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ReSolve Capital Partners exits Swimming Nature

ReSolve Capital Partners, a UK specialist investment house, has successfully exited its investment in Swimming Nature, the largest independent provider of swimming tuition in the UK. In October 2019, ReSolve Capital Partners began working with Swimming Nature, which at the time sought working capital as well as expert advice to

KLAR Partners funds acquire ISS Kanal Services AG in Switzerland

Funds advised by KLAR Partners Limited (KLAR) have signed an agreement to acquire ISS Kanal Services, a corporate carve-out from ISS Schweiz AG and Switzerland’s leading player within UIM. The acquisition is in line with KLAR’s investment strategy to make control investments in companies providing mission critical services in resilient

iCON V acquires 95 per cent interest in Wind Estate A/S

iCON Infrastructure Partners V1 (iCON V) has completed the acquisition of a 95 per cent interest in Wind Estate A/S (Wind Estate) from its founders Jens Petri Petersen and CEO Erik Abraham.   Abraham will remain as CEO and a 5 per cent shareholder of the Company. Wind Estate is

FDC provides GBP900k funding for MBI of Midlands’ electrical contractor

Debt funding provider Frontier Development Capital Ltd (FDC) has provided GBP900,000 to support the management buy in (MBI) of Complete Electrical Solutions (UK) Limited (CES).  CES, based in Stourbridge, West Midlands, was founded in 2000 as a generalist B2B electrical contracting business. In the previous two decades, the firm has

Arete invests GBP10m in Tactus Group

North West based multi-family investment office, Arete, has announced that it has led an GBP11.25 million private equity investment round into consumer technology product development specialists Tactus Group, with a GBP10 million (USD13.75 million) investment.  Warrington-based Tactus is a technology expert providing multi-branded IT hardware to global retailers and the

South Korea

Affirma Capital launches new Korean EM growth fund

Affirma Capital has held a first close of its fifth Korea fund, Ascenta V, with an AUM of USD403 million, to invest in buyout and growth capital opportunities in emerging markets including Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Singapore-headquartered Affirma Capital is targeting a final close for Ascenta V of

Andrew Welch

Relieving pressure in overburdened compliance teams

Regulation and compliance teams within private equity (PE) firms are overloaded with their day-to-day tasks. Relieving some of this pressure will allow them to work on strategic, risk-based matters which will see them being more effective to the business overall. Outsourcing can help alleviate some of this stress. Andy Welch,

Michael Tracy

Data requirements drive middle office outsourcing

This past year has proven that general partners (GPs) can retain control and oversight over the various functions within their firm, even while working with outsourced partners. The shift to virtual working demonstrated that the ability to interact and collaborate across an organisation is in no way hampered by being

Case for outsourcing bolstered by industry shifts

By A Paris – The case for private equity outsourcing has been bolstered in the past year as general partners (GPs) are having to handle larger volumes of data and compliance teams are stretched to their limit. Industry participants have attested to the growing burden that private equity operations are facing and

Squire Patton Boggs appoints new partner

Squire Patton Boggs has appointed Michael Gajic as a partner. Formerly with MinterEllison, Gajic specialises in public mergers and acquisitions and acts for bidders, targets and major shareholders on public M&A transactions, including schemes of arrangement, takeovers (hostile, unsolicited and friendly), takeover defences, take-privates of ASX listed companies by private

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