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One Equity Partners, a middle market private equity firm, is to acquire a majority stake in Media Solutions, a provider of media processing, delivery and TV service platforms, from Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC).
Ericsson will continue to own a 49 per cent stake in the Company. Additional terms of the private transaction have not been disclosed.
Over the last several years, Ericsson has transformed Media Solutions’ products with a cloud-enabled, standards-based, integrated end-to-end roadmap. The overall mission has been to advance video service delivery with state-of-the-art infrastructure and software. At the same time, all products and operations have been upgraded
Global law firm Ropes & Gray has appointed Will Rosen as co-managing partner of its London office, to work alongside current office managing partner Mike Goetz. The appointment starts with immediate effect.
Rosen, who is also co-head of the firm’s international practice group, has been a partner at Ropes & Gray in London since 2011. He has over 20 years of experience advising private equity funds and corporate clients on M&A and private equity transactions.
Goetz has been managing partner of the firm’s London office since it launched in 2010. A US-qualified partner in the firm’s finance practice, he is
EyeSouth Partners has appointed Rex Adams to the Company as Chief Executive Officer (CEO). EyeSouth is a network of affiliated medical and surgical specialty eye care practices in Georgia and the broader Southeast, formed by private equity firm Shore Capital Partners.
Adams will work closely with the senior leadership team and physician partners to provide strategic guidance and operating expertise to the Company’s practice network in support of a patient-first culture, while also pursuing organic growth and affiliation opportunities to expand patient access.
Adams was most recently the Chief Executive Officer of Payspan, the nation’s leading provider of health
Digital transformation has spread like wildfire in recent years, with the internet and social media platforms redefining how businesses interact with their customers. As capital D, a London-based pan-European private equity manager, points out on its website, a 2016 Microsoft survey of 1,000 business leaders found that nearly half of business leaders believe their business model will no longer exist in five years.
That underscores both the pace of change but also the size of the challenge for all industries, as companies look to employ positive disruption to break free from the pack.
With that in mind, capital D’s mission
BGF completed 48 new investments and provided GBP310 million in funding to UK smaller and mid-sized companies in 2017. BGF was the UK’s most active institutional investor in 2017.
The year ended on another high with GBP79 million was invested in December, an all-time record month for BGF, while two further transactions have already completed in the first two weeks of 2018.
In October, BGF made its 200th new company investment, and exceeded GBP1.3 billion of invested long-term capital. Portfolio companies represent every nation, region and city, and every sector of the UK economy.
New investments in 2017 added
Sendy, an app-based on-demand delivery services platform operating across Kenya, has completed a Series A investment round, led by DOB Equity. DOB Equity will invest alongside CFAO, a member of the Toyota Group, and other private investors.
DOB Equity says that the new funds will enable Sendy to increase their platforms’ service offering. This includes adding more delivery vehicles to their platform, increasing their coverage area, expanding the sales and technology team, and preparing for future expansion into neighbouring countries in East Africa.
DOB Equity explains that the current logistics sector in Kenya – worth USD10 billion – is
Urban simulation software developer ForCity has closed its first round of investment at EUR8 million, through a process led by CM-CIC Innovation and with the participation of the Caisse des Dépôts Group, Omnes Capital and Axeleo Capital.
This first round will allow ForCity to focus on scaling deployment and accelerating time to market for its solutions. These are currently geared towards public and private stakeholders in energy, environment, urban planning and real estate.
What will a city look like in five, 10 or even 20 years’ time? In the long term what is the most effective configuration for a
MMC Ventures has promoted Head of Research, David Kelnar, to Partner.
MMC has focused on the technology sector since it was founded in 2000. Under David Kelnar’s leadership MMC has built up a widely recognised Research function which it uses to guide its investment themes and to provide the entrepreneurs it backs with deep domain knowledge.
Kelnar was uniquely suited to head MMC’s Research team. His technology research experience was gained at Goldman Sachs and New York hedge fund, Calypso Capital. This coupled with his own entrepreneurial experience having raised capital for his own startup and operational experience
Noerr has advised private equity funds assisted by DPE Deutsche Private Equity Management III on the purchase of a majority interest in Air Alliance Group, a dealer for the well-known aircraft manufacturers Pilatus, Diamond and Gulfstream.
With offices and facilities in Siegerland, Cologne, Vienna and Birmingham, the company also offers comprehensive maintenance and repair services for private and business aircraft and is a leading European provider of medical flights.
In this transaction DPE relied on Noerr and a team led by its private equity partner Georg Schneider. Noerr’s private equity team is regularly involved in buyout transactions and in
Palamon Capital Partners (Palamon) has acquired a majority stake in Thomas International, an international provider of psychometric assessment solutions with a focus on the small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) market.
Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Thomas International is a leading provider of online psychometric assessments, consulting, and related products and services. Founded in 1981 by the Reed family, the Company has been at the forefront of assessment innovation for more than 37 years, helping SMEs to recruit, develop, and retain talent. Headquartered in the UK, the Company has 81 offices globally with over 75 per cent
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