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SME direct lender Beechbrook Capital has appointed Paul Whitehouse as investment director to head up deal origination and execution activity across the Midlands.
With over 30 years’ experience, Whitehouse joins from Lloyds Banking Group, where he spent the last two decades focusing on corporate and leveraged finance transactions across the Midlands.
As well as his transaction experience, Paul brings an extensive network of contacts in the professional and business communities in both the West and East Midlands.
Paul Shea, Beechbrook managing partner, says: “We are delighted to have Paul on board to enhance our UK origination platform. The
Mubadala Capital has launched its first MENA-focused tech investment funds. With a total of USD250 million (AED 918 million), the Mubadala MENA tech funds will capitalise on the growing startup scene in in the region while empowering tech talent in the Emirates and across the wider region.
The funds will include a USD150 million (AED 550 million) fund of funds program, which will invest in funds that are committed to supporting the Abu Dhabi-based Hub71 ecosystem, including through investing in companies that leverage Hub71 for regional expansion and growth. As part of this program, Mubadala Capital also announced that it will
Global investment manager AMP Capital has agreed to acquire Expedient (Continental Broadband,), a leading US provider of cloud computing and data centre services, from Landmark Media.
Expedient offers an integrated suite of colocation, cloud, managed services and network access products to a highly diverse base of over 1,200 customers. The business operates 11 self-directed data center facilities and leverages a half dozen partner facilities in order to provide critical outsourced information technology solutions to a range of businesses and industries across the US from its eight operational locations in Baltimore, Boston, Cleveland, Columbus, Indianapolis, Memphis, Phoenix and Pittsburgh.
Expedient’s
Middle-market private equity firm One Equity Partners (OEP) has completed the acquisition of ORS MEDCO, a wholesaler of maintenance and repair focused non-discretionary and consumable industrial and automotive aftermarket products, from Essendant. in a corporate carve-out transaction.
Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Headquartered in Deerfield, Illinois, ORS MEDCO distributes safety and security products, tools, body shop & repair products, welding, paint, chemicals, and abrasives operating through its ORS Nasco, Medco, and Nestor distribution networks. The Company has 1,100 employees and 35 facilities that serve over 15,000 independent distributors, national distributors and online resellers.
“We
Jersey Finance has formally opened its new office in New York as the jurisdiction looks to enhance its visibility in the US and promote its proposition as a gateway to Europe for US alternative fund managers.
The office was officially launched at an event held at The Peninsula New York on 16 October, attended by around 100 lawyers, intermediaries and other US fund professionals, who heard from Senator Ian Gorst, Minister for External Relations for the Government of Jersey, and Joe Moynihan, CEO of Jersey Finance, about Jersey’s growing ties with the US.
The launch of the office comes
Pan-European payment processor, Lemon Way has secured a EUR25 million investment from London-based specialist financial services investor, Toscafund Asset Management (Toscafund).
The transaction is Toscafund’s first private equity investment in France.
Lemon Way is a Paris-based regulated payment institution focusing on marketplaces, crowdfunding platforms and e-comerce websites that require payment processing, wallet management and third-party services in a KYC/AML-regulated framework. It currently manages over seven million payment accounts. Lemon Way offers an all-in-one solution of modular and proprietary API-based services ranging from on-boarding to cash pay-out flows.
Toscafund’s investment will allow Lemon Way to expand its output and
Whitney, Bradley & Brown (WBB), a portfolio company of HIG Capital (HIG), a global private equity investment firm with over USD34 billion of equity capital under management, has acquired BRTRC Federal Solutions (BRTRC).
Headquartered in Vienna, Virginia, BRTRC is a provider of support services across the Army and other US Department of Defence and Intelligence Community agencies. Over the past 30 years, the BRTRC team has developed domain expertise within critical capabilities including systems and vehicle integration, prototyping and commercialisation, strategic communications and cyber security.
Robert Olsen, CEO of WBB, says: “The addition of BRTRC’s capabilities and expertise to
Sverica Capital Management, a growth-orientated private equity firm focused on the lower middle market, has promoted Ryan Harstad and Gregg Osenkowski to the position of Partner, effective immediately.
With over 11 years of experience in the private equity space, Harstad joined the Sverica San Francisco office 2011. He focuses on sourcing and evaluating new investments, transaction execution and portfolio company operations for technology, technology services and software companies.
Osenkowski joined Sverica’s Boston office in 2006 and focuses on sourcing and managing healthcare investments. He has thirteen years of private equity experience and currently sits on the Board of Women’s
Endless, a private equity investor, has acquired Victoria Plum from TPG Capital.
Founded in 2001, Victoria Plum provides a range of predominantly own-branded bathroom products, including bathroom suites, bathroom furniture and accessories. Victoria Plum currently employs more than 300 people and the investment from Endless will support the online bathroom retailer’s continued growth.
Endless has acquired the entire issued share capital of the business for an undisclosed sum and will work with the management team to continue investing in its people, digital and retail experience and expanding its product and services offering.
The transaction was led by Matthew
ACA Compliance Group (ACA) is expanding its European presence with the opening of a new office in Birmingham.
The office will allow ACA to offer a full suite of services designed to strengthen and streamline financial services firms’ governance, risk and compliance arrangements.
Key to the services offered from the Birmingham office will be ACA’s Analysis and Review Centre (ARC). The ARC helps to reduce the workload of CCOs and in-house compliance teams by allow them to pass on executional regulatory responsibilities to ACA. This on-demand service aims to provide an efficient, scalable and cost-effective compliance across the UK.
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