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Aksia has hired Chris Thorne as a Managing Director for Private Equity & Real Assets Research in its London office, where he will be involved in all phases of the investment process including sourcing, due diligence, monitoring and assisting the Portfolio Advisory team.Thorne brings over fifteen years of experience investing capital across the European and US private equity markets, and twenty-three years of private equity experience in total including his advisory roles. Most recently, Thorne was a Managing Director and day to day responsible for European Primary Private Equity Funds and syndicated Co-investments at Temasek in London for seven years.
Private equity firm LDC has backed the creation of a new national lettings and estate agency group through a GBP100 million transaction to merge Lomond Capital and Linley & Simpson.The new group has a combined portfolio of over 22,000 properties under management and major hubs in private rental hotspots including Aberdeen, Birmingham, Brighton, Edinburgh, Hull, Leeds Manchester, Sheffield and York.
The group brings together some of the UK’s strongest high street letting and estate agency brands including Linley & Simpson, Thornley Groves, Brand Vaughan, John Shepherd, Stonehouse and Braemore.
With access to further acquisition facilities provided by LGT
Bascom Group has partnered with Capital Trust Group to acquire a Class A, 372,856 sq ft, absolute net-lease, build-to-suit research and development, manufacturing and testing facility and an adjacent 118,620 sq ft corporate office in the Milwaukee-area community of Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin for USD100.0 million.JLL worked on behalf of Bascom Group to arrange the joint venture partnership with The Capital Trust Group. Additionally, working on behalf of the new partnership, JLL placed a 10-year, 65-percent, LTV, CMBS, fixed-rate USD63.7 million loan with Citigroup. This transaction marks Capital Trust Group’s first acquisition in the United States for over two decades.
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Ciklum Group Limited (Ciklum), a global digital transformation and digital services company serving the Fortune 500 and other fast-growing enterprises, has secured a significant strategic investment from global technology investment platform Recognize Partners.Headquartered in the UK, Ciklum specialises in enabling digital transformation for some of the largest household names and platforms in the digital economy. The Company partners with its clients enabling them to achieve their true potential in the digital age; Ciklum has a strong presence across the hi-tech, fintech and consumer sectors with clients across 30-plus countries, with 3,500-plus engineers operating in digital custom software development centres across
Despite the challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic, Edinburgh-based business angel investment syndicate, Archangels, led investments of GBP16.3 million in promising Scottish start-up and early stage companies in 2020, topping its 2019 total of GBP13.4 million by 22 per cent.Across 2020, the syndicate directly invested GBP8.1 million (2019: GBP7.4 million) in companies in the tech and life sciences sectors and was lead investor on a total of 11 funding rounds.
Archangels has also appointed Maureen Kinsler to its board of directors.
Until her recent retirement from the post, Kinsler was Chair of Marks & Clerk, the international intellectual property
GED Capital, a private equity group specialised in the Iberian low middle-market segment, has invested in Comess Group through its GED VI Spain fund and a capital increase, becoming the company’s majority shareholder along with the existing partners, Manuel Robledo, president and founder of the company, and Oquendo.Founded in 1988, Comess Group operates more than 200 franchise restaurants in Spain and a dozen other countries.
In 2016, Oquendo entered the share capital of Comess Group to back the acquisition of the DonG brand and provide financial firepower. Now, following the entry of GED Capital and subsequent capital increase, the group
Middle market private equity firm Gryphon Investors (Gryphon) has acquired Right Time Heating and Air Conditioning (Right Time) from Clairvest Group Inc, a Canadian private equity firm. Right Time’s management will remain with the Company and retain a significant equity stake. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Founded in 2014 and headquartered in St Catharines, Ontario, Right Time is the largest independently owned residential HVAC services provider in Canada with a focus on preventative maintenance programs and repairs and replacements of HVAC units. The Company comprises 10 brands and operates out of 11 locations in Ontario, Manitoba,
Mayfair Equity Partners (Mayfair), a leading tech and consumer growth investor, has backed the management buy-out of Seraphine, a maternity and nursing brand, which values the company at around GBP50 million. Mayfair, along with management, has acquired the company from Bridgepoint Growth and entrepreneur founder Cécile Reinaud.
Launched in 2002 as a boutique store in Kensington, London, Seraphine has grown to become an international business selling into 127 countries around the world.
Reinaud identified a gap in the market for a luxury but affordable maternity wear brand. The driving ambition was to create aspirational products that women would want to
One Equity Partners (OEP), a middle market private equity firm, has completed the acquisition of VASS Consultoría de Sistemas (VASS), a European provider of digital transformation, cloud infrastructure and managed IT solutions. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.Headquartered in Madrid, Spain, VASS is focused on digitally transforming its customers’ value chain by implementing and servicing customer relationship management, enterprise resource applications, and providing technology infrastructure services. The Company has deep experience with big data, the implementation of robot process automation, intelligent business process management and similar technologies.
“After having spent the past 18 months analysing the
United Group, a provider of telecommunications services and media in Southeast Europe, is to acquire Bulgaria’s largest multi-platform media company Nova Broadcasting Group from Advance Media Group.The transaction is expected to close early in 2021 and is subject to customary regulatory approvals.
Nova comprises of 10 TV channels including national NOVA TV, the country’s largest online platform Net Info that reach on average 80 per cent of the Bulgarian population every month, as well as four radio stations.
United Group CEO Victoriya Boklag says: “We’re very pleased with this agreement. We are buying a successful company from two prominent entrepreneurs
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