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Element Materials Technology, a specialist in materials and product qualification testing in the aerospace, oil & gas and transportation markets, has been acquired by Bridgepoint from 3i Group for an undisclosed sum.
Element, which can trace its origins back almost 200 years, operates in the global outsourced materials testing market with 34 laboratories in the US and 19 across Europe. It serves a longstanding customer base of over 10,000 aerospace, oil & gas and transportation companies worldwide. The business generates annual revenues of circa USD290 million.
Element works with its customers to ensure that the materials systems and products
Private equity firm Encore Consumer Capital has completed the sale of its portfolio company, FreshKO Produce Services to C&S Wholesale Grocers, the largest wholesale grocery supply company in the United States.
Scott Sellers, Managing Director of Encore Consumer Capital, says:, "It has been a great pleasure for us at Encore to have partnered with Randal Shepherd, Manny Robles and the rest of the talented team at FreshKO since our investment in 2012. Their ability to expand FreshKO's customer base and attract a strong partner like C&S exceeded our expectations."
"Encore has been a great partner over the past three years.
Efesto Energy, the energy fund managed by EOS Investment Management (IM EOS), has completed the acquisition of five photovoltaic power plants from Green Network Group for an overall investment value of circa EUR16 million.
The agreement, achieved after several months of negotiation, is another important achievement also given the stringent criteria imposed by EOS IM on the selection and acquisition processes, which include a thorough due diligence analysis. Efesto Energy has thus successfully completed its first wave of acquisitions of PV plants for a total value of c. EUR 60 million and total capacity of 25 MW. The current portfolio
Signavio, a provider of SaaS-based business process and decision management technology, has completed a EUR31 million minority investment from global growth equity investor Summit Partners.
Signavio plans to use the investment to expand its international footprint and continue its very strong growth trajectory.
Founded in 2009, with offices in Berlin, Singapore and Sunnyvale, Signavio is a provider of cloud-based software that helps businesses efficiently design, implement and manage complex processes, decisions and workflows. With its three products – Process Editor, Decision Manager and Effektif – Signavio offers an intuitive and collaborative process transformation platform, enabling company-wide compliance, process performance
The introduction a new fund vehicle by new regulations governing European Long-Term Investment Funds (ELTIFs) on 9 December will bring more opportunities for professional and retail investors to fulfil their long-term investment objectives.
That’s the view of the Cyprus Investment Funds Association (CIFA), which says that, for the first time, ELTIFs will allow for fund managers to lend directly to the real economy as part of a major milestone marking the increased sophistication of the Capital Markets Union (CMU). CIFA believes that owing to Cyprus’ already well-established Alternative Investment Funds (AIF) legal framework, ELTIFs can be marketed across the EU
Century Park Capital Partners has completed the sale of Lynx Grills, a manufacturer of commercial and residential kitchen equipment.
Lynx’s products include a selection of stainless steel barbeque grills as well as complementary cooking, storage, refrigeration and food preparation accessories. The company’s primary brands are Lynx Professional Grills and Sedona by Lynx. The company distributes its products through a network of hearth and patio dealers, appliance dealers, specialty retailers and distributors.
Chip Roellig, Managing Partner with Century Park Capital Partners, says, “Lynx has evolved into the leading luxury brand in the outdoor kitchen market. CEO Jim Buch and his
Private equity funds managed by Blackstone have successfully completed the acquisition of MB Aerospace, a Tier I engine component manufacturer and repair business, from Arlington Capital Partners.
MB Aerospace has facilities across the US, UK, and Poland. The company’s manufacturing model provides complex machined and fabricated assemblies into production and aftermarket applications across an installed base of 65 aero-engine platforms.
MB Aerospace’s key customers include Pratt & Whitney, Rolls-Royce, General Electric, Boeing, United Technologies Aerospace Systems, Pratt & Whitney AeroPower, GKN, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, and the US Department of Defense.
Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), Renaissance Capital, Onexim Group, and CITIC Merchant, a merchant banking arm of CITIC Group, are forming a strategic partnership to promote the interests of Russian companies and Chinese investors in high-opportunity projects in Russia, the CIS, the Middle East and Africa.
The current partnership will facilitate access to debt and equity financing from China for Russian businesses in the framework of the One Belt-One Road initiative, aimed at strengthening the integration processes in the Eurasian economic space through the construction of an infrastructure belt along the route of the historic Silk Road from China to
Strategic advisory and consulting firm Berkeley Research Group has appointed Michael Athanason as a managing director. Athanason joins the BRG Capstone group in New York where he will lead the Private Funds Group Valuation Team.
Athanason brings over 25 years of valuation and corporate finance advisory experience and has been involved in the valuation of alternative investment portfolios for the past 10 years. He joins BRG from KPMG, where he was the US national leader of the Alternative Investments Valuation practice, and he was previously the global leader of Duff & Phelps’ Alternative Investment Valuation Services business.
Athanason specialises
Private equity investment firm McCarthy Capital has led a recapitalisation and growth equity investment in Seven10 Storage Software. Massachusetts-based Seven10 is a provider of enterprise software-defined-storage solutions and fully automated file migrations.
“Seven10 epitomises our ideal investment opportunity in a rapidly growing market,” says Bob Emmert, Managing Partner of McCarthy Capital. “Bobby Moulton and the Seven10 team have built a market-leading software platform and a strong industry reputation. In partnering with management, we are excited to continue to grow the company and lead the market in innovation.”
Based in Lawrence, Massachusetts, Seven10 provides enterprise software-defined-storage solutions to customers across
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