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Jonathan Melmed, Enrico Granata and Ted Markson have joined King & Spalding as partners in the firm’s New York office.
Melmed has a focus on the power, electricity, energy and core infrastructure sectors, with the balance of his practice involving transactions in a multitude of other sectors, including technology, real estate buyout, healthcare/life sciences and general industrials. he will serve as co-chair, Global Private Equity and head of US Power & Infrastructure.
“Jonathan is one of the leading private equity lawyers in the energy and infrastructure space with a demonstrated brand and track record,” says Robert D Hays, Jr,
Kaleyra, a provider of global messaging services for banks, SME and large enterprise clients, is to acquire American cloud communications company Hook Mobile.
Hook Mobile is a mobile cloud messaging services provider with extensive experience, global connectivity, and an enterprise grade CPaaS platform supporting clients worldwide and with specific expertise in the North, Central and South American markets. As of today, it reaches over 50 countries, aiming for over 100 countries by 2019.
Kaleyra offers communications services for some 8,000 enterprise customers reaching some 200 countries worldwide. Its clients include a broad range of SMEs and leading brands such
Evidation Health, a health and measurement company that helps life sciences and health care companies understand how everyday behaviours and health interact, has raised USD30 million in Series C funding.
The round was co-led by SV Health Investors, a new investor, and existing investor B Capital Group. It included participation from existing investors GE Ventures and Sanofi Ventures. With this funding, Evidation has raised a total of USD61 million.
Evidation also announced that it launched a new data platform to enable its customers to analyse and process large-scale sensor and behaviour data in clinically meaningful ways.
“Our new
Private equity firm ClearLight Partners has sold Taymax Group Holdings (Taymax) to Trilantic North America for an undisclosed sum.
Based in Salem, New Hampshire, Taymax is one of the largest and fastest-growing franchisees in the Planet Fitness system. Taymax owns and operates more than 50 Planet Fitness clubs in the greater San Antonio, Corpus Christi, Nashville, Pittsburgh, Sacramento, Toronto and Ottawa regions. Planet Fitness is one of the largest and fastest-growing franchisors and operators of fitness centres in the United States by number of members and locations. Its mission is to enhance people’s lives by providing a high-quality fitness experience
Clayton, Dubilier & Rice has appointed Jean-Michel Aubertin, former CEO of CG Power and Doosan Power Systems, as an Operating Advisor to CD&R funds.
Aubertin has held senior leadership positions at a range of European-based industrial and services businesses. From 2014 – 2017, Aubertin served as Chief Executive Officer of CG Power, the electrical equipment and systems group. Prior to this he was CEO of Doosan Power Systems, the power engineering firm, from 2010 to 2013.
Between 2003 and 2009, Aubertin was a senior executive of Alstom, the provider of integrated transport systems, equipment and services, first as Senior Vice
Browne Jacobson has advised on the successful management buy-out of technology services business DSP Database Managed Services.
The deal was backed by YFM Equity Partners (YFM) the specialist private equity fund manager, and Santander Growth Capital.
Corporate Finance Associate Paul McCannah led on the deal for Browne Jacobson, advising both vendors and the management team led by CEO Simon Goodenough, with Emma Hinton, banking partner, leading on the debt funding for DSP.
Established in 1999 DSP is one of the UK’s leading providers of ‘Next Generation’ Database and Data Platform Managed Services across Oracle, Microsoft and Open Source
HELP Inc, the owner and provider of PrePass weigh station bypassing and other truck safety and toll payment technologies, is partnering with infrastructure investment firm Alinda Capital Partners.
HELP, a non-profit 501(c)(3) public charity, is governed by a Board of Directors comprised of an equal number of State government agency and trucking industry representatives, ensuring that solutions and services that support and enhance public safety are balanced between safety and freight efficiency. Upon receiving HELP Board approval in late May, Alinda completed the acquisition of HELP’s contractor, CVO Holding Company, LLC, which will continue to provide contractual services to HELP.
Brixton-based event lead capture company Akkroo has closed a GBP1.75 million funding round led by Conviction Investment Partners (CIP), with participation from previous private investors.
In line with CIP’s ‘just in time’ capital funding model, this raise forms the first part of its Series A round and the business will have access to further capital of an equal or greater amount in 12 months’ time. The company will use the funds to increase its marketing activities and significantly expand its US operations.
Formally launched in 2013 as a spin-out from RMP Enterprise, Akkroo enables sales and marketing teams
International private equity firm, Cinven’s Sixth Cinven Fund has entered into exclusive discussions to acquire AXA Life Europe (ALE), a European life insurance company, for a consideration of EUR925 million.
ALE primarily manages guaranteed, unit-linked life insurance products (known as ‘Variable Annuities’) for its customer base across Germany, the UK, France, Spain, Italy and Portugal. ALE manages circa 248,000 policies, circa EUR8 billion of assets and has circa EUR5 billion of reserves of which circa 70 per cent is related to German policies. It has been closed to new business since 2017. Furthermore, ALE is a reinsurer of AXA’s Japanese variable
HIG Capital’s portfolio company Valtris Specialty Chemicals (Valtris), has acquired INEOS ChloroToluenes (ICT) and INEOS Baleycourt (Baleycourt) from INEOS Enterprises.
The combination creates a global specialty chemicals business with a broad product portfolio, strong technical capabilities and world-class customer service.
With production facilities in Belgium and the Netherlands, ICT is a leading producer of chlorinated toluenes and related derivatives that are used in coatings, flavour & fragrance, personal care and pharmaceutical applications. Based in northeast France, Baleycourt produces high-quality products that serve the polymer additives, lubricant, renewable energy and food markets.
Paul Angus, CEO of Valtris commented, “ICT
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