Transactions

Nets Group acquired PeP, a leading merchant acquirer in Poland with an installed base of more than 125,000 point-of-sales terminals, offering a broad set of payment solutions focused on the attractive SME segment. The transaction values PeP’s enterprise value at EUR 405 million.

Groupe Ouvêo, a French manufacturer of windows, acquired the company Seeuws.   

Virginio Cassina, a private investor, through his holding company Virginio Cassina S.r.l., acquired a minority stake of Valetudo, a company specialized in the production and distribution of cosmetic and pharma cosmetic products. 

Jetex, an award-winning global leader in executive aviation, took strategic ownership of JEM Aviation, a fixed base operator providing services to airlines in based in Marseille.

SITI B&T Group S.p.a., a specialist for the production of plants for the tile manufacturing industry, acquired Diatex S.p.A., a provider of diamond tools for stone and ceramics processing.

JOST Werke AG, the global market leader in safety critical solutions for commercial vehicles, acquired Ålö AB, one of the world’s leading suppliers for the agricultural machinery industry, from Altor Fund III.

PaperFoam, a Dutch supplier of sustainable packaging solutions, has issued new share capital to finance further growth of the company.

Kingsbury Luxembourg sold a majority stake of Negri Bossi S.p.A., injection moulding machine manufacturer in Italy, to Nissei Plastic Industrial, a Japanese public company engaged in the manufacturing and sale of injection moulding machines and equipment.

Doosan Bobcat Inc. completed its acquisition of the BOB‐CAT Mowers and the Steiner and Ryan brands of ground maintenance equipment from Schiller Grounds Care, Inc.

Mammoet, the leading Dutch heavy lifting and transportation service provider, acquired UK company ALE.

Unsworth Family Investments acquired Geary’s Bakeries Ltd, a fourth-generation family-owned supplier of baked goods to food retailers and manufacturers, a family with other investments in the food industry.

Webissime, a French digital agency, acquired and merged with Open Linking.

Pebbles Care, a residential care provider, was sold to Ardenton Capital, a global private equity firm.

Krankenhaus Ingelheim gGmbH, a German hospital, was sold by the University Clinic Mainz and the City of Ingelheim to Ccare AG, a German healthcare services group.

Boss Industries, a French group dedicated to homeland security solutions, acquired Trovicor, a leading provider of turnkey end-to-end lawful interception and intelligence solutions.

Sterimed, a world leader in the medical packaging sector, completed the acquisition of Especialistas en Esterilizacion y Envase (Grupo EEE), a Mexican-based major player in sterilization packaging and infection prevention solutions.

Adelis Equity, a private-equity firm focused on the Nordic middle market, acquired all the affiliated offices of Säkra AB, thus forming a leading brokerage firm with a focus on property & casualty insurance, life insurance, pensions, and savings.

Zambon, an Italian pharmaceutical multinational, acquired the biotech Breath Therapeutics at an initial price of 140 million euros and with the possibility of reaching a total of 500 million euros at the achievement of regulatory and commercial objectives.

Clairfield advised management and led the transaction in the MBO of Nationwide Hire Ltd. Management were backed by private equity firm Livingbridge with acquisition finance and working capital provided by Clydesdale & Yorkshire Bank.

Clairfield International Frankfurt/Warsaw assisted expondo, the fast-growing German/Polish e-commerce industrial procurement business, in a senior debt refinancing exercise.