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Manchester-based independent debt fund Tosca Debt Capital (TDC) has appointed Mat Deering as a partner to further develop and grow its investment portfolio.
He will be working alongside founding partners Gary Davison and Richard Williams to strengthen the firm’s presence in the market and unlock growth for UK SMEs and lower mid-market corporates.
Deering joins TDC having had a successful career in both corporate advisory with EY and as a partner and original team member with Endless LLP. During his time at Endless, Deering led the Manchester office and was responsible for a number of successful investments including
RM Funds has provided a bilateral GBP13 million senior secured three-year term loan facility to Athena Healthcare Group (AHG).
The financing will support AHG in funding the construction of an institutional-grade purpose built 205 bedrooms care village in Lytham, England. The aged care scheme is expected to reach completion and start trading by early Q2 2022.
This is RM Funds’ second transaction with AHG, having previously completed on a GBP7.8 million construction facility in Q4 2020.
RM Funds is focused on providing investments with outcomes linked to achieving UN Sustainable Development Goals “SDG’s” and this investment offers outcomes
The Riverside Company, a global private investor focused on the smaller end of the middle market, has launched a trade services franchise platform called Threshold Brands, to be initially comprised of five businesses: MaidPro, FlyFoe, Men in Kilts, Pestmaster and USA Insulation, all acquired over the last eight months.
MaidPro is a national provider of residential and light commercial cleaning services through a network of more than 270 franchised locations. MaidPro brings meaningful scale with two additional brands, FlyFoe, a mosquito and tick control franchise, and Men in Kilts, a window cleaning, power washing and gutter cleaning franchise.
Pestmaster provides
The Recreational Group (RG), a US provider of residential and commercial recreational surfacing product, has acquired three specialist turf distribution and installation companies.
The companies are Turf Factory Direct, a national distributor of artificial turf, EasyGrass, a supplier and installer of artificial turf products in South Florida, and Synthetic Grass Pros, a distributor and installer of turf in the Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston markets.
“The fragmented recreational surfacing space needs a consolidator to bring consistent quality and service to the market. RG is that consolidator of choice,” says Ron Bennett, President and CEO of RG. “Easy Grass and Synthetic
Industrial Opportunity Partners (IOP), an operations-focused private equity firm, has completed the sale of portfolio company El Dorado Packaging (El Dorado) to ProAmpac Holdings (ProAmpac), a global flexible packaging company that serves consumer packaged goods customers across a diverse set of end markets.
The divestiture represents IOP’s sixth investment realisation from its USD275 million second fund, Industrial Opportunity Partners II. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
El Dorado was formed in September 2014 through the acquisitions and merger of the Multiwall Packaging Division of Greif, Inc and El Dorado Paper Bag Manufacturing Company. The Company is
Private investment firm GI Partners is to sell Consilio, a specialist in eDiscovery, document review, risk management, and legal consulting services, to investment funds managed by Stone Point Capital (Stone Point).
GI Partners simultaneously acquired Consilio and Advanced Discovery in 2018, combining the businesses to form a global leader in eDiscovery. Following a successful integration of the two companies, GI Partners and management acquired DiscoverReady later that year. The combinations brought together three highly regarded management teams with complementary capabilities into one global eDiscovery leader with a full suite of end-to-end solutions capable of supporting the largest and most
TV and video advertising specialist Extreme Reach (ER) is to acquire Adstream, a global provider of digital asset management, creative logistics and analytics solutions.
Through the acquisition, Extreme Reach will provide brand marketers and all their global partners with a seamless, all-in-one brand activation platform that removes complexity from the entire lifecycle of creative asset management, mitigating risk, restoring control and increasing agility, visibility and multi-team productivity.
From concept to campaign launch to reuse and storage of assets, marketers in all regions of the world will work cohesively in a centralised platform. The combined offering will provide global creative asset
Digital Alpha Advisors (Digital Alpha), a digital infrastructure investment firm, has held the closing of Digital Alpha Fund II over its initial hard cap with over USD1 billion in commitments.
The Fund was oversubscribed and continues the same successful strategy of investing in digital infrastructure assets, companies and revenue share arrangements as Digital Alpha Fund I, formed in 2017. Digital Alpha will also continue the successful strategic partnership it has had with Cisco since the firm’s founding, which includes preferred access to Cisco’s deal flow, engineering and sales resources, as well as access to Cisco’s broader ecosystem of channel partners
Compusoft Group, a leading global visual CPQ provider, has acquired First Degree Systems (FDS), a UK provider of software solutions for the window and door industry.
The acquisition is aligned with Compusoft’s aim to become the most recommended visual CPQ solution-provider in the world, by providing innovative software that makes complex processes simple. This further expansion into the window and door industry market will widen that offering, as well as expand their market coverage.
“The acquisition of FDS by Compusoft will usher us into a whole new era, complementing what has been built up over the last 30
As part of the continued expansion of Patrimonium Private Equity activities, private equity veteran Ulrich Mogwitz is joining the team headed by Werner Schnorf.
Specialised in lower mid-market companies in the DACH region (Germany, Austria and Switzerland), the Patrimonium Private Equity Team has another professional on board with Ulrich Mogwitz as Senior Investment Director, who has been involved in many platform and add-on acquisitions, that he led to success.
With a target size of EUR200 million, the Patrimonium Private Equity Fund already conducted its third acquisition in March 2021 with KTB, and is preparing another closing.
Mogwitz has
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