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Rozetka, the leading online e-commerce retailer in Ukraine and a portfolio company of private equity firm Horizon Capital’s EEGF II fund, and EVO, an internet company behind the country’s largest online marketplace Prom.ua, have completed a merger.
The combined Rozetka-EVO platform has two billion site visits and facilitates 30 million e-commerce transactions per year over four geographies. Rozetka and Prom consistently rank among the top 10 most-visited websites in Ukraine, reaching over 40 per cent of Ukraine’s internet audience. Ukraine’s e-commerce segment, growing at 26 per cent compound annual growth rate in dollar terms for the past 3 years, is
KKR has announced a newly promoted group of 18 Managing Directors, effective 1 January 2019.
“We are thrilled to congratulate an exceptional group of senior leaders on this milestone and thank each of them for their significant contributions to maintaining our firm’s culture, integrity and success,” said Henry Kravis and George Roberts, Co-Chairmen and Co-CEOs of KKR. “Nothing pleases us more than delivering results for our portfolio companies and our investors and recognising the individuals for their part in helping KKR achieve that mission.”
The new Managing Directors at KKR are: Ali Allahbachani, Lew Breckenridge, Doug Brody, Terence Gallagher,
Waterland Private Equity has expanded its portfolio company ATOS to include a second location in Cologne – MediaPark Klinik, a hospital specialising in orthopaedics, with a focus on fields such as trauma surgery, sports medicine, osteopathy and chiropractic.
The acquisition will allow the ATOS group of specialised hospitals to enhance its sports medicine expertise. In combination with its ORTHOPARC Clinic, the addition of MediaPark Klinik also makes ATOS the largest regional provider of specialised orthopaedic surgery.
“MediaPark Klinik is one of the leading specialised orthopaedic hospitals in Germany and is a perfect addition to ATOS. The acquisition allows us
An OMERS Infrastructure majority-led consortium, including Allianz Capital Partners (ACP) and AXA IM – Real Assets, acting on behalf of its clients, is to acquire a 49.99 per cent stake in SFR FttH, a company to be formed by Altice France which will hold and further develop Altice France’s existing fibre to the home business (FttH) in France.
The transaction is subject to regulatory approvals and is expected to close in Q1 2019.
SFR FttH is a newly incorporated company comprising the five million FttH homes in medium and low density areas awarded to Altice France to date. With
The majority of LPs (76 per cent) plan to increase or maintain their allocation to African PE over the next three years, with over half of respondents (53 per cent) anticipating increasing their allocation to the continent, contrasted with 49 per cent for other emerging and frontier markets.
That’s according to The African Private Equity and Venture Capital Association’s (AVCA) fifth annual Limited Partner Survey for 2018, which examines global investor views and expectations about private equity in Africa in terms of geographies, sectors, returns, exit routes and other key data points.
Notably, only 5 per cent of respondents
Swander Pace Capital, a private equity firm focussed on consumer companies, has acquired Nutritional Medicinals (Functional Formularies) and its products Liquid Hope and Nourish.
Founded in 2006 by professional chef and nutrition expert Robin Gentry McGee, Functional Formularies is the leading provider of organic, whole food, shelf-stable feeding tube formulas. Gentry McGee created the Company after searching unsuccessfully for natural alternatives to traditional feeding tube formulas to help her father when he was faced with life-threatening health issues. The company offers unique, organic, and whole food alternatives to traditional feeding tube formulas. Liquid Hope and Nourish are nutritionally complete, plant-based,
VR Analytical is a leading provider of Extractables and Leachables (E&L) testing to the pharma, biopharma and e-cigarette industries.
VR Analytical has nearly 20 years’ experience serving pharma and biopharma clients globally, supporting them in testing their product and packaging safety prior to market launch.
The acquisition of VR Analytical extends Crawford’s the footprint beyond the UK (Hall Analytical Laboratories, Manchester) and into the US, the largest E&L market. It also expands Crawford’s pharma/biopharma and e-cigarette testing capabilities and deepens their knowledge, expertise and capacity. The combined group will continue to deliver the very best scientific insight, information and
Real estate services firm Cushman & Wakefield is to acquire Quality Solutions Inc (QSI), an asset-light facilities management provider, from Gridiron Capital. The acquisition of QSI will expand Cushman & Wakefield’s facility management capabilities across North American markets.
Headquartered in Wichita, QSI offers facilities maintenance and managed services in over 75 trades to 110,000-plus locations across various end markets, through over 50,000 qualified vendors. The Company’s integrated, one-stop solution reduces a client’s total cost of ownership and enables clients to strategic plan effectively.
Gridiron Capital originally invested in QSI in 2012 and partnered with the Company to build a scalable operating
Oak Hill Capital Partners (Oak Hill) and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) have entered into a definitive recapitalisation agreement with Berlin Packaging.
As part of the arrangement, CPPIB will make a USD500 million investment in the company. The Berlin Packaging management team, including Chairman and CEO Andrew Berlin, will also make a significant investment. Additional financial terms were not disclosed. The transaction is expected to close by the end of 2018.
Berlin Packaging is a supplier of packaging products and services to companies in multiple industries, providing customers of all sizes with a one-stop shop for glass, plastic,
Alternative investment firm Oak Hill Advisors has implemented Hazeltree’s cash and collateral management suite to manage operational risks, strengthen controls, drive efficiencies and increase yields on excess cash.
Hazetree Cash Manager enables centralised aggregation and monitoring of Oak Hill’s cash balances across more than 25 brokers, banks, and other counterparties; and, the execution of cash movements and payments of more than 100 wires daily via a fully integrated wire solution, including multi-level authorisations, robust controls and detailed audit trails.
Hazeltree Collateral Manager, meanwhile,streamlines and aggregates Oak Hill’s OTC collateral management activity; compares and reconciles internal, independently-valued OTC positions with
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