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Mid-market private equity investor LDC has completed a minority investment in leading vehicle management and logistics support specialist SMH Fleet Solutions with acquisition facilities provided by HSBC.
Headquartered in Worcestershire, SMH Fleet Solutions provides a full-suite of fleet management services including delivery, preparation, refurbishment, and re-marketing of vehicles to a broad range of blue chip automotive manufacturers, rental and leasing specialists.
Achieving record revenues of over GBP42 million in its latest financial year to December 2017, the investment will enable SMH Fleet Solutions to further expand its footprint with new sites across the UK, and grow its service proposition through
Offshore law firm, Mourant Ozannes, has advised Low Carbon, a privately-owned investment company, in connection with the establishment of VLC Renewables Fund I (VLC Renewables).
VLC Renewables was established in Jersey as an unregulated eligible investor fund and structured using Jersey limited partnerships. It was created to invest in renewable energy projects which received initial commitments of EUR200 million from Vitol, one of the world’s largest energy companies.
The fund, advised by Low Carbon, will invest in European renewable energy generation projects. Its initial focus will be both onshore and offshore wind energy, specifically targeting projects at various stages
Grupa Netsprint, a portfolio company of Innova Capital, has acquired Way To Grow, a specialist in the optimisation of advertising space for publishers in the programmatic model.
Way to Grow was founded in 2014 by Dominik Czarnota, Janusz Michalik and Łukasz Grodecki, who had worked together at sites such as nk.pl and Interia.pl.
Monika Bronowska, CEO of Grupa Netsprint, says: “Now we will be able to offer our partners even more comprehensive services and even more effectively support their business. An effect of synergy will also be the intensification of activities on other markets.”
Czarnota adds: “We have
Livspace has closed a USD70 million Series C funding round led by global investment funds TPG Growth and Goldman Sachs, with participation from existing investors Jungle Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners and Helion Ventures.
The deal marks the largest Series C round ever raised by a B2C vertical e-commerce company in India.
Launched in 2015 by consumer-Internet industry veterans Anuj Srivastava and Ramakant Sharma, Livspace is one of the fastest-growing, consumer-facing Internet companies in India. In little over three years, Livspace has emerged as a key player in India’s home interiors and renovation market, which is expected to top USD23
Independent venture capital firm Truffle Capital has appointed former VEXIM CEO Vincent Gardès as a senior partner in the firm’s BioMedTech team.
Under the leadership of Philippe Pouletty, MD, the team also includes Alain Chevallier and Antoine Pau.
Gardès will have responsibility for generating new investments in the field of medical devices for Truffle Capital’s new BioMedTech fund and will actively support Truffle portfolio companies.
“My work relationship with Truffle Capital goes back many years, to the days when I was hired as CEO of VEXIM, a company founded by Truffle Capital and acquired by Stryker Corporation in April
Northleaf Capital Partners (Northleaf) has raised USD2.2 billion in new capital across its global private equity program. Northleaf now manages more than USD11 billion in private equity, private credit and infrastructure commitments on behalf of institutional investors in Canada, Europe and the United States.
The new capital raised for Northleaf’s global private equity program includes commitments to Northleaf Private Equity Investors VII (NPE VII), the firm’s seventh global fund, Northleaf Secondary Partners II (NSP II), the firm’s second specialist secondaries fund that closed above target at USD800 million, and a number of discretionary separately managed accounts that invest alongside Northleaf’s pooled investment funds. Both NPE
Chicago-based RedRidge Diligence Services – a provider of due diligence services to investors and lenders – is opening its first international office in London.
Matthew Reid, Associate Director, has relocated from the US in order to lead the London operation.
“In the US, RedRidge has an excellent reputation for a bespoke approach that offers efficiency, flexibility, high-quality service and timely execution in both the lending and equity investment markets,” says Matthew. “Our role now is to transfer that excellence into new markets, starting in Europe from our London base.”
In addition, RedRidge has appointed Andrew Robbins (pictured), as
CAMRADATA, a provider of data and analysis for institutional investors, has launched a Private Markets Database giving investors who are looking for more diversification in their investments access to a new private markets screen within CAMRADATA Live.
CAMRADATA Live enables asset managers to showcase their strategies and allows institutional investors and investment consultants to analyse them all in one easy place. Over 2,500 investors and consultants use the portal to search and analyse nearly 6,000 investment products offered by more than 700 asset managers.
Now clients can search in eight private market categories – allowing them to make more informed investment decisions. These
Private equity investors are shifting their focus away from South Africa and finding opportunities to capture growth in the rest of the continent.
According to the Bright Africa 2018 report, produced annually by RisCura, South Africa has always made up a large proportion of private equity transaction activity. However, the latest numbers show this concentration has reduced significantly from 50 per cent in 2009 to 31 per cent in 2017.
“Sluggish GDP growth, political uncertainty and increasing unemployment, all of which have been prevalent in the local economy for some time, have caused investors to look for PE prospects
Amazon Filters, a filtration equipment manufacturer, has secured a significant investment from BGF. The business will use BGF’s funding to continue its organic growth and further expand its distribution network.
Founded in 1985 by Mike Pizzey, the family-owned business is an independent manufacturer of bespoke filter housings and cartridges. It provides a complete range of standard and customised filter housings and consumables for use in a wide range of industrial sectors. The company has over 1,000 clients across the water, pharmaceutical, automotive and food and drink sectors, and generates revenue of GBP24 million.
Headquartered in Camberley, Surrey, Amazon Filters
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