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Global law firm White & Case has advised funds advised by Triton on the acquisition of ACRE, a leading end-to-end security solutions provider.
“Our role advising Triton on its acquisition of ACRE follows its successful sale of DSI Underground at the end of 2020, on which we also advised, and demonstrated the strengths of our transatlantic capabilities,” says White & Case partner Ian Bagshaw, who led the Firm’s deal team.
Since its establishment in 1997, Triton has sponsored nine funds, focusing on businesses in the industrial, business services, consumer and health sectors. The Triton funds invest in and support the
TotemFi, a decentralised finance (DeFi) prediction markets platform for the crypto community, has closed USD255,000 funding round with a roster of strategic investors including DuckDAO, Nabais Capital, LD Capital, Alphabit, Altvest, Moonwhale Ventures, and Bluenode Capital.
CEO Jolyon Layard-Horsfall says: “We couldn’t be happier with the strategic investors we’ve partnered with; each of them brings significant expertise, and comprehensive industry knowledge, to our project. We’ve no doubt that their help, guidance, and deep pools of talent will take TotemFi to the next level, and these strategic partnerships will prove invaluable long into the future.”
The raise follows a successful incubation
Lead generation technology company, ROI Media UK, has acquired Copenhagen-headquartered, Firstborn Capital.
Firstborn Capital provides digital marketing and lead generation in the fintech space, with a focus on unsecured consumer loans and bank loans through partnerships with leading financial companies and banks. The deal adds SEK9 million of annual revenue for ROI and is the company’s second acquisition since growth capital investor BGF backed the business with a total of GBP7 million investment. BGF invested GBP3 million in June 2020 and a further GBP4 million in January 2021.
The funding was raised to support the company’s expansion
Eurazeo’s Supervisory Board has appointed Christophe Bavière as member of the company’s Executive Board for the remainder of his current term of office (March 2022).
Bavière is Senior Managing Partner and Head of Investment Partners at Eurazeo, as well as a co-founder of Idinvest Partners and Chairman of its Executive Board since 2001. He has responsibility for the Group’s entire fundraising strategy, including marketing and relationship management with both institutional and individual investors. Under his leadership, the Group had its best-ever year in terms of fundraising in 2020, with leading investors entrusting EUR2.9 billion to Eurazeo. With more than 30
Arma Partners has acted as exclusive financial adviser to CBPE on the sale of its portfolio company Xceptor to Astorg.
Headquartered in London, Xceptor provides end-to-end process automation solutions to financial institutions via a highly scalable, no-code software platform. By leveraging its deep financial sector domain expertise, Xceptor has been able to deliver significant and measurable ROI to its global, blue-chip customer base.
Since CBPE invested in 2017, the company has focused on investing in its product and augmenting its sales capabilities, while also building a truly international business with operations in Europe, North America and Asia. These investments
Queen’s Park Equity (QPE) has supported the management buyout of Encore Group (Encore), a specialist property management solutions provider, led by Joaquim Fillola, James Peace and Jeremy Chard.
Founding partners Stephen Chard and Neil Robinson will also retain a stake in the business.
Encore, a Cambridge headquartered Residential Managing Agent, provides a range of estate management services to over 27,000 properties across the UK. The business has grown strongly in recent years as a result of its longstanding relationships with housing developers and 16-year track record of providing high quality services to its customers.
With QPE’s support, Encore will continue
Imaweb, an independent developer and provider of automotive and dealership digital software solutions in Europe, has acquired Stampyt, a French provider of re-marketing software and other digital solutions for the second-hand vehicle market.
Imaweb is backed by funds advised by PSG, a leading growth equity firm that focuses on partnering with middle-market software and technology-enabled service companies.
Founded in 2015, Stampyt’s AI-driven imaging technology enables dealerships and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to boost their second-hand vehicle sales by providing them with innovative digital solutions to support after-sales and re-marketing activities. In addition to photo and video technology, Stampyt also
IQ-EQ, an investor services provider, has launched a new Global Private Debt & Credit Desk to enhance its current private debt and credit offering to align more closely with client needs and address continued demand for the asset class worldwide.
According to a survey conducted by IQ-EQ and IFI Global, 95 per cent of managers and investors predict that the market will continue to grow to record heights over the next three years.
IQ-EQ’s enhanced global offering supports managers and investors with increasingly complex debt strategies and gives clients a dedicated team of expertise across the full debt and credit
Fy!, a home, living and lifestyle retail platform has secured GBP5 million in a funding round led by Hoxton Ventures, with additional investment from a number of angel investors.
Charterhouse Capital Partners (Charterhouse), one of the longest established private equity firms operating in Europe, is to sell a majority stake in Cooper Consumer Health (Cooper), a European independent over-the-counter (OTC) drug manufacturer and distributor, to CVC Fund VII.
The transaction is subject to workers’ council information and consultation and to the approval of relevant regulatory authorities.
Cooper, which is headquartered in Paris, was acquired by Charterhouse in 2016 and since that time has been transformed from a local French champion into a pan-European pure-play OTC platform that manufactures and distributes a diversified portfolio of branded and basic products on
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