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Century Park Capital Partners has completed its acquisition of Mikaway, a 105-year-old producer of Japanese pastries and specialty frozen desserts.
Mikawaya is credited as being the creator of mochi ice cream, a handheld and portion-controlled ball of premium ice cream enrobed in a soft and chewy, sweet rice cake. Mikawaya is the market’s largest producer of the Japanese specialty frozen dessert. The brand offers an exciting range of popular flavours including Asian-influenced flavours like green tea and mango, as well as more traditional favourites like kona coffee, cookies and cream, mint chip, chocolate, strawberry, vanilla and others. The products are
General Atlantic has agreed to sell its majority stake in amedes Holding AG, a provider of medical diagnostic services in Germany and Belgium, to Antin Infrastructure Partners.
The purchase price has not been disclosed. The transaction is subject to approval by the competition authorities.
With 35 laboratories and 27 practices across Germany and Belgium, amedes Group offers interdisciplinary and medical-diagnostic services for patients, medical practitioners, clinics and other institutions. Every day, it evaluates over 150,000 lab samples using state-of-the-art technology. With 3,500 employees – including more than 365 doctors and technical assistants – amedes is one of the leading lab
BitFury Group, the Bitcoin Blockchain infrastructure provider and transaction processing company, has secured USD20 million in funding. Investors participating in the round include DRW Venture Capital, iTech Capital and the Georgian Co-Investment Fund.
Don Wilson, Founder of DRW Venture Capital, says: “DRW's investment in BitFury is an acknowledgment of the impressive work Valery Vavilov and the team has done to become a leader in the business of securing the blockchain. By supporting BitFury’s efforts in this regard, and by providing liquidity in bitcoin via its wholly owned subsidiary, Cumberland, DRW aims to facilitate the widespread adoption of the distributed ledger
Perella Weinberg Partners has appointed Brian Stengel as a Partner in the firm’s Advisory business.
Stengel will focus on providing strategic and financial advice to technology, media and telecommunications clients, with a particular focus on internet and digital media, and will be based in the Firm’s New York office.
Stengel has 20 years of investment banking experience. He comes to Perella Weinberg Partners from Waller Capital Partners, where he was a Managing Director and Group Head of the Digital Media Group. Previously, Stengel was an Executive Director in the Financial Sponsors Group at Morgan Stanley. In these roles, he advised
Law firm Noerr has advised Scottish Equity Partners (SEP) on a further investment in Babbel. SEP led a USD 22m investment round in the Berlin-based company, which offers the well-known “Babbel” online language courses.
Babbel's existing investors Reed Elsevier Ventures, Nokia Growth Partners and VC Fonds Technologie Berlin also participated in the financing round. Noerr acted for SEP with a team led by corporate partner Felix Blobel (pictured).
Babbel, which was founded in 2007, is the leading app for language learning with 14 learning languages and up to 120,000 downloads per day. The funds from the financing round will be
Brookdale Care, a UK authority on autism, has been acquired by Tracscare, a provider of care and support for adults with challenging and complex needs.
Livingstone’s Healthcare sector team advised entrepreneur Michael McInerney, who founded Brookdale in 2002.
Established in 1983, Tracscare provides support and care for adults with complex needs associated with acquired brain injuries, Autistic Spectrum Disorders (ASD), mental health illnesses and both learning and physical disabilities. Specialist healthcare investor GSquare invested in 2014 to support group’s buy-and-build development strategy.
Brookdale is renowned for its specialism in delivering outstanding care and support for people with ASD and its
Balidor Oil & Gas has secured a USD150 million equity commitment from Kayne Anderson Energy Funds and members of the Balidor management team.
Balidor is a Houston, Texas based independent oil and gas company formed to target the acquisition and development of oil and natural gas assets in North America.
The Balidor management team is led by Dave Baker, CEO; Brian Dorr, COO; and Steve Liles, Vice President. Prior to forming Balidor, Dave Baker and Brian Dorr served as senior executives at Breitburn Energy (“Breitburn”) where Dave Baker served as Senior Vice President of Operations, managing engineering and operations for
European mid-market private equity specialist Idinvest Partners has added two new members to its Private Debt team.
The addition of Valérie Ducourty (pictured) and Sorian Abouz means the team now comprises 11 professionals.
Ducourty is joining Idinvest Partners as Investment Director of the Private Debt team. Her role will mainly consist of the deployment of the investment of the NOVI 2 debt compartment.
Va Ducourty lérie has spent most of her career in commercial banking, notably at Fortis Banque France and then Arkea Banque Entreprises et Institutionnels, before taking part in the launch and development of the Corporate Lending activity
Goldman Sachs Merchant Banking Division and GRO Capital are to acquire M-Tec Holding, Pandrup, the parent company of Trackunit, from the founders of the company, Svend M Hansen and Jesper Fjeldsø.
Trackunit is an independent provider of machine telematics products and software.
“Over the past years Trackunit has grown significantly and is today positioned as one of the leading global providers of fleet management solutions for off-highway vehicles. The management team is very excited about the new ownership and believes the competences of Goldman Sachs and GRO Capital will be highly valuable to the company. We will continue to focus
BeneStream has raised USD4.26 million a a series A funding round with commitments from health insurance industry investors and existing investors.
BeneStream is a health technology company that connects qualified employees to government health benefits, saving their employers the cost of insuring those employees. The company is currently working with more than half of the top 10 largest brokerages in the country.
“Our series A financing is led by health insurance professionals who understand the need for a product that reduces the overall cost of health insurance to businesses while increasing employee access to health benefits,” says Ben Geyerhahn (pictured),
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