Arrowpoint Advisory’s Consumer team has advised one of the UK’s largest food businesses, Premier Foods plc, on its acquisition of The Spice Tailor, an Indian and South East Asian meal kits and accompaniments brand. A FTSE 250 company, Premier Foods plc employs over 4,000 people operating across 15 sites around the UK. It supplies a range of retail, wholesale, foodservice and other customers with its iconic brands which include Ambrosia, Batchelors, Bisto, Loyd Grossman, Kipling, Oxo and Sharwood’s.   Founded by Anjum Anand and Adarsh Sethia in 2010, The Spice Tailor is particularly popular with consumers who enjoy scratch cooking

HC Private Investments (HCPI), a Chicago-based family office private equity firm, and Isleworth Capital Partners (ICP), have formed a strategic partnership with Prince Industries LLC (Prince), a precision machining and sheet metal fabrication company.

Clearlake Capital Group has completed the sale of Brightly Software to Siemens AG (Siemens) for a $1.575 billion upfront cash consideration, along with $300 million in cash earn-out payments, giving a total deal value of $1.875 billion. Brightly is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider of cloud-based enterprise asset management and facility operations management. Clearlake acquired Brightly, formerly known as Dude Solutions, in June 2019.   Throughout Clearlake’s ownership, Brightly expanded into new end-markets and geographies, as well as broadened its product offerings, expanding into solutions with a focus on ESG and sustainability management. Today, Brightly has a global customer base with

Global investment firm Carlyle and GIC have invested in a green ammonia project development company Eneus Energy Limited (Eneus) to support the development of a 14GW-plus pipeline. Eneus is amongst a small cohort of first movers for industrial scale production plants in a global market for green ammonia and/or green hydrogen that is forecast to grow strongly to 2050, as the world’s leading nations execute their “net zero” carbon strategies. Green ammonia is a zero-carbon fuel in its own right, as well as an important, cost-effective storage and transport energy vector for green hydrogen.   Since its establishment in 2013,

Axio, a SaaS specialist in cyber risk quantification solutions, has raises $23 million in a Series B investment round led by ISTARI, a global cybersecurity firm. Existing investors, including Distributed Ventures, IA Capital Group, and Bob Dudley, Axio Chairman and former CEO of BP, also participated in the round which brings Axio’s total funding to $30 million, including a $4.5 million Series A round closed in 2018.   Axio will use the investment to accelerate its mission of empowering security and business leaders to discover and respond to the cyber risks that most affect their organisations.    As part of

Affiliates of Antarctica Capital (Antarctica), have acquired a a controlling interest in Descartes Labs, a solutions provider of geospatial intelligence to leading commercial and government clients. The acquisition complements Antarctica’s existing portfolio of companies spanning New Space, Data Analytics and Digital Infrastructure.   Descartes Labs is a geospatial intelligence company that performs scientific analysis of geospatial, remote sensing, and diverse complementary data sets to enable sustainable sourcing best practices, commodity price forecasting, and efficient mineral exploration for leading CPG, Agriculture, and Mining companies. The company’s SaaS platform automates the analysis of geospatial imagery for users, enabling planetary scale analysis through