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Hg, a specialist private equity investor focused on software and service businesses, has invested in TransIP Group (TransIP), a hosting and Virtual Private Server (VPS) provider based in the Netherlands. The terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
TransIP will join forces with Combell Group (Combell), a European specialist in mass hosting services for SMEs.
Together the two companies will be known as create team.blue, which will aim to deliver high innovation and quality services to a combined 1.2 million companies, bringing together some of the most experienced people in the industry with the aim to be a
Investment company Avedon Capital Partners is partnering with Brand Masters to support the company in the implementation of an ambitious international growth plan.
Brand Masters wants to accelerate organic growth in Western Europe in the coming years, in combination with investments in the organisation and the supply chain. Possible takeovers are also actively being pursued. The partnership will take place subject to the approval of the competition authorities.
Brand Masters was founded in 2012 by Toine van Poppel and Jasper Vreugdenhil. As a commercial and logistics service provider, the company supports a range of well-known and less well-known suppliers
Adarma, an independent security services company, previously ECS Security, has launched following a private management buyout led by David Calder and Nathan Dornbrook with capital from private equity investor Livingbridge.
With over 250 staff and experience spanning over two decades, Adarma provides a broad range of IT security consulting, solution and services with deep expertise in threat management including Security Operations Centre (SOC) design, build and operation. Adarma helps large enterprises to establish operational security capabilities including in-house, co-managed and fully managed SOC environments. The company’s expertise also helps clients to extend existing SOC capabilities to respond to evolving threats
Welcome to the first edition of the new weekly Private Equity Wire newsletter. This week we feature the first contribution from reporter Elizabeth Pfeuti on Europe’s second largest pension investor PGGM and why it is looking to allocate EUR500 million to impact-focused private equity funds.
Advent, one of the industry’s leading PE groups, underscores how much demand there is among LPs for marquee names, closing its ninth global PE fund with USD17.5 billion, while in other news, a big announcement came out of London-based BlueBay Asset Management.
Having grown to EUR13 billion in AUM, its Private Debt business is spinning out
By Elizabeth Pfeuti – With great power comes great responsibility, and in 2019, institutional investors, who collectively oversee tens of trillions of dollars, are becoming alert to what their fiscal might can do.
In May, Europe’s second largest pension investor PGGM announced it had asked its private equity team to help meet its impact investment targets.
PFZW, the pension fund for Dutch healthcare workers and PGGM’s main client, had set out four themes it wanted to use its financial strength to tackle: water scarcity, food security, climate change and healthcare.
The mantle had already been taken up by other asset
Tonkotsu, the Emma Reynolds and Ken Yamada-founded ramen restaurant group is planning expansion after partnering with investment firm YFM Equity Partners (YFM).
Funds advised by YFM the specialist private equity fund manager are investing GBP5 million in Tonkotsu for a minority stake. YFM has a track record of backing businesses across all sectors in the UK. Mike Clarke and Jamie Roberts led the investment for YFM.
Tonkotsu, which is led by Managing Director, Stephen Evans, operates nine restaurants in London and one in Selfridges Birmingham, with two more due to open later this year in Peckham and Shoreditch.
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Sheridan Capital Partners (Sheridan) has made an investment in Atlantic Vision Partners (AVP), a vision practice management company. In the transaction, Sheridan invested alongside AVP’s founders and management, who will retain a meaningful ownership stake in the business.
AVP, headquartered in Richmond, VA, serves ophthalmology and optometry clinics throughout Virginia. The Company has achieved significant scale in its core markets, while maintaining a reputation for providing excellent patient care for over 30 years.
“AVP has achieved meaningful scale in its geography,” says Jonathan Lewis, Partner of Sheridan Capital Partners. “The Company has grown significantly due to the team’s focus
Ogier is acting as Jersey counsel for Tarsus Group plc, a London-listed international business-to-business media and events group, on its recommended GBP561 million takeover by private equity firm Charterhouse Capital Partners LLP.
The transaction, which is to be carried out by way of a Jersey Scheme of Arrangement, is expected to complete in Q3 2019, following sanction by Jersey’s Royal Court.
Partner Simon Dinning and managing associate Alexander Curry are working on the corporate aspects of the deal, and partner Nick Williams and managing associate James Angus are advising on the elements of the transaction involving Jersey’s Royal Court.
The
Monroe Capital has expanded its direct originations team with the addition of seven experienced investment professionals – David Fischer and Nick McDearis in the firm’s Atlanta office, Dan Letizia and Tommy Ryan in the firm’s Chicago office, and Jack Bernstein in the firm’s New York office.
In addition, recently hired Stewart Hanlon is in the firm’s San Francisco office and Alex Patil is in the firm’s Los Angeles office.
“We are very fortunate to continue to attract the very best talent to our investment team with the addition of these seven experienced professionals,” says Tom Aronson, Managing Director & Head
Independent Growth Finance (IGF), an independent commercial finance provider, has appointed John Allbrook as Non-Executive Chairman.
Allbrook replaces Matt Cooper, who, during three years as Chairman, helped IGF transition from a small financier to a major independent asset based lender.
Since leaving GE Capital in 2004 Allbrook has built an impressive track record working with private equity and AIM-listed businesses in both the financial services and technology sectors. As CEO of GoIndustry plc, John was instrumental in helping the company to secure an AIM listing. As Executive Chairman of Syscap, he grew revenues and EBITDA significantly. Enabling the successful sale of the business to
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