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Healthcare private equity firm Avista Capital Partners (Avista), along with VHC Investco and company management, has acquired Vision Healthcare NV (Vision). Avista and VHC Investco/Management will each hold a 5o per cent ownership interest in Vision. The transaction values Vision at an aggregate value of EUR305 million (approximately USD336 million), inclusive of contingent payments. The transaction is subject to customary competition authority review and is expected to close later this year.
Vision Consumer Health is a Belgium-based consumer healthcare platform with sales and operations across continental Europe. Vision owns and markets a large branded portfolio of self-care and over-the-counter products.
An affiliate of global private equity investment firm HIG Capital (HIG) has made an investment in USALCO, a provider of aluminium-based chemicals used primarily in water and wastewater treatment processes and for the manufacturing of catalysts used by refineries. HIG is partnering with Peter and David Askew as well as the current management team to help provide resources to achieve and take advantage of the Company’s significant strategic growth opportunities.
Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Founded in 1980 and headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland, USALCO is a leading manufacturer of aluminium-based chemicals, offering its customers high quality products with
Ironwood Capital ihas appointed Tyler Klenk as a private equity analyst. Klenk is responsible for reviewing new investment opportunities, conducting research and performing financial modelling and due diligence. In addition, Tyler provides support for business development activities and portfolio management.
“Prior to joining us full-time, Tyler worked with us as an intern and we were impressed with his initiative and work ethic,” says Carolyn Galiette, president and chief investment officer at Ironwood Capital. “We’re delighted he has joined us full-time.”
Klenk says: “I’m excited to officially join the team at Ironwood Capital.”
Global investment bank GCA Altium has made four new appointments in its Birmingham office.James Taylor and Rashma Begum take up the role of Associate, with both joining from KPMG’s corporate finance team in the Midlands. Meanwhile, Conor Murray has been appointed as Analyst from the boutique, Bracebridge Corporate Finance. Stephanie Topping joins as Executive Assistant and Office Manager.
The appointments come within six months of the new office being established in the region. They will continue to build GCA Altium’s local presence under the leadership of Jeremy Harrison and Jamie Hope – former long standing partners of Alantra in the Midlands. GCA Altium is committed to
Shore Capital’s portfolio company EyeSouth Partners (EyeSouth) has completed an affiliation with Coastal Eye Associates (CEA). The affiliation represents EyeSouth’s first in the state of Texas and sixteenth affiliation overall. EyeSouth is an eye care-focused management services organisation backed by Shore Capital Partners, committed to partnering with leading physicians to build a premier network of eye care services in the South. EyeSouth’s affiliate network consists of 16 practices with approximately 114 doctors providing medical and surgical eye care services at approximately 70 locations including 11 surgery centres throughout Georgia, Texas, Louisiana, North Carolina, Florida, Tennessee and Alabama.
Coastal Eye Associates is
Simon Tilley is a managing director at Stephens Europe and leads the European Financial Sponsors Group. He acts as a focal point for the firm’s interactions with European private equity firms and the wider financial sponsors community.
By Troy Pospisil, founder and CEO, InCloudCounsel – The Covid-19 pandemic has had massive economic impacts across the globe, though the ultimate effect on business remains to be seen. What will likely become clear in time, though, is that the pandemic will have a substantial negative impact on private markets that extends to almost every corner of the economy.
InvestEco Capital has held the final close of the InvestEco Sustainable Food Fund III at USD100 million in capital commitments. The Fund will continue the Toronto-based venture capital firm’s mandate of investing in private, high-growth Canadian and US companies that promote health and sustainability in the food sector. This Fund follows two previous successful food funds managed by InvestEco that have invested in and partnered with many leading North American sustainable food brands, including Vital Farms, Mama Earth Organics, Maple Hill Creamery, Le Grand, NadaMoo, and LesserEvil, among a number of others.
InvestEco welcomes new institutional investors Farm Credit Canada, BDC
Keensight Capital, one of the leading private equity managers dedicated to pan-European Growth Buyout investments, strengthens its team with the appointment of Dr. Edwin Moses and José Luis Martín as Operating Partners.Edwin Moses’ appointment follows a very successful career as a biopharma entrepreneur, with decades of experience in building successful businesses. Among various achievements, he led the IPO for Ablynx and OAI (Oxford Asymmetry International), companies which he built and managed as CEO.
José Luis Martín was responsible for the development and implementation of corporate strategy at Werfen. For more than thirty years, he played a lead role in transforming
Global law firm Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner (BCLP) has hired Ariel White-Tsimikalis to bolster its London M&A and Corporate Finance team.White-Tsimikalis joins from Davis Polk & Wardwell where she advised banks, corporates and private equity funds on equity capital markets transactions, corporate governance matters and general public company representation. Ariel has extensive experience having worked at Latham & Watkins and undertaken secondments to the in-house legal teams at Jefferies, Citigroup and Goldman Sachs.
Deputy Departmental Managing Partner Simon Beddow says: “We are delighted to be welcoming Ariel to the team. Her extensive equity capital markets experience further strengthens our team and continues
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