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Stanley Capital Partners (SCP) has exited its portfolio company Noden Pharma DAC (Noden Pharma) to a European business in the specialist pharmaceutical sector.
SCP exits the business having achieved a COC of 6.7x and an IRR of 151%. The sale of Noden Pharma marks the first exit since SCP was formed.
Headquartered in Dublin, Noden Pharma is a global speciality pharmaceutical company focused on the manufacturing of prescription medicines across a variety of cardiovascular treatments for patients who are intolerant to mainstream treatments.
CVC Credit has committed debt facilities to support Cinven’s acquisition of Euro Techno Com (ETC Group), a specialised distributor for the telecom and technology infrastructure industry.
Founded in 1993, ETC Group is a global leader and partner in the design, procurement and distribution of materials, tooling and equipment used by telecom operators and their subcontractors to install, build and maintain wireline and wireless infrastructure and other digital infrastructure. Headquartered in France, the Group has c1,100 employees and c14,000 customers based primarily across Europe and the US.
ETC Group is led by an experienced management team, with a strong record of
Hy24, a joint-venture between FiveT Hydrogen, the clean hydrogen-enabling investment partner, and private investment house Ardianm has closed its first impact fund – the Clean H2 Infra Fund – with €2 billion of allocations, exceeding its initial target.
Hy24 says the fund is the world’s first and largest infrastructure fund to invest exclusively in the entire clean hydrogen value chain.
The fund’s founding anchor investors are Air Liquide, VINCI Concessions, TotalEnergies, Plug Power, Chart Industries and Baker Hughes. It has also attracted more than 50 prominent investors from 13 countries in the Americas, Europe and Asia, including major industrial companies,
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison has appointed Bosco Yiu as a partner in the firm’s Corporate Department in Hong Kong. Yiu’s practice focuses on private equity investments, M&A transactions, Hong Kong IPOs and general regulatory and compliance advice.
Yiu joins several other Paul, Weiss partners in Asia, including Managing Partner of the China Practice, Judie Ng Shortell, who relocated back to Hong Kong from Beijing in June, and Corporate partner Greg Liu, who is Beijing-based and active in both Hong Kong and China.
Yiu represents private equity firms, investment banks and public and private companies in connection with mergers
Graphite Capital, a UK mid-market private equity specialist, has agreed to back the management buyout of Digital Space from Horizon Capital. Terms of the transaction, which is subject to regulatory approval, have not been disclosed.
Digital Space provides an integrated connectivity, security and hybrid cloud managed service, underpinned by its own datacentres, core network and network operations centre. The company works with organisations looking to improve their operational workflow and accelerate growth through digital transformation.
Digital Space’s services are aimed at medium to large corporations as well as public sector and not-for-profit bodies with 500 to 5,000 staff. The
UK mid-market private equity firm LDC has added two to its North East and Scotland team with the appointment of Aaron Lawson-Clark as an Investment Director and Emma Borrie as an Investment Manager.
With more than 15 years’ experience across private equity and corporate banking, Lawson-Clark has spent his career supporting the growth of scale-up to mid-sized businesses across all sectors of the economy. He joins from Mercia Asset Management, and was formerly at NVM Private Equity, where he led multiple transactions across the UK and joined the board of a portfolio of scale-up businesses to support their growth.
Flashpoint Venture Capital, an international technology investment firm that manages equity and debt funds focused on US and international tech start-ups originating in emerging Europe and Israel, has opened a new office in New York.
The office opening will provide a focal point for Flashpoint’s activities as it seeks to increase its on-the-ground presence in the US.
Currently, approximately 50% of Flashpoint’s portfolio revenue is generated in the United States and, approximately 25% of capital raised in its latest funds has been sourced from the Americas.
Flashpoint’s US portfolio now includes 16 companies, including successful companies such as Chili Piper,
New York-based investment company KKR & Co Inc (KKR) has acquired 30% of the shares of Norwegian telecommunications company Telenor. The agreed sales price represents an enterprise value for the Norwegian fibre business of NOK36.1 billion (GBP300 million).
Inflexion has appointed Freddy West as Talent Director. West brings significant experience of working with private equity portfolio companies to apply talent and human capital best practices to accelerate the growth of their businesses.
West joins from British International Investment (formerly CDC Group), where she served as Director of Portfolio Management for seven years, leading their Human Capital function and supporting the Chairs, CEOs and Executives across their global portfolio companies. In her time there she helped enhance the firm’s investment process, expand their expert networks and drive portfolio company growth.
Talent and human capital enhancement is one of Inflexion’s value
Brian Sheth, the former president of Vista Equity Partners, is targeting a $3 billion fundraise for a new software-focused private equity fund, the second from his new firm Haveli Investments, according to a report by Bloomberg.
The report cites unnamed sources as revealing that formal fundraising for the new vehicle, a follow-up to the Texas-based firm’s Haveli VC Gaming Fund I, hasn’t stated yet, but early-stage discussions with prospective investors are underway.
Sheth set up Haveli after leaving Vista in 2020 following co-founder Robert Smith’s admission of tax evasion. Sheth served on the boards of Vista companies including Infoblox Inc,
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