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KKR is teaming up with Ron Voigt, formerly an executive at Danaher Corporation, to work together to identify and acquire mid-market businesses in the industrials sector.
Together with KKR, Voigt will focus on acquiring manufacturing businesses generating roughly USD25 to USD50 million of EBITDA. Once a company has been acquired, they will aim to support the business in achieving breakthrough performance and growth while also implementing an innovative employee engagement model utilised in KKR’s industrials transactions in recent years.
Voigt previously served as the President of X-Rite Pantone, an operating subsidiary of Danaher Corporation. While at X-Rite, he led
APEXX, a single marketplace for global payments, has closed an initial seed funding round and been awarded a grant by Innovate UK, activity totalling USD4 million (GBP3.2 million).
The round was led by Forward Partners, a top London-based VC which specialises in applied artificial intelligence (AI) and have previously invested in EmpowerRD, Ably and Epic. The round was also supported by MMC Ventures and Alliance Venture, based in Oslo, Norway.
The global APEXX network is made up of payment service providers and banks which helps merchants to reduce the cost of cross border payment acceptance, increase sales with optimised payment transaction routing and manage multiple provider
Yukon Partners (Yukon) has held the final closing of Yukon Capital Partners III, and its associated parallel funds, at its hard cap of USD558.7 million in total capital commitments.
Since its inception in 2008, Yukon has raised over USD1.2 billion in total capital commitments across three funds. Fund III will be invested by Yukon’s partner group; Michael Hall, William Dietz, and Michael Furey who combined, have executed more than 81 investments representing over USD1.3 billion of invested capital since 2000.
Fund III continues Yukon’s mission of providing mezzanine capital to middle market businesses primarily in transactions controlled by private
The State Street Investor Confidence Index (ICI) for November 2017 decreased to 97.1, down 1.0 point from October’s revised reading of 98.1.
The minor decline in global sentiment was driven largely by a 12.0 point drop in the European ICI to 81.0. By contrast, the North American ICI rose by 3.7 points to 102.6 and the Asian ICI increased by 1.0 point to 97.5.
The Investor Confidence Index was developed by Kenneth Froot (pictured), and Paul O’Connell at State Street Associates, State Street Global Exchange’s research and advisory services business. It measures investor confidence or risk appetite quantitatively by
Nomura Holdings is extending its range of services by investing an initial JPY100 billion in establishing a new private equity business.
Under the new business, Nomura will primarily provide equity to clients as a solution for business reorganisations and revitalisations, business succession as well as management buyouts.
Effective 1 December, 2017, Nomura will establish the Merchant Banking Preparation Office, which will be responsible for sourcing deals and working out the details of the new business.
Equity and other investments will be provided through a fund. In addition to the cost of setting up the fund, Nomura plans to
Audax Private Equity (Audax), has completed the sale of Astrodyne TDI to Tinicum and affiliated investment partnerships managed by Tinicum Incorporated (Tinicum).
Founded in 1994, Astrodyne is a global developer and manufacturer of specialized power solutions for demanding applications focused in the advanced medical, military, aerospace, and industrial markets worldwide. The Company’s product lines include power supplies, EMI filters, and electronic control products. Astrodyne is headquartered in Nashua, NH with over 600 employees and operations in the US and China.
Geoffrey S Rehnert, Co-Chief Executive Officer, Audax Group, says “The Astrodyne team transformed the business into a global developer
Finch Capital has led the Series A investments for two companies – an investment in Ayopop, an Indonesian mobile bill payment platform, and a EUR2 million investment in Ikbenfrits, a digital mortgage broker based in the Netherlands. Finch Capital will join both companies’ boards.
From its offices in Amsterdam, London and Singapore, Finch Capital invests in innovative technology companies that are driving the transformation of the financial services industry. Its portfolio companies are solving problems associated with legacy financial services systems and innovating to increase revenue, reduce costs and improving customer interactions.
Radboud Vlaar, Partner at Finch Capital, says:
Life Sciences venture capital firm Sofinnova Partners has appointed Maina Bhaman as Partner.
Bhaman comes to Sofinnova Partners with a long track record as a successful healthcare investor. Prior to joining, she was Director of Healthcare Investment at Touchstone Innovations (formerly Imperial Innovations) in London (UK) since 2006. She has led or co-led numerous investments and sat on the Board of a number of UK biotech companies, such as Autifony, Cellmedica, Psioxus Therapeutics, Pulmocide, Topivert Pharma, Puridify (sold to GE), Thiakis (sold to Wyeth) and Respivert (sold to J&J).
Previously, Bhaman worked in the R&D teams of several UK
An affiliate of leveraged buy-out specialist Sun Capital Partners is to acquire ClearChoice Holdings, which serves ClearChoice Dental Implant Centers, a national network of providers delivering same-day dental implant services in the US.
Terms of the private transaction have not been disclosed.
Founded in 2004, the ClearChoice network currently includes 39 dental implant centres in 22 states. The Company supports the network of professionals who provide complex, full-mouth dental implant restorations which restore the function and aesthetics of healthy, natural teeth using a multi-disciplinary approach that uniquely combines surgical, restorative, and laboratory functions in an all-in-one centre. The Company
DMS Governance (DMS) has launched its US Regulatory Compliance services, designed to support US-based investment advisers in improving the quality and increasing the ease of compliance with their regulatory responsibilities.
The DMS’ US Regulatory Compliance services offers expert compliance staff and state-of-the-art technology to investment advisers of hedge and private equity funds, registered mutual funds, exchange-traded funds, and other alternative investment products. DMS is recognised globally for its successful, long-term track record and expertise in governance, risk, and compliance within the investment fund industry.
Wade Boylan, Leader, US Regulatory Compliance Services, says: “Our mission is to partner with US
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