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Agilitas, a pan-European mid-market private equity firm, has sold its portfolio company Ionisos to Ardian, an independent private investment company, for an undisclosed consideration.
Agilitas invested in Ionisos, alongside management, in December 2014. During Agilitas’s ownership, Ionisos has boosted its sales and marketing efforts gaining strategic global European customers as well as growing sales to existing customers across a wider range of technologies and services.
Ionisos also invested in its sterilisation facilities, adding capacity and increasing efficiency, thereby improving the service rate to its wide customer base.
The management team has been strengthened by the addition of Laurent
Audax Private Equity has completed the sale of Winchester Electronics to Snow Phipps, a private equity firm based in New York, in conjunction with management and other investors.
Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Headquartered in South Norwalk, Connecticut, Winchester is a provider of custom engineered interconnect solutions for high reliability applications in the military/aerospace, medical, semiconductor, oil and gas, and other diversified end markets.
Since Audax’ initial investment in 2006, Winchester has completed 13 acquisitions, diversifying the company’s customer and end-market exposure, shifting business mix toward higher growth and higher margin ruggedized applications, and broadening
Array Technologies, a manufacturer of solar tracking solutions, has secured an investment from funds managed by the Power Opportunities group of Oaktree Capital Management.
Oaktree has partnered with Array to provide the company with capital and strategic support to expand its global footprint as a leading provider of utility-scale solar tracking solutions. Terms of the investment were not disclosed.
Oaktree’s Power Opportunities group is a private equity investment strategy focused on accelerating the performance of businesses in the energy and power industries. The team seeks investments in leading companies that provide infrastructure, equipment, services and software used in the
Middle market private equity firm Wynnchurch Capital has expanded its team with the addition of Alison Miller, who has joined the firm as director.
Miller is focused on sourcing new investment opportunities that fit Wynnchurch's operations-oriented investment approach. She also supports the firm’s strategic relationships with the bankruptcy and restructuring M&A community.
"Alison brings over a decade of restructuring experience across a number of industries," says Wynnchurch's managing partner John Hatherly. "We feel she is a strong addition to our origination effort."
Miller began her career in the restructuring group in the New York office of Kirkland &
Praesidian Capital Europe, a provider of senior and subordinated debt and growth capital in the UK and Northern Europe, has invested first lien debt in SASH-Fitrite Group, a provider of uPVC windows, doors, conservatories and decking across the UK.
The funds support the June 2016 acquisition of the company by management investors John Ross and Nick Liburn and the realisation of their growth plan.
Yorkshire-based Ross and Liburn were formerly CEO and group finance director of Safestyle UK, respectively.
SASH-Fitrite is a manufacturer of u-PVC windows, doors and conservatories as well as decking and fencing. With a 50-year
Patron Capital, the pan-European institutional investor focused on property-backed investments, has closed its fifth fund raising EUR949 million (USD1.05 billion), including approximately EUR143 million (USD158 billion) of co-investment capital.
Greenhill & Co acted as the placement agent.
Patron Capital V exceeded its original target of EUR750 million (USD830 million), attracting investors from nine countries, with the majority of commitments coming from North America, followed by Europe, Asia Pacific and the Middle East. Investors included pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, endowments, foundations and asset managers.
Fund V will continue the same investment strategy as Patron’s previous funds, opportunistically targeting
Monroe Capital has appointed Marc Adelson as managing director, originations.
Adelson joins Ben Marzouk and Lee Stern in the firm’s New York office.
“We are very excited to add Marc to the Monroe Capital team,” says Ted Koenig, president and chief executive of Monroe Capital. “Marc has an accomplished career of over 30 years providing financing solutions to middle-market companies and brings with him many great relationships and a wide range of experience across multiple industries.”
Prior to Monroe, Adelson was the chief credit officer of Medallion Financial and president of its asset based lending business. Prior to
A fund managed by BlackRock Real Assets has completed the acquisition of a 100 per cent interest in two operational wind projects in Ireland from GE Energy Financial Services.
The 17-megawatt Acres wind farm located in Donegal and the 34-megawatt Barranafaddock wind farm located in Waterford have been operational since mid-2015. The projects are supported by a 15-year power purchase agreement.
The projects benefit from GE technology with a long-term Operations & Maintenance (O&M) agreement in place.
“We are very pleased to invest in the Acres and Barranafaddock wind projects on behalf of our clients. This transaction represents
Boutique asset manager Unigestion has moved its London-based staff into new London headquarters in Stratford Place, W1.
Since the beginning of 2016, Unigestion’s London team has increased from 25 to 40 people as the UK has become Unigestion’s largest non-domestic market.
All four investment lines (equities, multi-asset, alternatives and private equity) are fully represented in London with investment, sales and back office teams to serve UK clients. Unigestion’s range of UK clients includes Railpen, the Merseyside Pension Fund and the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham.
Fiona Frick (pictured), chief executive officer of Unigestion, says: “The expansion of
Sprott Asset Management, a USD10 billion Toronto-based alternative asset manager, has rolled out a second iteration of the firm’s private credit trust strategy, Sprott Private Credit Trust II, with hedge fund specialist Arif N Bhalwani.
Bhalwani is the chief executive officer and managing director of Third Eye Capital Management, a sub-adviser to Sprott Asset Management.
Sprott Private Credit Trust II focuses on identifying short-term opportunities primarily in North American companies that are otherwise unable to access financing.
The strategy of the fund is to invest in underlying funds that hold an actively managed portfolio of asset-based loans that will be focused on private and public companies, primarily in Canada and the US, that are otherwise unable to
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