British Private Equity Awards: shortlist announced
The shortlist for this year's Unquote British Private Equity Awards has been announced and the public vote is now underway – pick your winners before 5pm on 16 September.
The shortlist for this year's Unquote British Private Equity Awards has been announced and the public vote is now underway – pick your winners before 5pm on 16 September.
Verdane-backed PolyTech, a Denmark-based turbine blade technology specialist, has acquired Munich-based software company Fos4x from its shareholders.
Recruitment software company GermanPersonnel, a portfolio company of Riverside Europe (the European arm of US-based sponsor The Riverside Company), has acquired HR software business Evint.
Wynnchurch Capital has bought refuse collection vehicle and parts specialist Labrie Environmental Group as the debut deal from its new $2.27bn fund.
Columbus Venture Partners and Masterlux, a company backed by Cleon Capital and Vita Advisory, have invested in a €7.4m round for Spanish biotech company Algenex.
Private equity investor SK Capital Partners has boosted its team with the hire of veteran chemicals industry expert Chris Fraser as a senior director.
Ardian has acquired a minority stake in Wintics, a French developer of software for smart cities and transport operators.
Avedon Capital portfolio company Spindel- und Lagerungstechnik Fraureuth (SLF) has acquired Germany-based market peer STI Bearings via an asset deal.
A hefty Hellman & Friedman investment in customer experience management platform Sprinklr has seen the business reach a $2.7bn valuation.
LBO France and EI Capital have sold their stakes in EI-Technologies, a Paris-based Salesforce training partner, to Cognizant.
Customer experience management business has raised $200m from Hellman & Friedman
Warburg Pincus has made a "significant" investment in Vista Equity Partners portfolio business Infoblox.
West Hill Capital-backed AppyWay has launched a series-B funding round targeting £20m.
Levine Leichtman Capital Partners has bought Tropical Smoothie Cafe, a franchisor of fast casual cafes with more than 870 units across 44 US states.
KKR-owned vending machine company Selecta was one of the first companies to have its owner inject super-senior ‘priming’ debt once the Covid crisis hit, pushing bondholders down the capital structure. But in its restructuring package
Dawn Capital has closed its fourth-generation fund, Dawn Capital IV, on its $400m hard-cap.
Another coronavirus-period fundraising success has seen B2B software investment specialist Dawn Capital close its biggest fund to date on its €333m hard cap.
Rohin Jain and Nishant Nayyar have joined the firm as managing director and principal, respectively
Big City firms are being creative with perks and other policies to get staff back to work, even as fears of a second wave of coronavirus mount
Bridgepoint Development Capital has surged past its target for its fourth flagship fundraise to close on its £1.5bn hard cap, AltAssets understands.
