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Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (CD&R), advised by LatAm advisory and investment firm HMC Itajubá, has closed its latest flagship fund with USD1.2 billion in capital commitments from Latin America investors.
Brunnur Ventures GP has launched Brunnur II, its second venture fund with USD65 million (ISK8.3 billion) in commitments. The new fund’s Limited Partners include ten of Iceland’s leading pension funds and Landsbanki.
Brunnur II is a lead investor targeting seed and early-stage investments in Iceland with a focus on start-up companies with extraordinary entrepreneurial talent, innovative, high-growth and scalable business models. The fund’s sector focus is primarily within software/IT, gaming, Industry 4.0, biotech, cleantech, marine tech, agrifoodtech and other high technology sectors that have a competitive edge through patentable technology or proprietary know-how.
“We are delighted to be announcing the
The Stepping Stones Group (Stepping Stones) has acquired EBS Healthcare (EBS), a Pennsylvania-based therapeutic and behavioural company.
The combination of Stepping Stones and EBS creates a premier, national provider of therapeutic, behavioural, autism, nursing and educational services to children in school, home and community settings. As a mission driven organisation, the combined company will transform the lives of children, families and communities in over 900 school districts across 42 states.
The combination of The Stepping Stones Group and EBS Healthcare creates a premier, national provider of therapeutic, behavioural, autism, nursing and educational services to children in school, home and
Pathway Capital Management is pleased has closed on USD1 billion for Pathway Co-investment Partners Fund V (PCPF V), a custom co-investment fund for a US-based institutional investor.
PCPF V will focus on identifying and investing in co-investment opportunities globally alongside high-quality private equity managers in a variety of private equity strategies. PCPF V represents a continuation of Pathway’s successful 30-year track record of investing in private markets, which includes more than USD4 billion invested in private equity co-investments.
Since the inception of the firm in 1991, Pathway has participated in the development of more than 110 private market portfolios, committing
IW Capital has completed a leveraged buyout and growth equity investment into Olive Jar Digital, to facilitate the partial equity release to the firm’s founders and provide further growth capital for the business.
This investment is focused on enabling the organic growth of the company through continued expansion into new segments in a growing market. IW Capital is pleased to continue to work with the founders that have built the business to its current position and have a clear strategy for the next stage of development.
Olive Jar Digital – founded in 2015 – is one of the UK’s fastest
Fidelity International (Fidelity), a global asset manager with total client assets of USD706.3 billion, and Moonfare, the leading digital investment platform for high quality private markets funds, announce an exclusive strategic distribution partnership.
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Astorg, a leading global private equity firm, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Xceptor, a global leader in the end-to-end, no-code process automation market, from CBPE Capital LLP (“CBPE”).
Founded in 2003 and headquartered in the UK, Xceptor is a fast-growing software business operating within the high growth intelligent data automation space, combining a highly scalable, next generation technology platform with deep financial sector domain expertise. The Company employs 160 people across five global offices, and serves a diversified global blue-chip base of banking, financial services, and insurance customers, who utilise the Xceptor no-code platform to re-engineer and automate
The revenue of the UK’s top 25 holiday parks has increased by 65 per cent in the past five years, validating major PE investment in a sector that has performed strongly during the pandemic, says New Street Consulting Group, the leadership and people solutions consultancy.
The incomes of the Top 25 holiday park groups have increased from GBP1.61 billion in 2014/15 to GBP2.67 billion in 2019/20.
Even before the lockdown, warmer summers and a weaker pound are factors that have contributed to the rise in popularity of staycations in the UK, increasing by 14 per cent between 2014 and 2019.
Oghma Partners, the corporate finance house to the consumer industries acted as the exclusive financial advisors to Novax AB (“Novax”), the investment company of the Stockholm-based, EUR8 billion Axel Johnson Group, on the acquisition of Ulrick & Short Limited (“Ulrick & Short”) the UK-based clean label food ingredients specialist.
This deal is the latest in Oghma’s portfolio of successful cross-border ingredients transactions
The transaction will see Ulrick & Short continue to operate as a standalone business, with the company’s founders Adrian Short and Andrew Ulrick staying on as minority shareholders and existing management team remaining in place.
The transaction marks
PE investors expect a ‘U-shaped’ recovery, according to ‘Covid-19 and the world of private equity: optimism in an uncertain environment’, a survey released today by audit firm Mazars, that gauges investor sentiment in the institutional funding market.
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