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Investcorp, a global provider and manager of alternative investment products, has appointed Sanjay Kohli as Head of European Investor Relationship Management.
In this newly created role, Kohli will be responsible for the management, execution and strategy to serve Investcorp’s clients in Europe and report to Timothy Mattar, Investcorp’s Global Head of Distribution.
Timothy Mattar, Global Head of Distribution, says: “At Investcorp, we are committed to providing our clients with exceptional service across our diversified portfolio of alternative investment solutions. Sanjay has been a great ambassador for our firm, helping to ensure that we consistently meet and exceed our clients’
Inflexion has completed an investment in Pangaea Laboratories (Pangaea), a global beauty business and owner of the fast-growing Medik8 skincare brand.
The investment is being made by Inflexion Buyout Fund V, Inflexion’s dedicated mid‐market fund.
Founder-led since 1999, Pangaea is an innovative and fully vertically integrated firm with two facilities in Hertfordshire, where Medik8’s products are developed and manufactured in-house.
Medik8 is a premium skincare brand focused on science-based, skin-ageing products. With a strong heritage in the international professional channel and a growing online presence, Medik8 is committed to ethical manufacturing and sustainability. Medik8 is focused on enhancing its strong
Specialist business advisory firm FRP has acquired Spectrum Corporate Finance (Spectrum) in a GBP9.4 million deal.
Founded in 2010 by Simon Davies, Clive Hatchard and Ian Milne, Spectrum is the largest independent corporate finance and debt advisory firm in the South of England. It provides strategic support and advice for owner-managed businesses and their funders across the UK mid-market from its offices in Reading and London, with particular focus on the central South, South East and London markets.
In 2020, Spectrum’s corporate finance team advised on 25 completed transactions with a combined deal value of more than GBP900
CORE Industrial Partners (CORE), a Chicago-based private equity firm, today announced the successful final and only close of CORE Industrial Partners Fund II (Fund II) with total commitments of USD465 million.
Fund II was significantly oversubscribed with demand in excess of both the initial target of USD400 million and hard cap of USD450 million. CORE now manages approximately USD700 million of capital commitments.
CORE Industrial Partners Fund II will continue its sector focus in acquiring manufacturing, industrial technology, and industrial service businesses that it believes can benefit from CORE’s deep investment and operating experience coupled with a well-defined operating playbook.
Baseload Capital, a Swedish company specialised in funding the deployment of heat power worldwide, has closed a USD25 million funding round with Chevron Technology Ventures as a new strategic investor.
As an initial outcome of the alliance, Chevron Technical Center and Baseload Capital have already signed a letter of intent to investigate a potential pilot project in California.
“In August, we announced that we were looking for a new strategic investor to help us accelerate deployment in our key markets,” says Baseload Capital CEO Alexander Helling. “We couldn’t have asked for a better one. Chevron complements our group of owners,
ARX Equity Partners (ARX), a private equity firm with a 20-year track record supporting the growth and development of mid-sized companies in Central Europe, has is to acquire Instrumentation Technologies (I-Tech).
Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed. Completion of the acquisition is subject to customary closing conditions. As part of the deal, ARX has agreed to partner with the Company ́s existing management team, who will continue to lead its future growth and development.
Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Solkan, Slovenia, I-Tech is the global market leader in the development and assembly of high-specification instrumentation for data
By Alex Di Santo (pictured), group head of private equity at Crestbridge – Despite Covid, venture capital activity across the globe remained robust throughout 2020 and deal activity, thus far in 2021, suggests venture capital will continue to fly high this year.
Below we outline Covid winners, challenges and opportunities in ESG within the VC space and discuss what managers can do to thrive in this new financial environment.
The winners
• Healthcare and life sciences. Unsurprisingly, healthcare and life sciences have done particularly well. According to Rock Health, 2020 has seen more digital health funding than any other year
Mid-market private equity investor LDC, has backed the management buyout of data and network security specialist Phoenix Datacom.
The partnership with LDC will support the existing management team – led by Managing Director, John Carson – to expand Phoenix Datacom’s suite of hardware and software products and related services to help its enterprise customers further enhance their cyber-security. LDC’s backing will also help the team to explore complementary acquisitions.
Buckinghamshire-based Phoenix Datacom provides solutions and services to improve on-premise and cloud application performance and cyber-security for major UK organisations across a range of sectors. Established in 1984, it has a
Kester Capital, a primary buyout specialist, has successfully refinanced three of its portfolio companies following strong revenue and profit growth over the last 18 months.
Kester’s sector focus and track record has resulted in strong lender appetite for three of its portfolio companies: Avania, YouGarden and Frontier Medical.
The deals come following a busy start to the year for Kester which recently announced its investment in drug discovery business, Optibrium, as well as the expansion of its investment team with a run of new hires.
Avania is a leading, global full-service contract research organisation focused on the
Stephen Crystal, Founder of SCCG Management, has announced a partnership with King of Prussia, Pennsylvania-based iGaming Marketing and Advertising firm, MediaTroopers.
Crystal, says: “This is a new and exciting time for iGaming in North America. Online sports betting and iGaming products are exploding across the US, backed by huge brands and equally large budgets. That same demand exists for digital marketing expertise in iGaming – knowledge put in context by the challenges experienced by veteran digital marketers in the online gaming space.
“These are challenging times that are rewarded by results, not just trying hard. The experience and expertise that
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