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Total Capital Partners (Total Capital) portfolio company GRITIT has completed the acquisition of Doncaster-based surfacing, engineering and external environment maintenance business NMC Group Ltd (NMC).
The unique and transformational acquisition of NMC doubles the size of the GRITIT Group and creates a GBP50 million market-leading provider of external infrastructure compliance services.
This is the third acquisition by GRITIT since Total Capital Partners invested in November 2018. Mark Buttler and Paul Brown from Total Capital Partners led the deal process on behalf of GRITIT. Investec Bank provided debt funding to support the transaction.
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Octopus Investments’s Development Capital team has provided GBP3.0 million of growth capital to Sova Assessment Limited, an HR Tech digital talent assessment software platform.
Turnspire Capital Partners (Turnspire), a special situations-focused private equity firm, has completed the acquisition of the Goodyear air springs business from EnPro Industries.
Goodyear Air Springs is the first acquisition of Infinity Engineered Products, a new platform formed by Turnspire.
Goodyear Air Springs, headquartered in Fairlawn, Ohio, is a leading provider of premium air springs for trucks, trailers, buses, and specialty vehicles, and is a preferred partner to original equipment manufacturers (OEM) and trucking fleets globally. Infinity acquired the assets of Goodyear Air Springs, including full brand licensing rights, the technical and R&D center located in Fairlawn, all manufacturing
M Squared, a photonics and quantum technology developer, has secured GBP32.5 million in new financing to support its growth and technology developments.
Santander UK will be providing a GBP20 million debt facility, allowing M Squared’s founders and management team, led by Dr Graeme Malcolm OBE, to fund the acquisition of the substantial part of BGF’s current shareholding along with fuelling the next stage in business and technological growth. The newly formed Scottish National Investment Bank will also support M Squared with GBP12.5 million of growth capital.
Richard Mathison, Structured Finance Director, Santander UK, says: “Santander is delighted to
Private investment firm GI Partners has acquired Valet Living, a full-service amenities provider to the multifamily housing industry.
GI Partners acquired Valet Living from a fund managed by the Private Equity Group of Ares Management Corporation and Harvest Partners, LP.
Valet Living pioneered the doorstep waste and recycling industry and has broadened its service offering to include turns, maintenance, pet solutions, fitness, and other app-enabled resident services. Founded in 1995 and based in Tampa, Florida, Valet Living has achieved double-digit organic growth every year since its inception and currently performs more than 415 million service events annually across 1.6
Growth Catalyst Partners (GCP), a Chicago and Connecticut based private equity firm focused on high growth middle market companies in the marketing, information, and tech-enabled services sectors, has closed it debut fund GCP Fund I at USD130 million.
GCP did not use a placement agent and secured commitments from a diversified set of institutional investors, family offices and over 25 senior executives from the target investment sectors.
GCP focuses on a buy and build strategy in high growth vertical market sectors to create middle market leading companies or “trophy assets.” GCP Fund I, which was launched in February of 2019,
Reckitt Benckiser’s venture arm RB Ventures has backed laundry and dry-cleaning startup Oxwash, which provides laundry services to the Oxford University coronavirus vaccine trial.
RB Ventures is partnering with early-stage start-ups who share its ‘fight for access’, with Oxwash being one of its first investments. Founded in 2017 by former NASA scientist Kyle Grant, Oxwash is using technology and methods that are aiming towards net zero carbon emissions.
The company has raised a total of GBP1.75 million in seed funding so far from RB, TrueSight Ventures, Biz Stone (co-founder of Twitter), Paul Forster (founder of Indeed.com), Founders Factory, Oxford Technology
YFM Equity Partners (YFM) has boosted its growing portfolio of high-growth technology businesses with an investment into marketing automation platform, Force24.
Force24 is a cloud-based marketing automation platform that allows an in-house marketing manager to deliver personalised marketing campaigns with Customer Relationship Management (CRM) integration. The platform is already trusted by a number of household brands including Michelin, Tarmac and BBC Children in Need, to deliver over 900 million marketing emails so far this year, and the business saw turnover leap by 40 per cent from 2018 to 2019, with revenues expected to reach over GBP3.5 million this year despite
Quantum Health, a consumer healthcare navigation and care coordination company, has secured a significant investment from Warburg Pincus, a global private equity firm focused on growth investing.
Great Hill Partners, which invested in Quantum Health in 2017 and is the company’s current majority shareholder, will retain a significant stake.
This investment will further accelerate Quantum Health’s investment in its technology platform and service delivery capabilities, as the company continues to provide high quality services to its growing customer base of self-insured employers.
“We look forward to partnering with Warburg Pincus, whose successful track record and experience in the healthcare and
European private equity firm PAI Partjers has acquired a majority stake in Euro Ethnic Foods (EEF), the company which owns and operates the grocery section of leading food retailer Grand Frais.
PAI will hold a 60 per cent stake in EEF with the company’s founders Léo & Patrick Bahadourian continuing to own the remaining 40 per cent of the business. Having helped to oversee the strong growth to date, the founders will remain closely involved in the strategy and the development of EEF.
Founded by the Bahadourian family, EEF operates primarily the grocery section of the Grand Frais stores (in
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