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CVC Credit Partners (CVC Credit) has appointed John Empson as Partner and Co-Head of Private Credit, and Miguel Toney as a Partner in the Private Credit team.Empson has nearly 40 years of experience and is joining from Blackrock where he was Head of Capital Markets, EMEA. Prior to Blackrock, Empson was a Partner at KKR where he spent 11 years helping with the strategic build out of KKR’s Credit and Markets platform. Empson was also a member of the KKR EMEA private equity Investment Committee and the KKR EMEA Portfolio Management Committee.
Toney is joining from Park Square Capital where
Puma Private Equity, the private equity division of Puma Investments, has completed a EUR4 million investment into Ron Dorff.Aligning Swedish functionality with French style, Ron Dorff upgrades iconic menswear must-haves of the past, whether sportswear, homewear, underwear or swimwear. The investment will provide capital to support Ron Dorff’s growth strategy and further expansion into the US over the coming years.
The brand launched its e-store, rondorff.com, in 2012 followed by the opening of its first store in Paris in 2013. It quickly expanded with two concessions in notable Parisian department stores, followed by a second store opening on the
European private equity firm PAI Partners (PAI) has acquired Apleona Group (Apleona) from EQT for a total transaction value of approximately EUR1.6 billion.Headquartered in Neu-Isenburg, Germany, Apleona provides technical facility management services, complemented by infrastructural and commercial facility management as part of an integrated offering. EQT acquired the Company in 2016 through a carve-out from Bilfinger SE, a listed German industrial services conglomerate.
Under EQT ownership Apleona has been transformed into a pure-play facility management provider with an unrivalled position in DACH, partly through the divestments of its cyclical, low margin construction segment in 2017 and its UK real
Two of Foresight Group’s (Foresight) funds have made an EUR80 million investment into a portfolio of five biomethane Compressed Natural Gas (Bio-CNG) refuelling stations for HGVs, which will enable fleets to switch from diesel to carbon-neutral fuel.Foresight Inheritance Tax Fund and JLEN Environmental Assets Group (JLEN) have provided an initial funding line for a joint venture (JV) with CNG Fuels Limited (CNG Fuels), the UK’s leading developer and operator of CNG refuelling infrastructure. This injection of capital will be used to acquire existing refuelling sites enabling CNG Fuels to fund the construction of a further 14 stations on the UK’s
Business advisory firm Quantuma has provided lead advisory services to the shareholders of Relec Electronics Limited on the sale of their entire share capital to global defence company Gresham Worldwide Inc, a wholly owned subsidiary of DPW Holdings Inc.Established in 1978, Dorset-based Relec is a supplier of power conversion and display technology products in the industrial, rail transportation, medical, telecoms and military markets. With a strong focus on customer service and its ‘Request-Refine-Result’ approach to selling, Relec enjoys longstanding customer relationships, many stretching back over 20 years.
Relec will sit alongside Gresham Power Electronics Limited, Gresham Worldwide’s UK subsidiary
SK Capital Partners, a private investment firm focused on the specialty materials, chemicals and pharmaceuticals sectors, has appointed Randy Dearth as Senior Director.
Valloop, which aims to empower employees and management to buy the companies they work for, has emerged from stealth ready to back small business founders wishing to exit. The proposition has so far attracted unsolicited demand from over 250 SME owners totalling GBP1.2 billion in value, with an average individual value of GBP4.7 million. Valloop is targeting a net asset value of GBP900 million in the next five years and 30,000 SME investments over the next 10 years.
An evergreen fund, investors now have the opportunity to back Europe’s 24 million SMEs – one of the most underrated asset classes in
Mid Europa Partners, a private equity investor in Central and Eastern Europe, has completed the acquisition of a majority stake in GWD Concept (Displate), from the Founders, Credo Ventures and Miton Capital. The transaction was financed by the leading Polish bank, Bank Pekao.
Displate is an online metal prints marketplace that connects more than 40,000 visual creators and more than 30 licensed brands to a customer base of enthusiasts in more than 50 countries. The Company is active in a number of verticals including gaming, movies, anime, music, travel and sport. The platform has over 1.4 million artist-generated designs which
Brickability Group (Brickability), a leading construction materials distributor, has completed the acquisition of McCann Limited (McCann), a UK and European haulage and logistics provider.McCann specialises in transporting building materials from factories in Europe to construction sites in the UK. Distribution of these bricks, roof tiles and other materials is core to Brickability and this acquisition gives the Group control in this critical and growing area. The acquisition will provide Brickability with its own pan-European transport network ensuring security and control of supply lines and reducing exposure to third party freight providers at a critical moment for UK imports and exports.
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Elias is a team of developers and composers bringing adaptive music and sound to user-scripted events. Through Elias, product developers are provided with a complete software platform that plugs directly into game engines, such as Unity, where they
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