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Bain Capital Private Equity has acquired a 55% stake in House of HR. House of HR Management, Naxicap and founder Conny Vandendriessche will hold the remaining equity.
The new strategic partnership will maintain the Company’s entrepreneurial spirit, help House of HR scale its unique platform into new markets and increase digital investments.
Atlantic BidCo, a non-controlled company indirectly held by funds which are respectively managed and advised by Advent International Corporation (Advent), Centerbridge Partners (Centerbridge) and CPP Investment Board Europe, a wholly owned subsidiary of Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP), as well as further minority shareholders, has exceeded the minimum acceptance threshold in its voluntary public takeover of Aareal Bank, securing a total of 74.62% of the shares after the end of the initial acceptance period.
Upon closing of the transaction, the Bidder will become the majority shareholder in Aareal Bank.
Aareal Bank shareholders who have not yet accepted the
The Managed Funds Association (MFA), the trade association for the alternative asset management investment industry, today submitted a comment letter to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in response to its proposed rule to redefine and expand the definitions of “dealer” and “government securities dealer.”
Ambienta’s platform Company Cap Vert, a French specialist in the green space management market, has completed the acquisition of Createck – Négoplantes (Createck) and Caussat, two French groups specialised in the creation and maintenance of green spaces.
Createck was founded in 2001 in the Southwest of France, in the Bordeaux region. Half of its sales come from creating and maintaining green spaces while the remainder comes from plant wholesale – activity that will enable Cap Vert to improve its plants’ purchasing conditions.
Createck and Cap Vert group have a long-standing relationship as they have been working together for years. Createck
Jupiter Exchange, an alternative asset exchange using fractional NFT technology, has closed on a $5 million seed funding round led by White Hilt Capital.
Jupiter curates iconic objects and makes fractional ownership available to anyone through its digital marketplace and exchange.
Jupiter Exchange establishes a simple process where the ownership of each carefully curated item, such as fine art, cars, sneakers, and pop culture memorabilia, is minted as an NFT and fractionalized into individual ownership tokens. Once sold out on the Jupiter marketplace, the item is listed on the Jupiter Exchange and available through a traditional bid-ask model.
London-listed infrastructure investment company 3i Infrastructure has agreed to to sell its 16.9% stake in offshore emergency-vessels provider ESVAGT to 3i Aura, a newly-established vehicle managed by 3i Investments and funded by three unnamed investors for €105.5 million, according to a report by Investment & Pension Europe.
3i Infrastructure’s stake in ESVAGT will reduce to 83.1% in completion of the deal, with proceeds set to be used to repay part of the company’s outstanding revolving credit facility balance.
Inflexion has made a minority investment in Alcumus, a UK-based specialist in risk management solutions.
The investment is being made by Inflexion’s dedicated minority investment fund, Partnership Capital II.
Alcumus is the UK market leader in risk management solutions with a growing presence in the large, high growth, North American market. The Cardiff-based business provides a range of health & safety accreditation and software solutions which help to manage risk across enterprise customers’ sites, employee bases and third-party contractors.
Inflexion backed Cardiff-based Alcumus in late 2015 and supported the management team to build a scalable platform providing a unified solution
Middle-market, sector-focused private equity investment firm Red Arts Capital has expanded its team with the addition of Christopher DeLetto as Vice President and Indra Santhiapillai as the firm’s new Executive Assistant.
The new hires come on the heels of two other additions to the firm, as the Red Arts team recently landed another VP, Michael Henkels, and Chief of Staff, Danielle Gerbie.
DeLetto comes to Red Arts Capital after spending time as an investment professional at Grey Mountain Partners in Boulder, Colorado, a $550 million+ AUM asset management firm where he was responsible for sourcing, evaluating, executing and managing investments.
Broadcom Inc, a global technology specialist that designs, develops, and supplies semiconductor and infrastructure software solutions, has agreed to acquire VMware Inc, an specialist in enterprise software, for approximately $61 billion.
Copley Equity Partners (Copley), a private investment firm focused on lower middle-market companies with strong growth opportunities, has made an investment in industry-leading advisory firm FMG Leading (FMG).
Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Founded in 1984, FMG has been advising clients for three decades on building values-driven organisations. Copley brings a track record of assisting similar companies build out the functional areas necessary to scale a professional services business.
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