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Lawyers from Carey Olsen’s corporate team in Guernsey have advised AnaCap Financial Partners (AnaCap), a specialist European financial services private equity firm on its acquisition of a majority stake in SundhedsGruppen A/S (SundhedsGruppen), which consists of Dansk Sundhedssikring AS, an independent Danish private health insurance provider, and PrimaCare A/S a provider of healthcare networks.
SundhedsGruppen provides health insurance and claims management services to clients’ employees and has built a market-leading technological infrastructure that also white labels to other providers in adjunct insurance areas.
The business currently provides insurance cover for approximately 250,000 individuals in Denmark, through a client list comprising
Libertine FPE Ltd, a Sheffield-based company which is developing ‘smart engines’ for electric vehicles, has raised a further GBP770,000 investment.
The latest funding round was led by NPIF – Mercia Equity Finance, which is managed by Mercia Fund Managers and is part of the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund (NPIF), and included investment from Envestors and ShadowFoundr as well as several existing shareholders including Sir Robin Saxby. It will remain open to new investors until the end of June and brings the total raised by the company to over GBP4.8 million.
The new capital will enable the company to build
Building on strong private capital vendor relationships developed through numerous successful implementation projects, Holland Mountain will be formalising vendor implementation partnerships.
SK Capital Partners, a private investment firm focused on the specialty materials, chemicals and pharmaceuticals sectors, has added several new investment professionals, including Jonathan Borell (Managing Director), Shawn Abrams (Operating Director), Dan Lory (Vice President), and Blake Shapskinsky (Associate).
Led by SK Managing Director Mario Toukan in partnership with Jonathan Borell, this newly assembled team will pursue the same sector-focused, operationally-intensive investment strategy that SK Capital is currently executing and will bring the global resources and deep industry expertise of SK Capital to lower middle market businesses.
“The lower middle market represents a large universe of opportunities for transformational
Leep Utilities (Leep) has completed its purchase of SSE Water, the New Appointments and Variations (NAV) company, from SSE plc.
The acquisition covers SSE’s water and sewerage networks and makes Leep the largest UK operator in the New Appointments (NAV) market and gives the business over 20,000 new customers across 28 sites in southern England and Wales.
As part of the transaction, Leep welcomes to its team six members of staff with over 130 years’ combined industry experience.
Leep Utilities is backed by Ancala Partners (Ancala), a mid-market infrastructure investment manager, and the Peel Group (“Peel”), one of the UK’s
Atlanta-based group purchasing organisation Procurement Advisors (PA) has secured a significant growth investment from New York-based private equity firm Bregal Sagemount.
PA is a specialist technology and data-enabled group purchasing organisation (GPO) focused on the maintenance, repair, and operating supplies (MRO) market. As a part of the transaction, PA founders Suja Katarya and Keith Brower will continue to retain a significant stake in the business.
“We are very excited to bring in the Sagemount team as a strategic and financial partner,” says Katarya, CEO and Managing Partner at PA. “We have a tremendously exciting future ahead of us as
Real Capital Analytics (RCA), a specialist in commercial real estate (CRE) data and analytics, has raised USD115 million from Susquehanna Growth Equity (SGE).
“This investment marks a new stage in our evolution and positions RCA for continued growth well into the future,” says Bob White, RCA’s founder and CEO. “My team and I are confident that SGE will provide tremendous support, expertise, and financial flexibility to RCA.”
RCA provides the most timely and reliable transaction information and analysis covering asset prices, capital flows and investment trends in the commercial property industry.
“RCA is the clear leader in commercial property transaction
Private equity firm The Riverside Company has acquired La Galvanina (Galvanina), a fourth generation, family-owned, Italian producer of premium private label and branded mineral water and traditional and organic soft drinks.
Galvanina sells its products to a global customer base comprised of leading retailers, department stores and wholesalers in more than 35 countries, with the US, Italy and Canada representing its largest markets in 2018.
Galvanina has more than 70 years of experience in the large-scale production of premium branded and private label mineral water and soft drinks. The company is known for its healthy, high-quality, pure organic, “Made
Pamplona Capital Management portfolio company Latham Pool Products (Latham) has made a strategic investment in Narellan Pools, a pool supply company in Australia and New Zealand.
Pamplona Capital Management invested in Latham alongside former majority owner Wynnchurch Capital in December 2018.
Narellan Pools is known for manufacturing in-ground glass-fibre swimming pools. The company began as a small family business 45 years ago and has grown to become a global enterprise spanning multiple services, including marketing, manufacturing, and franchising.
Latham President and CEO Scott Rajeski says: “Expanding our industry-leading position to both ends of the globe ensures a strong
Glennmont Partners has successfully raised EUR850 million at the final close of its Third Fund investing in clean energy infrastructure projects in Europe significantly in excess of the fund’s original EUR600 million target.
Based in London, Glennmont focuses exclusively on investment in clean energy infrastructure with assets of over EUR2 billion currently under management. Glennmont has experienced robust growth over the past 6 years and is planning new products for investors seeking sustainable solutions.
Over 70 per cent of Clean Energy Fund III will be invested in projects in the Eurozone with the UK also being an important market. The
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