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Monroe Capital has increased the credit facility to MSDP Group to support the acquisition of ACCEL Performance Group. MSDP is a portfolio company of Hot Rod Brands, an affiliate of Z Capital Partners.
Based in El Paso, Texas, MSDP operates in the street enthusiast, professional racer and powersports markets, where they maintain industry-leading market share positions across all of their product categories under the MSD, Racepak, Superchips and Edge brands. ACCEL is a prominent performance aftermarket parts manufacturer with brands including ACCEL, Mr Gasket, Mallory Ignition, Lakewood, QuickTime and Hays brands.
The acquisition of ACCEL brings together two industry leaders
Livingstone’s Consumer sector team has sold Extreme Cool Ltd which owns and operates Chill Factore, a 167,000 sq ft ski slope and activity centre in Manchester, to a joint venture between Development Securities plc and Pemberstone Investments for GBP15.5m.
This is Livingstone’s fifth travel/leisure sector deal in the last 12 months.
Opened in November 2007, the venue incorporates the longest indoor real ski slope in the UK – at 180m – as well as a climbing wall and 16 retail and restaurant units. The venue currently attracts between 1.2 million and 1.4 million visitors per year.
Martin Leppard, Chairman at
Excelsior Capital Partners has assumed a majority ownership interest in Via Seating, a manufacturer of cutting-edge and ergonomically designed office chairs and lounge seating, through a balance sheet restructuring.
The transaction enables Via to continue growing through new and innovative product lines.
Based in Reno, Nevada, Via offers an extensive family of chairs to fit its customers’ unique needs for design, form and function, while maintaining an industry-leading quick-ship program that guarantees a 48-hour turnaround. The company’s products are highly customisable and include executive chairs, task chairs, conference room chairs, stackable chairs, and modular lounge seating that can be configured
Independent corporate, fund, private client and real estate services provider, JTC, has appointed Martin Fotheringham as new Group Chief Financial Officer (CFO).
Fotheringham, who will be based in JTC’s Jersey offices has held positions in private equity-backed businesses during his career.
He spent eight years at Moody International, the majority of which were as CFO, where he partnered with the CEO to lead the growth of the business through a combination of organic and inorganic growth, including seven acquisitions. Fotheringham has also held several senior financial roles at Danwood, Bureau Veritas, PwC, The Thompson Corporation and Deloitte.
Nigel Le Quesne,
Inverness Graham, a private investment firm based in suburban Philadelphia, has acquired dentity Finder, a specialist in enterprise data management software focused on discovering, classifying, monitoring, and protecting sensitive information.
The company helps organisations avoid costly data breaches by finding and protecting confidential data such as personal information, medical records, credit card accounts, and intellectual property stored across the enterprise, within e-mail, and the cloud. Inverness Graham was supported by data security industry veteran, Ramon Peypoch, who has joined the company's board.
"The combination of the explosion of data and the growing number of data breaches over the past
Private equity house Maven Capital Partners has led the GBP4.5 million Management Buy-In of CB Technology Limited (CB), an established contract electronics manufacturer with a focus on complex manufacturing and testing for deployment in harsh environments.
Maven has assembled a strong buy-in team for CB led by John Cameron, formerly at GE & UTC Technologies and who most recently served as Commercial Director at Finnish-based Marioff, where he headed-up a team of over 200 people with annual revenues in excess of EUR100 million. Graham Scott, previously CFO of Memex, a SAS Group company, has also joined the business as FD.
Company culture is the most important factor cited in avoiding regulatory problems, according to Kinetic Partners’ survey of almost 300 financial services professionals.
More than half (53%) of financial services senior executives said culture was the most important factor to get right in order to avoid regulatory problems. Ensuring governance is a priority amongst board members – selected by 30% of c-suite respondents – was the second-most cited.
According to Kinetic Partners’ 2015 Global Regulatory Outlook (GRO) report, fewer than one in ten (9%) of senior managers polled put their faith in risk monitoring and compliance as the key
JPES Partners, a marketing and communications consultancy specialising in the asset management sector, has appointed Toby Mitchenall and Krupa Parmar to its team.
Mitchenall joins as a Client Director from BackBay Communications, where he was responsible for establishing and growing the company’s London office. He has over 10 years’ experience in financial services communications, both in an agency role and as a journalist, and has advised clients on all aspects of strategic communications, content, branding and crisis management. Toby is a former editor of Private Equity International magazine and therefore brings a detailed understanding of the issues facing the private
Private equity firm TA Associates has completed a minority investment in RateGain, a provider of SaaS-based hospitality and travel technology solutions.
Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Founded in 2004, RateGain provides revenue management and distribution channel management software, and real-time pricing data and analytics, to help businesses streamline operations and sales. In the travel segment, the company serves suppliers and intermediaries, including airlines, cruise lines, car rental providers, online travel agents, tour operators and wholesalers, helping them to optimise pricing and monitor competitive offerings. In the hospitality segment, RateGain primarily serves the hotel industry, providing solutions
Speciality European Pharma Limited (SEP) has secured GBP4.75million from Beringea Growth Finance, a provider of asset based and working capital finance.
Founded in April 2006, SEP is a privately owned speciality pharmaceutical company. It focuses on products aimed largely at the urology or urogynaecology markets, primarily in Europe. The company acquires, licenses and distributes pharmaceutical products and medical devices aimed at its target markets.
SEP owns worldwide rights to Bulkamid, Mitem and Aquamid. Bulkamid is a urethral bulking agent, a minimally invasive treatment for urinary stress incontinence. Mitem is a cytotoxic medicine used in the treatment of a variety
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