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Inflexion Private Equity has completed a minority investment in UKFast, a UK cloud hosting provider. The investment is being made by Inflexion’s dedicated minority investment fund, Partnership Capital. The deal sees the firm valued at GBP405 million.
Founded in 1998, by Lawrence Jones MBE and Gail Jones, Manchester-based UKFast has grown to become the UK’s largest privately-owned hosting provider. UKFast offers market-leading cloud and hosting platforms for businesses and government organisations to outsource critical IT infrastructure. UKFast recently ventured into public icloud providing integration and support for AWS and Azure through a new division, ClearCloud.
UKFast is known for
Omnes has carried out a primary off-market Management Buyout deal (MBO) investing in engineering and industrial innovation advisory firm ABMI.
Omnes has invested EUR10.8 million through its third generation small-cap fund. With the support of its financial partners, notably MACSF and Momentum Invest, Omnes has become majority shareholder alongside company management, led by Vincent Coënt, CEO of ABMI (previously Deputy Chief Executive Officer.)
This deal is the first investment from the third generation small-cap fund, Omnes Expansion 3. On this occasion, Omnes announces the fund’s first close on EUR72 million (60 per cent of its target). Omnes Expansion 3
Perusa Partners Fund II (Perusa), an investment fund advised by independent Perusa, has sold Senator and its subsidiaries (Senator Group) to management. The parties have agreed to not disclose the purchase price or details of the transaction.
Perusa acquired Senator Group from Merz Pharma in June 2016. The company is a manufacturer of promotional products, especially writing utensils, cups and mugs. Senator manufactures its plastic ballpoint pens at its own production site in Germany and sells through qualified distributors. Currently, the company employs nearly 300 employees at five locations worldwide. In the financial year 2017, Senator generated sales of nearly
SV Health Investors, a venture capital and growth equity firm, has promoted Houman Ashrafian to Managing Partner and Greg Madden to Partner.
SV manages seven funds that work to support entrepreneurs and companies that create breakthrough treatments and innovative healthcare solutions. The firm invests in early-stage opportunities in biotechnology; early-stage and revenue-stage opportunities in medical devices; and growth equity opportunities in healthcare services and digital health.
Ashrafian joined SV in 2016 as a Venture Partner and was promoted to partner the following year. Ashrafian’s mandate was to support the creation of innovative new biotechnology companies based on breaking science
Varagon Capital Partners (Varagon) is serving as administrative agent, lead arranger and bookrunner on a senior secured credit facility to support the acquisition of Pediatric Home Service (PHS) by InTandem Capital Partners.
Founded in 1990 and headquartered in Roseville, MN, Pediatric Home Service is the largest provider of complex and comprehensive in-home care to medically fragile infants, children and adolescents in the upper Midwest.
“We are excited to support InTandem and the Pediatric Home Service management team,” says Steve Warden, Partner at Varagon. “This represents Varagon’s first financing investment with InTandem. We look forward to the continued success and
Arma Partners has acted as financial advisor to One.com, a portfolio company of Accel-KKR, on its sale to Cinven.
Founded in Denmark in 2002, One.com is the largest independent web hosting solutions provider in Northern Europe, trusted by over 1 million customers as the platform on which they create and maintain an online presence.
Through a suite of web hosting, website-builder and website-enhancement tools, all built on a proprietary technology platform and unified under a single brand, the company offers easy-to-use solutions for small businesses and prosumers.
Northill Capital (Northill) is to purchase a majority stake in leading outsourced CIO (OCIO) business, Strategic Investment Group (Strategic) by acquiring the equity interest previously held by FFL Partners for an undisclosed sum.
This partnership enables Strategic to build on its 31 years of operating independence as a leading provider of OCIO solutions through the support of Northill’s permanent and patient capital base.
Strategic, founded in 1987 and based in Arlington, Virginia, is the largest independent investment manager dedicated to the OCIO sector, with discretionary AUM of over USD28 billion. Strategic has delivered compelling performance for clients across market
SureWerx, a portfolio company of The Riverside Company and leading supplier of professional tools, equipment, and safety products, has acquired the Jackson Safety and Wilson Safety brands from Kimberly-Clark Professional, a global supplier of workplace products and solutions.
The acquired brands represent leading Industrial Personal Protective Equipment and Industrial Welding Safety products that are distributed to a global base of customers across diversified end markets.
As part of the acquisition, SureWerx will be acquiring a broad suite of products that includes Welding Helmets, Welding Accessories, Welding Powered Air Purifying Respirators (PAPR), Welding Barriers, Industrial Respiratory, Face Protection, Head
GSK Stockmann has promoted four of its lawyers to partners – two Equity Partners and two Local Partners – effective 1 January 2019.
The equity partners are Dr Jenny Mehlitz (Projects & Public Sector, Procurement, Berlin) and Andreas Dimmling (Restructuring/Insolvency, Corporate/M&A, Munich), while Associates Dr Jens Uwe Rügenhagen (Corporate/M&A, Dispute Resolution, Heidelberg) and Dr Antonius Jonetzki (Dispute Resolution, Hamburg) are the new Local Partners.
The two new Local Partners are already applying their specialised knowledge in the fields of dispute resolution and corporate/M&A respectively to the Financial Services, Funds and Capital Markets Sectors and are going to systematically expand
Investment manager Downing has closed a dedicated GBP125 million infrastructure fund focusing on the flexible generation sector in the UK.
The increase in deployment of renewable energy has created a new class of flexible generation assets of which gas peakers play a significant role and is where the fund will focus its investment activities.
Downing’s energy team have made over 100 energy investments to date across a range of sectors including: solar, reserve power, battery storage, wind and biomass.
Shane Swords (pictured), Head of Institutional Fundraising at Downing, says: “This is a significant step forward in our institutional
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