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Construction Partners, a vertically integrated civil infrastructure company specialising in the construction and maintenance of roadways across five southeastern states, has acquired King Asphalt (King), a full-service hot-mix asphalt and paving company headquartered in Liberty, South Carolina.
With three hot-mix asphalt plants in the Greenville, South Carolina metro area, King provides asphalt contracting services for a variety of public, commercial and residential projects.
Fred J (Jule) Smith, III, the Company’s President and Chief Executive Officer, says: “We are pleased to welcome King Asphalt to the Construction Partners family of companies. Under the continuing leadership of Mike Crenshaw and his talented
BGF has successfully exited Yorkshire-headquartered bakery business, Cooplands.
BGF backed the 135-year-old family business with a GBP8.5 million investment in December 2017, supplemented with GBP7.7 million follow-on funding in November 2020. Working with Paul Coopland, BGF has supported the business’ succession planning, helping to identify and recruit Belinda Youngs as CEO.
Youngs joined in 2019 with more than two decades’ experience in the grocery retail sector in the UK and Canada, including senior roles at Sobeys, Morrisons and Sainsbury’s. Belinda has been supported by David Salkeld who was introduced by BGF’s Talent Network as non-executive chair in 2018. Ciara
ARM-Harith Infrastructure Investments Limited, a Mauritius-regulated infrastructure fund manager and parent company of ARM-Harith Infrastructure Investment Limited Nigeria, has launched the ARM-Harith Cities and Climate Transition Fund (The ACT Fund), endorsed by the Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance (the Lab).
The USD250 million-target fund has been designed in collaboration with the Lab, a public-private partnership initiative funded by the Dutch, German, Swedish and UK governments, as well as the Rockefeller Foundation.
The ACT Fund represents a pillar of ARM-Harith’s sustainable infrastructure investment platform and will invest in urban climate infrastructure solutions with an initial focus on renewable energy, urban
Arlington Capital Partners (Arlington), a Washington, DC-area private equity firm, has completed its acquisition of L3Harris Technologies’ (NYSE:LHX) Electron Devices and Narda Microwave-West divisions.
The Company will now operate independently as Stellant Systems (Stellant), a standalone platform for Arlington in the mission-critical defence electronics market. The transaction is occurring in partnership with current business unit leadership.
The Company is a market-leading provider of RF amplification products for the space, electronic warfare, radar, medical, scientific and industrial end markets. With a multi-generational legacy supporting the most important military and intelligence programs, as well as addressing some of the most complicated technical
By Sushma Kaushik, Partner at Aavishkaar Capital – Globally, Gender Lens Investing (or GLI) is gaining interest as more investors and financial institutions are adopting this as part of their investment strategy. Gender Lens Investing is very simply, an investment strategy that factors in gender analysis to advance equality and redress the gender imbalance within businesses.
Of 7.87 billion people in the world, ~50 per cent are women, yet their contribution to the economy is low, especially in emerging economies. In India women form 24 per cent of the work force and contribute a mere 18 per cent to the
Summit Partners, a global alternative investment firm, has held the first and final closing of its latest flagship US growth equity fund.
Launched in June 2021, Summit Partners Growth Equity Fund XI was significantly oversubscribed and closed at its hard cap with total commitments of USD8.35 billion.
“With the closing of our latest fund, we will continue to pursue our growth equity strategy, serving as the partner of choice for category-leading growth companies and exceptional entrepreneurs within our sectors of focus. We are deeply grateful for the longstanding support of our limited partners and for their trust and confidence in
McDermott Will & Emery has provided legal counsel to Lorient Capital, a private investment firm focused exclusively on the healthcare industry, in the formation of Lorient Healthcare Fund II, which closed with aggregate capital commitments of USD225 million.
The McDermott team was led by partner Ian Schwartz, head of the Firm’s Investment Funds Group, and includes partner Erica Moscarello and associates Louie Gaudio and Matthew Stern. Partners Alex Ruiz and Kevin Hall and associate Emily Mussio advised on tax matters.
The Investment Funds Group at McDermott is a global leader in representing investment fund sponsors and institutional investors and
Comitis Capital (Comitis) has acquired a stake in PetCo, a Austrian supplier of super premium dog and cat food.
With its three brands Dog’s Love, Cat’s Love and WOW, PetCo covers the entire premium and super premium segment. PetCo founders Stefan and Katharina Miklauz will continue to lead the company in the future and retain a significant stake. Joint goal of the partnership is to develop the company during its upcoming growth and expansion phase into a champion in the European market.
PetCo, based in Vienna, Austria, was founded in 2014 and is one of the leading suppliers of super
Tax efficient investment manager Deepbridge Capital has exceeded GBP200 million of funds deployed across its EIS and Estate Planning Service funds, with a current NAV in excess of GBP250 million.
Founded in 2010, Chester-based Deepbridge launched its first EIS fund in the 2013/14 tax year and specialises in providing venture capital to early-stage technology, life sciences and renewable energy companies.
Deepbridge has, to date, invested in 71 companies across the UK with Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) funding, a further 63 companies at Seed EIS stage, with three profitable exits.
Earlier this year, Deepbridge reported a record year of
A portfolio company of Leeds-based private equity investor Endless has acquired GBP20 million turnover party brand Ginger Ray which is based in Weybridge, Surrey.
Amscan International, which has a turnover of GBP200 million and employs more than 300 people in the UK and 2,500 worldwide, has made the acquisition as part of its ambitious strategic growth plans.
It marks the Milton Keynes-headquartered global designer, manufacturer, distributor and retailer of party products and supplies company’s second acquisition in two months. The first was the purchase of Germany-based foil balloon printing technology business Luftballon-Markt in August.
Both deals have happened
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