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Lyceum sells Compact Media Group to Ole
Lyceum Capital, the growth investor, today announces that Compact Media Group, the leading independent media advisory group, has been sold to Ole, a Toronto based rights management company.
Lyceum Capital, the growth investor, is delighted to announce six new hires to support its future expansion.
Lyceum Capital, the growth investor, announces that it is expanding its focus within the UK regions by appointing Martin Cordey to its team. Martin will work on developing relationships and deal opportunities for the firm in the Midlands. The move comes as midlands based Lyceum-backed facilities management group Bellrock completed its fourth add-on acquisition in recent weeks, including the 100th add on for Lyceum as a firm. Bellrock was acquired by Lyceum in 2013 and recently moved its headquarters to Leicester city centre.
Lyceum Capital sells Adapt to Datapipe
Lyceum Capital, the growth investor, is pleased to announce that it has realised its investment in Adapt, the award-winning managed infrastructure services provider and cloud integrator. The company has been sold to Datapipe, a U.S. based pioneer of managed services for private, public and hybrid cloud platforms.
Lyceum celebrates 100th add-on investment
Deal cements Lyceum’s place as a leading buy and build investor Majority of Lyceum’s investments in first two funds had four or more add-ons each Lyceum on track to complete add-ons for every company in Fund III Lyceum Capital, the growth investor has completed its 100th add-on. Portfolio company Bellrock, the technology enabled property and facilities manager, has acquired four PFI contracts from Dawn Construction Limited. This follows last month’s acquisition of Global Data Systems (“GDS”) by Lyceum-backed Briefing Media.
Lyceum Capital invests in Sabio
Lyceum Capital, the growth investor announces today a £50 million deal with Sabio, the customer contact centre technology specialist. In addition to its initial investment, Lyceum has committed further capital to Sabio to enable the management team to augment ambitious organic growth plans with a number of targeted acquisitions.
Congratulations to Martin Wygas who has been named a rising star in private equity by Financial News / Private Equity News in their list of Top 40 under 40 in private equity. Martin, who was made partner earlier this year, has been with us since 2008.