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LBO France has acquired a majority stake in the Infodis Group, a French specialist in facilities management and systems & network engineering.
The investment has been made alongside Vighen Papazian, Infodis’ chairman and founder; Jacques Gourseaud and Florent Burlet, its deputy CEOs; and Walid Abi Chahla, head of its Visualdis unit; as well as other managers who will hold equity stakes.
Founded in 1985 and based in Roissy, near Paris, theInfodis Group currently employs around 500 people. In recent years, it has achieved steady organic growth while undertaking targeted acquisitions. Its successful integration of several companies, including ITCOM in
General market sentiment indicates that 2019 will be another very active year for M&A deals, according to the 6th edition of law firm Seyfarth Shaw’s Middle-Market M&A SurveyBook of Key M&A Deal Terms.
The data analysed for this year’s survey suggests that the private target middle-market M&A environment will likely continue its seller-friendly trend. The Survey authors expect “add-on” acquisition activity to comprise a high percentage of middle-market deal value in 2019 as private equity-backed platforms continue to grow their businesses and improve fund performance through add-on investments. A desire to expand geographically, plus diversify products and services, enhance technological
Mid-market investor Ergon has held the final closing of Ergon Capital Partners IV, SCSP (ECP IV) with capital commitments in excess of EUR580 million.
Based on strong demand from investors, ECP IV significantly exceeded its target of EUR500 million. ECP IV, Ergon’s first institutional fundraise, attracted both existing and new investors to the platform, with investors from the Benelux, France, Germany and Switzerland well represented in the Fund. The investor base includes blue-chip financial institutions, asset managers, funds of funds, family offices and foundations among others, alongside Sienna Capital, the fully-owned subsidiary of Groupe Bruxelles Lambert, who remained as cornerstone
Private equity firm the Riverside Company has promoted Karsten Langer to Managing Partner for the Riverside Europe Fund (REF).
Langer will lead the management of 30 professionals across Europe as Riverside continues to look for internationally growing entrepreneurial companies.
Langer will succeed Riverside Managing Partner Tony Cabral. An integral part of REF’s success, Cabral skilfully managed the fund for nearly 20 years. He will remain a senior member of the REF investment committee with the title of Founding Partner.
“Thanks to Tony’s leadership, Riverside Europe today occupies a unique position in the Pan-European lower mid-market,” says Riverside Co-CEO
Aquiline Capital Partners-backed ClearCourse Partnership (ClearCourse), a group of technology companies providing membership software and services, has acquired Circdata, a provider of event technology.
The deal is ClearCourse’s fifth acquisition since its foundation in October 2018 and represents an expansion of the fast-growing Partnership’s offering into the events, exhibitions and conference space.
Founded in 1994 and headquartered in Newbury, Circdata was originally a data management company and has since developed into a leading event technology business, providing software solutions to many of the world’s largest exhibition and conference organisers. Its proprietary software platform, Fusion, offers a suite of services
Managing the relationship with a private equity portfolio company’s (portco) CEO and CFO is among the most critical priorities for PE firms, according to a new survey of leaders at PE firms and portcos by global consulting firm AlixPartners, and Vardis, global private equity search firm.
Trouble in any of the three ‘legs’ of this relationship triangle can torpedo the success of an investment by preventing key members of the management team from executing the investment thesis, thereby ultimately sabotaging returns.
The AlixPartners-Vardis Fourth Annual Private Equity Leadership Survey found a stark contrast in responses from PE and portcos
Drinker Biddle & Reath has appointed Jinho Alex Yim as a partner in the Corporate and Securities Group in New York. Yim comes to the firm from Nixon Peabody.
With experience in a variety of industries, including telecommunications, transportation, health care, sports and manufacturing, Yim focuses his practice on large cap and middle market financial transactions. An advisor to leading US and global financial institutions, he works with corporate borrowers, private equity sponsors and mutual fund companies on complex financing and corporate transactions, some of which include public-private partnerships, leveraged acquisitions, asset-based financings and securities lending.
“Adding
Nexxus has fully divested from Harmon Hall Holding, a portfolio company from Nexxus Capital Private Equity Fund III.
Harmon Hall is an English language teaching institution in Mexico with more than 51 years of experience and 105 schools in operation, making it the largest school network nationwide. Of all Harmon Hall schools, 76 are owned and 29 are franchised.
The Company has been acquired by Talisis, a subsidiary from Grupo Topaz, a strategic investor with experience in the educational sector. 414 Capital and Ibis Capital advised the Company and its shareholders on the transaction.
NorthEdge Capital has made a series of promotions in its investment team. Jon Pickering takes on the role of Head of New Business, while both George Potts and James Marshall have been promoted to Investment Directors and Greg Holmes has been promoted to Investment Manager.
Pickering joined NorthEdge in 2013 and has been involved in the majority of the firm’s North West investments and exits to date. Jon will retain his role as Head of the North West, whilst also overseeing the new investment activity regionally from both NorthEdge’s buyout and SME funds.
Having joined the firm in the
O’Melveny has represented Wi-Fi technology specialist Quantenna Communications on its acquisition by ON Semiconductor Corporation (ON) in an all-cash transaction.
Founded in 2006, San Jose-based Quantenna is the global leader of high performance Wi-Fi solutions. The acquisition consideration represents an equity value of approximately USD1.07 billion and enterprise value of approximately USD936 million. The transaction is expected to close in the second half of 2019.
The O’Melveny team, which was led by partners Warren Lazarow and Andor Terner and counsel Noah Kornblith, included associates John Chong, Bhavreet Gill, Jessica Iwasaki, Carolyn White, Elaine Sun and AJ Talt. Also advising
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