Len The Plumber (LTP), a full-service residential plumbing company and a portfolio company of private equity firm Thompson Street Capital Partners (TSCP), has completed the acquisition of Canady’s Heating, Air, Plumbing, a full-service provider of residential HVAC and plumbing services. Canady’s was founded in 1986 and serves six counties in

Partners Group, a global private markets firm, has, on behalf of its clients, agreed to acquire Forterro, a pan-European software services provider for small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs), from Battery Ventures. The transaction values Forterro at an enterprise value of EUR1 billion. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in London, Forterro

OpenGate Capital, a global private equity firm, has made a strategic investment in Annex Cloud, a provider of SaaS customer retention and loyalty management solutions to mid-market and enterprise customers worldwide. The company will continue to be led by its founder and CEO, Al Lalani. Terms of the investment have

Mercer Global Advisors, a US Registered Investment Adviser (RIA) majority owned by both Oak Hill Capital and Genstar Capital, has acquired Benemark, a respected wealth management firm headquartered in Westport, Connecticut. Benemark serves approximately 70 clients with assets under management (AUM) of approximately USD230 million. Benemark was founded by Robert

KKR has completed the acquisition of Yayoi Co (Yayoi), a software developer, distributor, and support service provider for small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Japan, from ORIX Corporation. All regulatory approvals have been obtained. Yayoi is a financial and accounting software provider for SMEs and sole proprietors in Japan, best

Global cloud-only digital transformation company Blue.cloud, has secured a majority equity investment at an enterprise value exceeding USD100 million from Hudson Hill Capital (HHC). In 2021, Blue.cloud scaled to a run-rate surpassing $39 million, reflecting 185 per cent growth YoY with a 30 per cent revenue increase from Q3 2021

Glennmont Partners from Nuveen (Glennmont) has expanded its pipeline of solar photovoltaic (PV) projects in Central and Southern Spain with 161MW of additional capacity as part of an agreement with Grupotec, the Spanish developer and EPC contractor. The agreement is a continuation of Glennmont’s 473MW solar acquisition from Grupotec in

British Patient Capital has participated in the USD60 million Series B funding round of Paragraf, a Cambridge-based graphene-based electronics company. This investment is being made through British Patient Capital’s Future Fund: Breakthrough programme, a GBP375 million initiative where British Patient Capital co-invests alongside private sector investors in later stage R&D-intensive

Blue Horizon, a pure play impact investor in the future of food, has made its first investment in plant cell culture. Blue Horizon has invested in California Cultured, a Davis, California-based plant cell culture company pioneering a promising new application for cellular agriculture. Similar to cultivated meat, plant cell culture

McAfee Corp, a specialist in online protection, has been acquired by an investor group led by Advent International Corporation (Advent) and funds advised by Permira, Crosspoint Capital Partners (Crosspoint), Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments), GIC Private Limited (GIC), and a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority