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Private investment firm Littlejohn & Co has held the final closing of Littlejohn Fund VI, with USD2.84 billion of committed capital, exceeding the fund’s target of USD2.5 billion. The firm’s previous fund, Littlejohn Fund V, with USD2.0 billion of committed capital, was raised in 2014.
Michael Klein, Chief Executive Officer and co-Founder of Littlejohn, says: “We are grateful to both our existing and new investors for the trust they place in Littlejohn to invest their capital. We plan to continue to execute on Littlejohn’s strategy of partnering with management to transform businesses via investments in equity and special situations in
Salveo Capital, an alternative investment firm specialising in the legalised cannabis space, has completed an investment in Harborside.
The investment, which is part of a Series B funding for Harborside, will help facilitate the company’s expansion throughout California and further improve its supply chain.
Founded in 2006, Harborside is one of the oldest, largest and most respected names in the cannabis industry. Having played a significant role in making cannabis safe and accessible to a broad and diverse community of California consumers, Harborside has cultivated a network of retail stores with a reputation for offering a curated selection
Crossroads Holding, a portfolio company of private equity company Revelstoke Capital Partners (Revelstoke), has completed its acquisition of EHC Medical Offices (EHC).
The transaction marks Revelstoke’s 50th acquisition since its founding in 2013. The transactions represent 13 platform companies and 37 add-on acquisitions, totalling over USD4 billion of enterprise value.
Revelstoke’s investments have focussed primarily in high growth healthcare services sub sectors, such as physical therapy, ophthalmology, home care, healthcare information technology, healthcare education, rural urgent care, and behavioural health. Revelstoke’s portfolio companies now employ over 30,000 employees, many of whom are direct care givers and healthcare providers. Revelstoke
A business which allows recruiters to test the skills of IT professionals and hire the right people has secured a GBP500,000 investment from the North East Venture Fund, supported by the European Regional Development Fund and managed by Mercia Fund Managers.
The investment, which is the first by the North East Venture Fund in Sunderland, will allow Technically Compatible to more than double in size and create an additional 10 jobs. The company is based in the Sunderland Software Centre and has developed an online assessment platform that allows businesses to check the abilities of developers and IT staff, reduce
Congruex, an end-to-end provider of design, engineering, construction management and maintenance services to broadband service providers, has acquired White Construction Co. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Founded in 1995 in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, White Construction is a telecom-focused self-perform construction company, specialising primarily in underground construction work with particular expertise in fibre-to-the-home, fibre-to-the-premises, and fibre optic interconnect projects. White Construction also has aerial, splicing, and cutover capabilities.
Congruex’s acquisition of White follows its purchases of CCLD Technologies and CHC Consulting in late 2017, which positioned Congruex as one of the largest pure telecom engineering firms
Blue Sage Capital has sold its portfolio company PRIMUS Sterilizer to Chalmers Development Corporation, a subsidiary of Ontario-headquartered Chalmers Group of Companies. Livingstone acted as exclusive financial advisor to PRIMUS.
Omaha-based PRIMUS Sterilizer Company is the largest US-based manufacturer of mission-critical steam sterilisers, and provider of related aftermarket services into laboratory, biopharmaceutical, clinical, and vivarium end markets.
The company’s 19 standard autoclave sizes, along with its ability to create custom configurations, allows PRIMUS’s products to serve a wide range of research, development, testing, healthcare, and other similar applications. Accordingly, the Company has built strong relationships with an extensive list
Independent fund and corporate services provider, the Aztec Group, has appointed Joel Kavyu as an Associate Director within its private equity team.
Based in Jersey, Kavyu will lead a relationship team and oversee the delivery of fund accounting, financial reporting, investor services and a range of other administration activities to a significant private equity client.
Kavyu joins the Group from Autonomy Capital, a global alternatives asset manager, where he was Group Financial Controller. Prior to this, he held senior positions at HSBC in the Channel Islands and in the audit team of BDO in Guernsey, having started his career
Cryptech World, an investment firm acquired by private equity investor Berkeley Assets in June last year, is on a mission to bring blockchain and cryptocurrencies to retail investors.
Omar Jackson (pictured), director of Cryptech World, explains that the company’s USD50 million fund is 80 per cent invested in venture capital projects based on cryptocurrencies and blockchain and 20 per cent invested in cryptocurrencies themselves.
Performance year to date is 40 per cent up in the cryptocurrency portfolio and 70 per cent up in the venture capital segment. The next few weeks will see Cryptech World offering a venture capital only fund.
Departing Jersey Finance CEO, Geoff Cook, is to join law firm Mourant as a consultant in early 2019.
After 12 successful years at Jersey Finance, Cook (pictured), is transitioning to work with Mourant as part of a change in career direction. This role is one of a small number of anchor relationships for Cook, and will become a platform from which he will continue to build a portfolio of other advisory and non-executive positions.
Mourant Jersey Managing Partner, Daniel Birtwistle, says: “We have long admired the strategic clarity and integrity Geoff has brought to the debate about the positive
Diversis Capital has acquired a controlling stake in Tempo, a specialist in productivity-enhancing project management solutions. Former owner and founder, Origo, will retain a 45 per cent stake in Tempo, and remains an important partner.
“We are very pleased to announce new ownership by Diversis Capital with their wide experience of working with unique tech companies and the tremendous opportunity for growth that this brings,” says Agust Einarsson, CEO of Tempo. “Diversis has demonstrated their value to investments through its collaborative approach using their operating partner and strategic advisors working alongside management to take companies to the next level. Additional
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