This represents another complex cross border deal for the Bishopsgate team.

Bowman Stores is a family business that operates from a single campus located in Spalding, Lincolnshire. This campus aggregates 10 million cubic feet with four buildable acres of land to support additional development. Bishopsgate worked closely with the family to run a competitive process culminating in the sale to Americold Logistics.

Americold (NYSE: COLD) (the “Company”), is the world’s largest publicly traded REIT focused on the ownership, operation, acquisition and development of temperature-controlled warehouses.

For more than 30 years, Wise Software (OrderWise) has been developing, implementing, and supporting ERP software solutions for small and midsize industrial companies in the UK. OrderWise’s specialised, highly-integrated financials, order management, Point of Sale (POS), warehouse management (WMS), transportation management (TMS), and ecommerce solutions are used by nearly 1,000 clients across a broad range of industries, from manufacturing and distribution to wholesale, retail, and ecommerce.

The Company was acquired by Forterro a software group that operates across Europe and employs over 1,200 people. Since it was founded in 2012, Forterro has grown to over 40 office locations around the world to support specialised software solutions and more than 10,000 small and midsize manufacturers. Headquartered in London, Forterro is a category leader in one of the largest and most steadily growing markets in software, with strongholds in each of the Europe’s top production economies, as well as regional service hubs and development centres around the world. Forterro is home to a diverse range of local and vertical industry software solutions—each one uniquely developed by the midmarket, for the midmarket.

OrderWise will significantly expand Forterro’s northern Europe region, with the product representing the group’s fourth largest revenue stream and fourth largest customer base. The acquisition marks Forterro’s second in the UK, following its acquisition of 123insight a year ago. It also serves as Forterro’s inaugural acquisition under its new owners Partners Group, a leading global private markets firm, acting on behalf of its clients.

Based in Bradford, UK, Thermocable will become part of Apollo, Halma’s fire detection and alarm company, and will help to keep more people safe from the risk of fire. Thermocable’s technology detects fire risk using temperature sensitive cables, known as Linear Heat Detectors. This technology is particularly suited for use in challenging infrastructure and industrial applications such as tunnels, factories, car parks, and increasingly solar farms.

Halma is a global group of life-saving technology companies, focused on growing a safer, cleaner, healthier future for everyone, every day. Its purpose defines the three broad markets it operates in:

• Safety – Protecting people’s safety and the environment as populations grow, and enhancing worker safety.
• Environment – Addressing the impacts of climate change, pollution and waste, protecting life-critical resources and supporting scientific research.
• Health – Meeting the increasing demand for better healthcare as chronic illness rises, driven by growing and ageing populations and lifestyle changes.

It employs over 7,000 people in more than 20 countries, with major operations in the UK, Mainland Europe, the USA and Asia Pacific. Halma is listed on the London Stock Exchange (LON: HLMA) and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 index.

OCU Group is an innovative service provider in the Utilities Industry; operating on a national scale.  The Company delivers a wide range of customer-focused business solutions throughout the UK and Ireland, working with a large blue-chip client base in all utility areas including; Power, Telecoms, Water, Oil & Gas, Rail and Directional Drilling.

Opals started trading in 2012 and has grown within the industry to become an established and leading network infrastructure services company, offering an extensive range of complimentary services covering civil engineering, fibre optics and traffic management.

Working with network operators to design, build, maintain and repair full fibre network infrastructure, Opals’ customer base includes Upp, Netomnia and Openreach where they provide a total delivery solution from their East of England head-office in Peterborough.

The deal represents an exit for its founders Richard Gyselynck and Andrew Dent and the chance for the existing management team, alongside Inflexion, to accelerate growth in both the B2C and B2B divisions

Agsenze is a computer vision technology platform focused on developing low-cost precision livestock technology solutions. Their first product, HerdVision, provides automated identification of health and production outcomes for dairy cattle using 2D and 3D computer vision technology. It provides farmers with analytics on productivity, emissions and welfare. The platform was primed for globalisation with key environmental impacts to help farmers better manage their livestock and ensure more environmentally friendly management.

