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Middle market private equity firm One Equity Partners (OEP) is to merge Anvil International (Anvil), a global designer, manufacturer and provider of products that connect and support piping systems, with Smith-Cooper International (Smith-Cooper), a global designer and provider of branded, high-quality pipes, valves, and fittings.
The realisation represents the second exit from OEP’s USD1.65 billion Fund VI. Financial terms of the private transaction have not been disclosed.
Anvil, headquartered in Exeter, N.H., manufactures branded fittings, seismic bracing, struts, pipe shields and valves for US and global businesses across the industrial, mechanical, fire protection, mining and energy industries. The Company’s complete
Foresight Group (Foresight) has made a GBP5 million investment into Steamforged Games (Steamforged), a developer and retailer of tabletop games.
Steamforged was founded in 2014 by Rich Loxam and Mat Hart, both games enthusiasts who dedicated their free time to create ‘Guild Ball’, a sports-based miniature game which went on to achieve critical acclaim. Since then, the team has developed a portfolio of games based on both original and licensed IP.
Their early success led to winning licences to develop games for several renowned video games titles and in doing so, the Company has succeeded in carving out a
Burlington Capital is launching a new venture in its aqueous ozone business by merging CleanCore Technologies and O-Z Tech Water.
This new company, CleanCore Solutions, will be a much more diverse and innovative provider of environmentally safe, chemical-free cleaning technology.
“Burlington Capital, as the majority owner of CleanCore Solutions, is committed to creating industry-leading, sustainable solutions that are important to our clients throughout the United States and Canada,” says Pamela Finn, President of Business Development for Burlington Capital.
Gary Holst, President of CleanCore Solutions, adds: “CleanCore Solutions combines the innovation of both companies that will provide value to our customers
Institutional Advisory Services Group (IASG), an independent advisory firm specialising in alternative investments for institutional and high net worth investors, has launched a new company – IASG Fund Services (IASG-FS).
Incorporated in 2019, IASG-FS will offer fund services to investment managers. This new company, majority owned by the Jonkheer family, has partnered with a known operator in the fund administration business. Through this operator’s innovative SaaS platform, Seamless Solutions, IASG-FS will sell fund administration services and products to managers. These services include but are not limited to back-office, shadow accounting, investor services, cash management, cloud technology, document storage and cybersecurity.
ENDEL, a subsidiary of the ENGIE group, has opened exclusive negotiations for the acquisition of the Pierre Guérin Group.
Capzanine, a European asset management firm specialised in private equity investment, has been a minority shareholder in Pierre Guerrin since early 2017. Based in Niort, the company is a specialist supplier of stainless steel equipment and process lines (engineering, procurement and construction) for the food & beverage and life sciences industries (pharmaceuticals and biotechnology). In recent years, the Group has grown strongly in Asia (mainly China and Korea). Seventy years of experience have refined its high-quality know-how and spread its brand
Less than three months after opening an office in Boston, Morrison & Foerster has strengthened its presence in the city with the appointments of Todd Boudreau and Matt Karlyn as partners.
Boudreau joins Morrison & Foerster as co-head of its Global Private Equity Investments + Buyouts Group and as a partner in its Private Funds Group. Boudreau brings a practice centred on private equity-focused international M&A, institutional investments, and fund formation. He has represented clients across numerous industries, including technology and life sciences. Boudreau’s coming to Morrison & Foerster also underscores the firm’s continued expansion of its private equity offerings,
Clayton, Dubilier & Rice has appointed Sandra E Peterson, former Group Worldwide Chairman of Johnson & Johnson, as an Operating Partner, effective 29 April, 2019.
Peterson joins CD&R after a long, successful career driving innovation and improved operational performance across large, global businesses. At Johnson & Johnson, Peterson led the Consumer and Medical Devices businesses and was responsible for the corporation’s global supply chain, as well as its technology strategy and infrastructure. While at J&J, she clarified priority markets and segments and exercised strong portfolio discipline across the businesses she led and oversaw more than two dozen acquisitions and divestitures.
Private equity (PE) investment has boosted revenues in UK businesses by more than 50 per cent in the last five years, according to research by accountancy and business advisory firm BDO.
The 2,000 PE-backed firms in the UK analysed by BDO have generated an additional GBP17 billion in revenues since 2013, representing a 53 per cent increase in turnover from GBP30.7 billion to GBP47.1 billion.
PE investment has also bolstered the UK labour market, with each PE-backed businesses creating on average between five to ten new jobs a year.
The businesses analysed employed an additional 10,000 people in 2018. Over
Edison Partners, a growth equity investment firm, has made a USD8 million growth investment in Suuchi, a supply chain platform provider for fashion brands and retailers.
The company will use the funds to accelerate go-to-market execution and product innovation, as well as continue to expand its network of designers, materials suppliers and factories throughout the United States.
In the USD2 trillion global apparel manufacturing market, the need to shrink the time from concept to consumer is prompting more fashion brands and retailers to seek supply-chain modernisation. Suuchi delivers a next-generation approach to apparel supply chains that streamlines the connection of design
Oak, a new private client, corporate services and fund administration group, has acquired International Administration Group (IAG).
Founded in 2000 by Mark Woodall and Alison Simpson, IAG is a specialist fund administration business headquartered in Guernsey with a team of 43 people. IAG delivers bespoke fund administration and depositary services to private equity, open-ended, listed and alternative asset fund structures and will become the centre of fund expertise within the Oak business.
Oak, which is headquartered in Guernsey, launched in March this year. The business is the consolidation of Oak Trust Group, Consortia Partnership and Kreston IOM which between them
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