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GCA and Houlihan Lokey, the global investment bank, have entered into a definitive agreement under which Houlihan Lokey will commence a tender offer to acquire GCA.
Under the terms of the agreement, which has been unanimously approved by the GCA Board of Directors and the Houlihan Lokey Board of Directors, Houlihan Lokey will commence a tender offer on 4 August, 2021 to acquire all outstanding shares of GCA.
Houlihan Lokey is a global investment bank with expertise in mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, financial restructuring, and valuation. The firm serves corporations, institutions, and governments worldwide with offices in the
Gen II Fund Services (Gen II), an independent private equity fund administrator, has acquired Stone Pine Accounting Services (Stone Pine), a Denver-based provider of private equity fund administration, tax and investor services.
Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Founded in 1998, Stone Pine provides tailored services to a variety of private equity fund structures. The addition further enhances Gen II’s service offerings, expands the firm’s footprint in the Western US, and increases its headcount to more than 750. Significantly, the acquisition brings Gen II’s assets under administration to more than USD600 billion.
Led since 2009 by its co-founders,
FinAccel, the parent of Kredivo, an AI-enabled digital consumer credit platform in Southeast Asia, and VPC Impact Acquisition Holdings II (VPCB), a special purpose acquisition company sponsored by Victory Park Capital (VPC), have entered into a definitive agreement for a business combination that will result in FinAccel becoming a publicly traded company with an expected pro forma equity value of approximately USD2.5 billion, assuming no redemptions.
ClearCourse Partnership (ClearCourse), a group of technology companies providing useful, integrated software solutions, is to acquire The EPOS Bureau, a provider of stock control and inventory management software.
The acquisition is the ClearCourse’s second of the year and sees the Company joining ClearCourse’s retail division, strengthening its retail management and e-commerce capabilities.
Founded in 1997, The EPOS Bureau is one of the UK’s premier providers of sophisticated software solutions for premium delicatessens and farm shops. It offers a unified platform with a wide range of capabilities to assist retailers, from helping keep margins under control through inventory management to
BGF-backed Evoke Creative Ltd – a specialist in kiosk, digital signage and interactive solutions for the retail, hospitality and public sectors – has acquired Liverpool-based app design and development agency, Apposing Ltd.
Under the agreement, Apposing will continue to operate as an individual brand from its city centre creative studio, while strengthening Evoke’s solution offering, adding in-house mobile app and additional user interface development resource to its suite of solutions.
The move will enable the Wirral-based company to ‘close the loop’ on its compelling offering to its customers, with mobile acting as the final piece in its full-service,
Babcock Wanson, a specialist in the design and maintenance of industrial boiler rooms, has completed its first acquisition with the purchase of Steam Plant Engineering (SPE), a specialist in the field of industrial boiler services.
The acquisition has been made thanks to the support of Kartesia, which recently became its new majority shareholder. This acquisition fully reflects the ambition and objectives of the Babcock Wanson Group to become the pan-European leader in the industrial boiler services industry by consolidating the key players in the market.
Founded in 2001 by Dan Garbett, the current Managing Director, SPE is a company based
3i Group has agreed to invest cEUR60 million in MAIT GmbH (MAIT), a provider of innovative and pioneering digital solutions in the DACH region.
MAIT Group, headquartered in Rottweil, Germany, provides innovative and pioneering digital solutions in product lifecycle management (PLM), enterprise resource planning (ERP) and IT services generating approximately EUR120 million in sales.
More than 550 employees across 21 locations in Germany, Austria and Switzerland develop and implement solutions in close cooperation with their over 5,300 SME customers. As a value-added reseller and strategic implementation partner, MAIT uses the most innovative technologies from market-leading PLM, ERP and IT providers
Paysafe (NYSE:PSFE), a specialised payments platform, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire PagoEfectivo, a Peruvian alternative payments (APM) platform.
For Paysafe, this latest investment is a strategic foothold in Latin America, one of the world’s fastest-growing online markets where merchants and consumers alike are demonstrating an increased appetite for alternative payment methods and online banking solutions.
Paysafe’s core purpose is to enable businesses and consumers to connect and transact seamlessly through industry-leading capabilities in payment processing, digital wallet, and online cash solutions; it offers over 70 payment types in over 40 currencies around the world.
PagoEfectivo, a subsidiary of
Private equity firm Genstar Capital has reinvested, out of its most recent fund, in Association Member Benefits Advisors (AMBA), a national affinity-based membership and marketing insurance agency, in partnership with AMBA’s management team.
Under Genstar’s ownership AMBA has transformed into an essential partner to its association clients, offering membership development, marketing services, website and database management and IT services, among other benefits, drastically increasing the value proposition to the association.
AMBA distributes insurance and other supplementary products primarily through a proprietary network of retired teacher, educator, and state employee associations across 40-plus states. AMBA is proud of the incredible
Bolt, the first European super-app, has closed a EUR600 million funding round, increasing the company’s valuation to more than EUR4 billion. Bolt will use the funds to boost its new 15-minute grocery delivery service, Bolt Market, and to accelerate the expansion of its existing mobility and delivery products.
The funds were raised from new investors including Sequoia, Tekne and Ghisallo, as well as Bolt’s existing investors G Squared, D1 Capital and Naya.
Markus Villig, CEO at Bolt, says: “Bolt’s mission is to make urban travel affordable and sustainable. We are building a future where people are not forced to buy
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