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China Merchant Bank (CMB), CIIC, and Shanghai Shentong Metro are the first Chinese partners to have expressed an interest in investing in Idinvest Partners’ Chance investment platform, which is dedicated to direct Chinese in European SMEs.
Idinvest has also entered discussions with several Chinese banks, insurers and investment funds. The initial closing round of approximately EUR300 million is scheduled for the end of 2015.
Idinvest Partners signed the operational launch of the Chance investment platform on 2 July 2015, during Chinese Premier Li Keqiang’s visit to France. The signing ceremony was held in Toulouse (southern France) and was attended by
Great Lakes Fund Solutions have launched CrowdKey, software-as-a-service (SaaS) that provides online private placement platforms with a white-labeled crowdfunding site and an outsourced back office.
CrowdKey allows platforms to accelerate their time to market, reduce fixed formation costs, perform a variety of vendor management and compliance functions, outsource their call centre and back office, and quickly begin to display deals for investors.
The vendor-hub features of CrowdKey allow online private placement platforms to tap into banking, legal and fund administration resources to keep issuers in compliance and actively structuring deals rather than becoming immersed in clerical work. CrowdKey is
James Cowper Kreston has advised independent private equity company Growth Capital Partners LLP on its investment in FLYdocs Systems Limited.
The investment provides FLYdocs with development capital funding and strategic support to facilitate further international growth. James Cowper Kreston’s Corporate Finance team provided lead advisory services to Growth Capital Partners.
FLYdocs is a technology company whose software as a service platform provides best in class paperless aviation records management and online aircraft transition services to commercial airlines, aircraft lessors and other aviation industry participants worldwide. Based in Tamworth, Staffordshire, FLYdocs has additional offices and operations in the US, India,
An affiliate of HIG Capita has completed the acquisition of Intelius an online provider of people-related information for consumers.
Intelius is a leading provider of on-demand information about individuals and predictive analytics that can help identify connections to other people, places and things. Headquartered in Bellevue, Washington, the privately-held company has been in business since 2003 and has sold more than 50 million reports.
“We are pleased to support Intelius, a leading provider of online consumer information services,” says Elliot Maluth, a Managing Director of HIG Capital. “We view Intelius as a strong cash flow business with tremendous growth
AMP Capital and 3i Infrastructure plc (3i Infrastructure) have entered into an agreement to jointly acquire 100 per cent of Danish company ESVAGT from Maersk Group.
AMP Capital is investing approximately GBP109 million to acquire a 50 per cent interest in ESVAGT and will have an equal shareholding with 3i Infrastructure.
Headquartered in Esbjerg, Esvagt has been operating since 1981. It is a leading provider of emergency response and rescue services in the offshore oil and gas industry in Denmark and Norway, and has a growing presence in the UK and offshore wind services segments. Esvagt employs more
Actis has sold its majority shareholding investment in Mouka Limited (Mouka), a Nigerian mattress brand, to Abraaj, a private equity investor. Financial details of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Mouka manufactures foam spring mattresses, polyurethane blocks, pillows and furniture for consumers in West Africa. Actis invested in 2007 and since then it has expanded the company and its operations across Nigeria; built best in class manufacturing facilities; expanded production and distribution; brought in a first-rate board and institutionalised the organisation, helping Mouka evolve from a well-respected, family owned business into a sustainable, successful corporation.
John Opubor, Director in
Private equity firm RoundTable Healthcare Partners has completed the acquisition of TIDI Products.
Founded in 1969 in Neenah, WI, TIDI was once primarily a manufacturer of paper-based barrier products. Through a strategically executed acquisition program and internal initiatives, TIDI has expanded its product offering to include a portfolio of differentiated, acute care focused medical products. Today, the Company is a designer, developer and manufacturer of a broad suite of medical devices and supplies for preventing infections and supporting caregivers across acute care, alternate site and dental end-markets. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Joe Damico, Founding Partner and
In the first six months of 2015, Israeli high-tech exit activity accelerated, garnering USD5.29 billion in 54 deals – nearly 76 per cent of the total proceeds from exits in all of 2014, with 107 deals totalling USD6.98 billion, and 80 per cent of USD6.62 billion in 91 exits in 2013, both considered part of the few most successful years for Israeli exits.
The figures published are part of the IVC-Meitar Exits Report H1 2015.
The average deal size in H1/2015 was USD98 million, 51 per cent more than the annualised average of USD65 million in 2014 and 34 per
High Road Capital Partners has acquired Toronto-based Ariad Communications, which it will combine with its platform company Bluespire Marketing.
Ariad is a strategic marketing agency specialising in serving Canadian clients with content, digital marketing and consumer activation capabilities.
Bluespire is a leading provider of strategic, multi-channel marketing solutions with emphasis on end-user content and digital marketing for healthcare, financial services and senior living companies. Each business will continue to operate its brands.
Mike Beckerman (pictured), a 20-year marketing veteran and President of Ariad, will serve as CEO of the combined company.
“Ariad and Bluespire are experts in
Harris Williams & Co acted as the exclusive financial advisor to the shareholders of IS Group BV (IS Group), a provide of cloud computing and IT services, on its sale to strategic buyer Koninklijke KPN (KPN).
The transaction was led by Thierry Monjauze (pictured), Jonathan Organ and Sylvain Noblet of Harris Williams & Co’s Technology, Media & Telecom (TMT) Group.
“IS Group’s management team has done an exemplary job building one of the leading managed hosting and cloud services platforms in The Netherlands,” says Thierry Monjauze, a managing director at Harris Williams & Co. “KPN’s acquisition will allow IS
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