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Risk Capital Partners, the private equity firm chaired by Luke Johnson, has bought a majority stake in Zoggs, the global swimming products brand.
Zoggs sells over 2.5 million pairs of goggles across 50 countries throughout the world. Founded in Sydney, Australia in 1992 it has built on its success as an innovator in the goggles market to develop a full range of swimwear, swim equipment and learn to swim/water confidence products.
Zoggs established and developed a market leading position in the UK leisure centre channel, servicing the majority of UK leisure centres with ‘point of use’ sales. In recent
Private equity firm Lonsdale Capital Partners has acquired a stake in Nutrisure Limited (Nutrisure), a supplier of superfoods both in the UK and internationally.
In the fast growing and increasingly popular world of organic superfoods, which includes spirulina, coconut oil and chia seeds, Nutrisure has seen a significant increase in demand for its products. This has helped it generate sales of GBP12.5million in the current financial year, and has also seen it included in the Sunday Times Virgin Fast Track 100 league table.
Lonsdale’s funds will help the company continue its strong growth to date, with investment in the Naturya
Morgan Stanley Global Private Equity (MSPE) has sold its majority interest in Creative Circle, a professional staffing firm specialising in advertising, creative and marketing talent, to On Assignment, for USD570 million.
The deal price includes up to USD30 million in contingent consideration if certain financial performance measures are achieved in 2015. MSPE acquired a majority stake in Creative Circle from its founders in September 2012 in a transaction that valued the company at USD230 million.
When MSPE invested in Creative Circle, the investment team cited outsized demand for highly qualified creative talent driven by the rapid expansion of interactive and
KPS Capital Partners (KPS) is to sell its portfolio company, WWRD Holdings (WWRD) to Fiskars Corporation (Fiskars) for USD437 million in cash, subject to a post completion adjustment based upon the level of net working capital and cash and debt in the acquired business.
WWRD is a leading provider of luxury home and lifestyle products sold worldwide under the Waterford, Wedgwood, Royal Doulton, Royal Albert and Rogaska brands. WWRD maintains unique licensing arrangements with some of the most high-profile designers and innovators in the home and lifestyle market, including Vera Wang, Jasper Conran, Monique Lhuillier, John Rocha, Gordon Ramsay, Donna
International law firm Greenberg Traurig has strengthened its expertise in private investment funds and complicated derivatives transactions, with the additions of Anthony L Perricone and Nanette Aguirre as shareholders in its New York Corporate & Securities Practice.
Aguirre joins from Schulte Roth & Zabel, where Perricone started his career and was more recently a partner at Jones Day.
“Rather than force clients to choose between top tier quality and value, we remain true to our core: a business model premised not on size but upon delivering elite quality and extraordinary value in one firm, where we intensely focus on execution
Sky-Futures, a provider of drone inspection services for the oil and gas industry, has raised GBP2.5m from venture capital fund, MMC Ventures.
The Series A investment – the largest ever into drone technology in Europe – comes after a year of significant expansion for the business, growing by 700 per cent in FY2014. This investment will enable Sky-Futures to continue its rapid growth and continue building out its integrated technology inspection platform.
Founded in 2009, Sky-Futures is the world leader in oil and gas drone inspections, working with more than 30 of the biggest oil and gas companies in
LBO France has appointed Sophie Chateau as Managing Director within the Investor Relations team, which will now be made up of six members.
Since 2011, Chateau served as Associate Director at Weinberg Capital Partners, with responsibility for investor relations across all activities. In this role, she also oversaw the fund-raising process for both private equity and real estate activities.
Chateau brings with her over 15 years of investment experience. Having begun her career in 1995 in M&A with UBS in Paris, before continuing in London, she joined Chevrillon Candover (1998), subsequently Chevrillon & Associés (2001), an independent private equity firm.
Australia’s federal budget must clearly map out a cohesive policy strategy that continues to build on the nation’s innovative capacity and encourages greater capital investment across the business sector, according to the Australian Private Equity & Venture Capital Association Limited (AVCAL).
“The federal budget plays a critically important role in laying out a plan for the future of our nation,” says AVCAL’s Chief Executive, Yasser El-Ansary. “We have an unprecedented opportunity right now to pivot our economy towards a much greater focus on high technology and high innovation industries, which have the potential to catalyse significant new employment opportunities.
eve – the new e-commerce venture launched to wake up the sleepy mattress industry – has closed a GBP600,000 seed funding round, with venture capital firm Octopus joining initial investors DN Capital and FJ Labs with a GBP225,000 investment.
The original round, which was announced in February, was reopened due to unprecedented interest from new parties. This comes as eve launches services in Germany, just three months after launching in the UK.
Today’s announcement follows significant growth figures from the business, which is disrupting the mattress industry by delivering premium quality mattresses direct to consumers at a fraction of high
Arlington Capital Partners and JMI Equity have sold their equity interest in Compusearch Software Systems to ABRY Partners.
Compusearch is a provider of acquisition and program management software to Federal agencies, DoD program offices, and government contractors.
During Arlington Capital Partners' and JMI's ownership, Compusearch expanded its suite of acquisition and program management solutions to address the unique regulatory and transparency requirements of federal program offices, acquisition organizations and government contractors. ABRY Partners will work with the Compusearch executive team to further expand the impact they deliver for their clients.
"We have had a productive and successful relationship
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