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Prowrap, a specialist rewinder and one of the UK’s leading manufacturers of cling film, aluminium foil and baking papers, has secured a significant investment from Longacre Group with the support of the corporate finance team at FRP.The deal will see Longacre Group back both brands within the Prowrap portfolio – Procare and Wrapex – and importantly maintains the long-term future of the business in Bristol.
Longacre Group, a private investment firm that backs small and medium sized companies across the UK and Europe, has backed Prowrap’s existing management team led by CEO Nick Scoon. They will now work closely
Polyplus-transfection (Polyplus), a developer of cost-effective technology used in gene and cell therapy, has closed on a major investment from Warburg Pincus, a global private equity firm focused on growth investing. Warburg Pincus’ investment alongside the existing majority shareholder, European private equity healthcare specialist ArchiMed, will advance the development and sale of Polyplus’ breakthrough solutions for the delivery of nucleic acids (transfection) for research and the biologics-based production of therapeutic drugs and vaccines.
“Backed by their significant experience in healthcare and extensive network of resources, we are confident that Warburg Pincus, alongside ArchiMed, will further accelerate our market leadership by
Global professional and financial services group SMP is to acquire RBC Corporate Services Hong Kong, a division of RBC Investor & Treasury Services. The transaction, which is subject to regulatory approval, forms a key part of the firm’s global buy and build strategy, marking the third acquisition made by SMP since completing a management buyout backed by Palatine Private Equity in 2019.
SMP Group has grown into a leading international provider of fund administration and corporate and trust services. In total, the company now employs over 250 people across seven global offices, including the Isle of Man, Jersey, Switzerland, Malta,
Stirling Square Capital Partners (Stirling Square), a pan-European mid-market private equity firm, has added Manuel Gari and Andreas Theilgaard to its investment team. Prior to joining Stirling Square, Gari worked at Goldman Sachs and focused on the TMT, Consumer & Retail and Healthcare sectors. Gari holds an MBA from The Wharton School and a BSc in Business Administration and Management from ESADE Business School. He is a Spanish national and speaks Spanish, French and English.
Theilgaard joins Stirling Square from The Carlyle Group where he worked within their International Energy Partners strategy. Prior to that, he was at Gunvor Group and at Rothschild
The British Business Bank has allocated an additional GBP23.7m to Maven Capital Partners (Maven) from the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund.Maven was first awarded the Northern Powerhouse Investment mandate for Equity investments in the North West of the UK in 2017 and since then has invested GBP33m into 49 small and medium SME’s, creating 382 roles within the North West Region.
Investments to date include a GBP500,000 investment into Summize Limited who based in Greater Manchester, GBP1 million into Merseyside Based YR Free Labs, an investment of GBP1.6 million into Lancaster Based Relative insight and GBP300,000 into Cheshire based intilery.
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FTV Capital, a sector-focused growth equity investment firm, has made a growth equity investment in Docupace, a cloud-based digital operations software provider for wealth management firms.
Docupace provides solutions that include client and advisor onboarding, document management, standardized workflows, robust approval processes, and compliant storage as an integrated platform that eliminates the need for multiple vendors.
The capital injection enables Docupace to expand its product and service offerings to its broker-dealer, registered investment adviser and insurance firm customers, as well as with financial advisors.
Docupace also appoints David Knoch, former president of 1st Global, to the role of chief executive
Middle market private equity form Wynnchurch Capital has promoted Greg Gleason to Partner and member of the Investment Committee and Brian Crumbaugh, Paul Ciolino and Roy Sroka to Partner.John Hatherly, Founder and Managing Partner at Wynnchurch, says: “We are thrilled to announce these well-deserved promotions to Partner. They are a recognition of the hard work, dedication and significant contributions of Greg, Brian, Paul and Roy to the growth and success of Wynnchurch.”
Chris O’Brien, Managing Partner at Wynnchurch, adds: “We are very fortunate to have such a deep and long-tenured team of leaders at Wynnchurch, especially during such challenging times.
Middle market private equity firm One Equity Partners’ (OEP) portfolio company Orion Innovation (Orion) has completed the acquisition of Tekmark Global Solutions, an outsourced technology and telecom services firm.Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Headquartered in Edison, NJ, Tekmark provides software engineering, quality engineering, telecom engineering, managed services, cyber security and data analytics. The Company’s experienced team of over 850 IT professionals will be deployed to Orion’s US-based delivery team.
“Tekmark’s solutions and deep customer relationships are complementary to Orion’s services and ability to innovate digital transformation solutions for Fortune 1,000 companies worldwide,” says Chip Schorr, Senior Managing Director,
InHealth MD Alliance (IMA), an independent provider of high-quality primary care physician services, has appointed Dr Mark Leenay as CEO, effective 27 April, 2020. Leenay succeeds Dr Nelson Pichardo, Founder and CEO of IMA, who will remain on the Board of Directors and, with his wife Patricia, will retain significant ownership in the company.
Headquartered in Orlando, IMA provides preventative care services, chronic disease management, and patient care coordination and case management. IMA has more than 60 physicians serving over 20,000 members.
“We are delighted to continue the tradition of physician leadership at IMA by welcoming Dr Leenay,” says
With major Western economies around the world slowing down significantly, emerging markets find themselves in a perfect storm of multiple stress factors as the Covid-19 pandemic continues to spread.
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