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WillScot Corporation (Williams Scotsman) has acquired Onsite Space (Tyson Onsite) expanding its Ready to Work services to customers in the Midwest, most notably in Indiana, Illinois and Missouri.
The acquisition increases Williams Scotsman’s offering by approximately 1,750 units.
Brad Soultz, president and chief executive officer of Williams Scotsman, says: “We are excited to announce the addition of Tyson Onsite to our Company. Tyson Onsite is highly complementary to the Williams Scotsman market strategy and strengthens our position in key Midwestern markets. I am pleased to welcome Tyson Onsite employees to our Company and look forward to the many growth opportunities ahead
Northlane Capital Partners (NCP) has invested in Smart Wave Technologies Corp, a designer and manufacturer of innovative electronic and electromechanical systems for a broad range of end markets, including the away-from-home restroom market.
NCP invested alongside SmartWave founder Peter Zosimadis, who remains with the company as its Chief Technology Officer. Industry veteran Jack Vresics joined SmartWave as CEO at close. The NCP team previously invested in a successful business led by Vresics within the same core end market as SmartWave.
Founded in 1994 and headquartered in Toronto, SmartWave designs and manufactures components for products that require sensing, verifying, or dispensing
Midland Basin Partners (MBP) has agreed a USD75 million credit facility with Orion Energy Partners, to fund the expansion of MBP’s existing midstream platform focused on water infrastructure.
MBP provides responsible water sourcing, transportation and storage solutions to energy producers in the Permian Basin, with an initial focus on the Midland Basin. Orion Energy provides creative capital solutions to middle market energy infrastructure businesses across North America and select international markets.
“Our partnership with Orion Energy will provide MBP with the long-term strategic and financial support we need to grow our business and achieve our goal of serving our
UK private equity house Maven Capital Partners (Maven) has completed a GBP1.95 million investment in eSafe Global Limited (eSafe), which monitors online user behaviour and cyber bullying within a school or college digital environment.
The funding will enable eSafe to take advantage of wider market opportunities which have arisen as a result of increased legislative, regulatory and political pressures to incorporate improved safeguarding monitoring systems within the education sector. The new investment will also support the expansion of eSafe’s sales, marketing and operational teams at its Salford headquarters, along with further development of its innovative service and technology platforms.
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High Road Capital Partners’s portfolio company Midwest Wholesale Hardware has completed the acquisition of the assets of Strauss Lock Distributors (SLD).
Based in Des Moines, Iowa, SLD is a wholesale distributor of residential door hardware and security products. In addition to its Des Moines headquarters, the company operates distribution centres in Phoenix, Arizona and Charlotte, North Carolina. SLD provides expert customer service and tailored solutions for the residential builder market.
“SLD’s focus on the residential builder market and strength in the building products channel are tremendous complements to Midwest Wholesale Hardware’s extensive commercial and institutional offering,” sats Scott Rubino,
Cavendish Corporate Finance has advised on the sale of Tempcover Limited, a UK-based provider of direct to consumer, short-term motor insurance products to Connection Capital (Connection).
Founded in 2006 by Alan Inskip, CEO, Tempcover’s multi-carrier insurance offering enables customers to buy temporary motor insurance directly from the company’s website and select partners. Recently, the company has successfully launched additional temporary cover products to meet its growing customer base’s requirements.
Alan Inskip, CEO of Tempcover, says: “This new partnership is a very exciting opportunity for Tempcover to both consolidate its existing position and provide a platform for further growth into
CapitalSpring, a private investment firm focused exclusively on the branded restaurant industry, has completed its recapitalisation of Buddy’s Pizza (Buddy’s), the restaurant that introduced The Original Detroit Style Square Pizza.
Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Founded in 1946 in Detroit, Buddy’s is widely recognised as the originator of Detroit-style pizza, with its signature square pie. Prepared in square, blue steel pans originally used to hold nuts and bolts on Detroit’s automotive assembly lines, Buddy’s Pizza is authentically Detroit. The Company operates 12 restaurants throughout the Motor City and surrounding area and is set to open its 13th
AlgoSec, a leading provider of business-driven security policy management solutions, has secured a USUSD36 million investment by Claridge IL, a growth technology investment partnership between CDPQ and Claridge Inc.
This is the first external investment in AlgoSec, following a decade of consistent growth and profitability. The Company has, over the years, delivered its market leading solution to over 1,500 enterprise customers globally and employs over 350 employees worldwide, of which 120 joined in 2017 alone.
“Companies with ambitious growth plans need experienced, value-adding investors by their side. We are very pleased that such a prestigious and well-respected firm such as
Thompson Street Capital Partners (TSCP), a private equity firm based in St Louis, has partnered with existing management to recapitalise Gurobi Optimization (Gurobi) a Houston-based software provider.
Shea & Company served as the exclusive financial advisor to Gurobi. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Gurobi has developed a suite of optimisation products that fully exploit the latest mathematical, engineering and computing technologies to deliver industry-leading performance and robustness. The Company’s software libraries enable 1,500 companies in more than 40 industries to employ mathematical programming to build sophisticated decision support systems that can generate and evaluate a vast array of
UK lower mid-market investor, Tenzing, has invested in Converge-IT.Net Ltd (Converge TS), a provider of managed and hosted IT services to the UK legal sector.
Founded in 2006 by MD Nigel Wright, Converge TS is a specialist provider of hosted and managed IT services through private cloud. It provides mission critical managed cloud services to the UK legal sector including Infrastructure as a Service, Hosting, Business Continuity as well as other managed IT and infrastructure services.
Converge TS differentiates itself in the legal sector via a deep knowledge of legal IT infrastructure requirements and the applications used by law
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