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Private equity investment firm Golden Gate Capital has completed the acquisition of Active Minerals International (AMI) from Merit Capital Partners.
AMI will continue to be led by its current management team, including President and Chief Executive Officer Dennis Parker. Management will retain a significant ownership stake in the business.
Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Founded in 1964, AMI is a leading global producer and distributor of specialty industrial minerals, including kaolin and gel quality attapulgite clay minerals. AMI is headquartered in Sparks, Maryland and has regional offices in China, Taiwan, Mexico and Australia. The Company’s products
ARQIS has appointed Dr Mirjam Boche as an Equity Partner, effective 1 January 2019.
Boche has been a part of the M&A/Corporate team since 2008 and was appointed Salary Partner in 2014. She is particularly experienced in advising insurance companies with regard to M&A and D&O insurances.
Recently, Boche has acquired several international insurances companies as clients, but also deepened her classic M&A work. For instance, she and her team advised Oerlikon on transactions in Germany and the founders of IMD Natural Solution on the sale of their company to LANXESS. ‘JUVE Handbuch’ and ‘Wirtschaftswoche’ name her a highly
Feedr, an intelligent lunch platform that uses technology to offer office employees personalised meals from healthy food suppliers, has secured a pre-Series A investment round of GBP1.535 million.
The round was supported by notable investors including Episode 1 – the Venture Capital fund who backed Shazam and Triptease, as well as Angels Errol Damelin – Founder of Wonga and investor in CityMapper and TransferWise, Richard Glynn – former Ladbrokes CEO and Founder of Alinsky Partners, David Pritchard – Founder of OpenTable Europe, and Founders Factory – Brent Hoberman’s accelerator fund. The round will be used to invest in their
Private equity firm GTCR is to acquire Ultimus Fund Solutions and The Gemini Companies in a strategic combination. The combined company, which will operate as Ultimus Fund Solutions, will be a leading provider of full service fund administration, accounting and investor solutions to traditional and alternative fund managers.
On behalf of their customers, the combined companies service approximately USD150 billion of assets under administration and over 840 total funds.
As part of this transaction, Ultimus President Gary Tenkman (pictured), will become the Chief Executive Officer of the combined business. Gemini CEO Kevin Hesselbirg will join the Board of the
Law firm Browne Jacobson has appointed regulatory partner Jeremy Irving as Head of Financial Services. Irving was previously a partner at international law firm, DWF.
An expert in FCA and PRA regulatory issues, Irving (pictured), advises insurance and financial markets participants on both compliance and legal risk management, including as to: authorisations and exemptions; governance; solvency and capital; product development and distribution; reporting and notification; and investigations and enforcement. Recent projects have involved the Senior Managers & Certification Regime, the Market Abuse Regulation, the Insurance Distribution Directive, and Solvency II.
With over 20 years’ experience in the sector Irving
An affiliate of Sun Capital Partners (Sun Capital), a private investment firm specialising in leveraged buyouts and investments in market-leading companies, has partnered with StonePoint Materials (StonePoint) to acquire VantaCore Partners (VantaCore).
VantaCore is a leading producer of crushed stone, sand and gravel for infrastructure, energy, commercial, residential, and other markets. StonePoint Materials was founded in 2017 by former executive members of VantaCore, with the objective of creating a national aggregates and construction materials company, through both acquisition and internal growth.
Operating across eight states, VantaCore has over 7.6 million tons of annual production and offers complementary asphalt production
Global investment firm KKR is to acquire GeoStabilization International (GSI), a provider of geotechnical maintenance services for critical infrastructure across the United States and Canada, from CAI Capital Partners (CAI).
This transaction marks KKR’s third acquisition of a middle-market business in the industrials sector this year. The transaction, the financial details of which were not disclosed, is being funded through KKR’s Americas XII Fund.
GSI is a leading provider of landslide repair and rockfall mitigation services in the United States and Canada, developing and implementing innovative solutions that remediate geo-hazards in order to restore the safe operability of
BakerHostetler has appointed Adam Gale, a seasoned attorney who advises investment funds and managers on a variety of fund formation and compliance matters, as a partner and co-leader of the firm’s Investment Funds team.
Gale joins the firm from Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, where he was co-leader of its Investment Funds practice.
Gale’s practice focuses on counselling middle-market private investment funds on a wide range of matters, including forming and structuring US and international private investment funds, representing institutional investors in their investments, providing regulatory and compliance counsel to funds and asset managers, advising on initial
RED Capital Partners, a new venture capital firm with offices in Madrid and Tel Aviv, is to launch RED Ventures Fund I, EMEA’s largest VC fund investing exclusively in high-growth tech companies founded or co-founded by women.
RED Ventures Fund I channels the exchange of technology between Israeli and European companies and opens opportunities for Israeli companies to enter the European market. The fund also invests in European technology companies, with a particular focus on Spain, looking to expand internationally, or to access Israeli innovative technology.
With a target size of EUR50 million, the fund will back up to
O’Melveny has represented workforce software developer Sapho in its USD200 million sale to multinational software company Citrix Systems.
The addition of Sapho will expand Citrix’s software offerings to include Sapho’s leading micro app workforce productivity platforms.
Founded in 2014, Sapho is used by customers in all industries to streamline their internal workflows, enable smart decision-making, and increase employee effectiveness and engagement. Citrix is a leader in workplace software systems, with more than 400,000 organisations – including 98 per cent of the Fortune 500 – using Citrix solutions.
The O’Melveny team was led by partner and M&A partner and
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