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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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We wish all our readers the very best for the festive season, and we look forward to working with all of you again in 2019.
The shareholders of Inflexion Private Equity-backed CloserStill Media have reached an agreement to sell the exhibitions operator to Providence Equity Partners.
Founded in 2008, CloserStill operates content-led exhibitions throughout the UK, Europe, the US and the Far East and has been ranked in The Sunday Times HSBC International FastTrack 200 for three consecutive years. The firm’s success is down to its ability to consistently provide world-class content and attract large, high-value audiences, with The London Vet Show, the Pharmacy Show, Learning Technologies, Cloud Expo Europe, Data Centre World, Cloud Expo and Data Centre Asia in Singapore, in its portfolio.
Alantra has acquired a strategic stake in pan-European alternative asset manager Access Capital Partners, a deal that sees the firm add fund of funds, co-investment and secondaries strategies to its existing direct investment activities.
Alantra will be offering its clients access to six specialised asset management classes: private equity, active funds, private debt, infrastructure, real estate and private wealth management.
Alantra says the investment represents a key achievement in its strategy of becoming a pan-European diversified asset manager, by (scaling up its existing businesses, developing complementary asset classes, and playing a key role in the industry consolidation taking place
Mirabaud Asset Management has held the final closing of its first private equity vehicle having raised assets of EUR150 million in excess of expectations.
Launched a year ago, Mirabaud Asset Management’s first private equity vehicle is now fully subscribed by both international institutional and family office clients.
The lifestyle-dedicated private equity vehicle is managed by Renaud Dutreil and Luc Alban Chermette, who bring deep sector expertise, insight and strong industry relationships in the field of living heritage companies – niche, family-run small and medium sized businesses across Europe in the field of luxury services and apparel. They are
American Securities has partnered with management and acquired FleetPride, a distributor of aftermarket parts for the US heavy-duty truck industry. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Based in Irving, Texas, FleetPride is the largest independent heavy-duty aftermarket parts distributor in the US. The Company acts as a critical link between 2,150 suppliers and 100,000 customers who are served through a national network of over 270 branch locations. FleetPride carries the industry’s broadest selection of aftermarket truck parts, offering over 145,000 SKUs across 490 brands, including its own private label offering.
Al Dragone, President and CEO of FleetPride, says:
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