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Leading global investor services group IQ-EQ has added to its senior corporate services team in the UK with the appointment of Amy LeJune, who joins the group’s Corporate segment as a client services director.Since getting her start at a ‘Big 4’ firm in Texas, LeJune has gained over 20 years’ accounting experience, spanning the financial services, hospitality and media industries. She joins IQ-EQ from a competing international fund and corporate services firm, where she held the role of Business Unit Manager, Finance.   LeJune has led numerous accounting teams and worked on large multinational accounts across the North American and
Aliter Capital (Aliter), the specialist UK support services investor has completed its investment in London-headquartered Temple Grange Partners, a consultancy firm with a leading financial crime (FCC) and compliance practice. This investment, in close partnership with Aliter’s existing portfolio companies Sponge and Bolt Learning, will support the creation of differentiated FCC-focused eLearning content designed specifically for the Financial Services market. Eoin O’Shea, Founder and CEO of Temple Grange Partners, says: “We have been very impressed from the start with Aliter’s long-term investment strategy. In addition to helping to grow and expand our consultancy and advisory capabilities – including our leading compliance
Cloud Comms, Contact Centre and Cyber solutions firm, Babble, has acquired Corporate Management Telecom Ltd (CMT). The deal, which was funded by mid-market private equity investor LDC, is the third acquisition completed by the business this year as the management team continues to deliver its ambitious buy and build strategy.Established in 1998 and based in Braintree, CMT provides business telephony and cloud-based services including voice, system hardware, IT and mobile to 500 customers.  Since Babble partnered with LDC in 2017, the business has delivered a combination of impressive double-digit organic and acquisitive growth including the purchase of Arden Group, Direct
A new report by M&A and strategic advisory firm, Aquaa Partners, has found that the value-led investment approach in non-tech companies common among many institutional investors is undervaluing the significant role tech companies play in delivering investor returns.The new report, titled, ‘The death of value investing and the dawn of a new investment paradigm’, highlights the changing nature of tech stocks and their increasing capacity to confound traditional investment expectations by delivering significant value compared to traditional stocks coupled with lower volatility.    The report compares compounded total shareholder returns (TSR) of the key tech and non-tech indices over time.
Wol Kolade, Livingbridge
Wol Kolade (pictured), managing partner of London-based private equity firm Livingbridge, is one of the brains behind the #100blackinternscampaign. Over 100 firms in the City of London have signed up to the program so far, offering internships in finance to people of colour, in only six to eight weeks. Private Equity Wire sat down with Kolade to learn more.
Foresight Group (Foresight), an independent infrastructure and private equity investment manager, has made the second investment by Foresight Energy Infrastructure Partners (FEIP), into two operational wind farms located in the Castile and León region of Spain.  
Consolidated Healthcare Agencies Limited, a portfolio company of Lierston Capital I, has acquired Trinity Homecare Group Limited. Trinity Homecare is a CQC ‘Outstanding’ and award-winning home care provider with a mission to enrich quality of life by providing heartfelt home care and support through life’s journeys. Based in Worcester Park, Trinity Homecare delivers in excess of 16,000 hours of home based care and support each week, enabling over 320 clients to remain living independently within the comfort of their own homes. Trinity Homecare’s services range from visiting care at home to round the clock live-in care. João Rosa and Martim Avillez,
Software
European software investor Hg’s Saturn team and its investors have agreed to a further majority investment in software company Visma, valued at USD12.2 billion in the world’s largest ever software buyout. The Hg Saturn 2 Fund will purchase the stake from Montagu, a European private equity firm which has been an investor in the business since 2010, and other investors including Hg’s Genesis 7 Fund which will reduce its holding in Visma. Warburg Pincus and TPG will invest in the company for the first time, acquiring minority stakes. Existing investor CPPIB will increase its stake, alongside other current co-investors in
Berlin
Berlin-based deep tech company Apheris has raised EUR2.5 million to enable companies to analyse data without compromising privacy.
Cuatrecasas has advised Ventient Energy, the second-largest non-utility generator of onshore wind energy in Europe, on the acquisition of Iberwind and its subsidiaries, a leading player in the renewables energy sector in Portugal, with a portfolio comprising 31 wind farms with a total installed capacity of 726 MW.This deal bolsters Ventient Energy’s position as a leading player in Europe’s renewable energy market by adding these wind farms to the 103 units it already owns and operates across Europe with an installed capacity of 1.9 GW.   Iberwind, with more than 300 wind turbine generators, produces roughly 15 per cent of

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