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Private investment firm Sun Capital Partners (Sun Capital) has appointed Joe Silver as Managing Director – Investor Relations. He will work from the firm’s Boca Raton office.“We are excited to have Joe join the Sun Capital team,” says Marc Leder, Co-CEO of Sun Capital Partners. “Joe’s expertise and proven ability to build strong relationships with investors will be an invaluable asset to our firm and our global network of limited partners.”
Silver brings more than 25 years of experience working with institutional investors, family offices, and advisors on investments in private equity and other alternative assets. Over the course
Activa Capital and Arkéa Capital have acquired minority stakes in the capital of Ingeliance.
On the occasion of this primary MBO, Activa Capital becomes the reference shareholder of the company alongside its founder Jean-François Clédel, its CEO Marc Poullin and the management team. Arkéa Capital, the group’s historical minority financial partner, reinvests on this occasion and retains a stake in the capital.
Founded in 1998 by Jean-François Clédel, Ingeliance offers engineering and technology consulting solutions focused on four main business sectors: naval, aerospace & defence, energy & transport and process industries. Headquartered in Mérignac (33), the company now has
NEM Ventures, a venture capital and investment arm of the NEM blockchain ecosystem, has launched its NEM Ignite Incubator Programme to provide mentoring and financial support for early-stage blockchain projects. NEM Ignite will help cultivate the growth of meaningful ideas into viable companies that enhance the NEM ecosystem and technology adoption. NEM Ventures will assist incubatees by fostering connections between cohort participants, prominent partners and industry professionals, while helping founders develop their objectives, plans and technology to execute on their vision. Acceptance into the programme includes moderate financial assistance in the form of investment to help participants get started with pre-seed
AUA Private Equity Partners’ portfolio company, Gourmet Culinary Partners, has acquired Holiday Foods, and the recruitment of a senior executive management team to lead the integration and execution of the GCP platform. The GCP senior executive leadership will work closely with existing divisional leadership teams to execute on the company’s regional and national platform. Holiday Foods TM, a developer and marketer of appetisers and hors d’oeuvres with national distribution, was acquired from Schwan’s Company.
AUA Private Equity has completed five acquisitions in the specialty prepared foods segment with a focus on creating the leading manufacturer of appetisers, hors d’oeuvres, breakfast foods, side
Sovereign Capital Partners, a UK private equity Buy & Build specialist, has appointed Emma Flin to its investment team. Flin, an Investment Director, will primarily be focused on the Business and Technology & Information services sectors, further deepening Sovereign’s capabilities in these areas. The early part of Flin’s career in M&A was with Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein and then UK Landsbanki Securities, the investment banking arm of Landsbankinn. She then spent the following 10 years with Capita plc as Corporate Development Director leading the Group’s acquisition and disposal activity. There she led large volumes of transactions across a wide range of sectors.
Coutts, the Private Banking arm of NatWest, together with BGF, are working on plans to launch The UK Enterprise Fund to bring additional funding and support to entrepreneurs across the UK.
The partnership will build on Coutts and BGF’s existing platforms, drawing on the significant scale and financial firepower of the two companies. It will identify and address equity gaps across the whole of the entrepreneurial ecosystem, with specific initiatives and programmes for female-led businesses and aimed at increasing the diversity of management teams.
The launch of the partnership coincides with the one-year anniversary of the Alison Rose Review of Female
Global private equity firm OpenGate Capital’s portfolio company Duraco Specialty Tapes (Duraco), a manufacturer of pressure-sensitive tapes, has acquired Infinity Tapes, a manufacturer of customised adhesive products, from a private seller. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Infinity Tapes, headquartered in Lawrence, Massachusetts, is a manufacturer of double coated tapes, silicon coated liners and tamper evident products in the transit packaging and industrial end markets. Infinity Tapes has a workforce of approximately 45 employees and will continue to be led by President Craig Allard as a division of Duraco.
The addition of Infinity Tapes expands Duraco’s product offering in
Bregal Sagemount, a growth-focused private equity firm, has completed the final closing for Bregal Sagemount Fund III (Fund III) at the Fund’s hard cap of USD1.5 billion, exceeding its USD1.35 billion target.Fund III will continue the investment strategy Bregal Sagemount has pursued since its inception in 2012 and focus on providing flexible capital and strategic assistance to market-leading companies in high-growth sectors across a wide variety of transaction situations.
Gene Yoon, Founder and Managing Partner of Bregal Sagemount, says: “We are grateful for the support and trust from our existing investors and are pleased to welcome a select number of
Experienced Corporate lawyer James Fox has joined Ogier as a partner based in the firm’s Jersey office.Fox has over 20 years’ experience of corporate legal work in the UK and Jersey and has acted for clients in a large number of M&A and IPO transactions as well as having experience in real estate investment structuring, fund formation and finance work.
He has an extensive knowledge of the legal and regulatory regime in Jersey and is known for taking a commercial approach to delivering legal advice and solving legal issues for clients.
Ogier’s Global Head of Corporate Nathan Powell says: “As
Susquehanna Growth Equity (SGE) has appointed Dan Pomerantz and Greg Carter as Senior Advisers in the firm’s Portfolio Value Creation team. In their roles, they will collaborate with portfolio product and technology leaders to build high performing teams, deliver outstanding products, and accelerate growth.
“We are thrilled to add two seasoned executives with unique management, product development and technology expertise in both established and growing companies to our Portfolio Value Creation team at SGE,” says David Badler, Head of Portfolio Value Creation. “Dan’s substantial experience and knowledge as a seasoned operating executive and Greg’s extensive background in logistics and software
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