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Foresight Group, a listed alternative investment manager, has provided a senior secured debt facility of up to GBP25 million to specialist secured SME lender, Fresh Thinking Capital.
Foresight worked with the Company to structure a debt facility tailored to provide the flexibility required in Fresh Thinking Capital’s business model. With its new lending capacity, Fresh Thinking Capital will be able to substantially grow its loan book and provide much needed financing to a wide range of SMEs that require a lender to tailor funding that is right for them.
Headquartered in Leeds, the Company provides short-term secured business loans to
3i Group has partnered with Professor Dr Hanns-Christian Mahler to create ten23 health, a pure-play, patient-centric and sustainable biologics drug product contract development and manufacturing organisation (CDMO) focused on helping innovative biotech and pharma customers develop and commercialise injectable biopharmaceutical drugs.
Mahler, CEO of ten23 health, previously built a highly successful business within Lonza focused on drug product formulation development services and fill and finish manufacturing for biologics. He led Lonza’s Drug Product Services business from inception, scaling the business during his leadership tenure. Prior to Lonza, Mahler served as Head of Pharmaceutical Development & Supplies at Roche, where he
Citizens M&A Advisory has served as the exclusive financial advisor to Invisors, a Workday consulting firm based in Atlanta, Georgia, on its recapitalisation by WestView Capital Partners, a Boston-based private equity firm focused on middle-market growth companies.
WestView’s investment represents the first institutional capital raised by the company and will help fuel its continued rapid growth in the Workday ecosystem.
Invisors provides initial implementation, optimisation and ongoing support services for Workday’s suite of products, including Human Capital Management, Financial Management, Adaptive Planning and Prism Analytics. The company’s founding team has an extensive track record in building IT consulting businesses and
An affiliate of Austin-based private equity investment firm CenterGate Capital (CenterGate) has made an investment in Teeny Foods, a developer and manufacturer of high-value frozen baked snacks and handheld meals, sold and distributed throughout the United States.
Established in 1964 and headquartered in Portland, Oregon, Teeny Foods specialises in manufacturing on-trend and portable, frozen, filled baked snacks and handheld meals for consumer brands throughout the United States. Teeny specialises in using fillings across a variety of product forms. Its partners rely on Teeny to produce a wide variety of customised products which can be individually wrapped, or bulk packaged.
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Excel Fitness, a Planet Fitness franchisee, has named CJ Bouchard as Chief Executive Officer. Bouchard has worked in the Planet Fitness system since 2006. He joined Excel in 2018 when the Planet Fitness franchise that he founded was acquired. While with Excel, he has served as both President and Chief Operating Officer. Bouchard has also been instrumental to Planet Fitness as an active member of the Planet Fitness Independent Franchise Council.
Excel co-founder Mike Turner will transition from CEO to his new role as Chairman of the Board. Excel has been a portfolio company of Altamont Capital Partners since 2016.
European-Asian private equity firm AGIC Capital has held the final closing of its second fund, AGIC Fund II, which will be focused on advanced industrial and medical technology investments.
3i Group-backed (3i) Havea Group (Havea), a European specialist in natural health products, has acquired ixX pharma, a key Belgian player in food supplements.
Founded in 2005 by Danny Bral and René Zagers, ixX pharma is one of the leading independent players in the Belgian premium food supplements market based on its unique scientific approach and renowned products, including ImmunixX, J-ixX and PEA-ixX. Thanks to René Zagers and Danny Bral’s commitment, ixX pharma has developed a large range of products in segments such as immunity, vitamins & minerals, and pain relief. Brand awareness and recommendations by pharmacists have enabled ixX
European private equity firm Nordic Capital signed its largest deal to date last week, in a USD7.3 billion all-cash transaction that will take Inovalon, a publicly traded American tech company that provides cloud-based tools to support data-driven healthcare, private. Private Equity Wire sat down with Fredrik Näslund (pictured), Stockholm-based partner at private equity firm Nordic Capital, for an exclusive interview on the back of the deal.
Harri, an enterprise Employee Experience platform built for service driven industries, has received a significant round of growth financing from Golub Capital as part of a broader funding round totalling USD30 million.
The financing will be used to capitalsze on the strong momentum in the large enterprise market, accelerate growth into new verticals, and further amplify Harri’s position as the leader in verticalised human capital and workforce management technology space.
Harri currently serves enterprise groups across the hospitality spectrum from large QSR franchise systems, to high-growth fast casual, upscale casual dining and hotels. Harri’s products are currently used at
Barings has provided senior secured financing to support private equity firms Abry Partners and Castik Capital in their joint bid to acquire Reward Gateway from Great Hill Partners, announced on 4 May 2021, and to acquire a majority stake in Xexec, announced on 6 May 2021. Financial terms have not been disclosed.
Barings has been an established lender to Reward Gateway since 2018. During this period, Reward Gateway achieved exceptional company growth and currently supports more than 2,000 global customers in 23 countries with over five million employees globally. Xexec has similarly proven to be a fast-growing and dynamic company,
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