OMERS Private Equity has agreed to sell Civica to funds managed and/or advised by Partners Group, the global private markets investment manager, for a total consideration of GBP1,055 million, generating a 2.6x money multiple for OMERS. Civica is a leading provider of business-critical software, digital solutions and technology-based outsourcing
Ridge Road Capital Partners has completed the merger of legal software companies TrialWorks and Needles. Between them, the companies have a combined 55 years of operating history and over 2,500 law firm clients. The combination of TrialWorks and Needles creates the leader in case management software for plaintiff-focused law firms,
Growth private equity firm Palamon Capital Partners (Palamon) has appointed Oliver Hemsley and Josyane Gold to its Board of Advisors. Hemsley is the founder and former CEO of Numis Securities, the London-listed small and mid-cap capital markets specialist. Under his 25 year leadership, Numis became one of the UK’s most
Oak Hill Capital Partners (Oak Hill) has successfully closed Oak Hill Capital Partners IV (Fund IV), a USD2.65 billion private equity buyout fund. The fund was significantly oversubscribed, surpassing its target of USD2.0 billion and its hard cap of USD2.5 billion. Oak Hill will continue its 30-year history of
Castlelake has completed the first and final closing of its fifth general purpose fund, Castlelake V at its hard cap of USD2.4 billion in capital commitments after four months of marketing. The fund’s investor base consists of both existing and new Castlelake limited partners based in the US, Canada, Europe,
Middle-market private equity firm Pamlico Capital (Pamlico) has closed the previously announced sale of its portfolio company Dexter & Chaney (Dexter + Chaney) to Viewpoint Construction Software (Viewpoint). Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed. Headquartered in Seattle, Washington and founded in 1981, Dexter + Chaney is a provider
ArchOver, a peer-to-peer (P2P) business lending platform, has become a member of UK Finance, the newly created trade body for financial organisations in the UK. Following its acceptance into the Asset-Based Finance Association (ABFA) last month, ArchOver will represent the interests of peer-to-peer lenders in the new group. UK
An investment partnership advised by Permira is to acquire a strategic equity stake in Klarna Bank AB which currently serves 60 million consumers and 70,000 merchants. Permira is a global investment firm which advises funds and accounts with a total committed capital of circa EUR32 billion. Permira focuses on identifying
Luke McDougall, Leveraged Finance Partner at Paul Hastings comments on the news that leveraged finance issued so far this year in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) has already surpassed last year’s total, reaching a record USD143 billion in the first half of 2017, which is nearly 8 per
Machine intelligence company, Graphcore, has secured USD30 million in a Series B funding round led by Atomico. The new funding comes as the company prepares to ship its first Intelligence Processing Unit (IPU) hardware to customers later this year, with scale-up production for enterprise datacentres and cloud environments in 2018.
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