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Alltub Group, which is majority owned by private equity firm One Equity Partners, has appointed Mark Köllmann as CEO, as of 1 March , 2020. He succeeds Oliver Höll, who has been CEO of Alltub Group since 2016. Köllmann has more than three decades of experience in the international packaging industry. He joins Alltub from Jiffy Packaging, a producer of polyethylene foam and bubble wrap in Europe, where he successfully led the turnaround of the company as CEO. Previously, he led the European business of ITW-Signode from 2006 to 2011 before becoming CEO of Maillis Group until 2013.
Following a Master’s
Advent International and Cinven have agreed to acquire thyssenkrupp’s Elevator Technology business, together with the RAG-Stiftung.
Monroe Capital (Monroe) has acquired and recapitalised Ascent Behavioral Health (Ascent), in partnership with Cimarron Healthcare Capital and Ascent’s management team.
Private equity investment firm Sverica Capital Management (Sverica) has made an investment in Cytracom, a provider of cloud-based unified communications (UCaaS) software and solutions built exclusively for the Managed Service Provider (MSP) channel.Based in Dallas, TX, Cytracom has over two thousand MSP partners throughout North America. As the move to the cloud continues, Cytracom’s UCaaS offering enables its partners to expand their service portfolios and provide true end-to-end managed IT services. The Company plans to invest further into features that empower its MSP partners to better sell, support, and manage UCaaS for their customers.
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Churchill Asset Management (Churchill), an investment-specialist affiliate of Nuveen providing customised financing solutions to private equity firms and their portfolio companies, has promoted several employees, including Head of Operations Heather McNally to Managing Director. The firm also announced the hire of Mark Tamburello to the senior lending Underwriting & Portfolio Management team as Principal.
Since joining Churchill in early 2016, Head of Operations McNally has been responsible for building out Churchill’s loan operations team, in addition to overseeing the firm’s CLO platform and leverage facilities. McNally has more than 14 years of loan operations and CLO management experience.
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Berenson Capital, a sector-focused private equity practice investing in Software & Tech-Enabled Services businesses, has appointed Brendyn Grimaldi as a Principal on the investment team.
HS Orka, an Icelandic renewable energy and utility company 50 per cent owned by Ancala Partners, has secured a USD210 million financing package with a group of leading European commercial lenders.HS Orka has also made three senior management appointments, with Tómas Már Sigurdsson joining as Chief Executive Officer, Björk Þórarinsdóttir as Chief Financial Officer and Sunna Björg Helgadóttir as Chief Technology Officer.
The new financing comprises a term loan, capex facility and a revolving credit facility. HS Orka will use the facilities to pursue attractive development projects and strengthen its position as Iceland’s leading privately owned power producer. The company
Palatine Private Equity has made six promotions across its UK business. The new Senior Investment Directors include James Gregson, Kieran Lawton and James Winterbottom. Gregson joined Palatine in 2017 to assist Partners Beth Houghton and Zoe Clements with the deployment of its GBP100 million Impact Fund, which invests in businesses with a positive social and/or environmental impact across the UK. He has played an integral role in numerous transactions, including e-days, an employee absence management tool, and Veincentre, a clinic specialising in treatment for varicose veins.
Lawton has worked at Palatine for four years having previously worked at BDO in
BlackRock Long Term Private Capital will become the new majority shareholder in Creed, the Paris-based multi-century old luxury fragrance company.
Creed executive Javier Ferrán will become chairman of the company’s board of directors and join as an investor. Ferrán, who has experience with niche luxury brands and in working with European family-owned businesses, assumes his responsibilities following the transaction.
He will work closely with founder Olivier Creed, who will continue as the master perfumer of the fragrance house. The partnership with Ferrán and the Creed family, including Creed’s son Erwin, is BlackRock LTPC’s first investment in Europe. Michel Dyens &
With private equity set to further blossom over the next decade and continue its AUM expansion, it will become incumbent upon industry leaders to explore new ways to deliver growth in their firms’ portfolios.
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