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NorthEdge Capital has completed the sale of Direct Healthcare Group (DHG) in a secondary buyout by European healthcare specialist investor ArchiMed.
The deal sees NorthEdge secure a thrtee-times return on its initial investment, with an IRR of 39 per cent. NorthEdge led a management buyout of Direct Healthcare Services in April 2016, renamed it Direct Healthcare Group and broadened the firm’s product range through a series of bolt-on acquisitions.
DHG is a fully integrated developer and manufacturer of a range of innovative pressure care products designed to prevent medical issues such as pressure sores, which can lead to serious, sometimes
Global law firm Reed Smith has appointed Sam Webster as a partner in the firm’s Global Corporate Group in London in January.
The news highlights the group’s continued expansion in Europe, following the recent hire of life sciences partner Iqbal Hussain in London and tax partner Martin Bünning in Frankfurt.
Recognised for his expertise advising clients on complex cross-border corporate transactions, Webster focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, private equity and venture capital.
Webster, who is joining the firm following 15 years at Mayer Brown, has extensive experience working with large corporates and financial investors across a
New York-based private equity firm Greenbriar Equity Group (Greenbriar) has sold Lazer Spot, a provider of mission critical, outsourced yard management services in the United States and Canada, to Harvest Partners (Harvest).
Lazer Spot is the category leader in a comprehensive range of outsourced yard management services including trailer spotting and shuttling. Founded in 1996 and headquartered in Alpharetta, Georgia, Lazer Spot is the only national provider of spotting services. The Company offers a compelling value proposition at over 400 sites in the United States and Canada, for over 100 blue chip customers across the consumer packaged goods, food &
Following the announcement of their strategic partnership in September 2019, Sanne and Colmore have now entered into the next phase of development.
Building on Colmore’s award winning Limited Partner (LP) portfolio monitoring platform, Helios, Sanne and Colmore have begun to develop a dedicated General Partner (GP) solution to enable real-time, online portfolio data, seamlessly connected to Sanne’s fully integrated services offering.
Both organisations are excited about what the future holds. The combination will provide the wider alternative asset industry with a new end-to-end solution throughout the LP – GP value chain. This will not only harnesses the power of Colmore’s
Monocle Acquisition Corporation (Nasdaq: MNCL), a public investment vehicle, and AerSale Corp. (AerSale), an integrated, global provider of aviation aftermarket products and services, are to merge in a transaction with an implied enterprise value of approximately USD430 million, equating to approximately 6.3x AerSale’s forecasted 2020 Adjusted EBITDA.
The combined company, which will be named AerSale Corporation, will be publicly traded on the Nasdaq Stock Market.
AerSale, currently owned by Leonard Green & Partners, Florida Growth Fund LLC and the Company’s two founders, is a leading global supplier of aftermarket aircraft, spare engines, flight equipment, maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO)
Over two-thirds (69 per cent) of chief financial officers (CFOs) and chief operating officers (COOs) at UK-based private equity and venture capital firms expect levels of dry powder – money raised but not yet invested – to increase in 2020.
Surveyed at a recent BVCA reception event for CFOs and COOs, the results of the survey, conducted by Intertrust, a global leader in providing tech-enabled fund and corporate solutions, also found that 69 per cent expect the private equity fundraising climate in 2020 to mirror 2019 levels.
However, over one-third (31 per cent) predict it will become slightly harder
Renaissance Capital, an emerging and frontier markets investment bank, has appointed Oladipupo Olalere Adekanmbi as Vice President, Investment Banking, Nigeria.
Adekanmbi is based in Lagos and reports to Temitope Popoola, CEO, Nigeria and Risana Zitha, Head of Investment Banking, Africa.
Popoola says: “We are glad to welcome Oladipupo to our on-the-ground team. He has a strong track record in financial advisory, corporate finance, structured finance and project finance, which dovetails particularly well with our recently deepened structured products and financing offering in Nigeria.”
Zitha adds: “We are happy to strengthen the team in Nigeria as we continue to enhance our
ClearCourse Partnership (ClearCourse) has acquired Giftpro, a software platform that allows hotels, restaurants, spas and other venues to sell and manage gift vouchers and event tickets.
Giftpro was established in 2014 to help hospitality businesses unlock the power of their brands and increase direct sales by selling their experiences as gifts online. The Company’s creative solution allows businesses to sell fully personalised gift vouchers online through its customisable platform, integrating all requisite inputs for the e-commerce transaction to take place. Giftpro provides an end-to-end service, creating the online store and providing merchandising, promotional tools, payment processing and fulfilment capabilities. Its
Hampleton Partners, an international M&A and corporate finance advisory firm for technology companies, has advised FAST LTA AG, a provider of zero-loss archiving and backup solutions for mission-critical data, on its acquisition by Afinum Management.
FAST LTA has built a strong position in the German market, particularly in the healthcare, public sector and industrial verticals, helping clients to comply with increasingly stringent regulatory data storage requirements in a secure and cost-effective manner. The team at FAST LTA is excited to partner with Afinum to further develop their product offering, continue their growth trajectory and enlarge their footprint both in Germany
Glennmont Partners, one of the world’s largest fund managers dealing in clean energy, has successfully completed the acquisition of a 36MW wind farm project.
The wind farm, located in the Calabria region of Southern Italy, is powered by ten Vestas V136 turbines and will benefit from a 20-year Feed-in-Tariff awarded by the GSE. Vestas will also provide operation and maintenance services for the plant.
For Glennmont this latest transaction represents a further step in the capital deployment of their EUR850 million Clean Energy Fund III which reached final close earlier this year. It also strengthens the presence of the company’s
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