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Analysis carried out by Results Healthcare, a corporate advisory firm focused on public and private healthcare and life sciences companies, reveals high multiples paid for businesses in the healthcare services sector.
Valuations have increased across the spectrum of pharmaceutical outsourcing businesses, which include digital health, outsourced pharmaceutical research and clinical trial businesses, with the average EBITDA multiple paid by private equity 11.9x, since the beginning of 2013.
Martin Gouldstone, Partner at Results Healthcare, says: “We are seeing that comparative processes and the scarcity of good quality pharmaceutical services businesses are driving up valuations. Given the amount of dry powder
Drooms, a specialist in secure cloud solutions for the exchange of confidential documents, has supported B & Capital with its data room solution during the launch of the RB Capital France 1 fund marketing campaign.
B & Capital’s objective with this fund is to provide support for 10 or more French SMEs as part of their rapid expansion and transformation strategies. The companies have valuations in the range of EUR 20-100 million and are involved in sectors with particularly promising prospects including: healthcare, distribution, technology, specialist industries and the environment.
The companies supported by B & Capital will also
Aberdeen Standard Investments has launched its first comprehensive private markets solution for investors, targeting a return of 9-12 per cent per year (net of fees) over a rolling seven year period.
The new fund will invest in a diversified global mix of private equity, infrastructure, real estate and private credit.
The Global Private Markets Fund (GPMF) harnesses the full depth and breadth of Aberdeen Standard Investments’ private markets investment platform, bringing together the expertise and experience of around 380 investment professionals able to source opportunities for clients on a global scale. The fund has launched with GBP138 million.
THL Credit Advisors (THL Credit) has named Brian Murphy (pictured), as Head of Capital Markets. Murphy, who is based in Chicago, is a Managing Director and Senior Portfolio Manager for THL Credit’s Tradable Credit strategy.
In this newly created role, Murphy will be responsible for overseeing all of THL Credit’s capital markets activities, including sourcing investment opportunities from banks and lenders and managing excess risk across THL Credit’s Tradable Credit and Direct Lending strategies.
Murphy has more than twenty-four years of investment industry experience, principally in the area of leveraged finance. Mr. Murphy joined THL Credit in 2012 in connection
Ocorian, a global provider of specialist financial services backed by private equity firm Inflexion, is to acquire ABAX, an advisory, corporate and business services provider based in Mauritius.
The acquisition will significantly extend Ocorian’s service range and delivery capability into Africa, Asia and the Middle East and swell its international team to 700 plus staff – including additional representation in Côte d’Ivoire, Dubai, Mauritius, Singapore and South Africa.
In turn, ABAX clients will now be able to access a much wider range of specialist alternative investment, corporate and private client services, across both onshore and offshore locations in Europe
Blue Ox Healthcare Partners, a private equity firm investing growth capital in the healthcare industry, has taken a 30 per cent stake in RX Solutions which aims to allow consumers to gain access to fixed and/or reduced cost prescription drugs.
RX Solutions serves consumers in the US who have an income in the 200-400 per cent range of the Federal Poverty Level.
RX Solutions serves consumers by identifying Prescription Assistance Programs (PAPs) specific to their medication needs and then follows them throughout the process to secure the subsidies and medications. RX Solutions facilitates the enrolment for these programs and
European private investment management funds Capzanine and Creadev are joining forces with the management of Recommerce Group in a EUR50m fundraising.
This fundraising aims to support the company’s growth in countries where it already operates and its expansion into new territories as it capitalises on the rapidly growing market for reconditioned smartphones.
Recommerce Group, a key player in the circular economy and pioneer of smartphone reconditioning, was founded in 2009. It anticipates 30 per cent market growth potential in the coming years, and rapid expansion in 2018 with revenues of over EUR50m. Operating around the world, Recommerce works with
Castanea Partners has made a minority investment in The Townshend Group, the parent company of Brew Dr Kombucha.
The Townshend Group (TTG) was founded in 2006 by Matt Thomas, the Company’s CEO, and consists of three operating businesses: Brew Dr Kombucha, Townshend’s Tea Company, and Thomas & Sons Distillery. Brew Dr Kombucha produces a line of 100 per cent raw, organic kombucha in a variety of flavors distributed in stores in the US and Canada, including New Seasons, Whole Foods, Costco, Kroger, Safeway, Trader Joe’s, and Target. Townshend’s Tea Company is a tea retailer with nine locations in Oregon, Montana,
Chief Outsiders has launched Chief Outsiders GoToMarket Assessment, a comprehensive auditing tool that enables CEOs to quickly identify and implement growth strategies based on timely market opportunities.
“The GoToMarket Assessment is valuable for the private equity sector where investors are seeking results quickly, but may not understand where to start to drive top-line growth. Our ‘instant-on’ CMOs come in, assess a company’s sales and marketing initiatives, and pave a path to implementing solutions,” says Art Saxby, CEO of Chief Outsiders. “Through the extensive insight we’ve gleaned from working with more than 150 CEOs in the past year, we’ve created a
Katten is expanding its presence in Texas with a group of seven new partners based in Dallas where many of the firm’s clients currently do business or plan to do so.
The new office will boost Katten’s practice that handles sophisticated corporate mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and transactional capabilities for its clients in numerous industries across the country and overseas.
“This is an extraordinary group of attorneys whose extensive skills, leadership and experience are an ideal fit for our highly regarded transactional capabilities and well-established culture of business-mindedness,” says Katten Chairman Roger P Furey. “We intend to build around
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