The transaction was a financial and corporate ventures syndicated Series A growth capital investment. The funding was provided by Cibus Capital, whose funds strategy is a food and agribusiness focused platform that invests opportunistically in food companies who provide a sustainable competitive advantage.

Agilio Software is a leading UK frontline healthcare operations software provider. It is supported by strategic growth investment from Five Arrows, the alternative assets arm of Rothschild & Co., and TA Associates (“TA”), a leading global private equity firm.

Eurofins is a listed global group of laboratories providing food, environment, pharmaceutical and cosmetic product testing and pharmacology, forensics, advanced material sciences and agroscience contract research services.

Isopharm Laboratories brings a modern approach to water testing, ensuring decontamination and infection control in both hospital and domestic environments. With state-of-the-art facilities and techniques, and temperature-controlled transport, Isopharm delivers testing services to sterile service departments, including endoscopy, theatres, and domestic settings.

This acquisition strengthens Eurofins’ UK presence in water hygiene testing by incorporating specialist healthcare testing into its extensive portfolio. Eurofins Food & Water Testing UK continues to offer a wide range of accredited services, including water safety, food safety, composition, authenticity, origin, traceability, and purity testing, as well as auditing services, through its expanding network of laboratories across the UK and globally.

The acquisition will support Thrive in its ambitions to further expand its IT solutions offering in the UK.

Nottingham and London headquartered Custard which was founded in 1996, specialises in the provision of innovative tailored solutions including IT consultancy, managed services, disaster recovery planning, IT security, back-up solutions, and software and hardware support. The business is a trusted partner to Microsoft (including Microsoft Teams), EE, HP, Fortinet and Purestorage and works with a national and international client base.

The Bishopsgate advisory team was led by partner James McBain Allan and manager Sam Holmes whilst head of corporate, Richard Cox and senior associate Sam Sharp led from the Browne Jacobson side.

For over 30 years Data Interchange has been developing pioneering technology for data communication. The Company now employs over 100 EDI specialists across Europe generating a turnover of £9m with high levels of SaaS revenue. The Company has a blue chip customer base and works with some of the biggest brands in the world.

Data Interchange’s B2B integration software solutions – including the company’s DiNet global EDI Network, Odex B2B communications platform, Darwin order processing solution, and XE EDI mapping tool – will help Epicor customers streamline their supply chain strategies, providing a single-source of truth to more closely manage supplier relationships, automate business processes, and plan for changing business needs. That includes support for European market protocols and standards such as OFTP2, EDIFACT, VDA, TRADACOMS and PEPPOL.

Epicor is a business software company owned by Private Equity House – Clayton, Dubilier & Rice that is based in Austin, Texas. Epicor provides enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM), supply chain management (SCM) and human capital management (HCM) software to business customers in the manufacturing, distribution, lumber/building materials, retail and automobile verticals globally.

The Data Interchange acquisition expands the reach of Epicor in European markets and adds to the company’s portfolio of B2B integration technologies, empowering customers to connect businesses and trading partners, increase efficiency, and drive value in the supply chain.

Skegness based Hawkins Electrical was founded in 1967 and its team of 74 includes qualified electrical engineers along with electrical apprentices and a skilled, experienced management team. It offers bespoke design and installation, product supply and manufacture, inspection and maintenance, mandatory testing and remedial works. It has built its reputation on designing and installing private electrical distribution networks and providing quality products to the holiday and mobile home park industry, with a small element of works in the marina marketplace.

RSK is a global leader in the delivery of sustainable solutions. It has a family of over 175 environmental, engineering and technical services businesses who work together to provide practical solutions to the challenges faced by society. They operate in most sectors of the economy, including many of those most critical to future global sustainability, such as water, energy, food and drink, infrastructure, urban development, mining and waste.