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MidOcean Partners, a middle market private equity firm focused on consumer and business services, has acquired a significant controlling interest in Affinity Dental Management Holdings in partnership with Affinity’s management and certain founders of affiliated practices.
Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Affinity is a dental services organisation that provides comprehensive management and administrative support services for dental practices across Western Massachusetts, Connecticut and Vermont. Dr Craig Saltzman opened his first office in 1999 and through affiliations and new practice openings, built a network of practices offering general and specialty dental services that are well-known for
Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP) has promoted Charles Birnbaum, Amit Karp, and Kristina Shen to partner.
“We’re thrilled to recognise the major contributions that Charles, Amit, and Kristina have made to BVP’s investing practice over the years,” says Ed Colloton, partner & COO of Bessemer Venture Partners. “Each of them has demonstrated deep sector knowledge and a keen ability to spot standout companies early. As partners, they will each develop their own investment roadmaps and continue to significantly contribute to our practice in helping entrepreneurs build world class businesses.”
Birnbaum joined BVP’s New York office in 2013. Charles is actively involved
Michael Hardy has joined Duane Morris as a partner in the firm’s Baltimore office. The firm says Hardy’s appointment will enhance the firm’s corporate and securities law capabilities in Baltimore and throughout the US, He joins Duane Morris from Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, LLP.
Hardy has extensive experience representing private equity investors, senior and junior debt lenders and operating companies in connection with mergers and acquisitions, offerings of debt and equity securities, credit facilities, joint ventures, and other strategic transactions.
Hardy also regularly advises companies regarding corporate governance and structure, business and tax strategy and matters relating to
Stirling Square Capital Partners (“Stirling Square”), a leading Pan-European mid-market private equity firm Stirling Square Captal Partners has sold 3SI Security Systems, a specialist in asset protection systems and an innovator of GPS tracking technologies, to LLR Partners, a Philadelphia-headquartered lower middle market private equity firm.
3SI is a global leader in asset protection systems with more than 40 years of experience serving the financial and retail markets. 3SI’s solutions include currency degradation and GPS tracking solutions to protect cash and high-value assets for banks, retailers, and law enforcement agencies.
Over the course of its investment, Stirling Square transformed
IW Capital has successfully facilitated a GBP626,000 loan to Discovery Yachts to support the company’s acquisition of Southerly Yachts – a manufacturer of cruising yachts based in the UK.
Discovery Yachts was founded in 1998 in a bid to create a superior cruising yacht that boast luxurious high-end furnishings. Nearly 20 years later, Discovery Yachts is a thriving business that has sustained an impressive rate of annual growth – the company currently has over 70 employees ranging from designers to expert craftsmen.
The acquisition of Southerly Yachts is an important milestone for the company, cementing its position as one
Law firm McDermott Will & Emery has appointed Armando X Ramirez as a partner in the Firm’s growing Corporate & Transactional Practice Group in New York.
Ramirez rejoins his long-time colleague Jeffrey W Meyers, who arrived at McDermott in April. Ramirez and Meyers will work together to further expand McDermott’s global corporate and transactional practice in the energy sector, with a focus on the sale and acquisition of interests in energy businesses and facilities and the development and financing of international and domestic energy projects. Together, they bring a wealth of experience advising the owners of and lenders to power
Callcredit Information Group, backed by private equity firm, GTCR, has acquired the Spanish Confirma group of companies, comprising Confirma Sistemas and Soluciones Confirma, which specialise in fraud prevention and anti-money laundering (AML) software solutions.
The strategic acquisition, sees Callcredit take a majority shareholding in the Madrid-headquartered business which is a leader in Spain in what is an increasingly technology-led and rapidly growing market. Callcredit entered the Spanish market in 2015 and has been developing its business and expansion plans following this initial success.
The acquisition, which will form part of the Callcredit Spain operation, establishes a firm market presence
EnteroBiotix, a privately held Scottish biotechnology company focused on using the body’s own microorganisms to prevent and treat disease, has raised GBP500,000 in an oversubscribed seed round of investment.
The financing was led by Equity Gap and supported by the Scottish Investment Bank, the investment arm of Scottish Enterprise.
EnteroBiotix is developing orally-delivered encapsulated microbial therapeutics for use in a medical treatment called Faecal Microbiota Transplantation (also known as FMT or a stool transplant). The investment will be used to further develop the company’s product pipeline and grow its manufacturing and research team. The seed round includes GBP100,000 in
IGF has delivered a GBP650k combined invoice discounting and asset based lending facility to specialist publisher, The History Press.
The Gloucestershire-based firm recently underwent a management buyout from its previous owner, private equity firm Octopus Investments. Following its acquisition by The History Press’ management team – managing director Gareth Swain, publishing director Laura Perehinec and sales director Jamie Kinnear – the business sought a new finance partner to fund the MBO activity and provide the organisation with working capital once the deal was finalised.
IGF’s facility will allow The History Press to focus on business productivity and further improve
Investment manager James Excell, who joined the London team at private equity house Key Capital Partners (KCP) in April 2016, has been promoted to investment director.
Excell has been working alongside investment partners Mike Fell and Philip Duquenoy at KCP’s London office to source and deliver investment opportunities as part of the deployment of its latest fund.
On 15 May, the team announced that it had made an GBP8.65 million investment to acquire a majority stake in rapidly growing online retailer of building materials, Plymouth-based Construction Materials Online Ltd (CMO), which operates retail websites supplying DIY builders and small
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