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IK Partners’ (IK) IK Small Cap II Fund (IK SC II) is to sell its stake in Bahr Modultechnik (Bahr) to IMI plc (IMI).
Bahr is a manufacturer of modular positioning systems, used in a wide range of process automation applications.
IK invested in Bahr in May 2018 and, since then, the Company has focused on organic top-line growth, strengthening its sales capabilities and team.
Hamburg-based CEE Group, an asset management company for renewable energies, has invested in its Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) and Energy Trading capabilities to manage market volatility, enhance revenues and support its growth in a European renewable energy market with government supported feed-in tariff structures taking a back seat.
Astorg is to acquire OPEN Health, a global provider of scientific communications and market access services to the pharmaceutical industry, from Amulet Capital Partners (Amulet).
Established in 2011 and headquartered in London, UK, OPEN Health helps its customers develop strategies for evidence generation and data communication.
OPEN Health has more than 1,000 employees in 15 locations and six countries, across North America, Europe and Asia. OPEN Health serves over 170 life sciences customers, including 48 of the top 50 pharmaceutical companies. OPEN Health’s existing management team, led by CEO Rob Barker, will continue to lead the organisation, building on a
Private equity investor AnaCap Financial Partners’ portfolio company Gestión Tributaria Territorial (GTT), a provider of software services for tax administration, has acquired the electronic administrations division of the Meana Group.
Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Global private equity investor Advent International (Advent), and specialty chemicals company LANXESS are establishing a joint venture have formed a joint-venture to acquire engineering materials business (DEM) from Dutch group Royal DSM.
The Enterprise Value is around €3.7 billion and will be financed by the joint venture via equity from Advent and external debt. The business represents sales of around EUR1.5 billion with an EBITDA margin of approximately 20%.
In addition, LANXESS is combining its High Performance Materials (HPM) business unit with DEM. HPM is one of the leading suppliers of engineering and high-performance polymers, which are used primarily
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As private equity managers continue to launch new products across different asset classes and add new distribution channels, their data problems compound in a meaningful way.
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500 Global, a US-based venture capital firm, has promoted Amal Dokhan to General Partner 500 Global MENA.
Dokhan joined 500 Global one year ago as Partner, 500 Global MENA to oversee the Sanabil 500 MENA Seed Accelerator programme and fund. Under her leadership, the fund has invested through the programme and directly in more than 40 seed-stage companies across the Middle East and North Africa. Several have subsequently raised millions in funding collectively. They include Starzly, a personalised entertainment app, Playbook, an edutainment platform, and Sanad Cash, an on-demand payment platform.
GIC, a global institutional investor, and Greystar Real Estate Partners, (Greystar), a specialist in the investment, development, and management of rental housing, have formed a joint venture is to acquire Student Roost, the UK’s third largest purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) provider from one of Brookfield’s real estate private funds.
The transaction is expected to close in the third quarter of 2022 and is subject to customary closing conditions.
Student Roost’s high-quality portfolio comprises over 23,000 beds with a secured development pipeline of approximately 3,000 further beds covering key UK university cities, many of which are home to prestigious Russell
abrdn’s Finnish district heating and energy services business platform, Loimua Oy (formerly known as Elenia Heat), is to acquire Pilke Energia and its subsidiaries from Lahti Energia.
Pilke Energia owns and operates biomass boilers with a capacity of 48MW across two sites in the municipality of Kärkölä in southern Finland. The company’s main responsibility is to produce energy for a local wood product company, Koskisen Oy.
abrdn has been actively investing in Finland for over seven years starting with the acquisition of Auris Energiaratkaisut, followed by Riihimäen Kaukolämpö (RKOY), Loimua and Outokummun Energia (OKE), developing successful partnerships with both
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