Investment Summary

New Horizon Capital and Shikoku Alliance Capital Invest In Takafuji

On December 26, 2022, private equity firms New Horizon Capital and Shikoku Alliance Capital invested in business services company Takafuji

Investment Highlights
  • This is New Horizon Capital’s 4th and Shikoku Alliance Capital’s 1st transaction in the Business Services sector.
  • This is New Horizon Capital’s 19th and Shikoku Alliance Capital’s 14th transaction in Japan.

Investment Summary

Date 2022-12-26
Target Takafuji
Sector Business Services
Investor(s) New Horizon Capital
Shikoku Alliance Capital
Deal Type Growth Capital

Target

Takafuji

Oita City, Japan
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Takafuji is focused on installing machinery and produces steel fabricated products and piping. It has also done comprehensive maintenance for large-scale plants. In recent years, the company has continued to expand the scale and scope of its operations, constructing and operating biomass power plants and supplying biomass fuel (wood chips and palm kernel shells (PKS), operations derived from the original business of plant construction. Takafuji is based in Oita City, Japan.

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Investor(S) 2

DESCRIPTION

New Horizon Capital is a private equity fund targeting small to mid-sized buyouts, carve-outs, growth capital financings, and restructurings in Japan. The Firm does not have any sector preferences and looks to acquire majority positions when pursuing transactions. New Horizon Capital is headquartered in Tokyo.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 22 of 24
Sector (Business Services) 4 of 5
Type (Growth Capital) 15 of 17
Country (Japan) 19 of 21
Year (2022) 5 of 5
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2022-12-23 AC Works

Osaka, Japan

AC Works is a digital materials platform that serves as a bridge between creators who want to publish their work and users looking for illustrations to suit their tastes. In 2013, the company launched "Photo AC", expanding its platform to provide photos. AC Works is based in Osaka, Japan.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2023-03-29 Kaixia

Mito City, Japan

Kaixia has demonstrated abilities to demolish a wide variety of facilities, regardless of size or location, with its large fleet of heavy equipment. Using wind sorting and wet sorting and crushing equipment, the company's state-of-the-art intermediate treatment facilities reduce and sort industrial waste generated by demolition. The facilities reduce cost and recycle the most material possible using a unique system of "washing with water, crushing with water, and recycling" which recycles waste that would normally have to be delivered to final disposal facilities. In the Kanto region, where Kaixia operates, the company's performance is expected to remain strong. Robust construction demand there has created strong demand for demolition work, waste disposal, and recycling. Kaixia is based in Mito City, Japan.

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Investor
DESCRIPTION

Shikoku Alliance Capital is a generalist private equity firm focused on investments in small to mid-sized companies throughout Japan. The Firm will consider a variety of investment situations including business successions, growth financings, carve-outs, recapitalizations, and restructurings. Shikoku Alliance Capital was founded in 2018 and is based in Matsuyama City, Japan.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 14 of 14
Sector (Business Services) 1 of 1
Type (Growth Capital) 6 of 6
Country (Japan) 14 of 14
Year (2022) 1 of 1
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2021-11-01 Takubo

Saijo, Japan

Takubo is manufacturing steel storage sheds. Takubo was founded in 1946 and is based in Saijo, Japan.

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