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UK-based privacy technology and data analytics company MyLife Digital has completed a new circa GBP6 million funding round led by BGF to support the international roll-out of its innovative platform.
MyLife Digital provides an enterprise Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution to help organisations manage the challenges around personal data, enabling them to build greater trust and engagement through data transparency with the individuals they serve. MyLife Digital, incorporating Wood for Trees and Insight Analysis, developed the Consentric SaaS platform as a world-leading personal data capability and launched to market in late 2017. Consentric adds value by reducing data misuse, enabling new service
UK private equity house Maven Capital Partners (Maven) has led the GBP20 million management buyout (MBO) of UAP Limited (UAP), a UK supplier and distributor of door and window hardware.
The transaction represents Maven’s second investment from its new buyout fund, having earlier this year led an investment in Scottish-based John McGavigan Limited.
The transaction, which includes an equity investment of GBP8.7 million from Maven and a significant reinvestment from the senior management team, will enable UAP to further accelerate growth with an expanded product range and entry into new markets. Founded in 1996 by David Jennings, UAP has
Foresight Group (Foresight) has invested GBP2.5 million to support the partial buy-out of Bolton-based community healthcare and wellbeing provider ABL Health Limited (ABL).
ABL is a provider of community healthcare and wellbeing services across the North of England. The Company was founded in 2009 by Denise Leslie and Dr Sheena Bedi, as a means of providing a range of innovative, evidence based, healthy lifestyle, behavioural change and wellbeing programmes including weight management, nutrition support and smoking cessation. The business has helped approximately 12,000 clients record weight loss in the North-West region, mainly in Manchester, St Helens, Wigan and Blackpool, and
Falcon Private Holdings, the private investment manager of the US-based family office of Jamshid Keynejad and Barry Siadat, has closed the acquisition of a controlling interest in Halcón Cerámicas (Halcón), a Spanish ceramic tile producer, from the existing family owners.
The Montalbo and Vicent families will retain ownership positions and their active engagement with the Company will continue.
Halcón designs, produces, and distributes a broad portfolio of ceramic tiles for floor and wall applications. Halcón, with global sales approaching EUR150 million, holds a market leading position in Spain and has been rapidly penetrating growing markets in the rest of
Waterland Private Equity is expanding its Swiss activities with the opening of a new office in Zurich.
The new Zurich team will work closely with the firm’s existing offices in Munich and Hamburg.
“Switzerland is a highly interesting market, and we are a very attractive growth partner for mid-sized companies in the region. This is demonstrated by our current engagement in Tineo – previously Quickline Business,” says Jörg Dreisow, Managing Partner at Waterland. “With our buy & build experience, financial strength, European office network and new proximity, we will be able to help Swiss companies expanding their potential,
Noerr has advised Ipsen International Holding on the refinancing and recapitalisation of the Ipsen Group.
The new financing structure of this portfolio company of Quadriga Capital includes unitranche financing provided by Barings, including an acquisition credit line for future inorganic growth and international revolving super senior credit lines provided by ABN AMRO and HSBC.
Ipsen Group, which is headquartered in Kleve, Germany, is the world’s leading supplier of integrated heat treatment solutions for the hardening of metal parts. Since the investment by Quadriga Capital Funds, Ipsen has developed into a global player with production facilities in Germany, the USA,
ING Bank, in its role as Coordinator and Bookrunning Mandated Lead Arranger, together with NIBC (Mandated Lead Arranger), has successfully closed a EUR52 million Credit Facility for The Datacenter Group to support the acquisition of two datacenter assets from Rabo Bouwfonds Communication Infrastructure Fund.
The transaction is a transformative deal for the Amsterdam-based datacenter company, which will add two new locations to its asset portfolio, as well as additional capacity to grow. ING Bank is acting as Facility and Security Agent.
Siemon van den Berg, CEO and founder of The Datacenter Group, says: “This transaction would not have happened
Investec Specialist Bank (Investec) has appointed Joerg Bachtler to its Institutional Sales Group (ISG).
Bachtler will oversee the syndication and distribution of leveraged buyout transactions originated by Investec’s Corporate & Acquisition Finance team.
The ISG team is responsible for the global syndication and distribution of transactions originated by Investec. Bachtler will play a key role in driving growth from Investec’s client base across both European and Indian markets.
Bachtler joins from UniCredit Bank AG London, where he spent five years as a Director in the global syndicate and private sales team. In this role, he focused on the
Global investment firms Bregal Investments and KKR are to sell global schools group Cognita to Jacobs Holding of Switzerland.
Cognita operates over 70 schools across eight countries, educating more than 40,000 children. The organisation was established in 2004 by Bregal with the acquisition of a single school in the UK and expanded successfully into Europe, Asia and Latin America. Cognita continued to grow rapidly and in 2013 KKR invested to become a 50 per cent shareholder in the company, giving even greater support to Cognita’s growth across the globe and helping to build a world-class organisation.
Since then, through
International law firm Brown Rudnick has expanded its International Corporate practice with the appointment of Philip Watkins as a Partner in the firm’s London Office.
Watkins, who joins Brown Rudnick with Victoria Rodley, Counsel, from Katten Muchin Rosenman UK, is a senior practitioner in corporate and commercial law, with particular emphasis on cross-border mergers and acquisitions, sophisticated private equity transactions, takeovers, strategic investments, joint ventures, restructurings, re-financings, buyouts and exit strategies.
Over his extensive career, Watkins has built a reputation as a trusted M&A counsel to corporations and private equity investors both in the United Kingdom and internationally across a wide range of industries. His experience
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