In this week’s newsletter, James Williams looks at a new discretionary co-investment platform from Astarte Capital Partners which is aiming to help facilitate investor allocations to European ‘real assets’ including natural resources, transportation and specialist real estate. And following the recent acquisition of Estera by Inflexion Private Equity, Inflexion partner
Global private equity firm Warburg Pincus is to acquire a majority interest in WebPT from previous investor, Battery Ventures. Since its launch in 2008, WebPT has maintained a track record of steady growth. Today, it provides electronic medical record (EMR) and practice management software for outpatient physical therapists, occupational therapists
Sentinel Capital Partners, a private equity firm that invests in promising companies at the lower end of the mid-market, has acquired SSJA Bariatric Management (SSJA), a provider of administrative support services to bariatric surgery offices in the New York metropolitan area. The terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
Cotton Creek Capital (Cotton Creek) has closed Cotton Creek Capital Partners III with USD215 million in capital commitments. The Fund includes a diverse group of limited partners, including high net worth families and individuals, multi-family offices, endowments and foundations, and other institutional investors. Cotton Creek targets control investments in growth
Algo Capital, the financial institution focused on accelerating access, adoption and liquidity of the Algo, the native digital currency of the Algorand blockchain, has closed of its Algo VC Fund at USD200 million, surpassing the firm’s original goal of USD100 million. The fund will invest in category-leading businesses that are
Australian-founded, London-based investment and corporate advisory group Mayfair 101 has made two significant appointments to its advisory board – Mark Cliffe, Chief Economist at ING Bank, and Kirsty Rutter (pictured), former Head of Innovation at Barclays bank. Mayfair 101 founder and Managing Director, James Mawhinney, says: “The appointment of two
Astarte Capital Partners is hoping that its new discretionary co-investment platform, the Astarte Special Opportunities Platform (ASOP), will help facilitate investor allocations to European ‘real assets’ and encourage a greater alignment of interests with operating companies over the long term. “The way we see ourselves is bringing global institutional capital
Stirling Square Capital Partners (Stirling Square), a pan-European private equity firm, is to sell CPL Holdings (Cartonplast), an operator of sustainable pools of returnable transport packaging materials (RTP), to German private equity investor Deutsche Beteiligungs AG (DBAG) and the DBAG-advised DBAG Fund VII. Closing of the transaction is subject to
NorthEdge Capital has promoted Phil Frame to Head of North West and appointed Lucie Mills to Head of Business Transformation, as the firm continues to strengthen its presence across the regional private equity market. Frame joined NorthEdge in 2012 and has been involved in the majority of the firm’s new
Growth private equity firm TA Associates is to make a strategic growth investment in the Gong Cha Group (Gong Cha), a provider of premium quality bubble and milk tea. The founders of Gong Cha Korea will participate in the investment alongside TA. Financial terms of the transaction, which is expected
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