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Independent television production company Plimsoll Productions has reported a 65 per cent growth in sales in its latest financial year, while carefully navigating the challenges of the pandemic.
Plimsoll’s BAFTA, EMMY and Academy award winning team specialises in wildlife, documentary and factual entertainment shows, and is the biggest independent producer of natural history programmes in the world. Since it was established in 2013, it has produced more than 70 series for broadcasters including Netflix, Disney, Apple and Natural Geographic, and opened offices in Bristol, LA and Cardiff.
In August 2019, Plimsoll was backed by mid-market private equity firm LDC.
Certior Credit Opportunities Fund III (CCOF III) has recently held a first close at EUR83 million backed by a group of Finnish, Benelux and Spanish institutions.
The fund aims to achieve 10 per cent-plus net IRR to investors through a diversified pan-European portfolio of 100-plus senior secured loans. CCOF III will focus predominantly on the European SME direct lending segment, benefiting from special terms through seeding experienced country-specific management teams (50 per cent), often in their first or second institutional funds, and through co-investments (50 per cent). CCOF III expects to make several primary commitments to support such managers and
Cairngorm Capital Partners portfolio company, Independent Builders Merchant Group (IBMG), has acquired Perrys Builders Merchants Limited (Perrys).
Established in 2000, Perrys is a one-branch builders’ merchant supplying broad range of building materials to trade and retail customers in and around Plymouth. It is a trusted local brand, with a reputation for outstanding customer service.
This acquisition continues IBMG’s strategy of developing its divisions through a combination of acquisition, new site development and organic growth. Strategically it fulfils a long standing objective for its south west division, extending RGB’s presence into Plymouth and providing a strong platform for further growth across
HUBX, a deal syndication platform for banks and brokerage firms, has secured two new investors, Mandalore Partners and ACF Investors’ Delta Fund. They join existing investors including Barclays and Basinghall Partners.
HUBX clients and partners include Tier 1 banks, Finastra and Barclays.
The platform allows financial institutions to digitalise their syndicated lending and private placement transactions by collaborating safely with other organisations without sharing private data. This gives every HUBX client access to other client networks for deal syndication and joint bookrunning on a private basis.
HUBX simplifies collaboration between banks by allowing institutions of all sizes to quickly deploy
Glennmont Partners from Nuveen (Glennmont) has has completed its latest issuance of a Green ABS (Asset Backed Securities) in the Spanish solar market.
The underlying asset is a Spanish solar photovoltaic plant with a total installed capacity of 20MW located in the Caceres region and is one of the first ever ABS investments completed in the renewable energy sector in Spain.
Glennmont’s REBS (Renewable Energy Backed Securities) Green Credit platform continues to innovate in the green marketplace, enabling Glennmont to be among the first in the renewable energy sector to originate, structure and invest in a specialised lending instrument for
CEPRES, a private market digital platform, has launched CEPRES Due Diligence, a new product that helps institutional investors (LPs) streamline and simplify their fund due diligence to unlock better returns and reduce investment risk.
Leveraging the award-winning CEPRES data network, CEPRES Due Diligence empowers investors to evaluate more GP funds in less time with higher confidence. Users gain unprecedented access to data and analytics at fund, deal and operating company level with advanced single click analytics — all out of the box with zero IT setup required.
The product, previously available only to select CEPRES clients, will be available in
Fintech Tala has secured USD40 million in debt financing from Victory Park Capital (VPC), a global alternative investment firm. This financing follows the recent close of Tala’s Series E funding round.
Valence Surface Technologies (Valence) has acquired H&W Global Industries (H&W), a provider of surface treatment for highly engineered products in the aerospace and defence market in the North East region of North America.
H&W, located in Blairsville, Pennsylvania, provides surface treatment to many leading US defence platforms and maintains key approvals with strategic A&D primes such as Northrop Grumman.
Founded in 2002 by husband and wife, Jean-Pierre Habets and Sandra Habets, H&W provides a wide variety of metal finishing services, including anodising, electroplating, and industrial painting, specialising in BR-127 bond primer for leading defence applications. H&W operates out of
UpperStage.Capital has acquired Talius, a British Columbia-headquartered cleantech building materials company. Talius has been Canada’s premier supplier of high-end rollshutters and habitat screens for over forty years, and is UpperStage’s first private equity acquisition.
“After 20 years in cleantech and impact venture capital, developing a new hands-on investment model with our 8-person team has been a rewarding challenge,” says UpperStage CEO Keith Gillard. “Talius represents a perfect example of our investment thesis: A bootstrapped company with world-class products, ready to compete globally, and seeking new leadership to rocket to the next level of success.”
Ken Shi, co-founder of the USD5
Orthopedic Partners, a management services organisation serving best-in-class orthopaedic and spine surgeons, has partnered with Connecticut Neck & Back Specialists (CTNB), a leading surgical practice dedicated to comprehensive spinal disorder management located in Danbury, Connecticut.
“We are honoured to partner with the renowned physicians and team at Connecticut Neck & Back Specialists,” says Tim Corvino, MD, CEO of Spire. “We look forward to building a strong partnership that further positions this practice for long-term success in an evolving healthcare landscape and gives physicians an opportunity to collaborate with like-minded peers in their continual pursuit of providing the very best patient
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