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Private equity fundraising for Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) hit the highest annual level in a decade in 2018 with EUR1.8 billion, according to new data from Invest Europe.
Buyout funds in CEE raised EUR1.1 billion, while the region’s venture capital funds attracted over EUR500 million for the second year in a row, reveals Invest Europe’s 2018 Central and Eastern Europe Private Equity Statistics report, released today.
Private equity investment into companies across CEE reached EUR2.7 billion in 2018, the second-highest amount ever achieved, following 2017’s record EUR3.5 billion. The number of companies backed increased by 50% year-on-year to almost 400,
WM Partners, a middle-market private equity firm specialising in buyout investments in the health and wellness sector, has selected Artivest’s digital alternative investment platform as its point of access to financial advisers and qualified high-net-worth investors.
“Artivest provides us with the scalability and efficiency to broaden our exposure to a more diversified investor base,” says Jose Minski, Co-Founder of WM Partners. “We are eager to harness Artivest’s open-architecture platform to engage with advisors and qualified investors who are looking to add a private equity solution that strives to generate diversified returns within their portfolios.”
WM Partners’ investment approach involves building
The Maples Group has relocated its law firm, Maples and Calder (Jersey) LLP and its fiduciary and corporate services teams, Maples Fiduciary Services (Jersey) Limited, to a new office location at Sir Walter Raleigh House in St Helier.
The new five storey offices at Sir Walter Raleigh are bright and modern and occupy a prominent landmark position at the western end of the Esplanade, the prime office address in St Helier, overlooking the Esplanade and waterfront beyond. Jersey International Finance Centre is located a short walk away and neighbouring offices include a wide range of financial and professional services firms.
CenterOak Partners (CenterOak), a Dallas-based private equity firm, has sold TruRoad Holdings (TruRoad), an automotive glass and claims-management company in the United States, to Belron Group subsidiary Safelite Group, parent company to Safelite AutoGlass.
Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Based in Woburn, Massachusetts, TruRoad was formed through the transformational combination of JN Phillips Auto Glass and existing CenterOak platform investment Techna Glass, Inc. and has grown from initial platform acquisition through nine strategic acquisitions to serve over 400,000 customers annually. The Company serves consumers, insurance firms, and fleets across the United States via its network of
TriVista, a global consulting firm for private equity firms with expertise in manufacturing, distribution and consumer goods, has launched an IT & Operations Technology practice.
The new service combines TriVista’s broad technology expertise and deep operational experience to provide clients with a business-specific view of opportunities and risks, while optimising investments related to IT.
The IT & Operations Technology practice is focused on identifying concerns as well as opportunities for prospective investors, such as whether existing applications are scalable to support planned growth, how much exposure there is related to cyber-attacks, if existing leadership can effectively manage significant IT
Sea Link International, a portfolio company of private equity firm New Water Capital, has acquired Hicks Plastics Company, a leading Tier II provider of injection moulded and metallised automotive forward lighting components. Hicks Plastics is headquartered in Macomb, Michigan, near Detroit, with a secondary facility located in Knoxville, Tennessee.
The acquisition, which represents the fourth addition to New Water Capital’s automotive lighting platform, further bolsters Sea Link’s domestic manufacturing and assembly capabilities and will allow Sea Link to better serve its customers across the automotive spectrum. “Hicks’ technical acumen and its long-standing reputation for quality and customer service, combined with
Lovell Minnick Partners (LMP), a private equity firm focused on investments in the global financial services industry, including related technology and business service companies, is to acquire a majority stake in Inside Real Estate, an end-to-end SaaS platform serving the residential real estate market.
Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Headquartered in Salt Lake City, Inside Real Estate provides an end-to-end software solution to residential real estate brokers, teams and agents that empowers their ability to manage the full cycle of home property buying and selling. Founded in 2008, the Company’s platform serves over 200,000 top agents,
Inflexion Private Equity has agreed to acquire Marley, a UK-based roofing specialist, from Etex, a building materials firm based in Belgium which has owned Marley since 1999. The investment is being made by Inflexion Buyout Fund V, Inflexion’s dedicated mid‐market fund.
Founded in 1924, Marley is the UK leading manufacturer and supplier of roofing system products, including concrete and clay tiles as well as associated roofing accessories. The Staffordshire-based business employs 600 people across five manufacturing sites and two distribution centres. Marley benefits from a loyal customer base split between new build, repair, maintenance and improvement.
Simon Turner, Managing
UK private equity firm Maven Capital Partners (Maven) has invested GBP160,000 in data analysis business, Innotech Insights (Innotech), on behalf of NPIF – Maven Equity Finance (NPIF), part of the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund.
The funding will support the expansion of Innotech’s sales team, invest in product development and in the roll out of the company’s flagship analysis system product, Crowded.
Innotech provides both public and private sector organisations with the information they need to make major planning decisions by accurately monitoring pedestrian movements in an area, indoors or out. Innotech’s main product, ‘Crowded’, is a cutting edge analysis
Three fintech mega-deals totalling USD87 billion set the scene for a record-breaking USD120 billion in disclosed transaction value for the sector in a ‘white-hot’ first half of 2019, according to Hampleton Partners’ latest global Fintech M&A Market Report.
Hampleton Partners, which specialises in international technology M&A and corporate finance, noted that all three of the top transactions were in the payments processing segment: Fidelity National Information Services acquired Worldpay for USD43.6 billion; Fiserv acquired First Data for USD22 billion and Global Payments acquired Total System Services for USD21.2 billion.
Hampleton’s report pointed to a revitalised M&A market since the slump
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