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Private equity firm MidOcean Partners has acquired Florida Food Products (FFP), a manufacturer of natural and clean label ingredients, from Kainos Capital. MidOcean’s investment will be used to drive FFP’s continued growth and expansion.
Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Founded in 1954 and headquartered in Eustis, Florida, FFP is a leading manufacturer of healthy, natural, clean label ingredients and is the market leader in the clean label cure market. Clean label cures are used for a wide variety of end market uses including packaged meat, foodservice, private label and branded CPG meats as well as
Activa Capital has appointed Charles de Lauriston as ESG and Digital Transformation Associate.
The arrival of Charles de Lauriston demonstrates Activa Capital’s ambitions to deepen the ESG approach within the management company and all of its portfolio companies.
De Lauriston will manage the transversal integration of the ESG criteria in the portfolio of Activa Capital as well as in the investment cycle, under the responsibility of Christophe Parier, Partner.
De Lauriston joins Activa Capital after previous work experience at Ethifinance as ESG Analyst, and at Gefip as SRI (Socially Responsible Investments) project manager assistant. He is a graduate
Maples and Calder has opened a new office in Jersey, providing legal services in the corporate, finance and investment funds areas as well as listing agent services for the listing of securities on The International Stock Exchange (TISE) in the Channel Islands.
The new offering is a natural evolution for the international firm, and will complement its existing British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands and Irish legal services.
Maples and Calder has made three senior hires to support the expansion. The office is managed by leading Jersey advocate Chris Byrne (pictured), who brings over 20 years’ experience in the Jersey
INDOS Financial Limited is expanding its UK operations with the opening of a new operations centre in Fareham, Hampshire.
Headquartered in London since launch in 2012, INDOS has firmly established itself as the leading independent alternative investment fund depositary and oversight service provider, servicing over 115 funds across 75 clients. The business now employs 30 staff across three offices in London, County Wexford in Ireland, and Fareham.
The Fareham office, led by Emily Mackay (pictured), will become a core operational hub for the business, performing depositary oversight over private equity and real estate funds. The expansion is due to
Atlantic-Pacific Capital has held the final closing of Dalmore Capital 3 (DCF 3) at its hardcap with GBP950 million of capital commitments. DCF 3 received support from a diverse group of new and existing investors across the UK, Germany and Asia.
The offering attracted a wide range of institutional investors, including public and corporate pension funds, insurance groups and investment management groups.
Dalmore Capital Limited (Dalmore Capital) is an independent fund management company that seeks to provide institutional investors with access to low volatility infrastructure assets, particularly in the UK. As such, the Fund’s core investment strategy chiefly
Seasalt, the Cornish lifestyle and clothing brand, has secured a GBP16 million investment in the company to support future growth and development in the business. The investment will see BGF invest GBP11.5 million, with Santander Corporate & Commercial providing an additional GBP4.5 million in funding.
In the last three years, Seasalt’s turnover has grown from GBP28 million to GBP51 million. The company now employs 869 people and is one of the largest private employers in Cornwall. In March, Seasalt opened its 50th store in the UK, bucking the recent prevailing trend on the British high street.
With this new
Ancor Capital Partners, a Dallas-based private equity firm, has acquired STATinMED Research, a medical technology company in the health economics and outcomes research (HEOR) industry.
The transaction, which was finalised on 7 September, represents Ancor’s largest acquisition to date. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
As one of the world’s leading HEOR companies, STATinMED is transforming the way health care uses real world data to accelerate research and generate evidence that provides enhanced decision-making capabilities for the market. Using their customised research methodologies and a diverse set of data sources, STATinMED draws on millions of data points
Beekeeper, a communication and operations platform for frontline workers, has raised an additional USD13 million as a part of its Series A extension round.
Atomico and Keen Venture Partners led the round with a diverse group of strategic investors including Samsung NEXT, Edenred Capital Partners (ECP), and Swiss Post who have joined Beekeeper’s mission to connect the nearly two billion non-desk workers who have been forgotten when it comes to digitalisation within companies. All existing key investors, including FYRFLY Venture Partners and investiere.ch, also participated in the round.
Aligning employees without email addresses or corporate devices with the entire
Capvis, a mid-market investor in Europe, has held the final closing of Capvis Equity V LP (Capvis V) with capital commitments of just under EUR1.2 billion, comfortably in excess of both its target of EUR1.0 billion and the EUR0.7 billion size of Capvis Equity IV LP.
Capvis V attracted capital from both existing investors and major new investors from around the globe, extending Capvis’ relationships in North America, the Middle East and Asia. Investors in Europe, in particular the DACH region, remain well represented and the investor base includes renowned public and corporate pension funds, insurance companies, sovereign wealth funds,
Law firm Orrick has continued the expansion of the London and European private equity platform with the additions of James Connor from Simpson Thacher, and Daniel Wayte from Milbank.
“Private equity is a strategic priority for us and is essential to our focus on the tech, energy & infrastructure and finance sectors. We’re thrilled to be growing our team with talent of the calibre of James and Dan, who have experience representing some of the most active players in this market,” says Kolvin Stone, Orrick’s London office leader.
“We have real momentum in our pan-European M&A and private equity
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