Investment Summary

Foresight Private Equity Invests In CWE

On May 15, 2014, private equity firm Foresight Private Equity invested in engineering company CWE

Investment Highlights
  • This is Foresight Private Equity’s 3rd transaction in the Engineering sector.
  • This is Foresight Private Equity’s 30th transaction in the United Kingdom.

Investment Summary

Date 2014-05-15
Target CWE
Sector Engineering
Investor(s) Foresight Private Equity
Deal Type Growth Capital

Target

CWE

Scunthorpe, United Kingdom
CWE is a provider of safety-critical end-to-end engineering solutions for the rail, power, oil & gas, and steel industries. CWE services range from design and manufacture to installation, maintenance, and refurbishment. CWE was founded in 1966 and is based in Scunthorpe, United Kingdom.

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Investor(S) 1

Investor

Foresight Private Equity

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Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 1984
PE ASSETS 1.4B GBP
Size Large
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

Foresight Group LLP (Formerly VCF Partners)


DEAL STATS #
Overall 32 of 208
Sector: Engineering M&A 3 of 4
Type: Growth Capital M&A Deals 16 of 167
Country: United Kingdom M&A 30 of 202
Year: 2014 M&A 3 of 6
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2014-05-09 TheIdleMan.com

London, United Kingdom

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2014-07-01 Ixaris

London, United Kingdom

Ixaris operates the Entropay brand of VISA and MasterCard virtual prepaid credit cards, providing an instant, global solution for making and receiving online payments. Ixaris's innovative Open platform is used by organizations in the affiliate/performance marketing, travel, market research, and financial services industries to build custom applications to meet payment needs. Ixaris was founded in 2000 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

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