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Wireless Innovation, a specialist Machine-to-Machine (M2M) and Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity and communications provider, backed by Horizon Capital, has acquired Rock Seven Mobile Services Limited and YB Tracking Limited.
Founded in 2008, Rock Seven and YB Tracking provide connectivity and hardware, which enable customers to track assets and IoT devices in remote and hazardous locations utilising the Iridium satellite network. The business has demonstrated significant growth, expanding sales by 200% over the last two years, and will allow the enlarged group to access new fast- growing markets in the M2M sector.
Richard Searle, CTO of Rock Seven, says: “We
Connection Capital, a specialist private client investment business, has appointed a new Portfolio Manager, Michael Coupland, to its private equity team.
Coupland will play a key role in monitoring Connection Capital’s private equity portfolio and will partner with portfolio companies throughout the lifetime of the investment, to strengthen the investor/investee relationship and provide support to enable business development and growth.
Coupland joins from private equity firm Caird Capital where he was an Associate Director specialising in portfolio management, working with investee companies across a range of sectors including Industrials, Healthcare, Business Services, Housebuilding and Construction.
Coupland started his career at
Céréa Capital II, alongside the management and Unexo, has acquired, from Linxis Group, owned by the IK VIII Fund advised by IK Investment Partners, the three companies of its cheese and dairy division: Chalon-Mégard, Tecnal et Simon Frères.
Linxis Group, formerly Bretèche Industrie, is a supplier of equipment for the agri-food, pharma and cosmetics industries. It has ceded the three companies of its dairy division to focus on its equipment activities for bakery and beauty/health sectors.
The dairy division, renamed Synext Group, is the French leader in cheese equipment (for hard cheeses, such as Comté and Beaufort, as well
Tikehau Capital, an alternative investment and asset management group, has acquired asset management company ACE Management. In addition, Marwan Lahoud has been appointed to strengthen Tikehau’s private equity business.
Tikehau Capital continues its policy for growth with the 100 per cent acquisition of ACE Management. The acquisition of a specialist in the aerospace, defence and cybersecurity sector, further supports Tikehau Capital’s momentum of strengthening its private equity expertise. ACE Management will provide Tikehau Capital with a new range of specialist funds, complementing Tikehau’s generalist funds focusing on growth equity, alongside the specialist energy sector and special situations funds already managed
Senior Architectural Systems, the UK’s largest privately owned aluminium fenestration systems manufacturer, has announced a structured management buy-out (MBO) of the company by its current board of directors.
The MBO deal has been led by Senior’s managing director Mark Wadsworth and includes three other members of the board – sales director James Keeling-Heane, technical director Mark Wheatley and financial director Les Buxton. Senior’s founder Lennart Jonsson, who helped establish the company back in 1991, will continue as a shareholder and director.
The move marks an important milestone in Senior’s 27 year history, throughout which time the company has consistently
Private equity funds are not known to be currency speculators, but now that sterling has fallen since the decision was made to leave the European Union, currency valuations may be playing their part in the UK’s private equity market.
A financial sponsor would usually have a vision of how it could drive a company forward once it has acquired it, regardless of macro situations.
For example, Bain Capital’s purchase of the UK-based insurance firm Esure, where the focus will be on investing and enhancing technological innovations.
The Silver Lake Group bought ZPG in May this year for over USD3 billion, with
A string of high-profile ransomware attacks in recent years, led by the WannaCry attack in May 2017, has led to a growing awareness among the business community on the importance of proper patch management.
Just as your iPhone regularly alerts us to a new system upgrade, so computer networks must update their software to address vulnerabilities, which left unattended could lead to a serious cyber breach.
The importance of patch management was highlighted in a recent webinar featuring Scott Reardon, Director of Global Technical Services at Eze Castle Integration.
Beyond simply complying with expectations, patch management is an essential
PineBridge Investments has closed PineBridge Secondary Opportunity Partners (PSOP) having raised over USD880 million in five months. The fund will aim to provide investors with access to a global and diversified private equity secondary portfolio.
The fund primarily provides clients with exposure to US middle-market buyout strategies, with additional global exposure, and has interests in mainly the industrials, consumer discretionary, financial and information technology sectors.
In March, the firm closed on the PineBridge Secondary Partners IV fund (PSP IV), raising USD568 million and surpassing its USD500 million target.
“PineBridge PFG continues to have a successful year, not only
An affiliate of middle-market private equity firm Peak Rock Capital has acquired Pretzels, a supplier of pretzels and extruded snack products.
Headquartered in Bluffton, Indiana, Pretzels provides an extensive portfolio of salty snack products that includes traditional, peanut-butter-filled, flavoured, seasonal, and gluten-free pretzels, as well as extruded snack products. The company serves a diverse, blue-chip customer base that includes leading grocers and national brands. Through its 40-year history, Pretzels has built an outstanding reputation for providing excellent customer service and exceptional product quality.
Robert Strauss, Managing Director of Peak Rock, says: “Our investment in Pretzels reinforces Peak Rock’s focus on investing
International law firm Fieldfisher has advised TSX-V-listed Canadian company, Strongbow Exploration, on successfully closing a conditional “synthetic” offtake agreement with specialist mining private equity fund, Orion Mine Finance.
Strongbow is the owner of South Crofty, the iconic former-producing copper and tin mine near Camborne and Pool in Cornwall. The company plans to bring the mine back into production following a proposed dual listing on London’s AIM market.
Strongbow announced its offtake deal with US-headquartered Orion on 17 October, marking yet another example of the use of non-traditional forms of financing in the mining sector.
The offtake provides for
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