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Harris Williams, a global investment bank specialising in M&A advisory services, has advised RQM+, a portfolio company of DFW Capital Partners (DFW) and Chartwell Investments Entrepreneur & Founder Capital (Chief Capital), on its sale to Linden Capital Partners (Linden).
RQM+ provides regulatory and quality consulting and engineering for medical devices, in vitro diagnostics and combination products. The transaction was led by Paul Hepper, Nick Owens and Nathan Robertson of the Harris Williams Healthcare & Life Sciences (HCLS) Group.
“We are thrilled to have represented RQM+ and believe that the company is well-positioned to benefit from the growth in outsourcing from
Generational Equity has acted as adviser to MediSuite, on it’s acquisition by ADDvise Group AB. The deal closed on 4 August, 2021.
Located in Cary, North Carolina, MediSuite is a national, mail-order pharmacy, MediSuite provides men’s health generic drugs at significant cost savings. MediSuite only dispenses FDA-approved pharmaceuticals. MediSuite’s most popular drugs are the generics of Viagra (Sildenafil) and Cialis (Tadalafil).
ADDvise Group AB, (ADDvise) headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden is a leading supplier of equipment and services to healthcare and research facilities. The Group’s subsidiaries are organised into two business areas: LAB and HEALTHCARE. Sales are global. The Group has
Andreas Höfner has joined GARBE Institutional Capital, the investment and asset manager of GARBE, focusing on residential, office, retail and specialist properties, as Head of Strategy.
Höfner has more than twelve years of experience in real estate investment and alternative investment products. The 37-year-old can draw on his extensive experience in the structuring and implementation of institutional investment strategies as well as complex real estate transactions. Before joining GARBE Institutional Capital, Andreas Höfner worked as Head of Consulting Real Estate & Alternative Investments for Helaba Invest, where he was responsible, among other things, for providing strategic advice to German institutional
Marketing analytics platform Adverity has closed a USD120 million Series D financing round led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2, with existing investor Sapphire Ventures also participating in the round.
Adverity’s mission is to transform marketing performance through intelligent data-driven insights. The Vienna-born business – with offices in London and New York – has seen a 120 per cent client uplift in the last 12 months amid an expanding portfolio of global brands and agencies that include IKEA, Red Bull, Unilever, MediaCom, and Vodafone. This follows the best quarter in company history, a compound annual growth rate of 105 per cent
Varagon Capital Partners (Varagon) is serving as Administrative Agent, Lead Arranger and Bookrunner on a senior secured credit facility to support Quad-C Management’s (Quad-C) investment in Village Gourmet.
Village Gourmet is a producer of premium authentic branded and private label fine meats, charcuterie and specialty snacking products.
Village Gourmet offers products through five specialty brands, including Three Little Pigs, Fabrique Délices, Longhini Sausage, Uncle Charley’s Sausage Co and Esposito’s Finest Quality Sausage.
Stirling Square Capital Partners (Stirling Square), a pan-European mid-market private equity firm, has invested in Itelyum Group (Itelyum) in partnership with Deutsche Beteiligungs (DBAG), a publicly listed mid-market private equity firm.
Stirling Square’s Fourth Fund and its co-investors will acquire a majority stake and DBAG Fund VII will acquire a minority stake in Itelyum from Stirling Square’s Third Fund. The management team of the Company will also make a significant investment in the Transaction.
Established in 1963, Itelyum is a leading European Circular Economy player, specialised in recycling complex streams of hazardous liquid waste, leveraging distinctive chemical competences. Itelyum operates
Spirit Healthcare, a medicines optimisation service provider for the NHS, has secured a multi-million-pound revolving credit facility from Growth Lending, to support innovative R&D projects and expansion into new markets.
Growth Lending chose to invest in Spirit Healthcare following the company’s consistent double-digit growth and strong turnover, even against the pressures applied by the Covid-19 pandemic. Recognised as a strong player within the healthcare market, Spirit’s success has been powered by a passionate management team with extensive expertise.
With over a decade spent improving healthcare services, Spirit Healthcare has saved the NHS millions of pounds and improved the lives
Kirkland & Ellis has advised The Carlyle Group on the voluntary public takeover offer for all outstanding shares of Schaltbau Holding.
Schaltbau Holding is a leading technology supplier for rolling stock, rail infrastructure, road vehicles and other industrial applications. The company is a key technology partner for safe and sustainable mobility and energy solutions and widely recognised for its global leadership in DC (direct current) technology.
Completion of the offer will be subject to regulatory approvals as well as further customary conditions.
The Kirkland team advising Carlyle was led by corporate partner Benjamin Leyendecker and debt finance partner
Suntera Global has appointed Jon Trigg as a Non-Executive Director to strengthen the firm’s governance capabilities.
Trigg, currently a Director at Altair Partners, a leading provider of independent directors and governance consultancy services, joins the Board of the funds operation in Jersey. He was previously Head of Global Fund Services at Moore Management and prior to that was in a senior private equity role at State Street in Jersey. He has experience working in a number of key funds jurisdictions including Cayman, the Isle of Man and Jersey, locations where the firm also has an office presence and provides its
VTrips, a Florida based technology-enabled vacation rental manager throughout North America, has secured a significant minority equity investment from Hudson Hill Capital (HHC).
VTrips will leverage the investment to accelerate the company’s acquisition strategy and to further strengthen its technology offering. VTrips expects to deploy over USD250 million in the near-term to acquire attractive vacation rental management companies.
Founded in 2002 by CEO Steve Milo, VTrips offers full-service vacation rental management, including digital marketing, coupled with local market operations to service and maintain vacation properties, with the majority of its inventory in the Southeast today. VTrips’ mission is
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