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H2 Equity Partners, Sherpa Capital and Auctus Capital Parters have teamed up to create Optimum Alliance, a new network of mid-market private equity investors in Europe.
The Alliance covers key European private equity markets and consists of partners with a proven track-record of value creation and facilitates accelerating European rollouts and privileged access to scarce resources in deal origination and transactions.
The objective of the Optimum Alliance is to create a platform of independent – high performing – firms that can share best-practices, investment experiences, cooperate on deal situations as and when appropriate and allow co-investment.
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German Equity Partners V (GEP V), a Fund managed by independent German investment company ECM Equity Capital Management (ECM), has acquired a stake in Berlin software developer PikeTec.
PikeTec specialises in testing and verifying the functionality of safety-relevant embedded software for electronic control units, for example in the field of intelligent driver assistance systems. Together with ECM, the company founders Dr. Eckard Bringmann, Andreas Krämer and Dr. Jens Lüdemann want to continue the success of PikeTec and capture the significant growth potential resulting from increasing automation and digitization of vehicles. As managing partners, the founders will also continue to lead
Cairngorm Capital Partners’ portfolio company, Parker Building Supplies (Parkers), has acquired Sussex Turnery and Moulding Company Limited (Stamco).
This is a key step in Parkers’ strategy to increase its business through a combination of acquisitions, new site development and organic growth. Parkers aims to become the market-leading independent builders’ merchant in the South East of England.
Established in 1957, Stamco is a privately-owned, independent builders’ merchant and wholesale timber processing and distribution business. Headquartered in Hastings, it has five branches in Eastbourne, Hastings, Hove, Worthing and Rye. Stamco employs 180 people and in 2018, achieved GBP32 million in revenue. The
Align Capital Partners (ACP), a growth-oriented private equity firm, has appointed David Perotti as an Operating Partner in ACP’s Dallas office.
Perotti will help accelerate ACP’s focus on investing in tech-enabled service platforms and support ACP’s growing portfolio as an additional operating resource, alongside Operating Partner John Dupuy and Chief Technology Advisor Eric Dirst.
Before joining ACP, Perotti was a senior executive at two private equity-backed technology companies – eRecruit and Allegro Development. Most recently, Perotti was CEO of eRecruit, a software as a service (SaaS) company which achieved significant growth under his leadership and successfully exited to another financial
Global investment bank GCA Altium has advised Unily, an SaaS provider of digital workplaces and digital experience platforms, on a USD68 million growth investment from Silversmith Capital Partners and Farview Equity Partners.
Founded in 2005, Unily creates digital workplaces designed to improve collaboration, engage a geographically spread workforce and increase productivity. Its solutions include intranets, extranets and customer portals that combine social channels, apps, communication tools and software packages in one place.
The company has 120 employees across the UK, America and the Far East, and services a portfolio of FTSE 250 and Fortune 500 clients, spanning a diverse range
Silverfleet Capital, a Pan-European private equity firm, has agreed the sale of Phase One, a technology business specialising in high-end digital imaging software and equipment, to funds managed by Axcel.
Completion of the transaction is subject to regulatory approval.
Phase One has two divisions: Software Imaging Systems (SIS), which provides market leading raw image processing software to professional and amateur photographers and enterprises under the Capture One brand; and Image Capture Solutions (ICS), which supplies ultra-high-end, medium format camera systems for industrial applications (such as aerial mapping and inspection), as well as for professional and amateur photographers, and cultural heritage
Private equity firm OpenGate Capital has sold Omniplast to a group of European investors composed of Reedcapital, Luigi M Chiaraviglio, and Swiss Merchant Corporation.
Omniplast was acquired by OpenGate in 2015 through the firm’s original, pre-fund investment in Ivy Group. Financial terms have not been disclosed.
Andrew Nikou, OpenGate Capital’s founder and CEO, says: “We believe that Omniplast stands for global innovation in the fields of piping and fitting systems. I am incredibly proud of the efforts of OpenGate’s European team in the four years since acquiring Omniplast and have now fulfilled our mandate to exit the business at an
A new senior executive leadership team has been put in place at Montezuma’s following investment from Edinburgh-based private equity firm, Inverleith, last year.
Bruce Alexander becomes managing director this month, June, joining Carl Moore who has just joined the company as finance director and Debbie Epstein who has become marketing director. Montezuma’s was founded by Helen and Simon Pattinson in 2000. Following a period of transition, they are taking a step back from the day-to-day running of the business and taking on roles as Ambassadors and Directors.
New managing director Bruce Alexander joins the Company from Kerry Food where
Leeds Equity Partners (Leeds Equity), a New York-based private equity fund focused exclusively on investing in the Knowledge Industries, has completed the sale of Educate 360 Holdings (Project Management Academy) to investment funds managed by Morgan Stanley Capital Partners. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Scott VanHoy, Partner with Leeds Equity, says: “Jason Cassidy’s strategic vision and tireless execution, along with the entire management team’s dedication to success, helped take the solid foundation we acquired in 2015 and create a long-term, market leading project management training company. We thank Jason and his team for the superb work and outcome
High Road Capital Partners’ portfolio company Banner Solutions has completed the acquisition of Berg Wholesale, marking the fourth acquisition for the company under High Road Capital’s ownership.
Based in Tualatin, Oregon, Berg Wholesale is a wholesale distributor of door hardware, bath hardware, and security products for the residential and multi-family housing markets. In addition to its Portland-area headquarters, Berg has distribution centres near Anaheim, California, and Orlando, Florida.
Banner Solutions, formerly Midwest Wholesale Hardware, was acquired by High Road Capital Partners Fund II in February 2017. Its acquisition of Berg Wholesale follows its acquisitions of Akron Hardware, Hardware Suppliers
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