Industrial Technology
Manufacturing and industrials are being transformed by physical and process automation, with many machine-learning-based software solutions arising to meet the needs of an increasingly efficiency-hungry production line.
This is reducing employee costs, energy usage, batch sizes and tooling reset times. Companies which provide automation through systems such as discrete control systems, 3D printing and supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) are attracting higher levels of investment and exit multiples, as the technology they produce becomes increasingly embedded into the tech stacks of their customers.
Recent Transactions
Sale of Soak&Sleep to US-based Malouf
Debt Advisory for Plastico
Fundraise for iMist
Assisting Casa Cuervo on their purchase of Irish whiskey distillery, Bushmills, for $760m from Diageo
MBO of GTK, a semiconductor business, backed by Yorkshire Fund Managers
Vendor initiated MBO funded by Lloyds Bank Plc
Debt advisory and sale to management of leading retail packaging business
Growth capital provided for green building materials business by Octopus Ventures and Clydesdale Growth fund
New Zealand’s first take private fund by Logan and GE.
Series of bolt-on acquisition for Graphite PE, backed by Micheldever Tyre Services
Sale of platform lift business, Gartec, to Sweden-based Aritco Lift AB
Assisting shareholders in renegotiation of debt facilities
Sale of eDrive to US Tech Buyer
Disposal to ingredients business, Atlantic Foods
Advising management on their MBO of flow meter business
Corporate finance advice for this specialist VW camper vehicle business, an early adopter of online sales
Capital raising from Nigel Wray into this branded consumer products business
Advising Altitude Partners on their investment into this specialist manufacturing business
Accelerated disposal of South Coast steel buildings manufacturer
Supporting management in raising capital for a local community solar farm
Debt Advisory to buy out minority shareholders
