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YFM Equity Partners (YFM) has held the first close of its Buy-Out-Fund II with GBP60 million of investment committed. This follows the GBP45 million raised for its Buy-Out Fund I, which had a final close in April 2017.
Only two years later, and following the recent investment in The Protein Works, this fund is now almost two thirds invested.
“Nearly three quarters of the funds have been raised for our Buy-Out-Fund II from existing investors, which is a great endorsement from our investor base, with over GBP15m from new investors,” says Mike White YFM’s Partner responsible for Investor Relations.
L2 Capital Partners (L2) has sold LSC Environmental Products (LSC) to an entity formed by Ancor Capital Partners. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
Under L2’s ownership, LSC underwent significant corporate management changes, executed a transformational acquisition, and developed and introduced multiple new products to market. This investment allowed the Company to significantly grow its core business, increase product line breadth, expand end markets served, and position the business to achieve double-digit annual growth rates.
“This successful exit exemplifies how L2 Capital works with portfolio companies. Over the course of our investment, L2 recruited a new CEO and
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.
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