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Development Partners International (DPI), a pan-African focused private equity firm, has invested USD54 million in Channel VAS, a fintech provider of mobile financial and airtime credit services operating in Africa, Asia and the Middle East.
Channel VAS provides Mobile Financial Services, Big Data Analytics and Airtime Credit Services to mobile operators and financial institutions in more than 30 countries, enabling access to micro and nano loans including cash, handsets, airtime and data. Since the business began in 2012, it has helped clients serve hundreds of millions of customers in the region.
The company has a track record of delivery
CI Capital portfolio company Maroon Group has acquired Cambrian Solutions, a distributor of specialty ingredients and chemicals based in Oakville, Ontario, Canada.
This marks Maroon Group’s tenth add-on acquisition and significantly extends the company’s North American footprint, providing Maroon with leading distribution capabilities across key end markets in Canada.
Established in 1995, Cambrian Solutions offers a broad portfolio of specialty ingredients and chemicals to customers in the natural and organic; food; household, industrial, and institutional (HI&I); health ingredients; personal care; and industrial markets. This acquisition broadens Maroon Group’s North American network of customers, suppliers, and facilities and reinforces Maroon’s
Capricorn Capital Partners HK Limited, the Hong Kong arm of the family-owned global direct private investment business Capricorn Capital Group, has made its first acquisition in Asia, taking a majority stake in Asia-Pacific Accounting & Secretarial Services Limited (A-Pass) in Hong Kong.
A-Pass was founded in 2006 by Andrew Burgin, a UK national born in Hong Kong, and since then the firm has grown into a well-respected provider of corporate formation, secretarial, accounting, taxation reporting, trade and payroll services. Capricorn Capital acquired 67 per cent and the firm has already made a number of key strategic hires to bolster the
Orbital Education has received a minority investment from BGF, the UK and Ireland’s most active investor in growing businesses, to support the group’s global growth ambitions.
Headquartered in Manchester, Orbital Education operates premium international schools for local and expat families looking to educate their children within an English-speaking, high-quality school environment. The group was started by serial entrepreneur Kevin McNeany, best known as the founder of Nord Anglia Education, which he led to an IPO in 1997 and is now the world’s largest private education business.
Orbital Education schools specialise in the delivery of English national curriculum for children
Argand Partners, a New York and San Francisco Bay Area-based middle market buyout firm, has promoted Ryan Beres to Senior Associate.
“Ryan has demonstrated analytical strength and solid investment expertise during his tenure with the Argand team. His deal evaluation skills and ability to manage relationships with our portfolio company management teams and directors provide significant leverage to each deal team. We are excited to recognize Ryan’s contribution to the firm,” says Tariq Osman, Partner of Argand.
Beres has most recently been an Associate at Argand, working with the Argand portfolio companies, Brintons Carpets, Ltd., and Concrete Pumping Holdings,
Akin Gump has appointed Michael Gustafson as a finance partner in the firm’s London office. Gustafson joins from Pricoa Private Capital – the private debt investment arm of Prudential Financial Inc – where he served as deputy chief legal officer, Europe, based in London.
Gustafson focuses on sophisticated debt finance work, including institutional private placement transactions, direct lending and financial restructurings.
Before moving to Pricoa in 2013, he was a partner in the London office of Bingham McCutchen LLP, working closely with the team that moved to Akin Gump in late 2014. Over the last six years, he has
Apex Group (Apex) has received Full Depositary authorisation from the Central Bank of Ireland for its subsidiary the European Depositary Bank (EDB) to operate in Ireland.
Through EDB, Apex offers independent banking, depositary and custody services to institutional investors and asset managers for UCITS and alternative investment structures. Apex is subsequently now one of the largest providers of depositary services in Europe for regulated UCITS and alternative funds, offering a service suite that covers the full spectrum of asset classes including private equity, real estate funds, hedge funds, infrastructure funds and renewable energy funds. The firm’s partnership approach allows for
The PE space raised USD426 billion in 2018 and USD566 billion in 2017. But what are the best practices PE managers, of all sizes, should think about, when going out on the fundraising road? That’s one of the main questions that this Private Equity Wire webinar – in conjunction with FIS – addresses.
Stone-Goff Partners (SGP) has invested in Walker Sands, a marketing agency focused on accelerating the growth of B2B brands.
The investment will fuel further growth for Walker Sands, including new service offerings, new offices and potential acquisitions.
From strategy to execution, Walker Sands offers tailored solutions to drive real business results for its B2B clients. Core capabilities include public relations, demand generation, branding, creative, marketing strategy, and web.
The company is a seven-time member of the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing companies and has received numerous workplace culture awards, including top agency to work for (Holmes Report), a
HIG Capital (HIG) has appointed Ed Pallesen to lead its Infrastructure team in the US.
Pallesen was previously a Managing Director at Goldman Sachs, where he led the Americas team at the Goldman Sachs Infrastructure fund. He started his career in Goldman Sachs’ Investment Banking division, spending several years on the TMT team. He is a graduate of the Harvard Law School and Oxford University where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He also clerked at the US Supreme Court.
HIG’s Infrastructure investments are focused on mid-market opportunities and target mostly operating companies that can benefit from HIG’s value added
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