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Palatine’s Impact Fund backs tranScrip

Palatine Private Equity has completed the seventh investment from its Impact Fund, with the acquisition of a significant minority stake in tranScrip, a fast-growing global business playing a key role in the innovation and commercialisation of new medicines, including treatments for Covid-19. Headquartered in the Thames Valley, tranScrip provides a

Luminate Capital Partners sells AMTdirect

Luminate Capital Partners, a private equity firm investing in growth software companies, has sold AMTdirect, a provider of lease accounting, lease administration, and facilities management software, to MRI Software. Jeff Ralyea, Chief Executive Officer of AMTdirect, says: “Over the last few years, the Luminate team has partnered with AMTdirect to

Levine Leichtman Capital Partners sells its investment in ZorgDomein

Levine Leichtman Capital Partners (LLCP) has sold its investment in ZorgDomein, Netherlands-based healthcare referral platform, to Rabobank. Founded in 2000, ZorgDomein provides SaaS-based solutions to the Dutch healthcare sector. The Company connects various types of healthcare providers to patients through digital patient referrals, diagnostic requests and consultations. In 2019, over

Francisco Partners tops 2020 HEC-DowJones Private Equity Performance Ranking

Francisco Partners has been named the top-performing firm in the 2020 HEC-DowJones Private Equity Performance Ranking.  The San Francisco-headquartered tech specialist came top out of 529 private equity (PE) firms analysed, delivering an aggregate performance that was 2.40 standard deviations above the average. Genstar Capital Partners, and Vitruvian Partners were

Disruptive North East tech company aiming to revolutionise customer experiences

An innovative North East based immersive technology company is aiming to transform the way customers engage and experience entertainment, sport, visitor attractions, hospitality and retail. Fame Media Tech – led by entrepreneur Bryan Hoare – is on a mission to transform customer experiences through mobile and content technology to help

Equistone to acquire majority share in Kusters Beheer

Funds advised by Equistone Partners Europe (Equistone) have agreed to acquire a majority stake in Kusters Beheer, a group of six companies offering advanced manufacturing capacities for the production of high-tech precision components.  The financial terms of the transaction, which remains subject to approval from the relevant competition authorities, have

CBRE Caledon acquires Swedish bus operator

CBRE Caledon Capital Management Inc has acquired Karlssonbuss, a regional and school bus operator in southern Sweden.  The vendors of the family-owned bus operator, the Karlsson family, will continue to have a small equity stake in the business.    CBRE Caledon is making the investment on behalf of a fund

Weatherford Capital makes USD22.5m Series A investment in SOMA Global

Weatherford Capital, a family-owned private investment firm, has completed a USD22.5 million Series A investment in SOMA Global, a provider of cloud-native, modern public safety solutions focused on the public sector. SOMA Global was founded in 2017 to redefine and deliver modern, best-of-breed public safety solutions with a primary focus

SGT German Private Equity and SGT Capital compete merger

SGT German Private Equity has completed its merger with SGT Capital, to create an international, listed private equity asset manager based out of Germany.  The merged company expects sustainable, predictable net profits from market standard asset management fees of approximately EUR0.20 to EUR0.80 pa from 2022 onwards, depending on the

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