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Clearwater International has advised Electranet, a supplier for the design, delivery and support of highly secure network and communication infrastructure in the UK, on its sale to Capita, a UK-based provider of digitally enabled customer and business process services.
Electranet supports high profile government and private sector customers that require secure and effective networking and communication solutions. The company handles highly secure data and is approved to sponsor its own workforce through national security vetting processes, such as the Counter-Terrorist Check and Developed Vetting. The company runs one of the UK’s few commercial sites that is approved to hold UK
Accel-KKR, a technology-focused private equity investment firm, has held the official close of its fifth buyout fund with USD1.3 billion in committed capital.
The fund, Accel-KKR Capital Partners V, will continue Accel-KKR's long-term focused strategy of investing in lower-middle market and middle-market software and IT-enabled services companies.
Accel-KKR says the fund received strong support from its investors in prior funds, as well as attracted a number of new investors.
Tom Barnds (pictured), Managing Director of Accel-KKR, says: "We are heartened by the support we received from our existing investors, and are quite pleased to welcome a number of
21 Centrale Partners is set to acquire Impact, the leading French independent player in operational marketing, alongside the company’s three founding partners, François Crépin, Rémi Gammal and François Lévèque, with the objective to accelerate growth.
With sales of over EUR50 million and average annual growth of over 20 per cent, Impact operates three main activities: sales force outsourcing, commercial animation in retail distribution and merchandising for large corporate clients.
Impact provides high value-added marketing and sales services in a field supported by an increasing trend of companies expanding their commercial initiatives to support growth amidst a multiplication of distribution
Omnes Capital, via its small cap funds LCL PME Expansion 2 and LCL Expansion 2, has helped Camérus with the acquisition of Square, allowing for the withdrawal of the company’s director and historic sole shareholder, François Anfrye (Chairman of Square).
Omnes invested in the company in 2013 on the occasion of a management buyout (MBO) alongside the management team made up of President Christian Liagre, Chief Executive Officers Christine Atzémis and Christophe Vilain, and Chief Financial Officer Loïc Le Bris
Founded in 1992, Camérus is one of France’s leading names in furniture hire for interior designers and event organisers
Perella Weinberg Partners has appointed Marie-Hélène S McAndrew has joined the Firm as a Managing Director in its Asset Management business. Based in New York, McAndrew will work with the Marketing and Client Services Team as a Product Specialist for the PWP Global Macro strategy.
PWP Global Macro strategy is a highly liquid, global macro strategy investing in equity indices, currencies, sovereign debt, credit, and commodities. The investment strategy is based on fundamental macro-economic research to establish predictive relationships between macro-economic factors and asset returns. The strategy is led by portfolio manager Maria Vassalou.
McAndrew has 20 years of
CapX Partners (CapX) has closed a loan facility that can grow to USD100 million to support the growth needs of Ziosk, creator of the restaurant industry’s first ordering, entertainment and pay-at-the-table tablet.
The funds will be used to support agreements with Olive Garden and other restaurant brands to deploy Ziosk tablets across the US.
Ziosk is the clear cut industry leader serving more than 25 restaurant concepts across all 50 states. When the Olive Garden deployment is complete, over 150,000 tablets in 3,000 locations will be interacting with more than 50 million guests per month, demonstrating the continued momentum
Australasian perr-to-peer lending marketplace Harmoney Corp has completed a USD200 million funding round, led by P2P Global Investments (P2PGI) managed by Eaglewood Europe – a subsidiary of alternative asset manager Marshall Wace.
The agreement includes both equity and debt, with P2PGI also signing an agreement for USD200m of lending capital for Harmoney's marketplace. P2PGI will purchase loans from the Harmoney marketplace* up to USD200m over the next three years across both the New Zealand and Australian markets.
Harmoney closed a Series A financing round in January 2015 led by Trade Me Limited. That transaction valued Harmoney at USD55m. Since
Blackrock Programme Management (Blackrock PM), a professional services firm that provides independent expert witness and construction consulting services for large, international construction projects, has appointed Tim Trotter (pictured) as Chairman.
Blackrock PM, which is backed by private equity firm Dunedin, has advised on many prestigious projects around the Globe including the Shard in London, the Burj Khalifa (the world’s tallest building) in Dubai, and power stations, desalination plants and oil & gas facilities across the EAME region. The company currently has a strong pipeline of high profile contracts and is advising on construction disputes valued at over USD6 billion. UK mid
Aspire Ventures and Yellow Brick Capital Advisers (UK) are to merge to form Aspire Universal. Both companies share a common mission around investments in transformative companies, powered by Internet of Things (IoT) technologies, and addressing basic human needs like food & water, education, health care, shelter and finance.
"Seemingly overnight, whole industries are being transformed by the 'Internet of Things' technologies– namely mobile, cloud, and machine learning. While it's nice that Facebook can give you better mobile recommendations and Amazon has a device you can talk to when you want to restock your paper towels, such change seems to come
DriverUp, the first online marketplace for automotive financing, has closed a USD20 million Series B round led by new investor SF Capital Group with participation from existing investors Emerald Development Managers and RRE Ventures.
The DriverUp marketplace gives accredited investors an opportunity to directly enter the USD1 trillion auto lending industry and provides dealers with an expedited, streamlined credit process.
"This Series B round allows us to accelerate our product development, support added marketplace loan inventory and ramp up marketing efforts," says Sam Ellis, chief executive officer, DriverUp. "We have seen strong interest from accredited investors since launching, and
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