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HIG Bayside Capital sells DiscoverReady

HIG Bayside Capital (HIG Bayside), the special situations affiliate of HIG Capital, has sold its portfolio company, DiscoverReady to Consilio, a specialist in eDiscovery, document review, risk management, and legal consulting services. Based in Charlotte, NC, DiscoverReady is a leading provider of end-to-end eDiscovery services including best-in-class offerings in managed

Frontier Capital exits MultiLing investment

Frontier Capital (Frontier), a Charlotte-based growth equity firm focused exclusively on software and tech-enabled business services companies, has sold MultiLing, a provider of global intellectual property (IP) translation and support services, to Questel, a global online IP service provider. Through its proprietary Savanta cloud platform that leverages digital workflow, artificial

New PE firm Crossplane Capital to invest control equity in industrial business services, niche manufacturing and value-added distribution companies

Crossplane Capital, a new Dallas-based private equity firm, is to target control investments in niche manufacturing, value-added distribution and industrial business services companies, with up to USD200 million of revenue. With eight decades of combined experience transforming industrial companies as senior executives, operational improvement consultants, strategy consultants, restructuring advisors and

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CAIS teams with Mercer to offer independent advisers Mercer Investment Services

CAIS, an alternative investments platform for the independent wealth channel, is to offer independent financial advisers institutional quality outsourced-CIO (OCIO) services through investment services provided by Mercer. Mercer’s investment services offering includes access to one of the largest manager research platforms in the industry, model portfolio construction, manager selection, custom

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Backstop closes USD20m financing round

Backstop Solutions, a cloud-based productivity suite provider to the institutional investment industry, has completed a USD20 million round of financing.   Existing and new investors participating in the round include Roger Kafker, a 30-year veteran investor in the asset management space, Tao Huang, former COO of Morningstar, David Bradley, President

True Ventures closes Fund VI at USD350m and Select Fund III at USD285m

True Ventures has closed its sixth early stage fund True Ventures VI with USD350 million in capital commitments and its third Select Fund True Ventures Select III at USD285 million. The firm will use Fund VI to continue investing in dynamic, category-leading founders building companies across a range of industries.

Noerr advises Bregal on trendtours takeover

Noerr has advised funds managed by Bregal Unternehmerkapital on its acquisition of trendtours Touristik as part of a succession arrangement. The shares were sold by the company’s founder and by the Managing Director and other shareholders. trendtours is one of the leading tour operators in Germany and offers a broad

Naxicap Partners replaces Afinum as majority shareholder of Let’s Go Fitness

Naxicap Partners, an affiliate of Natixis Investment Managers, has acquired a majority stake in Let’s Go Fitness following the exit of Afinum. Working in partnership with the company’s existing management, led by Jean-Pierre Sacco, François Victor and Steve Porchet, Naxicap Partners will launch a new phase of growth for the company.

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