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London law firm Joelson has advised CEO Anthony Fletcher and the Management Team of snack brand Graze on the company’s sale to Unilever.
The sale represents a significant strategic move for Graze; and for Unilever, a chance to capitalise on the growing healthy foods market. This is a landmark deal in the Graze journey and its tie up with Unilever will certainly assist with its growth plans.
Joelson’s position as legal advisers to the management team of Graze illustrates its unparalleled status as the pre-eminent adviser to entrepreneurs, founders and management teams of companies in the FMCG space. Joelson
The EQT Infrastructure III fund (EQT) has acquired Kodiak Gas Services (Kodiak) from The Stephens Group, a private investment firm representing the interests of Witt Stephens, Jr and Elizabeth Campbell.
Kodiak will maintain its corporate headquarters in Houston, Texas, under the continued leadership of President Mickey McKee, CEO David Marrs, and the Kodiak management team. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Founded in 2011, Kodiak is the largest privately owned contract compression company in the US; providing necessary compression equipment for the extraction of oil and transportation of natural gas in the United States. With over 1,130,000 revenue
corrux has raised USD3.1 million of seed financing in a funding round led by German venture capital firm Target Partners, with additional participation from Josef Brunner (CEO, relayr) and US venture investor Sean Dalton.
corrux develops applications that let users understand heavy machinery – ranging from excavators to track laying machines. The company provides construction managers and OEMs with software to monitor on-site operations and gain insights from data. A typical issue that corrux solves for its customers is the still pen-and-paper centred equipment management processes. The industry has been looking for a method to shift from a reactive to
Global investment firm KKR has completed its previously-announced acquisition of Ramky Enviro Engineers Limited (REEL), a provider of environmental services and solutions in India and overseas.
Under the terms of the transaction, KKR has acquired a 60 per cent stake in REEL for approximately USD510 million via a combination of primary and secondary investments. In addition to investing in REEL from its KKR Asian Fund III, the investment is part of KKR’s Global Impact strategy, which is focused on identifying and investing behind businesses with positive social or environmental impact that measurably contribute solutions to one or more of the United Nations Sustainable Development
Ara Partners Group (Ara) has made a significant investment in Priority Power Management (Priority), a Texas-based independent energy management and consulting services firm.
Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
“Priority is excited to welcome Ara as a significant new investor,” says John Bick, Managing Principal at Priority. “Ara is committed to our company’s strategic growth initiatives and our focus on developing and deploying strategies of integrating an optimised mix of power supply, risk management, demand response, distributed generation, and smart grid technologies to our large and expanding customer base.”
Priority, which was founded in 2001,
Silverfleet Capital, a pan-European private equity firm, has strengthened its dedicated lower mid-market investment team with the appointment of Ricardo Sommer.
Sommer joins Silverfleet as a Principal and will be responsible for Silverfleet’s lower mid-market activities in the DACH region, targeting businesses with enterprise values between EUR25 million and EUR75 million. In addition he will support Silverfleet’s lower mid-market activities in other regions. Ricardo will be based in the firm’s Munich office and report to lower mid-market team co-heads Alex Brebbia and David MacKenzie.
Sommer joins Silverfleet from Quadriga Capital, where he was a Director with responsibility for buyout
Foresight has made a GBP5 million growth capital investment into Spektrix Limited, a leading provider of cloud-based ticketing, marketing and fundraising software for the arts.
The investment on behalf of Foresight VCT plc and Foresight 4 VCT will be used to accelerate product development and support Spektrix’s international expansion, particularly in North America where it is already working with nearly 100 arts organisations. As part of the investment, Foresight has taken a minority equity position in the company.
Founded in 2007, Spektrix was an early pioneer in bringing cloud technology to the arts. It is now the UK industry’s
UBS Asset Management’s (UBS-AM) Real Estate & Private Markets (REPM) has completed the acquisition of a 100 per cent interest in Gascan, the second largest distributor and supplier of piped liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) in Portugal, from Arta Capital.
The investment was made on behalf of REPM’s global infrastructure equity strategy, with the transaction completed on an exclusive basis after an unsolicited approach to the Spanish private equity fund Arta Capital.
Gascan distributes and supplies piped LPG throughout Portugal to over 65,000 customers nationwide distributing over 11,000 tons of gas per year, with a network of over 760 km
Global law firm White & Case LLP has advised SoftBank Vision Fund on its investment in British unicorn OakNorth, in what will be the largest ever European fintech fundraising.
The investment values OakNorth at around USD2.8 billion. Closing of the investment will take place subject to regulatory approvals.
OakNorth is a challenger bank that specialises in lending to small and medium-sized businesses. It has lent over USD3.7 billion to British businesses, and has licensed its automated lending system to other banks and lenders around the world.
White & Case also advised SoftBank Vision Fund on another significant mandate in
RSK Group Ltd, a UK-based integrated environmental, engineering and technical services business, has acquired Dr Tillmanns & Partner, an environmental and geotechnical engineering firm headquartered in Bergheim, Germany.
It is the tenth acquisition of the 2018/19 financial year by RSK, a private company with 36 international offices, more than 2700 staff and an annual turnover of GBP200 million.
Dr Tillmanns & Partner provides advice on and services in soil and groundwater contamination, rehabilitation planning and monitoring, landfill technology and planning, subsoil investigations, geothermics, hydrogeology and soil mechanics. In addition to undertaking fieldwork, Dr Tillmanns & Partner has an accredited
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