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Arma Partners has acted as the exclusive financial adviser to Wireless Logic, an ECI portfolio company, on its sale to CVC Capital Partners.
Wireless Logic is Europe’s leading managed services player in the Machine to Machine (M2M) market and a key enabler of the Internet of Things (IoT), serving hundreds of vertical end markets. Wireless Logic delivers a one-stop solution combining secure infrastructure, resilient software platforms and multi-network connectivity in partnership with major mobile and satellite operators. The Company has circa 1.5 million subscribers and over 950 customers, and offices in the UK, France, Germany and Spain.
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Albion Ventures has sold Orchard Portman House Hospital (“Orchard Portman”), a mental health hospital near Taunton to Cygnet Health Care.
In 2010 Albion invested GBP6.5m in Orchard Portman to acquire a nursing home and constructed a 23 bed psychiatric care hospital as an extension to the existing building. The sale of Orchard Portman will result in the creation of one single psychiatric care hospital with a total of 46 beds, renamed Cygnet Hospital Taunton.
Orchard Portman has addressed a current shortage of dedicated psychiatric care units in the South West of England and under Albion’s guidance, the hospital has experienced
The newly-launched Bio/Med Investor Network is to focus on early-stage investments in bioscience, medical technologies and digital health companies.
The Network is supported by Georgia Bio, the Georgia Research Alliance and each of the state’s research universities. Investment targets will include Georgia-based companies typically seeking between USD200,000 and USD2 million, but the Network is also evaluating investment opportunities throughout the United States.
“Bioscience companies seeking early-stage capital have specialised needs and currently limited options,” says Ed Schutter, CEO of Atlanta-based Arbor Pharmaceuticals. “The Bio/Med Investor Network will not only offer an experienced pool of successful investors, but will also provide
International investment bank Altium Capital has advised on the sale of sofa.com to private equity firm CBPE Capital.
Founded by Rohan Blacker and the late Pat Reeves in 2005, sofa.com is a fast growing omnichannel retailer of sofas, armchairs and beds. Over the last nine years Sofa.com has become a disruptive force in the furnture sector, providing exceptional product quality and value for money, best in class customer service whilst benefiting from an online route to market which reduces the businesses’ reliance on retail stores. Sofa.com recently opened a state of the art manaufacturing facility in Poland, and as a
DW Healthcare Partners (DWHP), a healthcare-focused private equity firm, has sold its portfolio company, Career Step Holdings, (Career Step) to private equity firm Revelstoke Capital Partners.
The terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Career Step, based in Provo, Utah, is a leading provider of online, career-focused training programs in the high-growth healthcare sector. Career Step offers high quality, cost effective, job-specific training solutions that help learners and corporate employees quickly gain career skills and prepare to sit for nationally recognised certifications. The Company has proprietary course content developed by industry experts and distributed through a robust online learning management
Independent investment bank Mooreland Partners has acted as the exclusive financial advisor to Endomondo on its sale to Under Armour (NYSE: UA).
Based in Copenhagen, Denmark, Endomondo is a leading connected digital fitness platform that boasts a global social fitness network of 20 million registered users. The company's software tracks users' fitness activities, and motivates its community with world-leading social networking features as well as personalised training programs. Endomondo has built one of the largest, most active and engaged online fitness communities in the world.
"We are pleased to have played a role in this groundbreaking transaction in the digital
Law firm Noerr has advised the leading British outsourcing service provider Capita on the announced takeover of the customer contact management service provider avocis.
The purchase price is EUR210 million. The transaction is pending approval by the Federal Cartel Office.
avocis is active in Germany, Switzerland and Austria (DACH) and has a strong market position in the DACH region. The company is currently under private equity majority ownership and provides customer contact management services in the telecommunications industry and to utility companies.
Capita has already made two smaller acquisitions in the German market and plans to combine the companies of
Corporate and fiduciary services company, MaplesFS is to provide entity management and corporate services globally to TPG, an international private investment firm.
Responding to the increasing trend for investment management and private equity firms seeking to outsource these services for their global companies, the Maples group has developed its own proprietary technology. Entity management worldwide is an increasingly important aspect of fund administration and this innovation allows clients to consolidate everything worldwide across all jurisdictions with one provider via its secure, centralised and sophisticated online platform, Maples eServices.
MaplesFS is renowned for its service culture and willingness to invest in
GSR Ventures has selected the iLEVEL Private Capital Data Platform to optimise the firm’s portfolio monitoring process.
GSR Ventures is a venture capital fund that invests primarily in early and growth stage technology companies with operations in China. They have offices in Beijing, Hong Kong, and Silicon Valley.
“iLEVEL will enable us to streamline our data collection process and extract more information from the performance data that we already have,” says Ryann Yap, CFO of GSR Ventures. “By centralising our process into a single repository, we can work off of one set of verified data for investment analysis and investor
Altium has advised Prezzo, a UK-based restaurant operator, on its GBP304m public-to-private buyout by TPG.
Established in 2001 by the Kaye family, Prezzo plc is a 251-unit restaurant operator in the UK casual dining sector. The group is most famous for its Italian restaurant chain of the same name, which opened its first restaurant on New Oxford Street, London in November 2000 and now offers contemporary Italian food across its 200 sites. As well as the household franchise, the company also operates the ChimiChanga and Cleaver brands.
TPG Capital is a leading global private investment firm with $65bn of
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