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SK Capital Partners (SK Capita), a private investment firm focused on the specialty materials, has completed the previously announced sale of IBA Molecular (IBAM) to funds advised by private equity firm CapVest Partners.
IBA Molecular was jointly owned by SK Capital and Ion Beam Applications S.A. prior to the sale. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Since SK Capital acquired 60 per cent of IBA Molecular in April 2012, the Company has successfully executed on a number of operational improvement initiatives and strategic transactions. Jamshid Keynejad, Founding Partner of SK Capital, says: “The Company’s leading position in its core
The Riverside Company has signed an agreement to sell Diatron Group (Diatron) to STRATEC Biomedical AG of Germany.
Budapest-based Diatron develops, manufactures, and markets compact hematology analyzers for the human medical and veterinary markets. The transaction is expected to close near the end of this month.
Riverside invested in Diatron in late 2005, and worked extensively to grow the company organically, through new product development, and via international expansion. Riverside also completed the add-on of MetroLab in 2008, delivering new products, capabilities and customers.
“We’re proud of the work we’ve done to help Diatron thrive during our ownership,” says Riverside
Raet, a leading HR solutions provider, specialised in HR cloud software and services, has secured a majority investment from HgCapital.
HgCapital will back existing management and its growth strategy and assume majority ownership from the management shareholders and CVC Capital Partners. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Raet has been active in the Netherlands since 1965. It currently employs over 1,000 staff and enables HR for some three million people internationally through its cloud solutions. The company serves over 10,000 customers and today has a presence in the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Argentina, Peru, Chile and Colombia.
Raet’s growth
Trivergance, in partnership with Falcon Investment Advisors and Landon Capital Partners, has acquired Clarus Commerce from global venture capital and growth equity investment firm, Norwest Venture Partners.
The management team at Clarus has built a dynamic company that capitalises on the rapidly growing market opportunity at the intersection of eCommerce and subscription-based loyalty and rewards solutions. Specifically, Clarus has developed and manages a proprietary, flexible and scalable membership and benefit management technology platform. This platform delivers to consumers and its “white-label” partners a suite of valuable benefits that drive enhanced loyalty and customer engagement. Clarus offers its own portfolio of
LakePharma has acquired Blue Sky BioServices, a CRO specialising in protein and antibody production and assay services.
The combined company will be known as LakePharma, and is now the largest dedicated biologics CRO in the United States, providing a broad range of protein and antibody-related development services to the pharmaceutical and biotechnology markets. Blue Sky BioServices is a portfolio company of Ampersand Capital Partners and as part of the transaction, Ampersand made an investment into LakePharma to support growth initiatives.
Bringing together LakePharma’s world class expertise in antibody development, protein expression and characterization, molecular biology and process development with Blue
Envestnet | Tamarac has teamed up with CAIS to provide independent advisors with access to third-party hedge funds and private equity funds, as well as research on the alternative investment space, through its portfolio and client management platform, Advisor Xi.
More than 800 independent RIA firms rely on Advisor Xi, Tamarac's web-based, custodian-agnostic portfolio and client management technology platform, to collectively manage more than $500 billion in assets and over 1 million client accounts. The first phase of the integration between Tamarac's Advisor Xi and CAIS is now available to advisors.
"Our integration with CAIS will deliver efficient, reliable access
Entrepreneur and private equity specialist Luke Johnson will be the keynote speaker at this year’s Guernsey Funds Forum.
The Chairman of private equity house Risk Capital Partners will top the bill for the annual event, which this year is titled ‘The new scope – investor perspectives, innovation and success’, and takes place on Thursday 12 May at etc. venues, 155 Bishopsgate in London.
Guernsey Finance Chief Executive Dominic Wheatley says he is delighted that Johnson, the man behind several instantly-recognisable high street brands, had agreed to speak at the forum.
“Luke is probably best known for his work with restaurant
Middle market private equity firm GI Partners (GI) is to acquire Netsmart Technologies in partnership with Allscripts Healthcare Solutions, which will then merge its Allscripts' homecare software business unit with Netsmart.
Netsmart is the provider of software and technology solutions designed especially for the health and human services sector, enabling mission-critical clinical and business processes including electronic health records, patient management, billing, scheduling and clinical care delivery. Allscripts' homecare business is a fully integrated system for both large and small home care organizations, automating point of care processes as well as patient intake and billing. The combination of Netsmart and
Fintex Capital, an institutional investor dedicated to established P2P-lending platforms in Europe, has successfully completed its first investment on a P2P marketplace. Fintex is investing in German consumer loans originated via auxmoney, Germany's leading P2P marketplace.
In connection with this investment, Fintex Capital has issued a Bond to institutional investors, the first of its kind. Over the coming months Fintex plans to make further credit investments in the fintech arena.
Fintex purchases sizeable portfolios of loans originated on leading marketplaces as principal. In doing so, Fintex enables professional investors – such as pension funds, insurance companies, high net-worth individuals, private
Leamington Spa-based Solid Solutions Management Ltd has secured an GBP8m investment from BGF (Business Growth Fund) to support its continued growth.
Solid Solutions provides a range of 3D computer aided design (CAD) software tools, training and support to more than 5,500 UK & Ireland-based customers including product designers, mechanical engineers, manufacturers and educational institutions.
Founded in 1998 by Managing Director Alan Sampson and Technical Director Simon Turner, the business has experienced strong growth and is now the UK & Ireland’s leading reseller of SolidWorks, the 3D CAD software package owned by Dassault Systèmes. SolidWorks is used by more than three
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