Co-Founder and Partner at Northgate. Tommy Vardell, Co-Founder and Partner added, “It is an incredible vintage and roster of GPs and we are excited to see how it performs against both fund-of-fund competitors as well as against
McDermott Will & Emery has advised Golub Capital LLC, as lender, on the cross-border financing of the acquisition by Pamplona Equity Partners of the Pelsis Group.
Headquartered in the UK with facilities worldwide, Pelsis provides a wide range of products for the commercial and retail pest control and garden care markets, including insect control, bird control, rodent control, and application equipment solutions. Its leading brand portfolio includes Insect-O-Cutor, Edialux, B&G, Synergetic, Pest-Stop, Agrisense, Curtis Dyna-Fog, Network, Luxan, Silvandersson, Green Protect, Spritex, A Green Way, Denka, P+L Systems Washroom and Tanaco.
Golub Capital is a market-leading, award-winning direct lender and credit
EQT’s EQT Mid Market Europe fund (EQT Private Equity) has agreed to sell Adamo Telecom (Adamo) to Ardian Infrastructure (Ardian).
Abris Capital Partners (Abris), a private equity investor in Central Europe, has launched its Climate Manifesto, setting out how it will reach carbon neutrality across its portfolio, prepare for net zero and ensure the firm and its portfolio companies lead the field in terms of sustainable investment.
The manifesto follows Abris’s announcement earlier this year of its ESG Universe 2023 strategy – a comprehensive program of environmental, social and governance initiatives that commits the firm to achieving a carbon neutral portfolio by 2025 – as well as the 2020 launch of its Scoring Application, a proprietary IT tool that tracks
Evendo, the global leader in the online social events market today announced the raising of USD4.7 million in a Series A funding round.
This will accelerate the company’s rapid expansion at a time where businesses and private individuals alike resume the planning and booking of social events online.
This comes after an explosive year of growth for Evendo which saw the company launch into 30 new markets across Europe, North America and Asia and see consistent 50 per cent-plus month-on-month growth since January 2021.
The over-subscribed Series A was led by Crafoord Capital Partners from Stockholm and includes a mixture
European credit investment firm AlbaCore Capital Group (AlbaCore), is making a sustainability-linked investment of up to USD200 million in Babylon Holdings Limited (Babylon), one of the world’s fastest-growing digital healthcare companies.
The interest rate on the notes is tied to the delivery of affordable healthcare to under-served populations.
The proceeds will provide Babylon with additional capital ranging from USD100 million to USD200 million of debt, with the investment level to be determined at Babylon’s option upon closing of the merger with Alkuri Global Acquisition Corp. (Alkuri), a publicly traded special purpose acquisition company. The merger is expected to close
ClearCourse Partnership (ClearCourse), a group of technology companies providing useful, integrated software solutions, is to acquire TISSL, a supplier of point of sale (POS) solutions to the hospitality industry.
The acquisition strengthens ClearCourse’s offering in these sectors and provides further opportunity for integration of its ClearAccept platform. TISSL will join the Group’s Retail division. Following the deal, TISSL’s Founder Kevin Coetzee will step away from the leadership of the business to retire. He passes the role of Managing Director to Sam Peterson, formerly Finance Director of TISSL.
Founded in 2003, TISSL provides point of sale solutions to restaurants, cafes
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