Solutions
Piper, a specialist investor in consumer brands, has sold Rollover Hot Dogs to Kerry Foods. The deal has been completed for an undisclosed sum.
Since leading the BIMBO of Rollover in 2006, Piper has turned the company into the UK’s largest premium hot dog seller. Rollover Hot Dogs are sold in over 3,000 locations, including leading nationwide leisure, pub and retail chains along with more than half of the country’s Premiership League football stadiums.
Since its investment in Rollover, Piper has helped to develop the management team with the recruitment of Simon Vine as CEO and Nigel Osborne as CFO,
Cavendish Corporate Finance has advised on the sale of a 40% stake in MVF to Bridgepoint Development Capital (BDC), a private equity firm focused on mid-market buyouts and growth capital investments.
Founded in 2009 by five British entrepreneurs, MVF is a tech firm specialising in online customer acquisition and lead generation. Recognised as one of the UK’s most prominent growth businesses, winning a Queen’s Award for Enterprise in 2014, MVF has achieved significant growth – a 278% compound annual revenue growth rate since 2013.
Operating in 50 countries worldwide, MVF works with over 1,500 clients, including British Gas, Mars
Kemp Little advised Moravia IT on the sale of a majority interest in the company to Clarion Capital Partners, a New York-based middle market private equity firm.
Moravia’s 2014 revenues exceeded USD 100 million, making the translation and localisation company the first in the language services industry to achieve the hundred-million–dollar milestone through organic growth alone.
Moravia’s services address the complex localisation demands of leading global brands and fast-growing companies, primarily in the IT and life science industry sectors. Moravia partners with its clients to succeed in global markets by adapting or sometimes recreating the client’s content to meet the
Investindustrial Advisors, investment manager to the Investindustrial private equity funds, has chosen SunGard’s Investran private equity software solution to provide a centralised accounting and reporting solution.
Investindustrial, which has more than EUR3 billion in assets under management, will use SunGard’s Investran to act as the foundation for a new operating platform across investment and investor operations. This fully-automated solution will replace a largely manual operating environment and provide an important link between the finance and investor relations teams, helping them to send accurate and transparent portfolio data to investors in a timelier manner.
“We were looking for a solution
Paul Hastings has recently advised the portfolio companies of US private equity firms Beecken Petty O'Keefe & Company and Pfingsten Partners on three separate significant cross border acquisitions.
The firm represented Paragon Medical, a portfolio company of Beecken Petty O'Keefe & Company, in its acquisition of the medical device business segment of Michael Bubolz GmbH. Headquartered in Stuhr, Germany, and with a facility in Siechnice, Poland, Michael Bubolz manufactures close tolerance surgical instrumentation, a wide variety of orthopaedic implantable components and also provides complete sterile pack products. The transaction signed on 15 January, 2015. The Paul Hastings team advising Paragon
Clearlake Capital Group has completed the sale of PrimeSport Holdings Inc to The Carlyle Group (Carlyle), Moorad Sports Partners and RSE Ventures.
As part of the transaction, Clearlake and management rolled over a significant equity stake in the company. Sam Soni, PrimeSport’s founder, remains CEO and continues to lead the company.
Headquartered in Atlanta, GA, PrimeSport is an event lifecycle management company and vertically-integrated eCommerce leader focused on monetizing the biggest sporting events in the world through premium ticket sales, travel packages and exclusive hospitality events for corporations, professional sports teams, universities and fans. For over 20 years, the PrimeSport
Rcapital, the owner of global travel retailer Rolling Luggage, has completed the sale of the business to Samsonite, the world’s largest luggage manufacturer and retailer.
Rcapital, the London-based private investor that specialises in the turnaround of distressed businesses, rescued the Rolling Luggage chain out of the global restructuring of the Tie Rack Retail Group in 2013. Rolling Luggage, with 36 stores in seven countries, had long suffered from both financial and operational under-investment until Rcapital bought the business and used its extensive turnaround skills to develop a thriving retail company, ultimately saving 350 jobs across the globe.
In October 2014,
Kirkland & Ellis has advised EMR Capital, a specialist mining private equity manager, on the recent close of the EMR Capital Resources Fund 1.
The fund was oversubscribed and closed with aggregate capital commitments of USUSD450 million. The fund, which will make investments in global metals and mining companies and projects, accepted commitments from a broad mix of global institutional investors, including endowments, foundations, family offices and fund of funds.
The Kirkland team acted as international legal counsel to EMR Capital and was led by London-based private funds partner Christopher Braunack and New York-based tax partner David Grenker.
Kirkland has
Salvepar has finalized the sale of its entire stake in Thermador Groupe.
Salvepar was a shareholder of Thermador Groupe since May 2008 and had begun to divest its stake in 2014.
The sale has seen Salver realise a gain of EUR7.2 million, among which EUR5.2 million will be recognised in 2015. The aggregate sale price corresponds to 1.8 time the amount initially invested.
Morgan Stanley Global Private Equity (MSPE) has completed the sale of its majority interest in EmployBridge, a provider of specialty staffing services, to The Select Family of Staffing Companies, for approximately USD410 million.
MSPE and Constitution Capital acquired EmployBridge for USD165 million in May 2011.
MSPE invested in EmployBridge in May 2011, citing strong secular trends in post-recession contingent labor usage by US companies. In September 2012, MSPE invested in Creative Circle, a Los Angeles-based provider of freelance creative talent into advertising and marketing fields, including interactive marketing, digital advertising and traditional media.
“We have focused on human capital management
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