Lithium Technologies, a specialist in cloud-based social media management and online community solutions, is to be acquired by private equity firm Vista Equity Partners. Lithium’s board of directors has unanimously approved the transaction, although terms have not disclosed. “This marks a new chapter for Lithium, and the next
Mergers and acquisitions adviser Generational Equity has sold its client Imperial Packaging to Seaboard Folding Box Company, a platform company of private equity firm Charter Oak Equity. Imperial Packaging, based in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, produces folding cartons, packers, tags and inserts, and headers utilising conventional offset and UV-curable inks
Audax Private Equity has completed the sale of Rough Country to private equity firm Gridiron Capital. Rough Country is a customer-focused provider of suspension lift kits to the off-road SUV and truck market. Rough Country also offers a full set of off-road products, including shocks, stabilisers, lights, fender
Hawksmoor Partners, the London-based specialist in structuring and project management solutions for asset managers and fast-growing companies, has established its first overseas presence in Estonia to work with new clients in the technology sector in the Baltic region and Finland. Founded in 2013, Hawksmoor Partners has specialised in the
Business advisory firm FRP Advisory has strengthened its UK operation with the promotions to director of Emily Ball and Yasmin Bikha, both based in the Leicester and Nottingham offices. Ball and Bikha are experienced restructuring advisers with broad connections across the East Midlands and both are licensed insolvency practitioners and qualified
Global independent fund administrator Apex Fund Services has become the first administrator to receive in principle approval from the ADGM to carry out regulated activity in the jurisdiction. Under the in principle approval, the grant of financial services permission to act as the administrator of a collective investment fund
Crowdfunding platform, Seedrs, is to join other alternative finance firms as the sole equity finance provider in partnership with a new NatWest programme for British SMEs called Capital Connections. Capital Connections offers NatWest’s business and commercial customers introductions via their relationship managers to a handful of alternative funding solutions available
UK private equity house Maven Capital Partners has invested GBP1 million in ebb3, with the potential for an additional GBP0.5 million of follow-on funding. ebb3 is a technology services business operating in a niche part of the high performance computing market. It delivers data intensive 3D graphical applications to
ViraTherapeutics, a biopharmaceutical company developing virus-based immunotherapeutics, which is backed by Boehringer Ingelheim Venture Fund (BIVF), has appointed Dr Heinz Schwer as CEO. He takes over the position from interim CEO and co-founder Professor Dr Dorothee von Laer, who will remain a scientific adviser. Schwer is a biotech
Peapack-Gladstone Financial Corporation, parent company of Peapack-Gladstone Bank, is to acquire New Jersey-based Murphy Capital Management (MCM). After up front transaction costs, the purchase will be immediately accretive to earnings. Doug Kennedy, president and chief executive officer of Peapack-Gladstone Bank, says: “We have found what we feel is
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