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Monroe Capital has acted as sole lead arranger and administrative agent on a USD14.5 million senior credit facility to support the merger of Nelbud 360 Services Group and TEAM Services. Nelbud 360 Services is an existing portfolio company of Source Capital.
Based in Indianapolis, Indiana and founded in 1981, Nelbud 360 Services is a leading provider of commercial kitchen fire prevention and equipment maintenance including kitchen exhaust cleaning, technical services, fire protection services, and wastewater management. TEAM is a provider of full service electric and mechanical solutions including HVAC services, electrical, refrigeration, kitchen equipment, and plumbing and drain cleaning services.
Lee Equity Partners, a middle market buyout firm has closed the sale of PDR Network (PDR) to an affiliate of San Francisco based private equity firm Genstar Capital.
PDR, one of the most recognisable brands in healthcare, built the largest network to engage physicians, pharmacists, and patients with clinically relevant content in a targeted and measurable way. Lee Equity capitalised the company and merged two corporate carve outs: Physician’s Desk Reference and Healthcare Notification Network (HCNN) in 2009, and subsequently acquired LDM Group in 2014. Through these acquisitions and the launch of new products, the company transitioned from a legacy
Thomas H Lee Partners has closed a growth equity investment in Bargain Hunt Superstores (BH), an extreme value retail chain, through a recapitalisation transaction.
Members of the senior management team, including Founder and CEO, Robert Echols Jr, will retain equity stakes in the Company. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
THL will support BH’s continued growth and strong momentum by contributing resources and strategic expertise as the Company builds on its proven platform and executes on its strategic growth objectives. BH will draw heavily from THL's extensive retail experience to accelerate new store openings and further extend its
Mid-market private equity firm Bowmark Capital is backing the buy-out of Nexus Vehicle Solutions, a B2B broker of rental vehicles in the UK, from its previous institutional investor, Livingbridge, for a total consideration of GBP51 million.
The business connects vehicle rental companies with corporate customers via a proprietary online booking and rental management system that automates and streamlines the procurement process.
Founded in Leeds in 1999, Nexus provides its 800 customers with access to over 500,000 vehicles sourced from 130 rental companies operating from more than 2,000 locations. For rental companies, Nexus provides valuable incremental volumes that are otherwise difficult
Law firm Thomas Eggar has advised Uniplaces in one of Europe’s largest Series A venture capital fundraising successes of 2015.
The pioneering Lisbon-based startup was founded in 2012 by three ex-university classmates and has been billed as ‘the Airbnb of students’. Users of Uniplaces.com are able to search for and book affordable student accommodation safely and easily in locations all over the world. The website operates in 38 cities.
The funding round was led by Atomico and included investments from Octopus Ventures and Shilling Capital Partners as well as a mix of existing and new angel investors, including veteran
Malta-based fund manager Prestige Capital Management (PCM) has added an institutional share class to its Commercial Finance Opportunities Fund, an Experienced Investor Fund that focuses on receivables finance and asset finance opportunities in the UK.
Additionally the fund structure is a Luxembourg-based SICAV SIF which has recently been brought within a full scope AIFM structure, allowing for a wider range of access to European investor groups.
The fund aims to achieve consistent absolute returns in most market conditions, using a diverse portfolio that carefully manages individual client and sector asset allocation risk. Transactions are procured and managed by one
A consortium consisting of Macquarie Corporate Holdings (Macquarie Capital) and InfraVia II Invest, managed by InfraVia Capital Partners (InfraVia) have acquired a 39.39 per cent equity interest in Metro de Malaga from Cajamar (18.86 per cent), Cointer Concesiones (11.96 per cent) and Sando Concesiones (8.57 per cent).
On completion, the buyers will represent the largest private shareholder in the Company which has been successfully operating since July 2014.
The company was granted a long term concession by the Government of Andalusia to provide transportation to those 200,000 Malaga residents who live within 500 meters of a station. Today, Metro
Mid-market private equity specialist Graphite Capital has provided development capital to Aero Technics, a civil aircraft maintenance business focusing on cabin services, to acquire Airbase Interiors, which specialises in the repair and dry cleaning of aircraft seats.
Aero Technics was founded in 2002 by its present chief executive, Steve Cloran. He has long experience in the aircraft services industry and will continue to lead the combined business, which will have operations in Manchester, Dubai, Heathrow and Gatwick with a customer base that spans many leading airlines.
The UK civil aircraft maintenance market is estimated to be worth £1.7 billion
Alternative Investment Capital Limited (AIC), a Japanese management firm specialising in private equity investments, has chosen eFront's flagship FrontInvest solution in combination with its eFront Investor Cloud (EIC) solution to integrate the firm's operations and streamline its alternative investments data workflows.
FrontInvest is an end-to-end solution for both investors and fund managers. EIC provides services to limited partners by collecting and validating performance data from fund managers.
AIC was founded in 2002 as an investment management firm in Japan focusing exclusively on alternative assets. The firm is headquartered in Tokyo and primarily serves Japanese institutional investors and pension funds.
The Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) has sold a 40% shareholding in UK motorway services provider Moto to funds advised by CVC Capital Partners (CVC).
This will be the second investment made from CVC’s Strategic Opportunities Platform, which has been established in response to growing demand from large investors to be able to invest for the long term in stable, high quality businesses.
Moto, which was founded in 2001, operates in 45 locations throughout the UK and employs over 6,000 staff.
Tim Moss, CEO of Moto, says: “I am very pleased that such an experienced investor as CVC has
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