AVALT, a family office that makes direct private equity investments, has purchased Ned Stevens, a provider of residential gutter cleaning and essential exterior home services. Ned Stevens was founded in 1965 and provides gutter cleaning, soft wash and other related, non-discretionary residential services in 15 states. The company has grown
Anath Capital Group, the parent company of Garraway Capital LLP, has acquired London-based fixed income specialist, Stratton Street LLP. Stratton Street is a fund management and advisory company, specialising in fixed income markets. The transaction will double Anath’s assets under management from around USD500 million to over USD1 billion.
Par Equity, an owner-managed venture capital firm specialising in identifying and supporting rapid-growth businesses, has invested GBP800,000 in Kibosh Ltd, the designer of a leaking-pipe repair kit. Ross Dickinson, a plumbing and heating engineer invented Kibosh in 2009. The kit allows professional plumbers and trades people to mend leaking pipes
Thoma Bravo, a software-focused private equity investment firm, has acquired majority ownership in IDS, a provider of asset finance software solutions, from its current owner, SV Investment Partners. Nicholas E Somers, Chairman of SV Investment Partners, says: “Having partnered with IDS since 2003 we are immensely proud of its achievements
Sverica Capital Management (Sverica), a growth-oriented lower middle market private equity firm, has held the first and final close of its fifth private equity fund, Sverica Capital Partners V (Fund V). After three months in the market, Fund V exceeded its target, was oversubscribed and closed at its hard cap
Seyfarth Shaw has appointed partner Paul F Kruger as global chair of the firm’s Structured Finance group in the firm’s Corporate department in New York. Kruger joins from Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP, where he was a partner in its Structured Finance and Securitisation group in New York. For more
The latest CEPRES Private Equity Buyout analysis shows the IRR spread between top performing funds and the market median has significantly increased since the GFC. The analysis, based on primary sourced cash flow data from over 7,000 funds on the CEPRES platform, shows that between Vintage Year 2009 and 2018,
Natixis and EDHECinfra have launched a new three-year research chair, directed by the same team that created an unlisted infrastructure indexing platform, to create useable, comparable documented measures of the impact and risk profile of social and environmental factors on infrastructure investments. ESG refers to the central factors in measuring
Mid-market private equity investor LDC has sold global business-to-business events specialist FC Business Intelligence (FCBI) to Thomson Reuters. The value of the transaction is undisclosed. FCBI delivers high-end conferences and exhibitions globally to a diverse range of sectors including energy, insurance, pharmaceuticals, transportation, travel, strategy and technology. It helps senior
Investment manager Downing has exited a series of hydroelectricity investments based in Scotland and managed by Gilkes Energy Limited. Downing’s Energy and Infrastructure Investment team has worked closely with Gilkes Energy, a specialist hydroelectricity developer, since September 2013, to invest in a series of seven projects. The investment funded the
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