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Baring Private Equity Asia’s affiliated private equity funds (BPEA) have agreed to acquire Lumenis, a leading provider of specialty energy-based medical devices across the fields of aesthetics, urology, ophthalmology, ENT and gynecology from XIO.
The transaction values Lumenis at an enterprise value of over USD1 billion.
Lumenis is a global leader in the field of minimally-invasive clinical solutions for the Aesthetic, Surgical, and Ophthalmology specialties. For over 50 years, Lumenis’ ground-breaking products have redefined medical treatments and have set numerous gold-standards. The company has a presence in over 100 countries and close to 1,500 employees worldwide. The Asia Pacific region
Monroe Capital has expanded its opportunistic private credit team with the addition of four experienced professionals – Jason Starr, Darrick Ginkel, Joseph Valickus in the New York office; and Chris Spanel in the Chicago office.
“The growth in our Opportunistic Private Credit team is indicative of the increased demand for financing we are seeing in this area, especially as we enter the later stages of the current economic cycle,” says Aaron Peck, Managing Director and Co-Head of the Opportunistic Private Credit group at Monroe. “As the risk/return parameters for Opportunistic Private Credit become more and more attractive, we believe it
Global alternative asset management firm HIG Capital (HIG) has closed the HIG Middle Market LBO Fund III with aggregate capital commitments of USD3.1 billion, well exceeding its target.
The Fund will continue the strategy of HIG Middle Market’s two predecessor funds, by making private equity investments in middle market companies, primarily in North America.
Sami Mnaymneh and Tony Tamer, Founders and Co-CEOs of HIG, say: “We are pleased with the level of support received from our investors, reflecting the strong performance of the HIG Middle Market team and its differentiated investment approach.”
Rick Rosen, Head of HIG Middle Market, says:
Vista Equity Partners (Vista), an investment firm focused on enterprise software, data and technology-enabled businesses, has acquired Accelya, a provider of financial, commercial and analytics solutions to the airline and travel industry.
Vista’s investment in Accelya is the first made by the firm’s permanent capital investment fund Vista Equity Partners Perennial (“Perennial”), which is focused on growing industry-leading vertical software companies through long-term investments in product expansion and feature enhancement.
Accelya has been at the forefront of travel and transport for more than 40 years and provides solutions spanning the airline lifecycle encompassing financial, commercial and cargo and logistics processes
The sale is limited to the SUMA Mobile business unit in Spain, excluding the operations of SUMA in other countries.
SUMA Móvil Spain began offering its services in 2012 as a mobile services platform on the MVNA technology of JSC Ingenium -a subsidiary of Grupo Ingenium-, using the radio network of Orange in Spain. Since then, it has deployed more than 30 mobile telephone brands, making it the number one platform in Spain and a benchmark in the virtual operators sector at an international level. In 2019, it incorporated to its commercial offer its new optical fibre service -FTTH- becoming
CEPRES, a provider of investment analytics & data solutions for Private Equity, is redefining the future of Private Capital Markets with the launch of the new CEPRES Digital Investment Platform.
The CEPRES platform builds on the award winning PE.Analyzer system with new extended support for Buyouts, Venture, Private Credit, Real Estate, Infrastructure and more.
CEPRES addresses the full spectrum of Private Market participants – Asset Servicers, Consultants, Fund of Funds, Advisors, Placement Agents and more, in addition to the traditional LP and GP professionals. Now, and for the first time, all these market participants can co-exist and work together in
Recently, PEwire discussed how mid-market PE managers are adopting fundraising best practices to attract investors in an increasingly competitive marketplace, in collaboration with FIS, the global fintech firm behind Investran, Data Exchange and FIS™ Private Equity Rainmaker.
Fundraising over the last two years has remained buoyant, reaching USD566 billion in 2017 and USD426 billion in 2018. Through the first half of this year, an estimated USD210 billion has been raised according to Preqin and encouragingly only 19 per cent of funds closed so far have failed to meet their targets.
This is good news for mid-market managers as they strive
Foresight Group (Foresight), an independent infrastructure and private equity investment manager, has sold Idio Limited (Idio) to Episerver, a customer-centric digital experience company.
The acquisition is expected to enhance Episerver’s analytics and personalisation capabilities to deliver customer-centric digital experiences.
Idio is a content personalisation and analytics platform powering the digital buying experience of some of the world’s largest enterprise organisations. Through real-time predictive analytics, Idio helps close the gap between what customers want and what businesses can offer. Idio predicts the interests and intent of every individual buyer and automatically delivers hyper-relevant content to better engage each customer for improved
Independent management and investment firm, Wellington Management (Wellington), has announced the final close of the Wellington Biomedical Innovation Fund I (the Fund).
At the point of closure, the Fund was oversubscribed.
The Fund will invest in private biotechnology companies focused on drug discovery and development, and seeking capital to advance their scientific programmes[1] .
The close of the Fund expands Wellington’s private investment platform, which includes both healthcare and late-stage growth funds totalling USD2.7 billion. The Fund’s global investor base includes public and private pension plans, insurance companies, corporations and family offices.
Bob Deresiewicz, MD, Senior Managing Director at
Avedon Capital Partners has sold its stake in Olympia, an employment agency focused on the social transition to meaningful work, to Morgan Stanley Tactical Value Investing.
Morgan Stanley Tactical Value Investing will support Olympia in the next phase of its growth and strategy. Olympia has over 10 years of industry experience in job placement and aims to deliver solutions for candidates to build a data-driven, digital company. The organisation focuses on operational professions in six segments: logistics, production, contact centres, municipal authorities, technology and administration. Within these segments, Olympia prepares individuals for the future work environment by training, developing and
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