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Investment firm Altas Partners (Altas) is to acquire DuBois Chemicals (DuBois), a specialty chemical supplier, from The Jordan Company (TJC). Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
DuBois is a premier provider of customised and value-added specialty chemicals solutions and services to a global customer base. The Company combines local high-touch technical service, leading R&D capabilities, customised equipment solutions, and deep knowledge of manufacturing processes to deliver reliable, mission-critical, and innovative products to more than 15,000 customers globally across a spectrum of industries and end markets. DuBois’ full suite of solutions and services brings leading, reliable technologies that
In this week’s newsletter, James Williams looks at a new discretionary co-investment platform from Astarte Capital Partners which is aiming to help facilitate investor allocations to European ‘real assets’ including natural resources, transportation and specialist real estate.
And following the recent acquisition of Estera by Inflexion Private Equity, Inflexion partner Florencia Kassai reveals how the firm views M&A opportunities in the fund admin/corporate & trust space, a sector she says is ripe for consolidation.
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Global private equity firm Warburg Pincus is to acquire a majority interest in WebPT from previous investor, Battery Ventures.
Since its launch in 2008, WebPT has maintained a track record of steady growth. Today, it provides electronic medical record (EMR) and practice management software for outpatient physical therapists, occupational therapists and speech-language pathologists.
The fast-growing healthcare software-as-a-service (SaaS) company – which was recently named to the Inc. 5000 list for the seventh-consecutive year – has become the category leader in its space with 85,000 customers at more than 15,000 clinics across the US and its territories.
“Warburg Pincus has an
Sentinel Capital Partners, a private equity firm that invests in promising companies at the lower end of the mid-market, has acquired SSJA Bariatric Management (SSJA), a provider of administrative support services to bariatric surgery offices in the New York metropolitan area.
The terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
SSJA provides administrative services to 15 bariatric surgery offices in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut that collectively operate as the New York Bariatric Group and employ bariatric surgeons, other specialists, and physician assistants. Founded by Dr. Shawn Garber, SSJA supports practices that offer a full suite of bariatric
Cotton Creek Capital (Cotton Creek) has closed Cotton Creek Capital Partners III with USD215 million in capital commitments.
The Fund includes a diverse group of limited partners, including high net worth families and individuals, multi-family offices, endowments and foundations, and other institutional investors. Cotton Creek targets control investments in growth driven lower middle market businesses.
“The closing of this fund represents a continuation of our relationship-based investment strategy focused on operational execution in the lower middle market,” says Antonio DiGesualdo, Managing Partner. “Our experience enables us to work alongside our management teams to develop a focused vision and execution plan,
Algo Capital, the financial institution focused on accelerating access, adoption and liquidity of the Algo, the native digital currency of the Algorand blockchain, has closed of its Algo VC Fund at USD200 million, surpassing the firm’s original goal of USD100 million.
The fund will invest in category-leading businesses that are building on the Algorand technology platform and seeks to accelerate the use and acceptance of the Algo as a means of payment.
The fund is backed by a collection of experienced financial and blockchain industry investors across North America, Latin America, Asia and Europe, including Brainchild, NGC Ventures (the venture
Australian-founded, London-based investment and corporate advisory group Mayfair 101 has made two significant appointments to its advisory board – Mark Cliffe, Chief Economist at ING Bank, and Kirsty Rutter (pictured), former Head of Innovation at Barclays bank.
Mayfair 101 founder and Managing Director, James Mawhinney, says: “The appointment of two of the UK’s leading financial experts to the Mayfair 101 Advisory Board is a powerful signal to validate the innovative approaches Mayfair 101 is taking to create value for its investors.
“We are particularly excited about this additional strategic depth as it provides our portfolio companies with access to world-class
Astarte Capital Partners is hoping that its new discretionary co-investment platform, the Astarte Special Opportunities Platform (ASOP), will help facilitate investor allocations to European ‘real assets’ and encourage a greater alignment of interests with operating companies over the long term.
“The way we see ourselves is bringing global institutional capital to Europe to invest in real assets,” explains Dr Stavros Siokos, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Astarte Capital Partners, whose offices sit in South Kensington, London. “We are mainly looking at Europe. Anything west of Poland and anything from Scandinavia to the Mediterranean.
“The reason we launched Astarte is because
CEPRES has released its latest investment analysis based on transactional private markets data of 72,772 investments across 7,189 funds valued at USD26.5 trillion.
The analysis shows that Technology driven investments by Buyout, Growth and Venture funds have delivered substantial returns over the last decade. Overall Tech deals have achieved 29 per cent gross pooled internal rate of return (IRR) based on a transaction level analysis of the CEPRES Analysis platform.
Comparing the average Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of Revenue in PE across different industries, we can observe a clear outperformance of the technology deals against other industries. Taking Industrials
Stirling Square Capital Partners (Stirling Square), a pan-European private equity firm, is to sell CPL Holdings (Cartonplast), an operator of sustainable pools of returnable transport packaging materials (RTP), to German private equity investor Deutsche Beteiligungs AG (DBAG) and the DBAG-advised DBAG Fund VII.
Closing of the transaction is subject to regulatory approvals.
Stirling Square created the Company in 2013 with a simultaneous double buy-out of private equity-owned Cartonplast Group GmbH and family-owned Trading Cartonplast Iberica SA. Since then, Stirling Square has worked closely with management to achieve seamless integration, efficient and effective partnerships with clients, as well as organic and external
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