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Funds advised by global private equity firm Permira have agreed to acquire a majority stake in Gruppo Florence, an Italian integrated industrial platform serving the high-end luxury industry, from existing shareholders VAM Investments, Fondo Italiano d’Investimento, Italmobiliare, and Gruppo Florence’s entrepreneurs.
The entrepreneurs, the management team and VAM Investments will reinvest a significant portion of their proceeds and will remain committed to the project.
Fondo Italiano d’Investimento will also retain a minority stake. Attila Kiss will continue to lead Gruppo Florence as CEO and Francesco Trapani will retain his role as Chairman. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Godspeed Capital Management, a lower middle-market Defense & Government services, solutions, and technology focused private equity firm, has held the final close of Godspeed Capital Investment Program II with $250 million in capital commitments.
Global private equity firm TA Associates is to make a significant growth investment in Alpha II, a provider of revenue cycle management technology solutions to healthcare providers across the US.
Deutsche Fussball Liga, Germany’s professional football body, has failed in its bid to secure backing from clubs for the sale of a stake in its media rights to private equity suitors including CVC Capital Partners, Blackstone Inc, and Advent International, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Innova Capital, a private equity firm focused on investment in in Central and Eastern Europe, has acquired a majority stake in NETOPIA Group one of the longest-established payment service providers in Romania.
GHO Capital Partners, a European specialist investor in global healthcare, and Partners Group, a global private markets firm, have made a new investment in GHO portfolio company Sterling Pharma Solutions, a global contract development and manufacturing organisation.
M/C Partners, a private equity firm focused on small and mid-size businesses in the digital infrastructure and technology services sectors, has made a significant growth investment in celito, a local communications and managed services provider based in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Established in 1999, celito offers services to businesses using its fully owned fibre network.
The investment from M/C Partners will support celito’s expansion plans by providing resources and capital to grow its fibre network and service offerings in Raleigh and beyond.
Danny Bottoms, a telecommunications industry veteran, has joined celito as CEO to work alongside Sharat in scaling the business.
COMPLY, a provider of compliance software, consulting and education resources for the financial services sector and whose portfolio of firms includes ComplySci, RIA in a Box, National Regulatory Services (NRS) and illumis, has named Gayle Nixon as chief marketing officer.
Accelex, a SaaS platform specialising in alternative investment data acquisition, reporting and analytics, has launched a portfolio analytics and reporting platform for institutional investors and asset servicers.
Accelex says the launch is in response to growing client demand for a solution that delivers insights from data extracted via periodic fund performance reports and statements.
Accelex’s new solution allows investors and asset servicers to analyse portfolio drivers across their entire investment network, including underlying asset operating performance. The solution also provides an audit trail that links all data to its location within the source document, exposure analysis to identify concentration risks
With change a constant in the fund administration space, Justin Partington, group head of fund & asset managers at IQ-EQ, outlines how continuous innovation and investment have allowed the company to both meet client needs and respond to new industry challenges…
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