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UK relocations and storage businesses, Doree Bonner Holdings Limited, has secured a GBP multi-million debt finance package from Connection Capital, the specialist private client investment business. The package will enable Doree Bonner to refinance its existing senior secured debt facilities, and provide working and growth capital as it pursues a value-enhancing acquisition strategy, with several targets already identified.
Connection Capital says that the deal highlights that SMEs are increasingly considering private capital as a suitable provider for their loan financing needs, and that demand from private investors and family offices for direct debt investments, which provide regular income, continue to grow.
Twin Brook Capital Partners (Twin Brook), the middle market direct lending subsidiary of Angelo Gordon, has committed over USD3.3 billion to private equity sponsors in support of healthcare transactions, including over USD1.3 billion last year alone. In 2019, Twin Brook completed 24 healthcare transactions across 14 subsectors, bringing the Firm’s total number of healthcare transactions closed to more than 80 since inception.
Twin Brook served as lead agent on all the healthcare transactions it supported in 2019, which included 14 new platform financings and 10 add-on financings.
“We achieved increased momentum in 2019, putting over USD1.3 billion to work
Dun & Bradstreet, a provider of business decisioning data and analytics, has acquired Orb Intelligence, a prominent digital business identity and firmographic data provider. “The acquisition of Orb Intelligence cements our strategy to link the digital and physical worlds in the largest global repository of B2B data, and to provide enriched firmographic data to customer profiles to help our clients more effectively execute campaigns to improve customer interactions and revenue returns,” says Michael Bird, President, Sales & Marketing Solutions, Dun & Bradstreet. “Clients can rely on Dun & Bradstreet as the one-stop-shop for all of their data-driven, decision-making and customer engagement
Anacapa Partners, a private equity firm focused on acquisitions in the lower middle market, has hired Vincent Vo as a Principal. As a key member of the Anacapa team, Vo will work closely with Anacapa’s entrepreneurs throughout the lead generation, deal analysis, and due diligence processes, as well as supporting portfolio companies to help drive operating performance. Anacapa focuses on investing in companies identified by entrepreneurs operating within the search fund business model.
“Vince’s experience in finance, marketing and sales will be of great value to Anacapa, the entrepreneurs we partner with, and the portfolio companies seeking our counsel,” says
Graycliff Partners has sold 901D Holdings (901D) to Curtiss-Wright Corporation for USD132 million. 901D is a leading designer and manufacturer of mission-critical integrated electronic systems, subsystems and ruggedised shipboard enclosure solutions supporting every major US Navy shipbuilding program.
Since being acquired in 2016, Graycliff has worked to carve out 901D as a fully independent company from its prior ownership within a conglomerate of related businesses. Through a combination of internal promotions and external recruitment, Graycliff worked with the company to build a world class management team. During Graycliff’s ownership, 901D substantially expanded its production capacity and added increasingly complex systems
21 Invest France has expanded its investment team over the past 12 months with the arrival of three new Associates.In this New Year, 21 Invest France welcomes a new Associate named Baptiste Gaud. Baptiste joins an already strengthened investment team of two Associates recruited in 2019 namely Mathilde Martel and Romain Demeunynck.
These newcomers will contribute to the value creation for Fund IV and V and also to the deployment of Fund V. The latter has already completed five acquisitions – DL Software, ProductLife Group, FMA Assurances, LV Overseas and Landanger – and four to five new investments should
Umbra Capital Partners, a modern merchant bank, has launched with a focus on ‘advising, improving and investing’ primarily in UK SMEs.
Sidley Austin has appointed Parthiv Rishi as a partner in its global M&A and Private Equity practice. Rishi was previously a partner at Linklaters LLP, where he led the firm’s financial sponsor and private equity practice in Southeast Asia.Rishi has extensive experience advising major corporates and large financial institutions on all forms of corporate transactions, including M&A, joint ventures and corporate restructurings. In particular, he focuses his practice on advising private equity funds and financial sponsors, as well as their portfolio companies. Additionally, he is experienced in advising on renewables and infrastructure M&A. Rishi has an active cross-border client base
ARQIS has advised the listed Swiss technology group Oerlikon on the acquisition of D-Coat, a German supplier of diamond coating technologies. The Parties have agreed not to disclose the purchase price.The acquisition is a further step in Oerlikon’s strategy to strengthen its surface coating portfolio. Day-to-day operations at the existing D-Coat site as well as business and cooperation with D-Coat customers and partners will continue as before, but now with D-Coat as part of Oerlikon Balzers.
D-Coat GmbH was founded in 2006 and is one of the technology leaders in the field diamond coatings for cutting tools. This applies in
Augusta & Co (Augusta), a specialist financial adviser to the renewable energy industry, has overseen the sale of an 80 per cent stake in Finnish utility firm Fortum’s wind portfolio across Norway, Finland and Sweden, accounting for approximately 500MW of operational and construction projects, to funds advised by Credit Suisse Energy Infrastructure Partners (CSEIP).
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