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Deals & Transactions

PSG acquires Traction Guest and Expands ShieldCo

PSG, a growth equity firm focused on partnering with middle-market software and technology-enabled services companies, in combination with ShieldCo, a PSG V portfolio company, has acquired Traction Guest, a provider of cloud-based visitor management and workforce security software. This marks ShieldCo’s second investment. In September 2021, the company invested in

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Littlejohn & Co sells Kaman Distribution Group for USD1.3bn

An affiliate of Littlejohn & Co is to sell Kaman Distribution Group (KDG), a distributor of highly engineered products and provider of related services, to Motion Industries, Inc. (Motion), a subsidiary of Genuine Parts Company (NYSE: GPC), for USD1.3 billion in cash.

Integral Venture Partners invests in Walter BBQ

Integral Venture Partners (Integral) is to acquire a 50 per cent stake in Walter BBQ, a Serbian fast-casual restaurant chain. Integral manages institutional private equity and growth capital and is focused on investments in the countries of central and south-eastern Europe. Integral’s fund is backed by leading international institutional investors

HCI Equity Partners-backed AmerCareRoyal acquires Ross & Wallace Paper Products

AmerCareRoyal, supplier of disposable foodservice supplies, gloves and take-out packaging and a portfolio company of HCI Equity Partners (HCI), has acquired Ross & Wallace Paper Products (Ross & Wallace).  Financial terms of the deal, which is AmerCareRoyal’s seventh add-on acquisition since HCI’s initial investment, have not been disclosed. Greenberg Traurig

BV Investment Partners invests in intent data platform Intentsify

BV Investment Partners (BV), a middle-market private equity firm focused on the tech-enabled business services, software and IT services sectors, has made significant strategic investment in intent data software and solutions provider Intentsify to help accelerate growth and product innovation. Intentsify, co-founded by Marc Laplante, Mike Kelly, Ed Laplante and

mammaly secures EUR3m from Five Seasons Ventures

Food Tech and impact venture capital fund Five Seasons Ventures has invested EUR3 million in a pre-Series A funding round for pet health startup mammaly. The funding will expand mammaly across the German-speaking market.

JTC acquires Essential Fund Services

JTC has acquired Essential Fund Services (EFS), New York-headquartered provider of a broad range of services in the alternative assets space, including accounting, reporting and administrative services to investment partnerships and their investment managers.  The acquisition will be settled via cash and JTC equity. Gerard Federici will continue to lead

Warwick Acoustics raises GBP2.8m in round led by Mercia Asset Management

Warwick Acoustics – a Midlands-based company which aims to disrupt the delivery of entertainment within the next generation of electric vehicles â€“ has raised GBP2.8 million from existing shareholders including Mercia Asset Management, and a small number of high net worth investors. The company’s ElectroAcoustics Panel (EAP) system delivers not only

Verlinvest Invests in e-bike retailer Pedego

Verlinvest has invested in Pedego, which sells e-bikes through a network of 200 locally-owned Pedego dealers throughout the US and Canada.  With the largest retail footprint of branded stores, Pedego is a leader in the rapidly growing electric bikes (e-bikes) category in North America. The retailer joins an list of

TruArc Partners invests in Lamark Media

TruArc Partners, a private equity firm focused on the middle-market, is partnering with Lamark Media, a full-service integrated digital marketing company. The deal will provide Lamark Media with strategic support and significant capital resources to advance the company’s growth strategy, including increased investment in people, capabilities, and technology, as well

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