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US private equity firm Horizon Capital has acquired a majority stake in Dobrobut, a private healthcare services provider in Ukraine, via its latest USD200 million fund, Emerging Europe Growth Fund III. Financial details for the deal have not been disclosed.
Dobrobut is a network of clinics and medical institutions in Kyiv and Kyiv region, offering high quality, essential services to patients in Ukraine. The Company owns a wide network of clinics and hospitals, staffed by strong professionals and equipped with modern medical equipment, providing quality care to their patients. As one of the most innovative players in the industry,
Inverness Graham Investments’ workforce management SaaS software portfolio company, SwipeClock, has acquired ApplicantStack.
The acquisition rounds out Swipeclock’s software suite, adding recruiting to its scheduling, time tracking and HR engagement soultions. Based in North Carolina, ApplicantStack is a leading provider of applicant tracking software that allows small and medium-sized businesses and recruiters to efficiently manage the process of soliciting, tracking, interviewing, and hiring top employees.
“We are very excited to close the second add-on for SwipeClock during the first 18 months of our ownership,” says Trey Sykes, Managing Principal of Inverness Graham. “With the addition of ApplicantStack, and Shugo
KGAL New Frontiers (KNF) has acquired a 22 per cent share of SunErgy AS, a Norwegian company delivering innovative solar power infrastructure in emerging markets.
SunErgy AS supplies off-grid electricity to towns in emerging markets. It does this using small solar power plants that it ships in containers from Northern Europe; at their destination the power plants are then connected to houses using the company’s own network, via which they supply homes with power, as well as cable TV and internet access.
The KNF investment is intended to finance the company’s further growth. “In Cameroon, I saw for myself
Macquarie Capital, the corporate advisory, capital markets and principal investment arm of Macquarie Group (Macquarie), has appointed Michael Magliana as Co-Head of the UK for its AEA Group and Camelia Robu as Head of Leveraged Finance in EMEA, based in London.
Magliana brings significant senior expertise to Macquarie Capital’s existing presence across the region, with over 20 years of experience, mainly with JP Morgan and most recently Moelis and Jefferies. He will join Macquarie in September this year and will be responsible for deepening Macquarie Capital’s client relationships across core industry sectors and product on a pan European basis working alongside
Vista Global, a specialist in business flight solutions, is to acquire JetSmarter, creating a global On Demand digital marketplace.
JetSmarter’s marketplace technology will fulfil Vista Global’s digitalisation strategy, providing all customers with an unmatched end-to-end service booking experience. The acquisition will enhance Vista Global’s position offering the largest suite of services and advanced technologies to every private aviation customer.
Following JetSmarter’s successful digital partnership with XOJET, it will now bring its digital capabilities to the entire Vista Global group. JetSmarter’s industry-disrupting platform will therefore be integrated into the back-end technology of Vista Global’s brands VistaJet, Vista Lease and XOJET.
iCapital Network, a financial technology platform aiming to improving access and efficiency in the alternative investment marketplace, is to enter into an exclusive relationship with The Nasdaq Private Market (NPM) to create an integrated secondary marketplace for iCapital sponsored funds through the NPM platform.
The agreement will offer liquidity solutions to advisors and their high-net-worth clients who have private equity investments in their portfolios.
NPM’s qualified matching service will give investors who have holdings in iCapital sponsored funds – on the iCapital flagship platform or on third party platforms powered by iCapital technology – the option to put private
Shearwater Aero Capital, a global corporate aviation finance specialist, enjoyed strong growth in 2018, with the year representing around 60 per cent of its business to date since its launch in 2014.
The combined value of aircraft Shearwater Aero Capital has now provided funding against has surpassed USD100 million (USD104 million) for the first time. It has provided loans worth USD65 million to 15 business aircraft around the world, including the US, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Africa.
Chris Miller, Managing Partner, Shearwater Aero Capital, says: “We are enjoying very strong growth, and this reflects a number of factors.
Tosca Debt Capital (TDC) has completed an undisclosed investment to support the merger of Livingbridge portfolio company, Catalyst Development Ltd, with Sionic Advisors. This marks the regional debt fund’s tenth deal from its circa GBP240 million Fund II.
The undisclosed funding package provided by Manchester-based TDC and Lloyds Banking Group will support the creation of one of the world’s largest specialist consulting firms. The enlarged group will have a combined revenue of more than $60m and upwards of 300 professionals based in a dozen locations across Europe, North America and Asia.
Catalyst specialises in regulatory-driven change, organisational improvement and
Croatian food and retail group Agrokor, represented by Kirkalnd & Ellis, has successfully completed a two-year restructuring process.
With the implementation of the creditor settlement on 1 April, 2019, the new holding company Fortenova Group took over the operative parts of Agrokor, which are now controlled by the former creditors as new shareholders. The former parent company will be wound up together with the remaining subsidiaries in due course.
With a debt volume of around EUR6 billion, Agrokor’s restructuring was the largest in Europe in 2017/18. With a significant share of Croatia’s gross domestic product, Agrokor and its subsidiaries employ more
FundedByMe’s branch in Poland has closed a crowdfunding campaign for Warsaw game development studio Duality Games in record time, with 66 investors committing more than EUR440,000 in just 37 minutes.
“Gaming is a very promising sector in Poland with plenty of investment opportunities. We are delighted to see Duality close their crowdfunding campaign in a record-time, congratulations! Now we are even more motivated to launch interesting projects to the broader public in the near future. You should expect new exciting startups from Poland on the FundedByMe platform this year,” says Maciej Gajewski, CEO FundedByMe Poland.
“Duality Games is planning
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