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The Manchester office of Endless, a mid-market private equity investor, has completed the acquisition of UK independent omni-channel outdoor furniture retailer Moda Furnishings.
Headquartered in Manchester, Moda Furnishings was established in 2014 and has grown rapidly in sales and profitability in that time.
It provides a comprehensive range of premium rattan garden furniture through its website (www.modafurnishings.co.uk) and its two showrooms in Manchester and Caterham, Surrey.
The business offers a unique, modular range of designs with an exceptional reputation for customer service and quality of product. The business is operated by Jonathan Brierley and Vallan McCarthy who will
EQT Infrastructure portfolio company Kodiak Gas Services (Kodiak) is to acquire Pegasus Optimization Managers (Pegasus) from affiliates of Apollo Natural Resource Partners II, a fund managed by affiliates of Apollo Global Management.
Kodiak’s acquisition of Pegasus solidifies it as an industry leader in service and quality. The combination of Kodiak and Pegasus brings together the two fastest growing contract compression businesses, with the combined youngest fleet in the industry, a focus on exceptional customer service, and technical performance leading to best-in-class mechanical availability and reliability.
Kodiak, acquired by EQT Infrastructure in February 2019, is the largest privately owned and
Sentinel Capital Partners, a private equity firm that invests in promising companies in the lower mid-market, has recapitalised New Era Technology, a technology solutions provider serving customers in the United States, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, and Australia.
Terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
New Era provides a comprehensive suite of managed services and systems integration capabilities for a wide range of IT solutions, including collaboration, data networking, and security. Employing a customer-centric business model, New Era is a trusted technology advisor to more than 6,500 worldwide customers – often name-brand, blue-chip multinational businesses – that span
Prestige Funds has listed its second Luxembourg direct lending fund, the Prime Alternative Finance Fund (PRALTF), on Euronext Dublin.
The share classes include hedged EUR, USD, CHF, SEK as well as GBP based share classes and have accumulation or distribution options all operating with no performance fee and typically without leverage.
PRALTF invests in a diverse portfolio of secured loans to UK-based agricultural businesses and is also exploring opportunities in the Netherlands, Republic of Ireland and the USA. Domiciled in Luxembourg and launched in 2018, the fund now has approximately USD50 million in assets under management taking the overall
The achievements of the best private equity managers, consultants and service providers in North America over the past year have been recognised at the inaugural Private Equity Wire USA Awards.
On 25 September 2019, the winners were presented with their awards in a ceremony at the Intercontinental in New York City.
Private Equity Wire partnered with PitchBook to pre-select managers based on their performance over the previous 12 months. The winners were then decided via a rigorous reader-choice online poll carried out over a period of ten weeks. The winners in all categories were those who attracted the most votes
This week, Paul Bryant turns the spotlight on the private equity secondary market to look at how growth is being driven by a number of factors including ’manager consolidation’, greater demand for liquidity, and a rise in GP-led transactions.
There’s also a chance to replay the recent Private Equity Wire/FIS webinar – Fundraising Best Practices – moderated by Editor-in-Chief James Williams and featuring the views of a panel of industry experts including: Osman Qureshi, Managing Partner & Co-Founder First Alpha Energy Capital; Tatyana Kratunova, Product Strategy PE, FIS; Ryan Parker, CFO, Mercato; Robert Spittler, Managing Director, The Silverfern Group.
We also look at
Stableton Financial (Stableton), a European platform for Alternative Investments, and securitisation specialist GENTWO are entering into a strategic cooperation.
The goal of the cooperation between the two Swiss-based companies is to provide bankable and customised access to sophisticated alternative assets across liquid alternatives, private debt, private equity, and real estate. The particular focus is on underlyings which were previously not available to financial intermediaries and their clients due to the difficult access and non-bankable form. Current solutions include alternative equity, market-neutral strategies, managed futures, volatility and tail-hedge, alternative lending, value-added real estate, and selected startups for a broader audience.
CVC Strategic Opportunities II is to acquire a 50 per cent stake in DFE Pharma (DFE), a global excipients manufacturer for the pharmaceutical industry.
DFE is currently a 50/50 joint venture between dairy companies FrieslandCampina and Fonterra. CVC Strategic Opportunities II will acquire Fonterra’s holding in the business.
Headquartered in Goch, Germany, DFE is a global leading excipient manufacturer. Excipients are the inactive substances that are blended with the active ingredients in medicine for purposes such as binding, bulking, disintegration or to aid in the processing of the active ingredient. With operations in Europe, India and New Zealand and
Horizon Capital, a specialist investor in business services and technology companies, has appointed three new hires increasing the firm’s investment and origination team to eleven.
Aidan Connelly joins as a manager with six years’ private equity investment experience at Capitalworks Investment Partners, where he focussed on the business services sector. His transaction experience includes the MBO of IQ business a technology focused management consultancy. Connelly has degrees from Stellenbosch and Johannesburg universities and qualified as a Chartered Accountant with PwC.
New associates Giuliana Cian and Morgan Johnson extend the firm’s direct origination capability. Cian has a degree in International Management
Crystal Capital Partners has rolled out a new proprietary e-commerce portfolio construction platform that aims to make building institutional private equity and hedge fund portfolios as simple as adding items to an online shopping cart.
Advisors can select from a diverse list of vetted institutional private equity and hedge fund exposures across various strategies, add them to their cart and, within seconds, generate an institutional-quality portfolio proposal for client presentations.
“With 25 years at the forefront of alternative investing, it is our ongoing commitment to remove the complexities and barriers to entry associated with the asset class and to smoothly pave
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