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Behrman Capital, a private equity investment firm based in New York and San Francisco, has appointed Lyndon Faulkner as an Operating Partner.In this capacity, Faulkner will share his extensive management and operational expertise with the Behrman investment team and the executive teams of the firm’s portfolio companies. He will continue to serve as Executive Chairman of Pelican Products, a Behrman portfolio company that he previously led as President and CEO for 14 years.
Grant G Behrman, Managing Partner of Behrman Capital, says: “We are delighted that Lyndon has become an Operating Partner of the Firm. He led an exceptional
AUA Private Equity Partners (AUA Private Equity) has sold Indulge Desserts Holdings (Indulge Desserts) to Emmi Group (Emmi), a publicly-listed Swiss milk processor which dates back to 1907 when it was founded by 62 dairy farming cooperatives around Lucerne.Over its four year holding period, AUA Private Equity was instrumental in growing Indulge Desserts from a founder-run business to a leading institutional, culinary-driven desserts company. Under AUA Private Equity’s ownership, Indulge Desserts’ top line grew 100 per cent and EBITDA grew over 70 per cent through both organic growth and acquisitions. AUA Private Equity assisted Indulge Desserts in entering, and expanding
Duff & Phelps, a provider of governance, risk and transparency solutions, has launched its Equity Match service, which matches the equity funding requirements of UK based SMEs with specialist equity investors from a select network.Equity Match provides SMEs with access to difficult-to-find equity investors who are willing to inject smaller sums not usually associated with the appetite of the mainstream private equity market.
Paul Reeves, Managing Director, Restructuring Advisory, Duff & Phelps, says: “This new offering is about matching the requirements of an enterprise with potential investors who we feel most closely align in terms of cultural fit. We have
JAXJOX, a global fitness technology company known for its workout equipment and platform, has secured GBP7.7 million in a Series A round of funding with investors Dowgate Capital Ltd. and entrepreneur Nigel Wray, bringing total funding raised to date GBP13M. The funding is set to expand development of the highly anticipated JAXJOX InteractiveStudio, the world’s first digital at-home fitness platform with connected free-weight equipment that creates personalised data points based on the user’s performance, and hits the UK market early 2021.In 2019, JAXJOX debuted the KettlebellConnect, the first smart kettlebell with adjustable weights, at CES where the connected fitness tech
Levine Leichtman Capital Partners (LLCP) has held the final closing of Levine Leichtman Capital Partners Europe II SCSp (Europe II) with EUR463 million in capital commitments.Europe II received strong support from a prestigious group of institutional investors, including pension funds, insurance companies, banks, family offices and foundations. Europe II has already completed one investment and has two additional investments under contract.
LLCP has been investing in Europe since the opening of its London office in 2011, expanding its presence with the addition of offices in The Hague in 2015 and Stockholm in 2019. LLCP’s first Europe-focused fund, Levine Leichtman
Long Ridge Equity Partners (Long Ridge), a sector-focused private equity firm, has held the final closing of Long Ridge Equity Partners III. The oversubscribed fund closed at its hard cap of USD400 million of Limited Partner commitments plus an additional USD45 million of commitments from the General Partner and members of the firm’s Industry Advisor Network. Consistent with its predecessor funds, Fund III will target majority and significant minority investments in high-growth financial and business technology companies led by exceptional management teams.
“We greatly appreciate the support and confidence of our new and existing investors, which allowed us to complete
Bolt on acquisition activity has remained robust and proven to be a key feature of deal activity, despite Covid-related inertia in the broader buyout space. As Bloomberg data reveals, there were only two buyouts completed between April and June, one of which was Clayton Dubilier & Rice’s acquisition of Radio Systems. But for PE sponsors with platform companies in their portfolios, and an eye on consolidation opportunities, 2020 appears to have been very much a case of ‘business as usual’.
Cloud cyber resilience specialist Accurics, has raised USD20 million across seed and series A financing in the past six months. With Intel Capital leading the Series A and ClearSky leading the seed, Accurics, the new investment will support Accurics’ market momentum and help the company continue to develop technology that self-heals cloud native infrastructure by codifying security throughout the development lifecycle.
“We envision a world where organisations can innovate with confidence—and our mission is to fill the gap between benefit and threat by enabling cyber resilience as organisations embrace cloud native infrastructure,” says Accurics Co-founder & CEO Sachin Aggarwal. “We’re
Cebile Capital, the global secondaries advisor and placement agent, has closed a GP-led Continuation Vehicle process for two of Method Advisors’ fund-of-funds vehicles.
Actis has entered into agreements to acquire a controlling interest in Octotel, a fibre-to-the-home operator in South Africa for an enterprise value of ZAR2.3 billion (USD140 million). At the same time Actis signed agreements to acquire a non-controlling interest in RSAWEB, a leading Internet Service Provider in South Africa. The transactions are subject to regulatory approval.
Octotel is a leading fibre network operator in the Western Cape region of South Africa. Founded in 2016, its open access fibre network has passed more than 175,000 premises. Through this network, Octotel provides line rental services to Internet Service Providers on a fully vendor
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