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HeleCloud, an AWS Advanced Consulting and Managed Services Partner, has acquired OlinData, an AWS Advanced Consulting Partner based in the Netherlands, specialised in Open Source Infrastructure.
Financial details of the deal, which completed this week, have not been disclosed. OlinData is HeleCloud’s first acquisition as part of its ongoing growth across Europe, supported by BGF.
“I am extremely excited to be welcoming Walter, Mine and the team to HeleCloud,” says Dob Todorov, CEO and CCO, HeleCloud. “Just like HeleCloud, OlinData is highly experienced in helping customers build better businesses on the AWS Cloud. By acquiring OlinData, we are able
Aurelius Equity Opportunities (Aurelius) is to acquire the Belgium-based MPRO and YouBuild building materials merchants from Grafton Group (Grafton).
The combined business of MPRO and YouBuild achieves revenues of close to EUR100 million across its network of 16 outlets employing circa 240 full-time employees. The transaction is expected to complete later this year and is conditional on carving-out the freehold property from the trading entities and on receiving approval from the Belgian Competition Authority.
Both MPRO and YouBuild are strong brands, each with a solid reputation as generalist suppliers of a broad range of high-quality heavy construction products with
With the FCA’s Policy Statement PS18/8 due to come into effect from 30 September 2019, Authorised Fund Managers (AFMs) will need to publish Assessment of Value reports from the end of January 2020 (within four months of their funds’ year-end).
Designed to provide greater transparency for investors, PS18/8 requires AFMs to publish a breakdown of their funds’ quality of service, performance, costs, any economies of scale they may have been able to achieve, market comparisons with regards to services and rates and whether investors are in the most appropriate classes of units. They must subsequently be published annually at the
Legal & General has provided GBP57.5 million of long-term debt financing to support Hermes Infrastructure in its recapitalisation of two solar photovoltaic (solar PV) portfolios in England and Wales.
The two portfolios consist of fully operational solar PV systems installed on the roofs of more than 9,000 residential homes. The investment has been made by LGIM Real Assets on behalf of its clients including Legal & General Retirement Institutional.
Demonstrating Legal & General’s commitment to providing clean energy to the UK, the residential solar PV systems have a combined installed capacity of around 34.52MWp. The majority of the systems are
Growth Capital Partners (GCP), a partnership-focused investor, has appointed Michael Gray as Origination Director.
Gray joins GCP from A&M Capital where he was Head of Origination. With 12 year’s private equity experience, Gray previously spent four years as Head of Sponsor Coverage at Grant Thornton, responsible for providing deal flow, ideas, insights to PE clients. Prior to this, he worked at Lyceum Capital a mid-market private equity investor, responsible for driving their off-market origination across a number of sectors.
Gray, says: :I am delighted to join GCP having known a number of the team for many years and look forward
ClearCourse Partnership has acquired BrightOffice, a software-as-service (SaaS) company providing hosted, enterprise Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software solutions to many different business sectors.
BrightOffice is ClearCourse’s 14th acquisition since October 2018 and an expansion of its business services offering.
BrightOffice was founded in 2004. Since then, it has developed a highly customisable cloud-based, SaaS CRM platform upon which it can build specialised CRM products bespoke to the requirements of its c. 300 clients. BrightOffice serves a broad range of public and private businesses across a number of sectors including financial services, energy, training and job management, and property. The
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
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