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Aries I Acquisition Corporation (Aries) has appointed Andrew Lester to its Board of Directors, and Chris Perry to serve as an adviser to the Board.
Lester has over 40 years of experience building and managing businesses. Along with his brother Mitchell, he built a 10-person team at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette (DLJ) that specialised in providing research coverage to hedge funds, family offices, and managing retail capital for 17 years. After DLJ was sold to Credit Suisse, the Lester Brothers’ team moved to ABN-AMRO where Andy was Managing Director and Co-Head of Hedge Fund Sales and Research.
Subsequently, Leser was
Kartesia, a European specialist provider of capital solutions for small and mid-sized companies, as provided a financing solution to German film studio operator MMC for its recent dividend recapitalisation.
MMC operates the Coloneum in Cologne, one of Europe’s largest and most advanced studio lots with 20 TV studios and soundstages. At the 1,700,000 ft2 Coloneum facility, producers and broadcasters find the perfect combination of location and services for productions of all kinds and sizes. Through its excellent infrastructure, state-of-the-art production technology, highly efficient post-production, superb art department for set design and construction, and its experienced staff, the Company is the
Prime Label Group, a portfolio company of private equity fund Innova/6 SCA §SICAV from the Innova Capital group, has acquired LabelPrint OÜ – an Estonian label printing house.
LabelPrint specialises in the production of highly processed self-adhesive labels, shrink sleeve, multi-layer and booklet labels. It operates a very modern facility equipped with UV flexo printing lines and innovative digital printing technology solutions. The combination of two printing technologies is undoubtedly the company’s unique advantage, as it allows for greater flexibility in addressing customer needs. The company was founded in 2001 and its dynamic development made it a local leader that
Pamplona Capital Management (Pamplona) is to acquire Pelsis, a global manufacturer and distributor of pest control products. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Digital marketing agency Brainlabs, a portfolio company of private equity firm Livingbridge, has acquired Canadian programmatic agency MediaNet.
The acquisition signals further North American expansion for the group following the appointment of ex-iProspect leader Jeremy Cornfeldt as CEO, North America earlier this year. Brainlabs’ global portfolio of clients includes the likes of Adidas, Mars, and Bed, Bath & Beyond.
Merging with MediaNet will strengthen the group’s existing programmatic capability and add deeper expertise in Google’s MarTech stack. Brainlabs will also benefit from MediaNet’s creative production services to enhance social and programmatic advertising. An agency built for the future, MediaNet
Kellermeyer Bergensons Services (KBS), a partner to operations and facility managers across North America and a portfolio company of a portfolio company of Cerberus Capital Management (Cerberus), has acquired Olympus Building Services (Olympus).
Olympus, headquartered in Phoenix, is a provider of facility services for the higher education market, including public and private colleges and universities, and community colleges. Founded in 1998, the company delivers environmentally friendly contract cleaning, snow removal, project management and other services to higher education institutions across the United States. Each day, Olympus teams service academic facilities, laboratories, athletic facilities, and residential dorms.
“This acquisition combines Olympus’
Projective Group, an international consulting firm, has acquired London-based DTSQUARED, a specialist data consultancy.
Funded by recent investment from Gimv in April this year, this acquisition is a key part of Projective Group’s European expansion and provides a significant addition to the Group’s capabilities and existing team of 35 consultants in London.
DTSQUARED’s team of 85 data experts will bring a wealth of experience in all aspects of data as well as access to an impressive client base across multiple sectors and strategic relationships with DTSQUARED’s global technology partners. This complements Projective Group’s current management consulting offering from
New research from KPMG has revealed that private equity investment, both in terms of value and number of deals, has reached levels not seen since 2017 in the first half of 2021.
A total of 785 deals were completed for an overall value of GBP73.7 billion pounds after factors such as the vaccine rollout and loosening restrictions increased optimism, while the depressed values of UK companies further fuelled demand for deals.
With optimism among business leaders continuing to rise and several high value deals going through in July and the start of August, this record investment looks set to continue,
Global venture capital (VC) funding volume continued to showcase a declining trend during the months in the second quarter (Q2) of 2021, with inconsistent activity across most of the regions.
However, North America continued to attract the highest number of VC investments during the quarter, according to GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company.
The number of VC funding deals that were announced globally declined by 6.9 per cent from 2,461 in April to 2,290 in May, and further decreased by 7.8 per cent to 2,111 deals in June 2021.
Akin to the global trend, VC funding activity in North
MakerSights, a software platform putting the consumer at the centre of retail’s assortment creation process, has secured USD25 million ins Series B funding round led by new investors G2 Venture Partners.
The new round follows the company’s GBP8.5 million Series A led by Forerunner Ventures in 2019 and GBP3.1 million in seed funding led by Baseline Ventures in 2017, bringing the company’s funding to a total of GBP37 million over the past five years.
New funding will allow MakerSights to directly integrate its consumer analytics capabilities into the workflows of its brand partners, increasing the frequency and ease of
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