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Clayton, Dubilier & Rice has appointed Gilles Schnepp, former Chairman and CEO of Legrand SA (EPA:LR), as an Operating Advisor to CD&R funds. Under Schnepp’s leadership from 2006 through 2018, Legrand grew revenue from approximately EUR3.7 billion to EUR6 billion and net profit from EUR255 million to EUR772 million. During this period, Schnepp implemented a number of key growth and operational improvement initiatives, such as broadening Legrand’s product offering from primarily European markets to a broad global portfolio of electrical and digital infrastructure solutions, two-thirds of which ranked first or second in their markets in 2019.
Schnepp drove Legrand’s expansion
Kirkland & Ellis is advising EP Global Commerce on a multibillion euro voluntary public takeover offer to the shareholders of METRO AG for the acquisition of all non-par value ordinary and preference shares. METRO Group is a German global diversified retail and wholesale cash and carry group based in Düsseldorf.
EP Global Commerce (EPGC) is an acquisition vehicle controlled by Daniel Křetínský, who owns 53%, and is acting in concert with Patrik Tkáč, who owns 47 per cent. The company was founded in April 2016 and is based in Prague. At present, EPGC indirectly holds 29.99 per cent of the ordinary
Global technology investor, Amadeus Capital Partners has expanded its investment team with the appointments of Edward Kliphuis and Kai Schmitz as Partners and Ana Bernardo-Gancedo as a Healthcare Analyst.With Managing Partner Andrea Traversone, Kliphuis will lead the Amadeus “Scale” investment activities, supporting the next generation of Europe’s transformational companies.
Kliphuis joins from M Ventures, a EUR400 million AUM corporate VC-arm of Merck KGaA, where he was responsible for healthtech, frontiertech and sustainability investments. Kliphuis led, among others, investments in Akili Interactive Labs (first FDA-approved prescription videogame), Wiliot (battery-free Bluetooth tags) and Sonde Health (voice-analysis for health and wellness). Prior to
McGuireWoods has added to it global finance practice in London with the appointment of partner Linn Mayhew.Mayhew focuses on international acquisition and leveraged finance for private equity sponsors, alternative investment funds, banks and corporate clients. She advises borrowers and creditors at all levels of the capital structure. She also advises on fund finance, restructurings and general banking matters.
Mayhew joins McGuireWoods from DLA Piper, where she was a senior finance lawyer. She previously was legal counsel at NatWest, supporting the bank’s leveraged finance business, and was an associate for six years at Simpson Thacher.
McGuireWoods has one of the largest
BV Investment Partners (BV), a middle-market private equity firm focused on the tech-enabled business services, software and IT services sectors, has made a significant investment in sister companies, GlideFast Consulting and Pharicode (GlideFast), two Elite partners of ServiceNow, an enterprise software company and cloud computing platform that helps manage digital workflows. BV is investing alongside GlideFast and Pharicode founders Michael Lombardo, Lloyd Godson, and Stephen Light.
Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Woburn, Massachusetts, GlideFast Consulting is dedicated exclusively to ServiceNow, providing tailored solutions and professional services for ServiceNow implementations and integrations, managed support services, application development, and training for
Medefer, a b2b virtual healthcare provider, has announced a GBP10 million funding round led by private investment firm Nickleby Capital. The growth funding will be used to invest in people and technology to service new contracts, enable new product development and ensure scalable and robust growth from its strong pipeline. The company, founded by NHS consultant Dr Bahman Nedjat-Shokouhi – who still works in the NHS – has been recognised as one of the top 100 most exciting digital health companies in the UK, by the DTI.
A CQC regulated healthcare provider, Medefer is a digital platform that connects GPs,
capital D, a next-generation private equity fund manager investing in disruptive mid-market businesses across Europe, has completed the partial exit from its investment in Invincible Brands.capital D has sold a 75 per cent stake in Invincible Brands’ cosmetics business, comprising the three attractive fast-growing premium D2C brands Hello Body, Banana Beauty and Mermaid+Me, to Henkel, one of the world’s leading FMCG companies.
During the two and a half years of capital D’s ownership, Invincible Brands’ EBITDA more than quadrupled and over the last twelve months, the businesses generated total sales of around EUR100 million (as of June 2020). The
Lafayette Mittelstand Capital has acquired 100 per cent of PPM Pure Metal’s Osterwieck site, in a Carve-Out Transaction from an insolvent subsidiary of Recylex Group, the Euronext (Paris) listed European specialist recycling group of lead, zinc and other metals effective as of 1 August 2020. The acquired company, re-named PPM Reinstmetalle Osterwieck, is a world leader in high purity arsenic and other minor metals for the global electronic, opto-electronic, photovoltaic and PET industries. PPM has its state-of-the-art production location in a newly build own facility in Osterwieck, Sachsen-Anhalt with approximately 30 FTE. It supplies global industry leading manufacturers across semiconductor, telecommunication,
Verdane, a Northern European specialist growth investor, has been the most active financial buyer of Nordic software companies in the period 2016-2020, according to a Q2 PWC Corporate Finance report on software M&A trends and valuation perspectives. Verdane has invested in a total of 19 software businesses based out of the Nordics and Germany since 2016, out of which the PWC report highlighted ten.
“It is an honour to be recognised by the best software businesses and talent in the Nordics as their growth partner of choice. With the ‘next normal’ emerging, where businesses that digitalise everyday life and work are
Investcorp, a provider and manager of alternative investment products, has launched a new platform dedicated to investing in Chinese healthcare companies. As part of this initiative, Investcorp has acquired minority equity stakes in Lu Daopei Medical Group and WeDoctor. Terms of the transactions were not disclosed.
The new platform advances Investcorp’s Asia growth strategy and aims to create a highly curated portfolio of primary and secondary stakes in sector leading Chinese healthcare companies that have remained resilient through the pandemic and are expected to experience accelerated growth in the post-pandemic world.
Mohammed Alardhi, Executive Chairman of Investcorp, says: “Investcorp has been
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