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Omnes Capital – formerly Crédit Agricole Private Equity – has invested EUR4m in the Italian company Futuris via its Capenergie 2 fund. Additional investment of up to EUR10m is planned.
The Milan-based company – founded and developed by Rodolfo Danielli, former chief operating officer of Italcementi and EMEA director of Air Liquide – develops, builds and manages biomass-fired cogeneration plants.
Futuris SA aims to develop the equivalent of 54 MW of installed capacity between now and 2016, for a total investment of EUR220m. This development plan is based on the construction of 10 power stations within the framework of three
One of KRG Capital Partners’ Fund IV platform companies, Fort Dearborn Company, has completed the acquisition of FetterGroup’s paint and coating labels business.
KRG made its initial investment in Fort Dearborn Company – a supplier of cut and stack, pressure sensitive, roll-fed and shrink sleeve labels – in August 2010.
The acquisition of FetterGroup’s paint and coatings label business represents the 179th investment for KRG since its inception.
Alliance+, the Nordic cleaning business backed by Danish/Swedish mid-market private equity investor Polaris Private Equity, has completed its seventh add-on deal, acquiring Facila, a complementary Swedish business.
Alliance+ was formed by Polaris in 2009 through the simultaneous acquisition of Kølving & Thaning and Alliance Clean & Care – two cleaning service companies operating in Denmark.
Since then the company has made a number of add-on acquisitions, initially in Denmark. In 2012 Alliance+ reached a strategically important milestone with the acquisition of Sweden’s largest privately owned cleaning services company, Miljöteamet, which transformed the business into a pan-Nordic entity, making it the
Innovacom has invested in the capital of Green Communications during a fundraising round of EUR600,000.
This marks the first investment of its seed fund technocom2, dedicated to digital start-up companies having a strong technical component.
The seed fund technocom2 is financed by CDC Partners as part of the Fond National d’Amorcage which it manages for the French state in the programme of investment for the future together with strategic partners such as Alcatel-Lucent who will support Green Communications along with Innovacom’s management team.
Green Communications grew out of research carried out by the Université Pierre et Marie Curie and the
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts has appointed Hiro Shimizu and Sakae Suzuki as directors for KKR Japan.
Shimizu joined KKR Capital Markets from Goldman Sachs Japan, where he most recently served as managing director and head of the financial institutions group within the financing group.
Suzuki joins KKR Capstone from McKinsey, where he most recently served as a principal with particular expertise in telecom, media and technology, and operations.
In their new roles, Shimizu and Suzuki will work alongside KKR’s team in Tokyo led by Shusaku Minoda, managing director and chief executive officer of KKR Japan. This increases KKR Japan’s team to
CVC Capital Partners, a private equity firm, has appointed Eric Daniels to its global financial institutions advisory board.
Daniels’ (pictured) appointment is effective immediately.
Daniels, who is based in the UK, was formerly group chief executive of Lloyds Banking Group. Prior to this, he was group chief executive of Lloyds TSB, a position he took up in June 2003. Daniels joined Lloyds in 2001, when he was appointed to the board as group executive director with responsibility for the retail banking division. He began his career with Citibank (Citigroup today) where he spent 25 years and held a number
AXA Private Equity has arranged a EUR220m unitranche facility for the acquisition of IPH by PAI Partners from Investcorp.
The deal represents the largest unitranche financing in Europe to date.
IPH is a distributor of industrial supplies in Europe. Founded in 1987 and historically based in Lyon, France, IPH provides its products and services through a multibrand, multi-specialist and multi-channel network. IPH is active in France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany and Romania, with approximately 3,000 employees and revenues of approx. EUR900m in 2011.
Olivier Berment (pictured), co-head of private debt and managing director at AXA Private Equity, says:
Drooms has launched AIFMD/command, a virtual data room solution for the large number of fund managers who are lacking the resources to comply with the incoming reporting obligations under the Alternative Investment Fund Management Directive.
AIFMD/command enables documentation to be centrally stored and managed for reporting to regulators, investors and stakeholders and allows owners of complex fixed assets to be transaction ready at any time.
According to a recent survey by KPMG, 50 per cent of fund managers feel unprepared for AIFMD and are lagging in preparations to meet the recommended implementation date in July 2013 before AIFMD takes
Diagnostic imaging company Diagnostic Healthcare has secured GBP1m investment from The North West Fund for Biomedical, managed by SPARK Impact.
Diagnostic Healthcare, headquartered in Altrincham, has a network of centres and mobile units across the UK providing MRI scans, obstetric ultrasound, bone density scans (DEXA scan), cardiac testing, health screening and reporting services.
The company offers end-to-end integrated solutions, either as mobile services or located within hospitals, GP surgeries or dedicated community sites.
The North West Fund for Biomedical is part of the wider GBP155m North West Fund, financed jointly by the European Regional Development Fund and the European Investment
Genstar Capital, a middle market private equity firm that focuses on investments in the insurance and financial services, software, life sciences, healthcare and industrial technology industries, has acquired Acrisure, a retail insurance brokerage organisation.
Based in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Acrisure is the 50th largest privately owned insurance agency in the US whose product lines include property and casualty, employee benefits and related third party administrator services, human resource outsourcing, loss and claims management, surety bonding and personal lines coverage.
The company was co-founded in 2005 by chief executive Greg Williams to acquire independent insurance agencies across the Midwest and since
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