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Securus Group a provider of electronic security and life safety systems specialising in the installation, maintenance and monitoring of open protocol products, has raised a GBP25 million flexible senior debt facility from Muzinich & Co in the first transaction for Muznich’s recently launched UK Private Debt Fund.
Securus Group was formed in 2008 by Managing Director Stuart Glover, supported by funding from Infinity Asset Management. Since then it has grown rapidly through a combination of organic growth and ten acquisitions combining to create a full national service platform under the Securus Group brand.
The GBP25 million six-year senior secured
LeapFrog Investments has announced the leaders of a global team to spearhead the firm’s expansion into healthcare investments. LeapFrog’s companies so far serve 52 million people across 21 markets with financial services, and the firm intends to achieve similar large-scale results in healthcare.
This announcement follows OPIC’s recent announcement of a commitment to LeapFrog of up to USD200m for investments in healthcare and financial services.
African healthcare investments will be led by Dr Felix Olale, MD, PhD, who joins LeapFrog as a Partner. Dr Olale is an entrepreneur, innovator and physician-scientist with wide experience building businesses and investing in
Sertec Group Holdings, a manufacturer of stampings and welded assemblies, has secured a GBP20 million funding package from BGF (Business Growth Fund) and Lloyds Bank Commercial Banking to support the management team’s continuing expansion plans for the 54 year old business.
The Coleshill headquartered manufacturer is a key supplier partner to Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) among others, producing over three million parts per week from aluminium and steel across its five operating sites in Birmingham. The business has enjoyed significant growth over the last eight years with sales rising from GBP40 million in 2008 to close to GBP200 million today.
BDC Capital has launched IT Venture Fund II, a new CAD150 million venture capital fund for the Canadian information technology (IT) sector.
This second fund brings the amount under management by the BDC Capital IT Venture Fund group to CAD300 million, all of which is helping to build and support a new generation of global Canadian IT market leaders.
"The fund focuses on direct mid-stage investments (also known as Series A and B financing) in more mature startups that have a product in market and are already generating revenues from customers," says Robert Simon, Managing Partner of the BDC
Shamrock Capital Advisors has held final the final closing of Shamrock Capital Growth Fund IV, a USD700 million fund focused on providing buyout and growth capital investments in companies within the media, entertainment and communications industries.
This marks the fourth such fund raised and managed by Shamrock focusing on these industries. Shamrock targets companies benefitting from growth trends in these sectors, seeking USD20 million to USD100 million of equity capital in both control and non-control transactions.
Fund IV’s limited partners comprise a diverse mix of existing and new investors from leading pension funds, endowments and foundations, family offices, and
Lawyers from Carey Olsen's Guernsey corporate team have advised Falcon Acquisitions Limited on its admission to the Official List of the UK Listing Authority (by way of a standard listing) and to trading on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange for listed securities.
Falcon Acquisitions is a special purpose acquisition vehicle and will target businesses for acquisition in the mobile, online television and broadcasting sectors with a focus on 'over-the-top' content. This involves delivering media content, such as audio and video, either over the open internet without a multiple system operator or via an internet-enabled device such as
Ancor Capital Partners has sold portfolio company Liguria Foods, a portfolio company, to CTI Foods, a portfolio company of Thomas H Lee Partners and Goldman Sachs & Co.
Ancor, along with co-investor Brown Brothers Harriman Capital Partners (BBH), acquired Liguria Foods in 2008 as a part of a spin-out of a division of a larger publicly held company.
Founded in 1974 and headquartered in Humboldt, Iowa, Liguria (www.liguriafoods.com) is a value-added food-service solutions partner that manufactures high-quality branded and private-label pepperoni for the large, expanding USD1 billion US pepperoni market, with a particular focus on independent and multi-unit pizzerias
Lightstone Ventures has closed a USUSD50 million fund, Lightstone Singapore, focused on investing in Singapore-based life sciences technologies and companies.
Lightstone has partnered with Limited Partners Temasek, an investment company based in Singapore, and EDBI, the corporate investment arm of the Singapore Economic Development Board, to create Lightstone Singapore, LP with the goal of sourcing, funding, and building Singapore-based life sciences companies.
"The Singapore Government has invested a tremendous amount of resources into the local life sciences ecosystem over the past decade," says LSV General Partner and Team Leader Mike Carusi. "The investment from Temasek and EDBI into the fund
Miami-based private equity firm Trivest Partners has appointed Greg Baty as a Partner. Most recently, Greg was a Principal at Hamilton Lane, a global private equity management firm with approximately USD240 billion in total assets under management and supervision, where he managed the firm’s South Florida office.
Over the past decade, Trivest has asserted its position as the partner of choice for Founder/Family owned businesses across North America. With that recognition, the Firm continues to see an ever increasing number of investment opportunities from business brokers, lawyers, accountants and others. A natural evolution of the Firm’s development and expansion will be
Private equity firm Thoma Bravo has completed fundraising for Thoma Bravo Discover Fund (Discover), which will focus on lower middle market software investments, with USD1.074 billion of commitments, reaching its hard cap.
Thoma Bravo will invest Discover with a continued emphasis on its successful investment strategy in the software and technology enabled services sectors. The fund provides an investment vehicle for opportunities requiring less equity capital than the larger opportunities that are the focus of Thoma Bravo’s flagship funds.
Thoma Bravo’s most recent flagship fund, Fund XI, closed at USD3.66 billion and began investing in 2014. In 2015, Fund
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