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Infinedi Partners (Infinedi), a private equity firm focused on founder-owned businesses, has completed an investment in BWG Strategy (BWG), a provider of market intelligence, data and other information to investment management and corporate clients through a subscription-based business model. Clients use this information to enhance their decision-making processes and to make principal investments.
Bill Williams, Founder and CEO of BWG, says: “Our partnership with Infinedi will allow BWG to accelerate its core mission of offering our clients an ever-expanding portfolio of high-quality primary research and data. In addition, we plan to expand our product, sector and geographic offering in response
QuantiTech, a portfolio company of Sagewind Capital (Sagewind), has acquired Systems Engineering Group, (SEG) from Griffon Corporation. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.Headquartered in Columbia, Maryland, SEG is a leading provider of threat engineering and modeling and simulation services to the US Government, primarily supporting the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Missile Defense Agency, and Office of Naval Intelligence. SEG provides advanced, physics-based threat modelling, engineering, and analytics services in support of U.S. Government requirements for weapons and missile systems development, simulation, testing, and analysis. The management team and employees of SEG will continue with the business as
Levine Leichtman Capital Partners (LLCP), a Los Angeles-based private equity firm, has sold its portfolio company Jonathan Engineered Solutions (JES) to JLL Partners.JES, based in Irvine, California, is the global market leader in the design and manufacturing of highly engineered steel and aluminium mechanical components for defence, commercial and industrial end markets. With a legacy that spans nearly 70 years, the Company’s ruggedised enclosure solutions protect operating systems in aircraft, naval ships and submarines for the U.S. military and its allies.
Micah Levin, a Senior Managing Director at LLCP, says: “The JES investment has been very successful for LLCP,
Milbank has appointed Andrej Wolf as a partner in its Global Corporate Group in London, further expanding the firm’s international private equity and M&A capabilities.Wolf has particular expertise in advising some of the world’s most sophisticated organisations on private equity and related transactions. Across a variety of sectors and geographies, he has counselled a range of global private equity houses, financial sponsor clients and their portfolio companies on leveraged buyouts and acquisitions, growth capital and minority investments, secondaries and disposals, carve-out transactions, as well as complex cross-border mergers. He has advised major private equity players, including Accel-KKR, Apax Partners, EW
London-head-quartered asset management consultancy, MJ Hudson, has acquired fund and portfolio performance specialist PERACS. Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (CD&R) is to acquire Wolseley UK, a specialist distributor of plumbing, heating, climate control, pipe and infrastructure & utility products in the United Kingdom, from Ferguson. Through a carve-out transaction for a net consideration of GBP308 million, Wolseley will become an independent company wholly owned by CD&R funds and management.
The transaction represents the twelfth building products and industrial distribution investment completed by CD&R over the last decade. In 2020, CD&R carved-out White Cap, a leading distributor of specialty construction products, from HD Supply and completed a partnership investment in SIG plc, a UK-listed building products distributor.
Specialist lawyers at Walker Morris have advised Eight Fifty Food Group the leading multi-protein food group controlled by CapVest Partners, on the acquisition of Carroll’s Cuisine from Carlyle Cardinal Ireland, for an undisclosed consideration.Carroll’s is a producer of cooked meats and convenience food in the Republic of Ireland. The business employs approximately 300 people in its site in Tullamore, Offaly. Carroll’s will be integrated into Eight Fifty’s pork division and will further expand Eight Fifty’s presence in the Republic of Ireland following the acquisition of M&M Walshe in June 2020. Carroll’s sliced cooked meat offering will be highly complementary to
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.
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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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