Apprenticeship training provider, Apprentify, has secured a GBP5 million investment from the UK’s most active growth capital investor, BGF. Alderley Park-headquartered Apprentify specialises in digital marketing, social media and tech courses, enabling employers to recruit and train apprentices skilled ‘for the jobs of tomorrow’. The investment, alongside debt funding
The UBS Asset Management (UBS-AM) Infrastructure Debt Platform has financed CapMan Infra’s acquisition of Koiviston Auto, a Finnish transport operator with the largest bus fleet in the country. The financing will also fund Koiviston Auto’s expansion into electric vehicles, with aims to increase the number of electric buses in its
EY-Parthenon has appointed Infrastructure specialist Francois-Xavier Delenclos as a Partner with a focus on serving Infrastructure investors in the Private Equity team, including pension, infrastructure and sovereign wealth funds across the transport, energy and telecommunications sectors. Delenclos brings strategy consulting and executive experience and joins from the Private Equity practice
Piper Sandler Companies has completed the acquisition of macro research firm Cornerstone Macro. Cornerstone Macro’s senior research analysts connect macro insights from around the world to deliver a comprehensive overview of important global trends. Cornerstone Macro will continue providing its as Piper Sandler & Co’s macro research team, led by
Private equity firm Willis & Smith Capital and its affiliates have acquired R&B Grinding (R&B), a manufacturer of machined components to a variety of industrial customers, including Fortune 500 original equipment manufacturers. Since its founding in 1958 by the Biddle Family, R&B remains a community pillar employing over 100 team
Mid-market private debt fund Tosca Debt Capital (TDC) has made three new appointments to support its ambitious growth plans. Rob Hanley joins as investment director and will help TDC’s portfolio companies to fulfil their strategic plans, support bolt on activity and use his credit skills to identify new investment opportunities
Main Capital Partners (Main) has backed biomedion, a leading GxP data cloud platform provider. biomedion offers an extensive suite of software that is deployed across all “good practice” areas (GxP) in the life and health sciences industry, where quality guidelines and regulations are of paramount importance. biomedion is headquartered in
Venture investment firm IVP has promoted Cack Wilhelm to General Partner. In the last year, Wilhelm led IVP’s investment in Cribl’s Series C, where she is also a board observer. She also led the firm’s investments in CircleCI’s Series E and Papaya Global’s Series C. Before IVP, Wilhelm was a
Ironwood Capital, a provider of non-control growth capital to middle market companies across the US has exited The Facilities Group (TFG), a national facilities maintenance business formed by Revolent Capital Solutions, and a portfolio company of the firm. The Facilities Group is a provider of integrated facilities maintenance solutions. The
Industrial Opportunity Partners (IOP), an operations-focused private equity firm, has completed the sale of portfolio company Midwest Paper Group Holdings, Inc (Midwest Paper) to McKinley Paper Company, a subsidiary of Bio Pappel SA de CV (Bio Pappel), a manufacturer of paper and packaging products in North and Latin America. IOP
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