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IMAN Capital Partners (IMAN), a private investment firm founded by former Apollo Senior Partner Andrés Rubio, has led a Series A preferred equity investment in Blip Billboards (Blip), which operates an online marketplace for 1,500-plus digital billboards across 300 billboard operators catering to 150,000 mostly new-to-OOH advertisers to-date.
Blip also operates a national advertising business under the commercial brand Adkom, which delivers the largest U.S. network of previously fragmented independent OOH inventory to national advertising agencies. Leveraging Blip’s technology, Adkom provides efficiency and scale for national agencies to buy over 40,000 digital and static locations across the United States under
Bad Homburg-based FERI Group is cooperating with Target Global in the management and placement of a new venture capital growth fund. The two companies will work together in the selection of target investments and the placement of this new alternative investment fund for growth capital.
This cooperation between one of the leading investment houses in the German-speaking region and one of the most active European venture capital investment companies is the first of its kind.
The new Target Global Growth Fund offers investment opportunities in selected growth companies to semi-professional and professional investors. The fund will invest in start-ups with
Everwood Capital is to invest the majority of its fifth fund, Everwood Fund V, in up to 1,098 MWs of turnkey Prodiel solar projects at attractive returns and expected COD in 2023.
Most projects connect to the Madrid Region, which makes them attractive due to the proximity to a large electric consumption centre. The rest are in the high solar radiation areas of Seville and Badajoz. Additionally, Everwood has the right to purchase from Prodiel additional projects amounting to 500 MWs.
Jointly with Prodiel, Everwood though its Fund V, will also co-develop new projects in Europe with a focus on
Pan-African private equity firm Development Partners International (DPI) has signed Compagnie Marocaine de Goutte à Goutte et de Pompage’s (CMGP) landmark combination with Comptoir Agricole de Souss (CAS) creating a major new player in the Moroccan and African agricultural industry with combined sales of MAD1.6 billion.
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.
GRITIT, is a winter services compliance
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,
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