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Elaghmore Partners, the UK-focused private equity firm, has acquired McPhee Bros (Blantyre) Limited (McPhee Mixers), a leading UK designer and manufacturer of truck-mounted concrete mixer units, known as McPhee Mixers, for an undisclosed multi-million-pound sum.
Founded in 1971, McPhee Mixers is well-established as one of the leading UK suppliers of mixers to the construction and quarrying industry.
McPhee Mixers designs, manufactures and supplies its mixers from its headquarters in Blantyre, Glasgow. It offers its customers, including some of the largest multinational businesses in the construction and aggregate industry, a unique product range of mixers tailored to their requirements. McPhee Mixers
Behrman Capital, a private equity investment firm based in New York and San Francisco, has appointed Vincent M Buffa as an Operating Partner.
Buffa was most recently President and Chief Executive Officer of Data Device Corporation (DDC) – a former Behrman portfolio company – until its USD1 billion sale in 2016.
As an Operating Partner, Buffa will serve on the Boards of current Behrman Capital portfolio companies Corfin Industries and ILC Dover, and share his extensive expertise with their management teams. Behrman Capital and Buffa will also work together to identify future investment opportunities in the defence and aerospace
Cathay Capital and Bpifrance are to acquire a majority stake in global financial software company NeoXam from BlackFin Capital Partners.
The deal comes off the back of a sustained period of growth for NeoXam, a provider of data management and transaction solutions to financial institutions. Over the past two years, the French based firm’s (EUR62.5 million) revenue has increased by +25 per cent and it has signed more than 32 deals and hired over 150 employees.
In close liaison with BlackFin, the executive committee at NeoXam chose Cathay Capital due to its resources and ecosystem developed in Europe, China
StratiFi Technologies, a provider of technology solutions for investment advisors and family offices, has USD7 million in a Series A funding round that led by Anthemis Group.
Wolverine Holdings, Cboe Global Markets, HOF Capital and AngelList also participated alongside finance and technology sepcialists including Mike Curcio, E*Trade’s chief brokerage officer, Matt Hougan, Bitwise Asset Management’s global head of research, and ETF.com’s former chief executive, Matt Wyndowe, formerly Uber’s head of product partnerships and Facebook’s platform games eco-system, and Luke Powell, formerly Prosper’s director of institutional partnerships. StratiFi’s existing investors include Khosla Ventures and Y Combinator.
StratiFi’s Series A funds will
Meridia Private Equity has acquired a significant minority stake in Futbol Emotion, a Spanish multi-channel specialist retailer of football equipment.
Founded by the former professional goalkeeper Javier Sánchez Broto in 2001 and headquartered in Zaragoza (Spain), Futbol Emotion offers a comprehensive high-end specialised product portfolio of football equipment through its website (www.futbolemotion.com) and its network of 18 stores located throughout Spain.
Thanks to its outstanding reputation amongst customers and its content-led proposition, Futbol Emotion is the leading online retailer within its segment in Spain. Furthermore, the Company generates sales in over 50 countries around the world (Portugal, France, Italy,
LPA-CGR avocats has appointed Rym Loucif as a partner to head the Corporate – M&A practice of the firm’s Algiers office.
Admitted to the Paris Bar since 2006, Loucif’s practice focuses on Mergers and Acquisitions and Corporate law. She is particularly active in cross-border mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures. She has gained extensive experience in several regulated sectors, including energy (oil & gas, renewables) and telecommunications.
Loucif joins LPA-CGR avocats as partner to lead the Algiers office’s Corporate-M&A practice, in collaboration with all the firm’s practice groups, both in Paris and in other LPA-CGR avocats offices around the world. Loucif’s
International law firm, Addleshaw Goddard has successfully advised on the sale of ICS Learn in a management buyout backed by private equity firm Primary Capital Partners.
The MBO was led by existing ICS Learn CEO, Colin Kennedy and Finance Director, Alison Doyle.
The Glasgow-based digital learning platform, which dates back more than 128 years, has gone from strength to strength since the 2012 acquisition led by venture capital firm, Par Equity.
Since 2012 ICS Learn has been transformed into a purely online delivery model and is now recognised as a leading distance education provider, catering to more than
Be Relax, an operator of well-being and beauty services at airports, has secured an investment of up to EUR20 million from Activa Capital.
The transaction will help accelerate the pace of Be Relax spa openings at both existing airport locations and at new airports.
Founded in 2004 by Nicolas and Frédéric Briest, Be Relax now operates 52 airport spas in 11 countries across Europe, the US, the Middle East and Asia. The group employs nearly 500 staff worldwide.
Be Relax has experienced strong growth in recent years, particularly in the US and the Middle East, winning numerous tenders, including
TriState Capital Holdings’ Chartwell Investment Partners business officially closed on the acquisition of approximately USD1.06 billion of client assets under management (AUM) from Columbia Partners.
This combination brings Chartwell’s total AUM to more than USD9 billion. As part of the acquisition, the company acquired institutional client accounts with a mix of high-grade fixed income and large-cap equity assets, which generate annualised revenue of more than USD2 million, as well as a team of three experienced professionals.
“We are pleased to welcome Columbia’s exceptional investment professionals and clients into Chartwell,” says TriState Capital Chief Executive Officer James F Getz. “The
Calls from Guernsey for greater mutual recognition of financial regulatory standards have been endorsed in a new report from an independent think tank.
The Institute of Economic Affairs has made the recommendation as part of a report on improving global financial services regulation and fostering economic growth and innovation after the UK leaves the European Union.
The IEA has also called for the reinstatement of Section 270 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000, which offered a marketing route into the UK for non-UCITS funds that was well-used by Guernsey funds before the introduction of the EU’s Alternative
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