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A fund managed by Ares Management’s Private Equity Group has acquired Convergint Technologies, a global independent security integrator, from investment funds affiliated with KRG.
Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Based in Schaumberg, Illinois, Convergint provides comprehensive security integration and fire and life safety services in more than 80 locations across four continents. Since its founding in 2001, Convergint has grown to employ more than 3,400 colleagues as the business continues to expand its security offerings and geographic footprint. Central to this growth is Convergint’s strong corporate culture, which focuses on providing best-in-class service to meet its
French private equity investor Activa Capital has promoted Emma France to Associate for ESG and Digital Transformation. Her mission, under the responsibility of Christophe Parier, Partner, will be to strengthen the ESG process within Activa Capital as well as in all its portfolio companies.
France joined Activa Capital in 2017 as an ESG Analyst in charge of creating ESG roadmaps for Activa Capital’s portfolio companies. Her role was to guide the portfolio and Activa Capital in all areas related to ESG: best practice audits, launching and steering of specific projects and the evaluation of their results.
The aim of
Pamlico Capital (Pamlico) has completed a growth investment in Connexin Software, trading as Office Practicum (OP).
Co-founder and CEO Gregory H Anderson and the OP management team will maintain a significant ownership position and continue to manage the growth of the Company with support from Pamlico. Further transaction details have not been disclosed.
“As we enter the second phase of healthcare information technology adoption, both doctors and investors have come to appreciate the value and ROI of specialty solutions,” says Gregory H Anderson, CEO of OP. “Six years ago, Bluff Point Associates helped a passionate group of entrepreneurs build
UK private equity house Maven Capital Partners (Maven) has appointed Andy Povey and Raj Minhas as Investment Managers to help manage the Maven MEIF Debt Fund team in the West Midlands.
Based in Birmingham, Povey and Minhas have responsibility for new MEIF investments across the West Midlands, as well as managing portfolio investments across the region.
Povey joined Maven in 2017 following a long career in SME investment and banking. He was previously a Director with SME investor Seneca Partners in Birmingham, sourcing and managing debt and equity transactions, and has extensive experience of leading a wide variety of
Verdant Leisure, which is backed by Palatine Private Equity, has acquired its eighth leisure park, Scoutscroft Holiday Centre in the Scottish Borders. The acquisition is the bespoke leisure park operator’s fourth holiday park purchase in the last 18 months.
Scoutscroft is just one mile from Coldingham Bay Leisure Park, the site Verdant Leisure purchased in early 2017.
The purchase brings Verdant Leisure’s portfolio to eight parks across southern Scotland and North East England and marks the fourth bolt-on since the company was backed by Palatine Private Equity in April 2016. This deal will continue the company’s growth strategy to
Inflexion Private Equity has backed the management buyout of Calco Group BV (Calco), a Dutch provider of outsourced IT recruitment and training services to large blue-chip corporates.
Calco focuses on the provision of junior professionals mainly to the finance and insurance sectors with clients including the main banks and the top insurance companies in the Netherlands. More recently Calco has entered into new industry segments such as consumer goods, telecoms, energy, logistics and healthcare and aims to continue to expand into these newer markets.
Founded in 2004, Calco has developed a MasterClass programme where new joiners are intensively trained
Offshore law firm Carey Olsen has advised entities managed by The Carlyle Group and affiliates of Värde Partners on the AUD1.2 billion restructure and recapitalisation of the Bis Industries group, an Australian resources logistics and materials handling provider.
The transaction, implemented via two Australian creditors’ schemes of arrangement and a subsequent recapitalisation through a partial debt-for-equity swap, sees Bis cut its total debt from approximately AUD1.2 billion to approximately AUD280 million (plus AUD38 million of finance leases). As a result of the transaction which has received both shareholder and court approval, senior secured creditors (including entities managed by Carlyle and
The State Street Global Exchange Private Equity Index (GXPEI) closed the third quarter of 2017 with a solid performance of 3.85 per cent with Buyout Funds continuing to lead private equity strategies in gains.
The GXPEI is based on directly-sourced limited partnership data and represents more than USD2.7 trillion in private equity investments, with more than 2,800 unique private equity partnerships, as of September 30, 2017.
“Momentum is the name of the game in the third quarter of 2017,” says Will Kinlaw (pictured), senior managing director and global head of State Street Associates®, a division of State Street Global
The latest Fintech M&A Market Report from technology mergers and acquisitions advisors, Hampleton Partners, reveals just how deeply digital disruptors are impacting on deal valuations.
While transaction volumes declined, deal values reached their highest total sum on record during the second half of 2017, with a total of USD29.35 billion in disclosed value. Almost half of this total was achieved by the massive Worldpay acquisition of Vantiv for USD10.4 billion. Most of the other growth in deal values was delivered by a total of 21 transactions disclosed above USD100 million, more than a doubling from previous half year periods.
CVC Capital Partners (CVC) has closed CVC Fund VI’s acquisition of the international women’s health assets which the fund agreed to acquire from Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd in Q3 2017.
The new company, called Theramex, is a global specialty pharmaceutical company dedicated to women and their health. Headquartered in London, UK, the company will market a broad range of innovative, branded and branded generic products across 50 countries around the world. The portfolio, which is dedicated to women’s health, focuses on contraception, fertility, menopause and osteoporosis and includes key brands such as Ovaleap®, Zoely®, Seasonique®, Actonel®, Estreva® and Lutenyl. The Theramex brand
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