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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
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
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