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CIL makes senior promotion and appointment in healthcare practice

Following a year of substantial growth, management consultancy CIL has invested in its healthcare practice with the promotion of James Silk to Partner and the appointment of Craig Abrahams as Associate Director. Last year, CIL worked with many leading healthcare private equity investors and businesses, supporting them on mandates across

PE manager capital D adds new hires to team

capital D, a private equity fund manager investing in disruptive mid-market businesses across Europe, has made a number of new appointments. Peter Kruppa has been appointed Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and compliance officer. He joins from DH Private Equity Partners (formerly Doughty Hanson) where he spent 18 years in various

MLM 2 and Warburg Pincus acquire Minesoft

MLM 2, an information services and software platform led by veteran IP executive Mason Slaine, and Warburg Pincus, a leading global growth investor, have acquired Minesoft, a patent search provider. The investment will enable the company to accelerate the development of new products, expand and scale globally, including in the

Praetura Ventures adds three to operational partners team

Praetura Ventures, a Manchester-based venture capital investor, has appointed three industry experts to its team of operational partners. The appointments come a year after Praetura launched the initiative to support promising founders with additional expertise and mentoring, as it continues to build its more than money approach.   Helen Verwoert,

Genesis raises USD200m in Series C round led by Tiger Global

Genesis, an application development platform purpose-built for financial markets organisations, has secured USD200 million in a Series C financing round, led by Tiger Global Management. Accel, GV (formerly Google Ventures), Illuminate Financial, Insight Partners, Salesforce Ventures and Tribeca Early Stage Partners also participated in the round. The funding will be

Carlyle appoints two new independent directors

Global investment firm The Carlyle Group has appointed Linda Hefner Filler, retired consumer goods and retail executive, and Mark S Ordan, Chief Executive Officer of Mednax, Inc, as independent directors to serve on its Board of Directors, effective 1 April, 2022. Carlyle also announced the retirement of Janet Hill after

Study finds global professional investors expect dramatic expansion in Africa

Professional investors are forecasting dramatic expansion in the levels of investment in Africa by pension funds and large corporates over the next five years as major funds increasingly regard the continent as an attractive area to invest, new global research for blockchain-based mobile network operator World Mobile shows. The study

Stronghold launches USD100m investment fund

Stronghold, a payments and financial infrastructure company, has launched Stronghold Capital to invest USD100 million in pioneering companies and funds across three core areas: overlooked and underrepresented founders and fund managers; the payments and fintech ecosystem; and the Web3 and blockchain ecosystem. The creation of an investment arm follows the

LLCP sells investment in Mountain Mike’s Pizza

Levine Leichtman Capital Partners (LLCP), a Los Angeles-based private equity firm, has sold its investment in Mountain Mike’s Pizza (MMP) to an entity controlled by Chris Britt and Ed St Geme, the co-CEOs of the Company. Mountain Mike’s Pizza is a leading franchisor of pizza restaurants with over 245 stores

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