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Kinly, a portfolio company of private equity firm Avedon Capital Partners has acquired MK2 in a deal that fits in with Kinly’s strategy of strengthening its position in the audio-visual and visual collaboration market through organic growth and strategic acquisitions.
In recent years, MK2 has rapidly developed from Breda into a market leader in the Netherlands within the field of audio-visual solutions and can count many leading businesses as long-term customers.
Together, Kinly and MK2 are the experts in the Dutch market for IT-driven AV and visual collaboration solutions. Kinly increases its AV knowledge and experience. For MK2 and its
New York-based Blue Ox Healthcare Partners (Blue Ox) is a private equity investment firm providing capital to growth stage healthcare companies. The firm focuses on businesses in the middle market targeting the industry’s transformation to individuality and value-based care in healthcare services, HCIT, and medical and life sciences technologies, whose innovations, strategies and operations are poised for growth.
The firm was established in 2009 by Oded Levy when he left Oracle Partners LP, a hedge fund focused on healthcare investments. At that time, Levy was joined by Sheila H Schweitzer as Co-Founder Managing Partner at Blue Ox, after selling her company
Aurelius Equity Opportunities SE & Co has acquired Norwegian automotive aftermarket wholesaler Hellanor from Nordic Forum Holding, a 100 per cent subsidiary of HELLA.
Headquartered in Skytta near Oslo, Hellanor generates circa EUR70 million in revenues with approximately 250 employees.
The transaction is scheduled for completion in the fourth quarter of 2018.
Hellanor supplies its customers, typically automotive workshops, car dealerships and local wholesalers, with spare parts from its central warehouse in Skytta as well as from 19 branches across the country. In addition, Hellanor offers workshop franchise concepts to its clients under its own AutoMester brand as
The ability for private equity investors to remove a GP/manager for cause is almost universal with 93 per cent of funds currently having GP removal for-cause provisions, according to a new report from asset management consultancy MJ Hudson.
‘Governance’, the final instalment in the 4th edition of MJ Hudson’s research into private equity fund terms (Private Equity Fund Terms report), reveals that this very closely matches the percentage of funds with this removal mechanism in last year’s report (96 per cent).
‘Governance’ provides detailed analysis and commentary from MJ Hudson on private equity fund terms and the implications for
Design-led SME housebuilder Backhouse has secured a GBP50 million investment from alternative asset manager Cheyne Capital to support major growth plans for the company in 2019 and beyond.
This new investment by Cheyne Real Estate Credit (CRECH) Fund V – Opportunistic takes the form of a joint venture, giving Backhouse access to the capital required for the next phase of its expansion as it pursues its ambition of delivering 500 houses a year by 2022.
It follows previously-formed joint ventures with the Housing Growth Partnership on two of Backhouse’s current sites in Castle Cary and Westbury. Rob Turner of
Dinosaur Merchant Bank Ltd (DMBL), an independent London challenger bank and a subsidiary of Dinosaur Group Holdings, has appointed Jonathan Bloch, the founder and CEO of Exchange Data International (EDI), as non-executive director.
Headquartered in London, DMBL specialises in institutional investing and finance, with a focus on emerging and frontier markets and clients in the Americas, Europe, Africa and the Middle East.
Bloch (pictured), has many years’ experience in technology and data and set up EDI, a successful provider of securities reference data, in 1994. He is known for challenging established business practices and has a successful record as
An affiliate of LibreMax Capital (LibreMax), an asset management firm specialising in structured credit, is to acquire Trimaran Advisors, a US-based investment manager with expertise in managing collateralised loan obligations (CLOs), from KCAP Financial (KCAP).
Trimaran currently manages six CLOs with approximately USD3 billion of assets under management. Following the close of the transaction, Trimaran’s Chief Investment Officer and head of its CLO platform, Dominick Mazzitelli, will continue to lead the business, supported by the existing management team.
“Trimaran is a well-respected CLO manager with a seasoned team of investment professionals, whose strategy complements our deep structured credit expertise,”
Willdan Group has completed its previously announced acquisition of Lime Energy Co, a national provider of energy solutions for utilities and their commercial customers.
Under the terms of the agreement, Willdan acquired all of the outstanding shares of capital stock of Lime Energy for USD120 million in cash, exclusive of customary holdbacks and adjustments.
Willdan expects the acquisition of Lime Energy to further expand and diversify Willdan’s customer base and to better position Willdan to take advantage of anticipated upcoming contract and budget expansions in California and the Northeastern United States.
The Riverside Company, a global private equity firm, has added Atlas Knowledge (Atlas) to its Mintra Group platform. This is the second add-on for Mintra since Riverside’s 2014 investment in the company.
Headquartered in Aberdeen, Scotland, Atlas provides digital learning solutions for safety critical industries, primarily for the oil and gas sector. The company offers e-learning courses as well as a learning management system and a competence assurance management system that is sold globally.
“The acquisition of Atlas creates a powerful leader in the global oil and gas e-learning market,” says Riverside Managing Partner Antonio Cabral. “Atlas brings a
O’Melveny has represented Finisar Corporation (NASDAQ: FNSR), a global technology specialist in optical communications, in a definitive agreement under which II-VI Incorporated (NASDAQ:IIVI), will acquire the company in a cash and stock transaction valued at approximately USD3.2 billion.
The O’Melveny team was led by David Makarechian, Silicon Valley Partner and Chair of the Firm’s Emerging Technologies Practice, and San Francisco counsel Noah Kornblith.
The transaction is expected to close in the middle of calendar year 2019, subject to approval by each company’s shareholders, antitrust regulatory approvals, and other customary closing conditions.
The combination of II-VI and Finisar would
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