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Private equity house Key Capital Partners (KCP) has acquired a majority stake in Plymouth-based Construction Materials Online (CMO) which operates retail sites supplying DIY builders and small building contractors.
KCP has backed the MBO of the GBP25 million revenue firm, which employs 40 staff and has grown sales through its RoofingSuperstore.co.uk, DrainageSuperstore.co.uk and InsulationSuperstore.co.uk websites by 55 per cent in the last 12 months.
The investment, led by Mike Fell, Philip Duquenoy and James Excell of KCP’s London team, is the second from KCP’s new fund and marks its 16th investment since the private equity firm launched in
Aptean, a provider of enterprise software solutions to more than 6,500 customers world-wide, has acquired Apprise, a provider of enterprise resource planning (ERP) and supply chain management (SCM) solutions for importers and distributors of consumer goods.
Apprise provides cloud and on-premise ERP and SCM software solutions for financial management, CRM, distribution, demand planning, and warehouse and transportation logistics management capabilities.
“Apprise has built a comprehensive set of industry-focused enterprise software solutions and a reputation for great customer service and experience,” says Kim Eaton, Aptean CEO. “We look forward to working with the Apprise team to build on their
Actis’ newly created wind platform Echoenergia has acquired 100 per cent of two operating wind farms in the north east of Brazil, from Brazilian premier wind developer Casa dos Ventos.
The two wind farms, with contracted 20-year PPAs, total 346MW. Tiangua, located in Ceara state, has an installed capacity of 130MW and Sao Clemente, located in Pernambuco state, has 216MW.
The acquisitions are seed assets for Echoenergia, the fifth such energy platform that Actis has built in Latin America.
Michael Till, co-head of Actis Energy, says: “This is an important building block that underpins Actis’ focused strategy
L Squared Capital Partners, together with Longview Asset Management, has partnered with Oracle management to recapitalise the company.
Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Oracle represents L Squared’s sixth platform investment over the last three years. Founded in 2004 with 22 branch locations across 13 states, Oracle is the largest independent provider of elevator maintenance, repair, and modernisation services across all major brands of equipment. L Squared’s investment provides a long-term capital base to support the company’s national expansion strategy through both de novo branches and acquisitions.
“Oracle is pleased to partner with the
Beechbrook Capital, a specialist direct lender, has completed two further investments from its most recent fund, Private Debt III.
Beechbrook managing partner Paul Shea says: “We are delighted to have added to the portfolio, investing alongside two high-quality private equity funds. Deployment continues to be on track as we approach the final close of the fund later this year.”
The fund has provided a mezzanine loan and equity co-investment to support H2 Equity Partner’s acquisition of Search Consultancy, a UK recruitment business which provides both temporary and permanent staff.
Patrick Kalverboer, managing partner, H2 Equity Partners, says:
Arma Partners has strengthened its senior team with the appointments of Mark Rodrigues and Dr Friedrich Froeschl as senior advisers in New York and Munich respectively.
Rodrigues has over 30 years’ experience in the global technology and financial services industries as an executive, investor and consultant, and currently holds several board positions with international fintech companies and advisory roles at venture capital and private equity firms focused on the sector.
Previously, Rodrigues was a global managing director and leader of strategic customers and solutions at Thomson Reuters, where he was responsible for managing the USD2.9 billion global revenue
Peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platform TWINO has released the first ever Alternative Lending Index (ALI) in conjunction with KPMG.
The report compares lending environments across Europe over the period 2010- 2016.
The ALI uses information gathered from the European Central Bank and Eurostat, as well as the central banks of the countries outside the Euro area. The index provides a scale from 0 to 10 and is higher for countries that have a higher credit gap, lower probability of getting a loan, or more stringent loan issuance criteria – in other words, where the alternative lending market can fill
Hamilton Lane has strengthened its team in Europe, adding three senior individuals in response to a year of growth across its European client base, service lines and product offerings.
The appointments come as the firm continues to expand its footprint across Europe, with a substantial increase in its overall European client base in 2016.
Client relationships more than doubled in Switzerland as well as in Germany, a market in which the firm has plans for further expansion.
Hamilton Lane also added major clients last year in Italy and Finland. Joining the firm’s long-standing European client base is
Oakley Capital Investments’ Private Equity III is to acquire the business and operations of ZGS Verwaltungs (Schuelerhilfe), from its current majority shareholders Deutsche Beteiligungs (DBAG) and DBAG Fund V.
Schuelerhilfe is a provider of after school tutoring to primary and secondary school students in Germany and Austria.
Established in 1974, and headquartered in Gelsenkirchen, Schuelerhilfe provides small-group tutoring through a network of over 1,000 branches in Germany and Austria and currently tutors over 125,000 students per year.
Oakley is attracted to this sector because of the growing and non-cyclical demand from parents for tutoring services to help children meet
HIG Capital is to sell its existing stake in Surgery Partners to Bain Capital Private Equity.
In conjunction with the transaction, Surgery Partners and National Surgical Healthcare (NSH), an owner and operator of surgical facilities in partnership with local physicians, have entered into a definitive merger agreement under which Surgery Partners will acquire NSH from Irving Place Capital for approximately USD760 million.
Funding for the transaction will be provided in part by Bain Capital Private Equity, who is injecting capital in exchange for preferred equity in the company.
In December 2009, HIG partnered with Surgery Partners CEO
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