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The Catalan company Exea Empresarial, holding company of the Puig family represented by Altana, has partnered with Hervé Lesieur, the private equity fund Aurica and Banco Sabadell to acquire Laboratoires Dermatologiques d’Uriage.
This acquisition will enable Exea Empresarial to consolidate the cosmetic brands portfolio of the Puig family, who already owns Laboratoires Payot. This acquisition from the Bouchara family was achieved in partnership with Hervé Lesieur, the chairman of Laboratoires Payot, the Catalan private equity fund Aurica and Banco Sabadell. Exea intends to capitalise on the reputation of the Uriage brand and thermal spring to develop the international market penetration
As the economy slowly improves, private equity group leaders say they have money to spend and are actively seeking companies to acquire, according to a survey of private equity group leaders rby RSM McGladrey, a leading accounting and consulting firm in the US.
"Just because you have cash in your pocket doesn’t mean you should buy the car on the lot you are told is the best value," says Don Lipari, national executive director of private equity services for RSM McGladrey. "Savvy shoppers have done their research and sought good advice on both price and fit. They truly understand what
PerTrac has launched new releases of its analytics solutions, PerTrac Analytics 7.2 and PowerLink 1.2. The powerful, new versions handle all data frequency types including daily data for investment analysis, strategy comparison and fund benchmarking.
In response to investors’ increased need to balance risk and liquidity, the investment industry, including alternatives, has been moving to funds that provide daily NAVs. This requires high frequency analysis to access value and liquidity.
“Investors and funds need to be able to analyse daily and weekly data quickly and comprehensively,” says Brendan Dolan (pictured), Co-President of PerTrac. “Our new release handles daily data and
Mid-market private equity investor LDC has backed the management team of Bradford-based Driver Hire Investments Group Limited (Driver Hire), the franchised provider of temporary and permanent personnel to the logistics and distribution industries, to support its continued growth.
Driver Hire, which was originally established in 1983, operates nationally through a 100-strong network of offices, predominantly owned and operated by franchisees. It services around 5,000 corporate customers with fully compliant LGV, van, fork lift truck and fleet car drivers, warehouse operatives and professional logistics managers on both a short-term and long-term basis. It is also now one of the UK’s leading
Square 1 Bank has appointed Phil Gager as Senior Vice President covering the Northeast region, and Ella van Gool (pictured) to the same position out of Square 1’s Menlo Park office covering the Silicon Valley.
Gager spent 10 years with Capital Advisors Group serving venture-backed companies most recently as Senior Vice President of Business Development, where he brought in over USD800 million in new assets, 40 new client relationships and opened up new markets in the Midwest and Southeast regions. He originally joined the firm as a member of the marketing department and rose to the level of Marketing Director.
Dynamics Inc has closed an oversubscribed USD35 million Series B round of financing led by new investor Bain Capital Ventures. Dynamics launched its award-winning Card 2.0 technology last fall, and its products are currently in consumer trials with several top multinational payment card issuers.
Dynamics will use the funding to increase the size of its team and production capacity to support the continued US deployment of its Card 2.0 technology, which debuted at DEMO Fall 2010, winning the title DEMOgod and the USD1M People’s Choice Award. Card 2.0 also won Best of Show at FinovateFall 2010 and Best in Show
More than two thirds (68%) of Private Equity houses plan to invest in the UK Financial Services (FS) market in the coming year, according to a Grant Thornton report called "Where is the Smart Money Going in Financial Services?" However, in the survey of the 40 leading private equity investors, forthcoming regulation has been cited as a major hindrance to investment.
"Our survey indicates that there is a renewed interest in PE houses investing in FS firms with 90% of respondents predicting increased private equity activity in this sector. This has been a long time coming since the banking crisis
ARX Equity Partners (ARX) has completed a management buy-in of a majority shareholding in Manag a.s. (Manag), a leading Czech company focused on design, manufacturing and assembly of electrical equipment, and related regulatory and control systems.
The company is particularly strong in serving clients from refinery, chemical and pharmaceutical industries. Manag is also active in Slovakia through its local subsidiary.
ARX and Manag’s management team aim to expand the business organically as well as through complementary add-on acquisitions. “Manag has repeatedly won confidence of its customers for whom Manag’s services are critically important from operational and safety perspective. The
LDC, a leading UK mid-market private equity firm, has appointed Yann Souillard (pictured) as Managing Director of its Southern region. Souillard replaces Kevan Leggett who announced his retirement earlier this year.
Previously a Director in LDC’s London team, Souillard joined the business in 2004 following seven years at Barclays Leveraged Finance. During his time in London, he focused on LDC’s full GBP2 million to GBP100 million investment range and played a key role on transactions including Sala International, a document archiving and records storage company, and Microlease, a provider of electronic test and measurement equipment.
Souillard will be responsible
Water Street Healthcare Partners, a strategic private equity firm focused exclusively on health care, has acquired MarketLab, Inc. Water Street’s investment in MarketLab is the firm’s fourth in the specialty healthcare distribution sector and expands Water Street’s current group of health care companies specialising in distribution, life sciences, medical devices and services to 13.
MarketLab distributes unique products to the clinical laboratory, hospital nursing and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) markets. Headquartered in Caledonia, Michigan, the company directly markets thousands of products to approximately 11,000 customers including hospitals, integrated delivery networks, physician practices and clinical labs across the country. Water Street
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