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Funds advised by Magenta Partners (Magenta) have secured their first exit in the sale of Tag Worldwide (Tag) to global Business Process Outsourcing company, Williams Lea Group. Tag Worldwide is the largest independent media design and production agency in the world with a strong blue chip customer base including H&M, Coca Cola, RBS, Land Rover, Sony and Unilever.
The sale is the first exit from Magenta’s current portfolio (Magenta launched in January 2008) and represents an IRR of 42 per cent.
Magenta, which specialises in the SME growth investment space, has advised on eight investments to date, most recently in
Jawbone, a leading innovator of products and services for the mobile lifestyle, has secured USD70 million in funding from investors advised by JP Morgan Asset Management.
Jawbone is one of the largest privately-held, venture capital-backed consumer electronics companies in the world, and this round brings total investment in Jawbone close to USD170 million to date. The funding will allow Jawbone to continue its rapid growth and expand into new markets and categories, building on its successful portfolio of premium mobile products and services.
"We seek to invest in the best high-growth companies," says Larry Unrein (pictured), managing director
PvXchange, a leading online business-to-business exchange for photovoltaic components, has announced that Mark Zaleski will begin chairing its advisory board with immediate effect.
Zaleski has a long track record of building value into multi-country online businesses including Dailymotion, Ricardo PLC, DVDPost and Webvan Inc. PvXchange itself has seen rapid growth with the expansion of the international solar-energy market in recent years, with 184MW of modules being traded on the platform last year.
“I’m pleased to be chairing the advisory board of such a well-placed and rapidly-growing online business as pvXchange at this time,” says Zaleski.
“It is great to have
EISER Infrastructure Partners, an independent infrastructure fund manager managing assets with an enterprise value of over EUR3 billion,has established a senior-level advisory board to provide strategic support across the business. The board comprises:
Dr Thomas Bone-Winkel, a partner at German advisory firm Bone-Winkel & Company. He has extensive experience of alternative assets with expertise in private equity, corporate finance, accounting, taxation and corporate governance in Europe, Asia, North and South America.
Gavin McQuater, former Global Head of Project Finance at the international law firm Lovells until retirement in 2010. He was also the former Head of Lovells’ Corporate and Finance
The Riverside Company has made another major investment in Germany, partnering with Transporeon GmbH and TICONTRACT GmbH (Transporeon). The transaction will close once merger approval has been obtained and will be the second German acquisition in 2011 for the international private equity firm.
Transporeon, headquartered in Ulm, Germany, provides web-based centralized transport-management software. Transporeon operates several web-based logistics platforms that provide shippers and carriers with a platform and software to reduce costs, save time and improve service quality in logistics processes. The firm was founded in 2000 and has 450 customers in manufacturing and trade, as well as the 20,000
A company wholly owned by Better Capital Limited’s BECAP Fund has reached a formal agreement with the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), to acquire a majority stake in Masco 30 Limited, a new company set up solely for the purpose of acquiring 100% of the share capital of Fairline Boat Acquisitions Limited (Fairline) and its subsidiaries (together the Fairline Group).
Under the agreement, West Register (Investments) Limited, a company owned by RBS, will acquire a minority stake in Masco 30 Limited.
Fairline is a leading global brand specialising in the design, engineering, manufacture and distribution of luxury boats in
Clearwater Corporate Finance (Clearwater), a UK member of the international mergers and acquisitions organisation, IMAP, has advised Farsound Engineering (Farsound), on its sale to RG Industries LLP (RGI), a new partnership between Rubicon Partners (Rubicon) and Grovepoint Capital (Grovepoint).
Founded by the late Roger Gulperin in 1979, Farsound is a leading manufacturer and supply chain manager of precision components for the aerospace and defence industries. It has a global, blue chip customer base and operates from state of the art premises in Romford, Essex. The firm employs around 100 people across its manufacturing and supply chain MRO divisions.
Farsound has
European private equity firm Cinven has appointed Jorge Quemada as a partner heading the firm’s investment activities in Iberia. He will be a member of the Business Services sector team.
Quemada joins Cinven in September 2011 from 3i, where he worked for over thirteen years. Prior to leaving the firm, he was one of two full time partners leading investments based in 3i’s Madrid office.
Quemada joined 3i in 1998 and has been involved in more than 20 investments in Spain and the UK since then. He began his career with the investment Banking Division of Société Générale in
Shamrock Capital Advisors has announced the final closing of Shamrock Capital Growth Fund III, a USD400 million fund focused on providing buyout and growth capital investments in companies in the media, entertainment and communications industries.
Shamrock targets companies benefitting from growth trends in the media, entertainment and communication sectors. The fund will invest in companies seeking USD15 million to USD75 million of capital in both control and non-control transactions.
Shamrock has closed three funds focused on media, entertainment and communication investing since 2001. Shamrock’s limited partners comprise a mix of existing and new investors from leading pension funds, endowments and foundations,
Maven has successfully exited from Walker Technical Resources via a secondary buyout funded by Gresham Private Equity. The sale realised a gross return of 2.9x the initial investment in just two years, with an IRR of 70%.
Walker has seen exceptional growth since Maven’s original investment in June 2009, achieving a 60% increase in sales in the past 12 months, with profits doubling over the same period.
Walker specialises in composite repairs for the oil & gas industry, providing niche integrity management services and products to a global customer base. With some of the most advanced composite technology in its
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