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Middle market private equity firm Odyssey Investment Partners has held the first and final closing of Odyssey Investment Partners Fund VI, a USD3.25 billion private equity investment fund formed to pursue control-oriented investments and management buyouts of established middle-market companies. Fund VI was oversubscribed and closed at its hard cap with significant upsizing by existing investors and by adding several new institutional investors.
Odyssey will continue to be led by Senior Managing Principals Brian Kwait (CEO), William Hopkins (Vice Chairman) and Stephen Berger (Chairman), and Jeffrey McKibben and Craig Staub who have been promoted to Senior Managing Principal, further strengthening
Growth private equity firm TA Associates has acquired Auction Technology Group (ATG), an online platform for auctions across Europe and the United States, from ECI Partners (ECI), and Proxibid, an online marketplace for connecting buyers and sellers across North America, from Primus Capital (Primus).Both ATG and Proxibid transactions closed on 13 of February 2020. The companies will be brought under the ATG umbrella with headquarters in London, but will retain substantial operations in Omaha, Nebraska, where Proxibid is headquartered. Both management teams are excited about the combination and believe that their collective resources will benefit auctioneers and bidders through increased
Dallas-based private equity firm CenterOak Partners’ (CenterOak) portfolio company Service Champions has acquired Bell Brothers Plumbing Heating and Air (Bell Brothers), a provider of residential air conditioning and plumbing services in Sacramento, California.The acquisition is the third since Service Champions received an investment from CenterOak and expands the Company’s footprint to over 40,000 residential service agreements. Bell Brothers’ co-founders Kenny and Jerry Bell will continue in their existing leadership roles and become shareholders of the combined Company.
“We are excited to welcome Bell Brothers to the Service Champions family,” says Leland Smith, CEO of Service Champions. “This transformative acquisition
Clearwater International has advised the shareholders of Adonia Medical Group, on its sale to the sk:n Group, a network of specialist skin care clinics in the UK backed by Trispan Private Equity. The Adonia Medical Group includes Courthouse Clinics, a chain of 11 clinics across the UK offering a wide range of anti-ageing aesthetic and wellbeing treatments including laser hair removal, anti-ageing injections, skin rejuvenation and weight-loss products.
The transaction will enable the s:kn Group to increase its national footprint, extending its reach into new clinic locations as well as providing greater diversity through its enhanced portfolio of complementary services.
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The not-so-distant future in terms of climate risk means that transparency when it comes to ESG investing is increasingly on the minds of LPs.
Buxeros Capital, a recently established public-private investment fund focused on Dutch companies in emerging economies and developing countries, has made its first investments.
In the past few months, Buxeros has made three investments: Blue21, focusing on floating cities; Profort, which focuses on orthopaedic care; and AFRIpads, a company producing reusable sanitary pads.
Blue21, which specialises in providing solutions focused on living on water, was founded by entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel, and believes in the creation of self-sufficient, independent floating cities.
Founded by Amsterdam-based social entrepreneur Merel Rumping, Profort provides orthopaedic aids to people in decentralised areas of developing countries.
C5 Capital, a specialist investment firm that exclusively invests in the secure data ecosystem, including cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure and applied data analytics, has appointed Linda Zecher as Operating Partner.Zecher also joins C5 Capital’s Board, and C5 Accelerate, C5’s global accelerator based in Washington DC, as Chairperson.
C5 will benefit from Zecher’s executive leadership experience in global technology and innovation. She uniquely held senior leadership roles at the leading technology corporations, including leading Microsoft’s Worldwide Public Sector Business as a Corporate Vice President and serving as the Senior Vice President of Oracle’s Government, Education, Telecom, Financial Services, and Healthcare Applications
Investec Corporate and Investment Banking (Investec) has announced five new hires, and the launch of a new private company fundraising team.Since April 2019, Investec has taken its corporate broking and PLC advisory headcount from 65 to 75 people, following a series of senior appointments.
“We have been investing in our corporate finance business while many other banks are in retrenchment mode, and we are already seeing results,” says Jonathan Arrowsmith, Investec’s Head of Advisory. “Our strategy is to build the UK’s best mid-market advisory franchise, spanning the private sector to the public markets. We will continue to invest with focus
High-Tech-Gründerfonds has invested in Munich startup Tangany, together with angel investors.
Tangany offers blockchain crypto storage solutions for companies in Europe and beyond. This includes the secure management of wallets in a kind of digital safe (so-called hardware security module) and the simple use and communication with various blockchains such as Ethereum, Bitcoin or the customer’s own blockchain. The solution can be integrated into any system using an interface (API). Alternatively, a white-label wallet solution can be used.
Legend Capital, a venture capital and growth investment firm in China, has closed the transfer of portfolio companies from LC Fund IV, a 2008 fund, into a USD200 million continuation vehicle.
Accounts managed by an affiliate of Hamilton Lane acted as lead investor in the transaction, with several other prominent institutional investors participating in the syndicate. The investors also committed follow-on capital for strategic investments in the portfolio companies.
LC Fund IV investors have the option of liquidity or opportunity to maximise portfolio companies’ value potential. Legend Capital, founded in April 2001, is an independent venture capital investment subsidiary under
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