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Growth capital investor Avedon Capital Partners has acquired a majority shareholding in WCC Group.
Avedon will substantially invest in WCC Group to accelerate its global expansion into new markets and further build out its strong relationships with current clients.
Founders and former majority shareholders Peter Went and Mark Wegman will keep a material share in WCC, but step back from the executive board. Wim Rietdijk, former chief operating officer, has been appointed CEO.
WCC delivers software solutions to the employment and identity markets. The company serves many of the worlds public employment services as well as some of
ZEDRA has acquired Interconsult, Luxembourg International Consulting, one of the oldest trust service firms in Luxembourg.
Terms of the acquisition, which is subject to regulatory approval, have not been disclosed.
Interconsult was established in 1992 and is located in the centre of Luxembourg City. A founder member of Luxembourg International Management Services Association, Interconsult provides corporate, administrative and fiduciary services to both corporate and private clients.
Interconsult is also a member of Luxembourg Private Equity & Venture Capital Association, a non-profit association created in 2010 to represent, promote and protect the interests of the Luxembourg private equity and venture capital
Equistone Partners Europe-backed Apogee Corporation has completed its bolt on acquisition of CityDocs, a UK-based provider of in-house and outsourced print and digital document services.
The deal marks Apogee’s third acquisition since Equistone provided a significant investment in September 2016.
Apogee has completed acquisitions in Scotland, Wales, Ireland and Germany this year and will continue to make further acquisitions to drive growth in the UK and Europe.
Based in London with additional operations in Manchester, CityDocs offers digital document scanning, processing, hosting and full reprographic services on a project or ongoing basis. The firm’s legal document services operation
Tikehau IM is to invest EUR72 million in the Dedalus Group, a clinical health software provider, controlled by Ardian and company founder Giorgio Moretti.
Tikehau IM has acted as sole arranger of a bond issuance which will be listed on the third market of the Vienna Stock Exchange. This is the third direct lending deal executed by the Tikehau IM team in Italy.
Dedalus is headquartered in Florence, Italy. In line with its strategy of external growth, Dedalus has acquired 40 companies to date and made significant investments in R&D to become a global company and a leading player in
Perella Weinberg Partners (PWP) has appointed Cem Koray as a partner, effective 1 January 2017.
Koray joined Perella Weinberg Partners in 2013 as a managing director. He provides strategic and financial advice to clients in the consumer products and retail sectors.
Koray has worked on several notable transactions during his career, including Henkel’s USD3.6 billion acquisition of Sun Products; the sale of Altria’s USD26 billion SABMiller stake to AB InBev; Mondelez International on the formation of the JDE Coffee joint venture with JAB Holdings; and InBev’s USD52 billion acquisition of Anheuser Busch.
Robert K Steel, chief executive officer
An investment fund affiliated with private equity firm Lightyear Capital has completed an investment of USD95 million in Ygrene Energy Fund, a provider of residential, multifamily and commercial property assessed clean energy (PACE) financing.
The capital brings Ygrene’s combined asset and operating capital raised to over USD1 billion.
Ygrene makes home and building improvements easy, accessible and affordable through the PACE programme, which enables property owners to finance projects through their property taxes. Since its inception in 2010, Ygrene has approved over USD1.85 billion in energy efficiency, renewable energy, climate resiliency, and water conservation improvements and has financed projects
Buy-out firm KRG Capital Partners has completed the sale of Ansira Partners, a data-driven, technology-enabled marketing solutions provider, to Advent International.
Financial terms have not been disclosed.
Bruce Rogers, managing director at KRG, says: “I’d like to congratulate Martin Reidy and the entire Ansira management team for their superb execution of Ansira’s growth strategy and market positioning, and thank them for their strong partnership with KRG. Ansira is an industry leading solutions provider because Martin and his team remain keenly focused on delivering outstanding results for Ansira’s clients in this time of fast paced change in data-driven and technology-enabled
Equistone Partners Europe and the managing shareholders of Finizy/Meilleurtaux.com have entered into exclusive negotiations with Goldman Sachs for the disposal of their majority stake in the business.
Finizy Group and its principle company Meilleurtaux.com, a broker and comparison service for bank loans, insurance and other financial services in the French market, are seeking to restructure their capital to facilitate a new phase of growth.
Following a process that attracted more than a dozen potential investors, funds and industrial players, the international investment bank Goldman Sachs and its investment funds were chosen. These funds have already invested in a variety
Dentons has advised AIM-listed ULS Technology, a provider of online B2B platforms for the UK conveyancing and financial intermediary markets, on its acquisition of Conveyancing Alliance Holdings Limited and its UK subsidiary, Conveyancing Alliance Limited.
Dentons advised on all aspects of the deal, including commercial, tax and banking matters.
The firm also advised ULS on banking facilities with HSBC Bank in respect of two new debt facilities: a GBP5 million five-year term loan and a GBP2 million three-year revolving facility.
Ben Thompson, chief executive officer of ULS, says: "Conveyancing Alliance has shown a strong track record of revenue
United Flexible, a portfolio company of Arlington Capital Partners, has acquired Scotia Technology, a designer and manufacturer of small-diameter precision fixed tubular components for the aerospace and defence industries primarily to transfer fuel, oil, air, water and hydraulic fluids.
The agreement to acquire Scotia will expand the commercial aerospace and defence precision fixed tube product offerings of Kreisler Manufacturing, United Flexible’s most recent acquisition.
It will also advance United Flexible’s strategy of becoming the preeminent designer and manufacturer of high pressure and high temperature gas and fluid conduits into mission critical systems for OEMs.
The combined company will
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