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Bowmark Capital, a mid-market private equity firm, is backing the buy-out of IT solutions provider Node4 Holdings from its previous institutional investor, LDC.
Founded in Derby in 2004 by its then 23 year old chief executive Andrew Gilbert, Node4 is a provider of integrated IT solutions, hybrid infrastructure and cloud-enabled managed services to small and medium-sized businesses.
With full ownership of its own infrastructure, including three state-of-the-art data centres in Derby, Leeds and Northampton, Node4 retains full control over service delivery.
The company achieved a GBP28 million turnover in the year to March 2016 and a revenue growth
IK Investment Partners’ IK Small Cap I Fund is to acquire APOSAN Dr Künzer, a pharmaceutical homecare company in Germany.
Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
APOSAN was founded in 1991 by Dr Clemens Künzer, with the purpose to service homecare patients through the compounding of individualised infusible and injectable medication.
Since then, the company has evolved to an integrated full-range pharmaceutical homecare supplier with its own manufacturing capacities and a dedicated key account management and homecare nurses team to generate and support its growing nationwide patient base.
The APOSAN group of companies is
The Bridges Sustainable Growth Fund III (SGF III), managed by specialist sustainable and impact investor Bridges Ventures, has invested in Vegetarian Express (VE), a supplier of plant-based food ingredients.
Bridges has invested GBP5.6 million to take a controlling interest in VE. It will work in partnership with current shareholders David Jonas (founder of the business in 1987) and Will Matier, both of whom will remain actively involved with the business. In addition, Tim Kelly, former COO of Premier Foods, joins VE as executive chairman.
Based in Watford, VE is a supplier of specialist plant-based ingredients to the food service
DiCentral, a provider of supply chain management solutions and B2B integration, has completed a USD15 million Series A financing led by Kayne Partners, the growth private equity group of Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors.
The capital will be used to accelerate the organic growth and acquisition strategy of the supply chain management services provider.
“DiCentral has a rich 16-year history of self-funding our growth. Although we have had many offers over the years to take in investment money, we never felt it was the right partnership,” says Thuy Mai, CEO and founder of DiCentral. “Now is the right opportunity and
Affiliated Managers Group (AMG) has bought interests in Winton Group and Partner Fund Management (PFM).
Founded in 1997, Winton is a global investment manager that uses scientific methods to develop investment systems across a broad range of products from diversified multi-asset offerings to regional long-only equities.
The firm is headquartered in London and has over 400 employees, with additional offices in Oxford, Zurich, Hong Kong, Shanghai, New York, Tokyo, Sydney, and San Francisco.
PFM manages global equity strategies, including global diversified long/short, global long, and global healthcare funds. PFM was founded in 2004 and is based in San Francisco.
InfraVia Capital Partners has held the final closing of InfraVia European Fund III (InfraVia III) with total commitments of EUR1 billion.
The fund surpassed its initial target of EUR750 million.
Fund commitments were obtained from a wide range of institutional investors from Europe, North America, Asia and the Middle-East.
FIRSTavenue served as the sole global placement agent for non-French investors.
InfraVia European Fund III will focus primarily on core plus, mid-market, infrastructure with value add capabilities across a broad spectrum of infrastructure opportunities including in the transportation, energy, utilities and telecom sectors. To date, InfraVia III has
Digital content management specialist Episerver, a portfolio company of Accel-KKR, has acquired Optivo, a provider of omnichannel campaign management and customer intelligence solutions.
Leveraging Optivo’s omnichannel campaign management capabilities, Episerver customers can now create and execute more contextually relevant customer interactions across channels, ensuring that the right message is sent to the right customer when and where it should.
With the addition of Optivo, digital marketing and commerce professionals using Episerver can now manage and optimise the way customers respond to their campaigns across channels, by simultaneously tracking and predicting their behaviour. In doing so, Episerver customers can achieve
Castle Creek Pharmaceuticals has raised USD48 million in funding from Fidelity Management and Research Company.
Castle Creek will use the funds to complete development of its late-stage clinical pipeline, including its lead programme for the treatment of patients with epidermolysis bullosa simplex, which will be starting a clinical registration trial in the fourth quarter of this year.
Castle Creek was founded by Michael Derby and Jeffrey Aronin, two experienced pharmaceutical entrepreneurs.
Derby, who serves as CEO, previously founded Norphan Pharmaceuticals, which was sold to Marathon Pharmaceuticals in 2013.
Castle Creek chairman Aronin is the CEO of Marathon,
Independent petrol forecourt and convenience retail operators Euro Garages and European Forecourt Retail Group (EFR) are combining their businesses.
A new holding company named Intervias has been established, with a small corporate office in London.
EFR and Euro Garages will continue to operate under their own names with their current CEOs and senior leadership teams.
The merged group will be a leading independent petrol forecourt retailer in Europe, with around 1,450 locations and 8,500 employees. Euro Garages and EFR together will be serving more than six million customers a week through the management and operation of retail brands
Trowers & Hamlins has advised Austrian investment company AVenture on the acquisition of Imagination Technologies' Pure DAB digital radio business.
The deal allows AVenture to exercise an option to acquire Imagination's property at Concept House in Kings Langley, the current headquarters of the Pure business.
Trowers & Hamlins corporate partner Nick Harrisingh, who led the deal team, says: "It's been exciting to work on this transaction. The acquisition will provide a great platform for the business to grow and flourish with the support of the new owners. We look forward to continuing our work with AVenture and Pure in
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