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Maranon Capital has provided unitranche financing to support the acquisition of a majority interest in Wedgewood Pharmacy by New Harbor Capital.
Wedgewood, headquartered in Swedesboro, New Jersey, is an industry leading provider of compounded medications to pet owners through more than 36,000 veterinarian customer relationships across the United States.
The company offers preparations for the companion animal, equine and specialty ophthalmology markets.
Antares Capital announced is serving as administrative agent and joint lead arranger on a USD136 million senior secured credit facility to support the acquisition of Meadows Behavioural Healthcare (The Meadows) by Kohlberg & Company (Kohlberg).
Upon the acquisition of The Meadows, Kohlberg announced the formation of Alita Care (Alita), which will serve as the parent holding company for The Meadows and Kohlberg’s existing portfolio company, Sunspire Health, LLC (“Sunspire”). The Meadows and Sunspire will continue to operate as independent brands within Alita, while exploring ways to improve patient care through the sharing of best practices.
“We are thrilled to be
More securitisations are needed to finance economic recovery in Europe, according to Richard Ambery, who has been appointed as General Counsel by boutique asset manager Managing Partners Group.
Ambery, who is a globally recognised and award-winning thought leader in structured finance law and a key contributor to Malta’s securitisation legislation, believes the instruments, which can offer returns of over 5 per cent per annum, will also fill a ‘yawning gap’ in product offerings to investors as they seek higher current yields in an era of flat or negative “risk free” rates.
He says: “Governments in Europe are realising, perhaps a
Private equity firm TA Associates has completed a growth equity investment in Maintenance Connection, a provider of computerised maintenance management system (CMMS) software. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Maintenance Connection’s web-based CMMS platform is designed to manage all aspects of an organisation’s asset maintenance operation, with the goal of optimizing asset life and lowering the overall cost of maintenance. Primary features of the software suite include work order tracking, asset management, preventative maintenance, service requests, inventory control and reporting. The software can be deployed on-premises, via a software as a service (SaaS) model, or in a
Safanad, a global principal investment firm, is pleased to announce that an affiliate has acquired a controlling interest in Rimstock.
Rimstock is a manufacturer of cast and forged aluminum automotive wheels in the United Kingdom for the automotive aftermarket and original equipment manufacturers. Rimstock, which recently celebrated its 30th year in manufacturing, employs over 230 people at its facilities in the West Midlands, England, the heart of UK automotive manufacturing.
Safanad is partnering in this acquisition with New York based investment firm, Current Capital, and UK executive David Roberts. Roberts is an experienced automotive executive who has successfully operated
Insurer Aviva France and asset management company Eiffel Investment Group have just announced the launch of Prêtons Ensemble, a fund that aims to finance the real economy.
This new fund, financed by Aviva France to an amount of EUR50 million, aims to lend funds via the best online lending platforms in Europe, and France in particular.
Prêtons Ensemble strives to bring together several investors and already counts on the support of Aviva France and AG2R La Mondiale for its launch, respectively with 50 million and 20 million euros. The fund has an eight-year objective of lending EUR100 million to VSEs
Mid-market private equity firm LDC has exited its investment in Workplace Systems, the provider of cloud-based scheduling software to the retail and hospitality sectors, in a sale to US-based WorkForce Software, for an undisclosed sum.
WorkForce, which is backed by US private equity firm Insight Venture Partners, is one the world’s leading providers of cloud-based workforce management software. Its solutions support hundreds of large and mid-sized companies with employee time and attendance, scheduling and absence management, helping them to reduce costs and meet compliance requirements while increasing efficiencies and employee satisfaction.
Based in the UK and with offices in
Some 75 per cent of investors plan to increase their allocation to real assets in the next five years, according to a poll of attendees at the 2016 Global Real Assets Conference in New York.
The annual forum, now in its 16th year, brought together CIOs, heads of real assets, heads of real estate, heads of infrastructure, other investment professionals from leading defined benefit and defined contribution plans, insurance providers, endowments and foundations, and consultants to discuss trends and strategies in real estate, infrastructure and maritime investing around the globe.
Current industry sentiments were captured through a series of polling
Private equity firm Graphite Capital has acquired New World Trading Company (NWTC), a pub and restaurant business headquartered in Knutsford, Cheshire, from private equity firm LDC in a GBP50 million transaction.
LDC originally invested GBP2.7m for a minority stake in NWTC in 2013 through the Hill Capital Food & Beverage Fund, which was set up to back early stage food and drink concepts. The sale has generated a 6.1x money multiple and IRR of 80 per cent for LDC.
NWTC opened its first pub in 2011 and now operates 14 pubs/restaurants nationally under five sub brands: The Botanist, The Oast
Centerview Capital Technology Management has appointed Dr Buno Pati as a Partner adding to the founding partnership of Ned Hooper, former Chief Strategy Officer of Cisco Systems, David Dorman, former Chairman and CEO of AT&T and Sandhya Venkatachalam former VP Advertising and Monetization and Head of Corporate Development of Skype.
Dr Pati is an entrepreneur and company builder who brings more than 20 years of experience growing, leading and investing in technology companies and has served as an Advisor to the firm since 2014.
Pati founded and served as Chief Executive Officer of Numerical Technologies, a company that redefined how
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