Paine & Partners Makes Strategic Investment in Spearhead International Inaugural Investment Executed Through Paine & Partners Fund IV, A Leading Platform for Food and Agribusiness Investing John Atkin to Serve as New Chairman of Spearhead International PR Newswire NEW YORK, July 1, 2015 NEW YORK , July 1, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Paine & Partners, LLC (“Paine & Partners”), a private equity investment firm focused on investing globally in food and agribusiness, today announced that investment funds managed by Paine & Partners have acquired Spearhead International Limited (“Spearhead” or “Spearhead International”), one of the largest agricultural producers in the European Union. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Headquartered in Cambridge, England , Spearhead has farming operations on approximately 85,000 hectares of high-quality agricultural land in Poland , the Czech Republic , the United Kingdom , Romania and Slovakia […]