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The Riverside Company (Riverside), a global private equity firm focused on the smaller end of the middle market, has sold Fisher Unitech (Fisher), a provider of 3D design software tools and 3D printers, to Computer Aided Technology (CATI), a portfolio company of CIVIC Partners (CIVIC).
Based in Pleasant Ridge, Michigan, Fisher has 17 locations with sales showrooms and training venues across the Midwest and Northeast. Fisher serves as a key channel partner to design software provider, Dassault Systemes Solidworks and 3D printer manufacturer, Statasys. Fisher aims to advance manufacturing in the US by selling, supporting and training customers on 3D
Analyst Hub, an independent research infrastructure platform company, and DD Research, a boutique sell-side equity firm, have partnered to launch DD Research as the latest independent research provider to join Analyst Hub’s portfolio of IRPs.
DD Research provides in-depth intelligence and corporate access to understand the food industry consumer by using proprietary methods. Recognised yearly by Institutional Investor from 2007 to 2019 as a top food researcher, founder David Driscoll has 20 years of equity research experience at Citi Research where he covered US food manufacturing. Driscoll led equity coverage of all top packaged and industrial food manufacturers and his
With European M&A value over the last 12 months (Q3 2018 to Q2 2019) down 22 per cent year-on-year to EUR652.2 billion, and only 27 per cent of respondents to a recent survey by law firm CMS expecting the level of European M&A activity to increase over the next year, the storm clouds seem to be building on Europe’s M&A horizon. But as Private Equity Wire’s James Williams highlights in this week’s newsletter, deals will still be done as new opportunities arise…
And new research by law firm Dechert and MergerMarket out this week highlights how in the midst of
Global beauty brand SLG has acquired three high street brands – Amie Naturally Kind Skincare, Johnny’s Chop Shop Grooming and COLAB Dry Shampoo.
The three deals amount to a consideration of over GBP15 million.
SLG Brands was incorporated in 1985 and has evolved from contract manufacturer to award-winning multi-category brand innovator and global brand builder. It has fashioned a unique market positioning as a highly responsive and trend-led organisation, with integrated studios, brand development and R&D laboratory with headquartered in Cheltenham, England.
SLG received GBP10 million from BGF, the UK and Ireland’s most active investor in growing businesses,
Process Mining software provider Minit has raised EUR7 million in a Series A funding round, led by Target Global, with participation from Salesforce Ventures and existing investors, Earlybird’s Digital East Fund and OTB Ventures.
Founded in 2017, Minit builds intuitive Process Mining software that gives its enterprise customers insight into complex processes – like order-to-cash, procure-to-pay, customer journey or service delivery – and more importantly how these can be improved. Minit highlights opportunities for continuous process improvement and makes it easy to pinpoint and understand the sources of inefficiency – such as bottlenecks, or compliance violations – and their root
Idinvest Partners, an investor in SMEs across Europe, has appointed Sylviane Guyonnet, COO of Idinvest and Eric Gallerne, Co-Head of Private Debt Strategy, as Managing Partners.
Guyonnet and Eric Gallerne are both members of Idinvest Partners’ Executive Committee, which also includes Bavière, CEO & Founding Partner, and Benoist Grossmann, Founding Partner, as well as Managing Partners Matthieu Baret, Nicolas Chaudron, François Lacoste and Christophe Simon.
Guyonnet, joined Idinvest Partners as CFO in 2000 and in 2010 was appointed as COO. Having been at the firm for almost twenty years, today she manages a team of 45 people working in
Funds advised by YFM Equity Partners (YFM) have backed a GBP4.5 million investment into SharpCloud Software Limited (SharpCloud) to support the continued growth and roll out of its enterprise SaaS product.
YFM’s investment comes from its two advised VCTs, British Smaller Companies VCT plc and British Smaller Companies VCT2 plc, alongside YFM Equity Partners Growth II LP.
SharpCloud was founded in 2012 by Sarim Khan and Rusty Johnson, following the successful sale of their previous software business to Oracle Primavera. Having spent some time within the Business Intelligence (BI) and data analytics space, they noted a lack of powerful
Provate equity firm Permira has held a final closing for its latest buy-out fund Permira VII (P7), at its hard cap with total commitments of EUR11 billion.
P7 will follow Permira’s long-term strategy of investing in market-leading businesses that benefit from strong and resilient underlying growth drivers. The Fund will continue to deploy across Permira’s key sectors: technology, consumer, financial services, health care, industrial tech and services.
The Fund was strongly supported by existing investors. In addition, a substantial number of new relationships across multiple geographies made commitments to P7.
Tom Lister, co-managing partner at Permira, says: “We
Proteus, an Indianapolis-based alternative investment technology firm, has partnered with institutional investment consulting firm Callan, add additional alternatives due diligence expertise to the Proteus platform and streamline the approval of funds available.
Eric Knauss, Proteus’ CEO, believes Callan’s research will strengthen the platform while providing a solid foundation for future innovations.
“We’re thrilled to partner with such a prestigious industry player as we embark on a new era for the alternatives investment space,” says Knauss. “It is exciting to have the industry leadership of the Callan team as we move forward.”
Proteus’ private investment platform offers a complete
Growing concerns about the state of politics in major markets as well as fears over a potential recession are the biggest challenges currently facing the private equity (PE) industry, according to Global Private Equity Outlook 2020, published by global law firm Dechert in association with Mergermarket.
The survey indicates that formerly niche strategies are becoming commonplace as the industry adapts to an overabundance of capital, with buyout practitioners moving into growth capital and minority stake investing as well as raising long-hold funds in order to deploy investor funds.
In North America, deal activity has grown so far in 2019,
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