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Charlesbank hires Kalvelage from Bain CapitalCharlesbank Capital Partners hired Neil Kalvelage as operating partner. Kalvelage joins Charlesbank from Bain Capital, where he worked for 10 years as operating partner, most recently building a team in Melbourne, Australia. He has also held executive positions at The Hershey Co and PepsiCo.
- VC-backed Booker buys Frederick
Booker, a platform for service commerce, bought San Francisco-based Frederick, a marketing automation platform for appointment-based service businesses. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Last year New York-based Booker raised $95 million in a Series C funding round led by Medina Capital. Bain Capital Ventures, Revolution Ventures, TDF Ventures and Grotech Ventures have also invested in the company.
- Vista hires Bain Capital IR exec
The US private equity firm has hired Christopher Pietersen as senior vice president of investor relations.
- Bain Capital’s Fund XI ‘almost halfway’ deployed
The $7.3 billion fund invests globally in healthcare, TMT, consumer, financial services and industrials.
- Healthy pipeline for Australia’s IPOs in 2016
Technology start-ups and companies that tap into Chinese consumer demand will continue to crowd the initial public offering (IPO) pipeline in 2016.
- Hunziker joins 4moms
4moms, which is backed by Bain Capital Ventures, said Monday that Florian Hunziker will be joining the company as Chief Operating Officer and Amy Villeneuve has been appointed to the Board of Directors. 4moms is a robotics company that makes high-tech baby gear.
- Sysco acquires PE-backed Brakes Group for $3.1 bln
Sysco Corp agreed to buy London-based Brakes Group, a European foodservice distributor, owned by Bain Capital Private Equity. The transaction is valued at approximately $3.1 billion and includes the repayment of approximately $2.3 billion of Brakes Group’s financial debt.
- GIC, Bain and Advent take stakes in QuEST
The private equity funds bought their combined stake from Warburg Pincus, which is making a 4x return on its original investment.
- Bain agrees to sell Brakes to Sysco for $3.1bn
The firm initially acquired the food distributor from Clayton Dubilier & Rice in 2007 for about $1.75bn.