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CVC Capital Partners (CVC) is to appoint former Allergan executive Anish Mehta as CEO of the international women’s health assets portfolio which CVC Fund VI agreed to acquire from Teva Pharmaceutical Industries (Teva) on 17 September 2017.
The appointment is subject to regulatory approval.
Mehta will join from Allergan Plc, where he was Head of International Business Development, leading a team responsible for corporate development and licensing activity in support of the international business. While there, he led the USD40.5 billion divestment of the Actavis Global Generics business to Teva. Prior to this, Anish had responsibility for the European
Bain Capital Private Equity has, through its investment in Diversey, reached agreement on the terms of a recommended final cash offer for Zenith Hygiene Group, a UK manufacturer of cleaning and hygiene chemicals and related products.
Based in Hertfordshire, Zenith Hygiene offers a wide, high quality range of products serving customers in the healthcare, food service, hospitality, leisure and facilities management, pharmaceutical, and food and beverage processing industries. The company employs more than 500 people and generated net sales of £67M in the fiscal year ending February 2017.
Bain Capital completed the acquisition of Diversey from Sealed Air in
Growth capital investor Avedon Capital Partners has acquired a majority stake in Altendorf GmbH, manufacturer of saws for craft processing of wood, metal and plastics, located in Minden, Germany.
The ambition is to extend Altendorf Group´s premium position for machines and services in wood, metal and plastics processing with innovative products and technologies to sustainably capture new customer segments and markets through accelerated organic growth and by realising external growth potential.
In the course of this succession solution with Avedon entering as new majority shareholder, the existing managing directors Jörg F Mayer (43) and Wolfgang Ruhnau (48), both active
New Mountain Capital has completed its acquisition of DRB from Prairie Capital (Prairie Capital), a Chicago, Illinois-based private investment firm. Financial details have not been disclosed.
DRB’s technology-enabled devices and software unlock significant value for car wash operators, creating opportunities for substantial outperformance in both top line and bottom line results and delivering a high return on investment. Configurable and scalable, DRB’s offerings are a critical enabler of connectivity across multi-site operations. The company also offers its customers unparalleled customer service and ongoing support.
New Mountain, which manages more than USD20 billion in assets, seeks to acquire the highest
TPG Capital, the global private equity platform of alternative asset firm TPG, has closed its previously announced acquisition of Transplace, a leading provider of transportation management services and logistics technology.
On 14 August, 2017, TPG Capital announced that it was partnering with company management to purchase Transplace from Greenbriar Equity Group. Founded in 2000, Transplace is North America’s premier provider of managed transportation, consulting, and TMS solutions; and intermodal, truck brokerage, and cross-border trade services.
Transplace marks TPG Capital’s third investment into the supply chain space. The firm’s other investments include LLamasoft, a supply chain modelling and design software
Investment into venture-backed companies in 2017 is on track to match or exceed dollars deployed in 2016, and if this pace holds, full-year 2017 venture capital (VC) dollars invested could be the highest in the past decade, according to the Q3 2017 PitchBook-NVCA Venture Monitor.
Venture investors deployed USD21.5 billion to more than 1,699 venture-backed companies during the third quarter, bringing 2017’s total investment to USD61.4 billion deployed across 5,948 deals to date. Mega-deals completed in the third quarter, like WeWork’s USD3 billion infusion of VC, helped inflate deal value and have become the new normal in VC where investors
AMP Capital has reached financial close on its largest ever North American deal, acquiring 100 per cent of ITS ConGlobal (ITSC) from Carlyle Infrastructure Partners.
ITSC is one of North America’s largest operators of intermodal railroad and auto terminals, container yard depots, and provider of intermodal equipment maintenance and repair services. The company has a long history of operational excellence and a strong focus on safety and performance. It is headquartered in Darien, Illinois with operations in 90 locations around the US and a significant presence across Mexico and Costa Rica.
The company has been acquired on behalf of investors in
Apposite Capital, the private equity firm with an exclusive focus on healthcare, has appointed Rory Pope as Partner and member of its Management Board. Pope has been working with Apposite as a full-time consultant since March.
In addition, Apposite has also appointed Alexander Cunynghame as Investment Executive.
Pope brings over 20 years of deal making experience in private equity and corporate finance. Prior to joining Apposite Capital, Rory was at BGF Group plc where he was co-head of the healthcare and lifesciences team having joined BGF in 2012 from Advent International where he had been a Partner. Rory joined
bpost has acquired US-based company Radial, to expand offerings and accelerate the development of its e-commerce logistics solutions.
The acquisition leverages Radial’s e-commerce service, expertise and scale with bpost to provide an industry-leading cross-border value proposition for its customers in Europe and North America.
Radial is a leading provider of integrated e-commerce logistics and omnichannel technology solutions, headquartered in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania (USA). In 2016, Radial fulfilled over 306 million units for its retail customers, across 24 fulfillment centers. Radial is largely ahead of its peers in terms of scale, geographic coverage and breadth of services. In addition
Lendable has raised USD 6.5 million in a Series A round of investment from KawiSafi Ventures, Omidyar Network, Fenway Summer Ventures and a number of prominent FinTech angel investors from the United States.
They included Larry Rosenberger, the former Fair Isaac Corporation (FICO) CEO. The funds will be used to scale operations, drive market expansion, and roll out new products.
Lendable has launched the first technology-enabled deal platform designed specifically for alternative lenders in frontier markets. The Lendable platform enables these companies to raise scalable forms of off balance sheet financing in weeks.
Lendable has so far completed
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