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YFM Equity Partners (YFM) has sold its stake in Mangar Health Limited for an undisclosed sum to Winncare Group Ltd, a leading French medical device company, delivering a 2.7x return to investors.
Mangar Health designs, manufactures and supplies inflatable bathing and lifting devices, which protect carers from injury and promote independence for people with limited mobility. With a global reach into America, Canada and Australia, Mangar Health also offers a wide international distribution network and additional opportunities in healthcare markets such as emergency services. The Company is led by CEO Simon Claridge and his team of Finance and Operations Director
Legal & General has appointed Paul Miller, Group Strategy and M&A Director as Managing Director, Principal Investing in Legal & General Capital (LGC).
Miller will report to LGC’s CEO, Kerrigan Procter (pictured) and will join the Executive team and Investment Committee of L&G Capital.
LGC is a growth business within L&G and also delivers strong cross-group synergies, investing L&G’s own balance sheet and working closely with other L&G divisions to source and develop investment opportunities and assets for the broader Group and its clients. At 30 June 2018, LGC’s direct investment portfolio was GBP2.0 billion, with areas of focus including
TLT has advised British designer and manufacturer of carbon hybrid automotive and motorcycle wheels Dymag on its GBP3.6m private equity investment from Puma Investments.
The deal will enable Dymag to expand its operations and fast-track product development. It will also create a significant number of new jobs and bring further innovations to its manufacturing processes to meet growing demand for carbon hybrid wheel technology.
Dymag launched the first commercial carbon motorcycle wheel in 1996 and the first carbon hybrid automotive wheel in 2004.
The TLT team was led by corporate partner Jon Gill with support from corporate associate Bryan Shaw,
Sentinel Capital Partners, a private equity firm that invests in promising companies at the lower end of the mid-market, has acquired Pet Supplies Plus (PSP), the third largest pet specialty chain in the US and the largest “independent” pet-specialty operator.
Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Founded in 1988 and headquartered in Livonia, Michigan, PSP is a leading franchisor and operator of pet-specialty stores that provide a customer-centric shopping experience in smaller stores that have a neighbourhood feel. PSP blends the advantages of national scale with those of a friendly, local neighbourhood pet store. Stores have a streamlined
Omnes, via its Omnes Croissance 4 fund, and BIP Capital Partners, via BIP Fund (SCA) Sicar, have taken a joint majority stake in Captain Tortue. The founders, Philippe and Lilian Jacquelinet, have reinvested a significant share alongside Omnes and BIP, and will remain involved in the company where Philippe Jacquelinet remains Chairman.
Founded in 1993 and based in Aix-en-Provence, Captain Tortue is a specialist in the direct selling women’s ready-to-wear clothing sector. Every year, it designs around 330 models through its four brands: Trend (trendy collection, urban chic), Miss (classic and casual collection), Little Miss (children’s collections, teenagers and small
Gioconda, the Italian subsidiary of LBO France, has taken a stake, alongside the current management team, in Bluclad, an Italian specialist in developing chemical solutions for the galvanisation of metal used in the luxury goods sector, mainly for clothing, footwear and luggage.
Founded in 2008 and based in Prato near Florence, Bluclad has created a unique service for the luxury goods sector in the development of galvanic processes for all metal accessories. The company, the leader on the Italian market, works closely with both Italian and foreign luxury companies to create tailor-made solutions, which it then markets to the galvanisers.
Amundi has held the successful closing of its third and largest ever senior debt fund, with EUR880 million raised twelve months after launch.
This strategy, dedicated to the financing of European mid-cap companies, attracted capital from around twenty institutional investors. Half of the funds initially raised have already been invested in fifteen transactions.
Like its predecessors, this Senior debt strategy has the French Fonds de Prêt à l’Economie (FPE) label, which allows insurance companies easier access to the asset class under Solvency II. It supports European mid-sized businesses with at least EUR50 million turnover for the financing of their
Following massive deployment of private capital and recent volatile markets, CEPRES reports up to an 80 per cent increase in risk and fundamental analysis on its Investment Decision Platform – PE.Analyzer.
CEPRES has seen a huge 60 per cent growth in investment transactions during 2018 to USD23 trillion of assets across 63,973 private market deals from 6,032 Funds. With now the largest-ever transactional data on private markets, CEPRES clients can measure and stress test their investments versus macro-economic conditions to ensure they can protect against volatile market conditions.
There has been a strong recovery in private markets following the Global
UK private equity house Maven Capital Partners (Maven) has appointed Gareth Price as an investment director with responsibility for sourcing VCT opportunities, investments for Maven’s MBO fund, and its private equity co-investor partner network in the South West, as well as managing portfolio investments in the region.
Price brings close to 30 years’ investment and corporate finance experience to Maven, having spent his career advising both privately-owned SMEs and companies listed on AIM and the London Stock Exchange Main Market across a range of transactions including acquisitions and disposals, IPOs and debt and equity fundraisings. Gareth is a qualified chartered
Natixis Investment Managers has launched Flexstone Partners, a global private equity manager that brings together three of Natixis Investment Managers’ existing private equity affiliates: Euro-PE, Caspian Private Equity and Eagle Asia.
Eric Deram, previously Founder and Managing Partner of Euro-PE, has been appointed as the CEO of Flexstone Partners.
The announcement follows other recent expansions into alternatives and real assets by Natixis Investment Managers, including the acquisition earlier this year of UK-based private debt specialist, MV Credit, and the launch of a co-investment offering on real asset private debt – in real estate, infrastructure and aviation – by its
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