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The Manchester and Tokyo teams of GCA have advised Japanese listed manufacturer Sumitomo Heavy Industries (SHI), a manufacturer and distributor of power transmission and control equipment, on the GBP100 million acquisition of Invertek Drives.
SHI’s current strategy aims to strengthen and expand its business by integrating new technologies in the areas of electric motors and frequency drives and achieving global growth in areas such as robotics and positioning, transportation and logistics and food and beverages. As part of this strategy, the EUR172 million acquisition of Lafert, an Italian motor manufacturer, in 2018 signalled SHI’s portfolio and global market reach business
Apex Service Partners (Apex), a platform of HVAC, plumbing and electrical services, has partnered with Southern Air Heating and Cooling (Southern Air), a residential HVAC services company.
Southern Air, headquartered in Ball, LA, with locations across Louisiana and Mississippi, will join Florida businesses Best Home Services and Frank Gay Services as a member of the Apex platform. Southern Air will continue to be operated independently by the founding Preuett family under its current brand names.
The partnership follows Apex’s plans to invest a minimum of USD100 million in equity capital HVAC, plumbing and electrical services companies across the US in
YAD Capital is be bringing its alternative credit portfolio to Fusion Foundation’s cryptofinance ecosystem.
Fusion is a non-profit organisation building the next generation infrastructure for decentralised global finance.
The borderless efficiency and fractionalisation of assets enabled by blockchain will broaden YAD’s reach to both underserved merchants in need of funding and to more investors globally.
YAD Capital was co-founded in 2017 by former Goldman Sachs Managing Director David Perez, and former private equity investor and Lehman Brothers investment banker Daniel Rubin.
Following the 2008 market crash, credit options for small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) became severely restricted.
Private equity firm Warburg Pincus has sold inexio, a provider of fibre-optic broadband networks in Germany, to EQT Infrastructure.
Co-shareholders Deutsche Beteiligungs AG and other minority investors are selling their stakes alongside Warburg Pincus.
Inexio was founded by David Zimmer in 2007 and has invested heavily in fibre-optic infrastructure in rural and small-town communities in Germany, predominantly in the South and South West. Today, the Company provides high-speed internet access to more than 110,000 customers and 6,000 businesses. Inexio’s unique and scalable network, consisting of more than 10,000 km of fibre-optic infrastructure, provides a strong platform for continued growth.
Pomona Capital, a global private equity firm specialising in secondaries investing, has been named “Best Secondaries House” by industry publication Private Equity Wire.
The Private Equity Wire awards recognise the best private equity managers, consultants, advisers and service providers in a range of categories covering the global private equity space. The publication serves wealth advisers, institutional investors and investment managers around the world. Winners are based on a ‘peer review system’ whereby Private Equity Wire readers select a ‘best in class’ across different divisions.
“At Pomona, our mission is to construct portfolios of high quality assets with lower risk
Kemoen has held the third closing of the Kempen European Private Equity Fund, the private equity fund of Kempen Capital Management (Kempen) with EUR158 million in commitments.
The private equity fund is exclusively available to clients of Van Lanschot and Kempen.
The fund’s investors are predominantly entrepreneurs, experienced private equity investors, and captains of industry from the Netherlands, Belgium, and Switzerland.
Sven Smeets, co-head Private Markets, says: ‘This group of investors contributes to the broadening of our investment network. The investors in our private equity fund provide not only capital, but also knowledge, experience, and leads for new
Harris Williams, a global investment bank specialising in M&A advisory services, is advising Stirling Square Capital Partners (Stirling Square) on the pending sale of Siblu Villages (Siblu) to Naxicap Partners.
Siblu is a leading owner-occupied holiday park operator in France. The transaction is being led by Ed Arkus of the Harris Williams Consumer Group and Thierry Monjauze and Sylvain Noblet of the firm’s London office.
“It has been a pleasure to work alongside Siblu’s shareholders and management team as well as to have the opportunity to advise Stirling Square again on another great outcome,” says Ed Arkus, a managing
Hamilton Lane has held the final closing of Hamilton Lane Private Equity Fund X, a global and diversified private equity multi-strategy fund, at approximately USD278 million.
“We are glad to announce this close with the support of a diverse group of both new and existing LPs from around the world,” says Jackie Rantanen, Managing Director and Head of Product Management at Hamilton Lane. “Even with an overall shift in investor preference more towards customised separate accounts or single strategy-focused funds, the multi-strategy structure continues to fit the needs of certain investors, as evidenced by our long history of raising multi-strategy
The readers of Private Equity Wire have voted Centaur Fund Services winner of the Best Fund Administrator under USD30 billion category.
The Private Equity Wire Awards recognise the best private equity managers, investors, consultants, advisers and service providers in a range of categories covering the entire private equity space. Voting is via an online survey of the Private Equity Wire readership.
CEO of Centaur USA, Des Johnson, says: “What a fantastic month we have had so far: two weeks ago, we won the Best Administrator award at the HFM US Awards and just two days ago the firm celebrated our 10 year anniversary in New York. Now we
Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS), a business intelligence, data analytics, and research platform for corporate, academic and government institutions worldwide, has Preqin private equity data to its offerings.
As a part of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, WRDS enables comprehensive thought leadership, historical analysis, and insight into the latest innovations in research.
Preqin through WRDS provides private equity and venture capital data, giving WRDS researchers access to the industry’s most comprehensive source of information, including intelligence on hard-to-track indicators, private equity investors, deals and fund performance. It calculates dozens of granular benchmarks across different regions, industries
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